iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 467
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iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5
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The Comic Book Guy says... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Comic Book Guy says... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Comic Book Guy says... (Score:5, Informative)
Hmmm.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Just a thought...
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2)
it was more of a proof of concept type of a thing anyways.
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Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Do you think they care? I think Apple's protection is intended to be closer to the chain on your front door than to Fort Knox: not intended to stop the experienced thief, but simply to reduce temptation to passersby.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Informative)
QTFairUse [slashdot.org].
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:4, Informative)
Third, as I mentioned in my QTFairUse guide above, you might find that unprotected AAC audio which you can easily get from QTFairUse is a nice way to listen to your iTunes Music Store songs using WinAmp or non-Apple AAC-capable hardware players, without any quality loss whatsoever. The myths that QTFairUse doesn't work or do anything just aren't true - it is a pain to use in its current form, but it works, and it is useful for some of us. And it's the only way I know of besides stream recording or burn-and-rip to go from M4P to MP3 on a Windows box.
Wrong (Score:3, Informative)
Quicktime 6.5 (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Quicktime 6.5 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Quicktime 6.5 (Score:5, Informative)
Quicktime 6.5 does not fix the No One Lives Forever 2 problem with QT 6.4. I just tried it.
Back to rebooting in 10.2.8/QT 6.3 for Cate Archer action.
JP
Re:Quicktime 6.5 (Score:5, Informative)
Otherwise, I'm going to install Jaguar to my iPod and boot off that when I want some "Cate Archer" sneaking action.
You might consider checking with Apple first to see if it will screw up your warranty.
iPodHacks [ipodhacks.com] warns that booting off your iPod might be considered "abuse" by Apple if you have problems later.
FIVBooting OK according to Apple (Score:3, Interesting)
so.. Apple says it's OK to boot from it and iPodHacks says Apple says you can't boot from it.
Hmn.. who to believe, who to believe?
HD use ok (Score:4, Insightful)
The HD's in iPods are some of Toshiba's best laptop drives, and there's no way you can 'burn out the hard drive' by booting from it...sheez.
Toshiba 1.8" laptop drive specs (iPod too) (Score:4, Informative)
40.0 GB:
MK4004GAH [toshiba.com]
Lightweight, only 62 grams
Low Power Consumption
15ms Average Seek Time
100MB/s Ultra DMA Transfer Rate
300,000 MTTF Hours
Sounds like a laptop drive to me...and a good one too! One that doesn't know the difference between audio, OS files, games or video...knock yourself out.
Run it all you want, that's what the warranty/extended warranty is for. One year from Toshiba to Apple to you...more if you have Apple Care, CompUSA, etc.
Changelog? (Score:2)
Re:Changelog? (Score:4, Funny)
* Change version number from 4.1 to 4.2
* ????
* Profit!!!
Re:Changelog? (Score:5, Informative)
iTunes 4.2 allows you to sign in and buy music from the iTunes Music Store using either your AOL or Apple Account, view the iTunes Music Store in a separate window, and includes a number of performance improvements.
(And yes, that really was the extent of the changes listed in the help and readme after I downloaded it).
Re:Changelog? (Score:5, Insightful)
How big are the performance improvements, has anyone gotten the chance to try this under windows?
Re:Changelog? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Changelog? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Changelog? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Changelog? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Changelog? (Score:5, Informative)
My quick review of changes in iTunes 4.2 on Mac OS X (sorry won't have access to a Win2k machine until next week), these are the immediate changes I notice:
Hot Tips
http://www.apple.com/itunes/hottips/
Apple introduced hot tips on creating Smart Playlist, keyboard shortcuts, copy song, artist, and album urls from the iTunes Music Store, etc.
Grouping
Under song details, there is now a new ID3 tag called grouping. I'm not certain if this will allow for subcategories, or can be used for things such as Celebrity Playlist so songs from multiple albums can be grouped. I'll have to play with it. Also added to Smart Playlist queries.
Artwork
Added scaler to artwork, so images can be scaled up or down to fit album space area.
Playlist from Selection
For those who complained about queue-ing songs, I imagine this feature will come in handy, as well as for other purposes as well. Allows you to Command-Select (Click) on random songs in your library then create a playlist from them, immediately.
