Yea I don't see why anyone would want to use iTunes anyway? I've only had bad expieriences with iTunes on how you can't add songs from different computer without wiping out an ipod. This is when i switched to a SanDisk, haven't looked back since. Mass Storage is nicer.
Kelmon, initially iTunes was just a me-too media player where you could encode, edit, mix, sort and manage music - similar to iPhoto and iMovie. Later they added a store element which was ridden with heavy DRM (and the content bought at that time still is) which required the use of their players. Now a days new purchases do not always have this DRM and in theory should work in other players.
Apple is acting like a crazed totalitarian thug by not allowing their customers to use non-Apple devices to utilize their content. I would have never imported a single audio file into iTunes if I had known of their future changes and insane requirements. Now all of the work I have done organizing my content is now forcefully tethered to the iPod and iPhone? Why didn't they make that the rule from the get go? iTunes was around before the first iPod even existed, it was an OS9 only app which I remember using my Creative Nomad with alongside SoundJam, Audion, MacAMP and whatnot
Now a days new purchases never have DRM. If you have DRM music, I'm sorry. You shouldn't have purchased it in the first place. People have made big noise about problems with DRM for a reason. You've been bitten, I hope you've learned why buying DRM laced content is not a good idea (because companies policies change like the tide).
If you want to make it DRM free, Apple gives you the option of upgrading it to a higher bitrate and DRM free for roughly 30 cents a track. Is it a fair price? I don't think it is, but I paid it for the twenty songs I had purchased before the store went DRM free, because it was still cheaper then buying the tracks all over again on CD or through Amazon. Either way, arguing about DRM music as a future problem is moot now, because Apple worked with the labels to do away with it.
If you want to use the music you personally put into iTunes with another device, nobody is stopping you from doing that. If it's like most devices, simply drag and drop from the folders on your HDD. If you want something a little more scripted and GUI oriented, use a program like DoubleTwist.
Finally, iPhoto and iMovie are, apparently not what you seem to think they are. They don't encode your pictures and home movies into some proprietary format that you can only use on Apple branded devices. They use standard formats like MPG, DV, MOV, JPEG, and RAW. When you want to move your photos from one computer to another, you can drag them out of iPhoto onto your external HDD, SD card, flash drive, or other external device. As for your movies, there stored on your HDD in what ever format you encoded them in.
@Coyo T Copying and pasting the same BS over and over again doesn’t create some time space continuum that makes you all of a sudden right. Reading your other comments though its totally obvious you have no freaking idea what the hell you are talking about, at all.
As far as exporting playlists from itunes, you can do it in plain text, unicode text, and .xml which is the superior format. You can then just rename the plain text extension to just about any kind of playlist file you want. But why you would want to use anything other than .xml i just don't know.
Tsing Tao, you should look into the saying about the pot calling the kettle black. By the way, why are you talking about exporting playlists (note: it's not about playlists)? Do you also plan on pontificating about exporting other types of data betwixt your whining about me?
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Yea I don't see why anyone would want to use iTunes anyway? I've only had bad expieriences with iTunes on how you can't add songs from different computer without wiping out an ipod. This is when i switched to a SanDisk, haven't looked back since. Mass Storage is nicer.
it's called manual mode, bro
why do people use iPhoto or iMovie when they may not be able to view their pictures and movies on non-Apple hardware sometime in the future?
@coyo t
You what? You really don't know what you are talking about, do you?
Kelmon, initially iTunes was just a me-too media player where you could encode, edit, mix, sort and manage music - similar to iPhoto and iMovie. Later they added a store element which was ridden with heavy DRM (and the content bought at that time still is) which required the use of their players. Now a days new purchases do not always have this DRM and in theory should work in other players.
Apple is acting like a crazed totalitarian thug by not allowing their customers to use non-Apple devices to utilize their content. I would have never imported a single audio file into iTunes if I had known of their future changes and insane requirements. Now all of the work I have done organizing my content is now forcefully tethered to the iPod and iPhone? Why didn't they make that the rule from the get go? iTunes was around before the first iPod even existed, it was an OS9 only app which I remember using my Creative Nomad with alongside SoundJam, Audion, MacAMP and whatnot
Now a days new purchases never have DRM. If you have DRM music, I'm sorry. You shouldn't have purchased it in the first place. People have made big noise about problems with DRM for a reason. You've been bitten, I hope you've learned why buying DRM laced content is not a good idea (because companies policies change like the tide).
If you want to make it DRM free, Apple gives you the option of upgrading it to a higher bitrate and DRM free for roughly 30 cents a track. Is it a fair price? I don't think it is, but I paid it for the twenty songs I had purchased before the store went DRM free, because it was still cheaper then buying the tracks all over again on CD or through Amazon. Either way, arguing about DRM music as a future problem is moot now, because Apple worked with the labels to do away with it.
If you want to use the music you personally put into iTunes with another device, nobody is stopping you from doing that. If it's like most devices, simply drag and drop from the folders on your HDD. If you want something a little more scripted and GUI oriented, use a program like DoubleTwist.
Finally, iPhoto and iMovie are, apparently not what you seem to think they are. They don't encode your pictures and home movies into some proprietary format that you can only use on Apple branded devices. They use standard formats like MPG, DV, MOV, JPEG, and RAW. When you want to move your photos from one computer to another, you can drag them out of iPhoto onto your external HDD, SD card, flash drive, or other external device. As for your movies, there stored on your HDD in what ever format you encoded them in.
coyo t does iTunes really have no export function such as .m3u or something? Sad software is sad then.
@Coyo T Copying and pasting the same BS over and over again doesn’t create some time space continuum that makes you all of a sudden right. Reading your other comments though its totally obvious you have no freaking idea what the hell you are talking about, at all.
As far as exporting playlists from itunes, you can do it in plain text, unicode text, and .xml which is the superior format. You can then just rename the plain text extension to just about any kind of playlist file you want. But why you would want to use anything other than .xml i just don't know.
Tsing Tao, you should look into the saying about the pot calling the kettle black. By the way, why are you talking about exporting playlists (note: it's not about playlists)? Do you also plan on pontificating about exporting other types of data betwixt your whining about me?