Jason Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Soon iTunes, a godawful and amazingly lousy music player, will surpass the size of Houdini. I fail to comprehend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandzuro Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Soon iTunes, a godawful and amazingly lousy music player, will surpass the size of Houdini. I fail to comprehend... Hm i think it is pretty good programm. Usability of the programm and features are very good. I hope you don't think that Media player is better? )) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I second the better than media player statement... however it is a bit like choosing between the lesser of two evils. Songbird is quite fun. M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 iTunes usability is great indeed. For the amount of bloat, slowness, instability and huge memory consumption, it should at least have that. I'm quite happy with Foobar2000 as a (strictly) music player on Windows. And on Linux, I have to get by with some crappy iTunes imitation (which is as bloated while not being as usable... and people wonder why linux is "still not ready for desktop"). Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3__ Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Indeed, pure fuggery. Its like a classic design-by-committee scenario. Compare with billy (& some of its bass.dll like): <1mb, builds a play-list from any directory, loads streaming addys, no install required... Could also build a play-list of approx. 60'000 items in under a minute. Couple that with a good Chinese portable device that just plays what you copy onto it & you're all set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I still use Winamp to play music... I hate iTunes the only thing I use iTunes for is updating my phone and adding mp3s to it, iTunes 7 (I think) supported winamp playlists but not anymore... it's bizarre that a program that doesn't do all that much should have such a huge install... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 I used to like the way MusicMatch Jukebox was going, until they started adding bloatware features to try to wave down more attention. Usability of iTunes is okay as a player, but it's library management is disgusting, IMHO. I would wish that iTunes used a Picasa-like discovery of music rather than its static .xml nonsense. So I'd say: I'd want a MMJukebox-like control and library browser, with Picasa-like database management, with a DoubleTwist footprint. And it should render realtime PBR on a GPU Grid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandzuro Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Soon iTunes, a godawful and amazingly lousy music player, will surpass the size of Houdini. I fail to comprehend... By the way using itunes on Windows is another story than on Mac OS. Native mac os version is fast and reliable. Not saying about it compatibility with iphone/ipod touch, so you can control it just like TV with a remote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ykcosmo Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 oh......haha.....yes!!! I love itunes and houdini both....anyone could make the otl for itunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ykcosmo Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 and.... Winamp?? Haven't heart it more than 8 years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitude Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 and.... Winamp?? Haven't heart it more than 8 years... Another vote for Winamp... a whopping 10 megs, and I definitely prefer it to itunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artzor Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 haha, funny how i had these exact same thoughts when i just installed new itunes... 100mb? wait a minute... houdini is how big... and what can houdini do? (although, keep in mind itunes install has quicktime with it too) oh wait, houdini can play mp3's as well... hmmmm i'd love to send a spy into apple and find out what is actually going into their apps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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