Music Store in New Window
Double-clicking will launch the music store in a new window (yeah).
iTMS: Music Essentials
Like Celebrity playlist, but collections of "iTunes Essential" music in categories I wouldn't have imagined, including Disco Ball Essentials and Coctail Party Kitsch--yet more ways to spend even more money.
iTMS: AOL Sessions
Added more music "exclusives" basically various performances by artist for AOL can now be purchased.
iTMS: AOL Users
Tons of direct access stuff for AOL users. Which, if they can do this for AOL, maybe they could do it for other venues, like artist who do live concert releases.
iTMS: Artist Self-Released Albums (Return of the EP)
This was there before, but some artist like Pearl Jam who are self published are and can now release stuff directly to the iTMS. I also noticed John Mayer's "As Is" is not attributed to Sony or any music label (which may indicate that it was also self-published). Ben Folds have also been doing a number of quick EPs, but they are all still published attributed to EPIC. It will be interesting to see if more artist start releasing EPs with 4-5 songs exclusively for iTMS or other music stores, and then have regular albums published every 1-2yrs.
These were the things I noticed immediately. Now I need to go and play and see what else comes up.
just wondering (Score:3, Interesting)
jTunes (Score:5, Informative)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes4/
Re:just wondering (Score:5, Insightful)
any plans of a Linux version of iTunes? Since Mac OS X kernel is BSD, I guess porting to Linux wouldn't be that hard.
This is kinda like saying it would not be hard to port Internet Explorer to DOS. There are a number of problems with porting iTunes to Linux, mainly:
Granted, iTunes was successfully ported to an OS that has no real UNIX underpinnings in common with OS X (Windows), but the fact that QuickTime already existed in a mature state for that platform eased things a great deal I'm sure. It's not impossible, but there is little incentive for Apple to put the rather gargantuan effort required into porting iTunes Linux.
good job... (Score:5, Insightful)
But I'm not trying to be negative, things are improving...
Re:just wondering (Score:3, Informative)
Re:just wondering (Score:5, Informative)
No, iTunes on the Mac has been the premier app for organizing and listening to music for waaaay longer than iTunes Music Store has existed. Still is.
Re:just wondering (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're only speaking in terms of what it does that can't already be done well by something else in Linux, then yes, iTunes mainly is just for buying stuff from the iTMS. However, the way that's worded, it sounds more like a comment on what people who use iTunes use it for. People who use it, in my experience, do not use it primarily to buy things. It's been the primary MP3 player/organizer on the Mac for most people for years now (probably since SoundJam was discontinued), kind of like how everyone uses WinAmp on Windows, but with a less profoundly odd interface (which is a whole different story...don't get me started on using ZXCVB for play/stop/ff/rw/etc. or how unintuitive that is).
If it were to be ported, I don't see Apple just porting the store and not the rest of the features iTunes has. From what I've seen, they seem to want to keep everything together in products like that, because the presentation and the total package are a vital part of their image.
The point of iTunes isn't to buy music, it's to have a completely integrated music experience where everything is handled in a simple, streamlined way with a consistent interface. The only single missing feature from other software is the iTMS, but passing files between different apps in Linux to accomplish the same thing isn't the "Apple way". In iTunes, you can seamlessly buy songs from the iTMS, have them automatically added to your master playlist and your music folder, create a new playlist of songs (even automatically based on criteria you specify, if you want), then burn it to a CD and have it all synced to your iPod, with maybe a dozen mouse clicks, all in the same familiar interface, pretty much straight out of the box.
So no, it probably wouldn't be that hard to just port the iTMS frontend itself and write something to handle the AAC files (with their minimal DRM...I'm sure there's plenty of stuff to play normal AAC files already), but that just isn't how Apple works. If you don't get the full experience of it, where's the incentive to go out and buy their products in the future? There won't be Linux iTunes unless they can use it to entice enough people to use OS X on Apple hardware to make the cost of porting the full app worth it.
Re:just wondering (Score:3, Funny)
I agree. And that Window Manager should be BlackBox! What's that? You want KDE? And someone else wants Gnome? Ratpoison?
We are so screwed.
