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Itunes is the one piece of software that Is truly, truly abysmal, I did make the mistake of installing it, having been told that it was the easiest way of converting between formats. what I hadnt been told was it has an utterly, utterly rediculous way of organising your files. whereas every other piece of music software downloads an albumn into a single folder, iTunes stupidly uses the artist names as folder labels, so if you have a couple of tracks  labeld as being by an artist featuring another artist, they dont get stored as part of the album Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh. leaves you sort of marooned on iTunes, or with a broken storage structure on everything else.  Or the fact that every now and then, for no good reason, it duplicates half my music in its own database so suddenly  I have two versions of almost every track. and the only way to remove them is by hand.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:38:37 PM EST
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my fave itunes 'DUH' is it gives you the option of finding duplicates, it finds them, but then you can't destroy them with one click, you have to do it one by one....DUH!!!!
the podcast feed sucks pretty good too.

my ipod died after two months, weak.

now i have a zoom h2, which is a great little stereo live recorder as well as flash drive WAV or mp3 recorder/player.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 08:55:56 PM EST
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I just asked a Finnair pilot friend to acquire an H2 for me on his next flight East - some 110 € I believe.

I've been talking to some sound engineers with hands-on knowledge of the H2. There's a lot of handling noise, so a little tripod is essential, and the ext. mic preamps are crap apparently. But I have some side jobs where it'll make life a lot easier and pay for itself with the first one.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 05:17:14 AM EST
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it comes with a little tripod, and a windglove.

the onboard mikes are outstanding, so no need for external. i have recorded using line in and it's fine.

the best attribute is the ability to dump WAV files straight to the puta, and v.v.

burn a cd of rehearsal in minutes! or throw it on a usb drive.

watch the sensitivity switch. high can distort easy. low is real low.

it's light, small, tough, and good on battery power, rechargeable AA's last 2-3 hrs, and it takes bigger flash drives, tho' i am happy with 2G.

sweet lil gizmo, especially at the price.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 06:13:17 AM EST
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