Re:just wondering (Score:5, Insightful)
I kind of doubt it.
They *could* do it - but probably won't for marketing reasons.
Apple makes it's money selling Apple hardware - if in their eyes they think that there are a few Linux users that will buy an Apple just to have Quicktime, iTunes, iMovie etc - then they'll just refuse.
Apple has to have a Windows version of Quicktime - othewise the movie studios woulden't bother trying to use Quicktime for Apple's 8% market share.
Apple make itunes for Windows to expose Windows users to the iPod and to the Apple "expeience" - they're hoping to get some coverts. "This iTunes is pretty cool - I really would like a whole computer that behaves this nicley, instead of all this windows crap."
Re:just wondering (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:just wondering (Score:3, Interesting)
Depending on the survey - Apple has anywhere from 2% to 6%.
I put 8% as it's my hunch that Apple has a larger effective market share when it comes to people who play MP3 and watch movie trailers.
Re:just wondering (Score:2, Informative)
It has an interface similar to iTunes, supports Ripping, as many audio formats as Gstreamer can handle (including mp3, and ogg), and will soon be able to burn to CDs as well.
Re:just wondering (Score:5, Insightful)
The kernel (Mach [cmu.edu], in Mac OS X's case) doesn't matter much to a media player. Obviously things like hardware support and i/o latency make a difference, but more or less any modern OS will support something that supports MP3 playing. It probably wasn't a matter of a quick recompile, but iTunes works fine on Windows, which has a completely different hardware and low-level software architecture.
What makes the difference here is having a media architecture. iTunes floats on QuickTime, which Apple trusts to work really well with various audio codecs (and their DRM schemes). Besides that, it's (")just(") some GUI, network, security, and disc-burning code. QuickTime is the central issue here; Apple would not make iTunes for mpg123/ALSA/whatever.
But if you're asking "Why haven't they ported QuickTime to Linux yet?", I agree. I suppose they might be thinking like this:
In other words, they have to port to Windows if they want it to survive at all. But they're the powerful ones in comparison to Linux, and they can just try to borg its users.
Disclaimers: (1) this is pure speculation, (2) I use Mac OS X considerably more than Linux these days, and (3) I'm feeding a troll.
Re:just wondering (Score:4, Funny)
Caller: iTunes segfaults when I execute it.
Phone Agent: What distro are you using.
Caller: Gentoo.
PA: Oh, we only support RedHat 7.2
Caller: Well can you tell me what the dependencies are. I'll just emerge them.
PA: Ummmm. We only support Red Hat.
Caller: What about Fedora? I've got a boxen running that.
PA: Ok, ummm, is that a version of Red Hat?
Caller: Grrrr. Never Mind
and so on...
Re:just wondering (Score:2)
That being said, I would like to have a mac as well, I just don't have that kind of money lying around.
Re:just wondering (Score:5, Informative)
2. The high-price of Apple machines is a myth that neeeds to die. You can get a Desktop G4 for around $900, and a laptop for a few hundred more. I think that is well within the financial reach of most people. On the other hand, if you want the top of the line dual G5, you have to be willing to pay for it. Just like you do with Dell, HP or any other PC vendor selling the latest and greatest hardware.
Worthless (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Worthless (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Worthless (Score:2, Informative)
Quicktime info [macrumors.com]
iTunes info [macrumors.com]
Re:Worthless (Score:2)
Re:Worthless (Score:3, Informative)
AOL integration, too (Score:5, Informative)
Not that I would know personally now!! I read it on the website, I swear!
I'll use itunes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll use itunes (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I'll use itunes (Score:5, Informative)
Some more detailed information: (Score:5, Informative)
Quicktime info [macrumors.com]
iTunes info [macrumors.com]
So... (Score:5, Informative)
For itunes, you can now use your aol login, and aol
wallet to pay for stuff.
Quicktime now supports the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards
These standards are usefull for Third generation cell phones. They allow transfer of scalled video, sound, text, and just about anything as the yare track based formats.
(anyone know if the itunes breaks the support for mytunes <www.cowpimp.com> the program that lets you download thru mytumes)**
But you still have to PAY for fullscreen (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm all for Quicktime charging to be able to author quicktime movies, but to be able to watch them in fullscreen baffles me.
(And I love how on their website they demonstrate it as some amazing feature to be able to do so and call it their 'Theatre' mode or some such crud...)
and 10.3.2 (Score:5, Informative)
A new Panther update - to 10.3.2 - is also available from SoftwareUpdate.
hopefully I can finish downloading it before it gets apple-slashdotted...
Re:and 10.3.2 (Score:3, Informative)
more info here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120 288
[apple.com]
Re:and 10.3.2 (Score:2, Insightful)
well i guess its important.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Here's what's new in QT 6.5 (Score:5, Informative)
- Creation and playback of mobile multimedia in the new 3GPP2 format.
- Creation and playback of mobile multimedia in the popular AMC format.
- Improved text track support.
- Enhanced DV playback options.
- Enhanced support for iMovie, iDVD, and Final Cut Pro.
WAHOO! (Score:2)
Re:WAHOO! (Score:3, Informative)
And since you can set this thing to download overnight, unless you're so rural as to be paying toll-calls to a dialup ISP, 50 megs can be done in 1 or 2 nights, since Apple Update supports resuming (TTBOMR)
-- Funksaw
iTunes 4.2 not on Software Update yet (Score:2)
New update coming soon (Score:2)
I have installed the last couple of iTunes updates without any problems, but this one encountered a number of errors.
It forced a restart, so we'll see how it turns out.
The point: I think there will be another release fairly soon to fix this problem. You may want to hold off on this update until then.
So what are 3GPP2 and AMC formats? (Score:2)
Update spree (Score:4, Informative)
Throw in the Linux 2.6 kernel and it's going to be a fun Christmas.
Isn't it ironical that at the same time I'm dreading the next Windows update that is always coming down the pike (being the sysadmin over seeing all such systems on the network
At least Apple makes this SEEM fun. New in the iTunes application menu -- a link to:
HotTips [apple.com]
Now that AOLers can buy iTunes music... (Score:3, Funny)
~Philly
Re:Also updated today.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Do you know what Mac OS X is ? It is a Window manager running on top of an open source OpenBSD dialect called Darwin. See www.opendarwin.org.
If Mac OS X is not unix, neither are OpenBSD and Linux.
Re:Also updated today.... (Score:5, Informative)
Ummm
Non-Unix Operating system? [apple.com]
Re:Also updated today.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't - but it definitely isn't "stuff that matters".
Re:QT: Linux client? (Score:4, Insightful)
I would run to a Windows box or Mac to buy songs as long as I could just play them on my Linux box, that's all I'm askin for.
Re:QT: Linux client? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd concentrate on seeing what you can do to get Wine to accept iTunes if you want to use iTunes Music Store in Linux.
If you really want something native, MPlayer can play AAC already. All it needs to play iTMS purchases is to get past the DRM wrapper. The DRM wrapper on iTMS purchases is the technology sold by a company called "Fairplay". Perhaps you could try contacting Fairplay and asking if you could license their tech for playback in MPlayer? Or even better, you could perhaps just contact Apple directly and say you are interested in writing code to add iTMS playback support to MPlayer, and you would be willing to go under NDA and such... Wait, what's that you say? You don't have the time or linux programming knowledge to add FairPlay support to MPlayer? Well, apparently neither does Apple.
Re:QT: Linux client? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How come (Score:5, Funny)
iChat
iPhoto
Final Cut
Keynote
DVD Studio
Soundtrack
WebObjects
Streaming Server
Broadcaster
Remote Desktop
AppleScript
Panther
Not to mention the hardware:
AirPort Extreme
iSight
No problems with lowercase t -- in fact, I daresay the opposite is the case.
Breaking news from the math frontier... (Score:5, Funny)
And some other, related headlines...
Slashdot moderators continue to consume crack in mass quantities.
The parent post is decidedly not funny.
Re:How come (Score:2)
Actually, it's Macintosh, with a lower case 'i' and an 'a' between the 'M' and the 'c'. After 20 years, I'm surprised to see people still get the name consistantly wrong.
Re:How come (Score:2)
Tell me about it, every time i drive to new york I spend like 40$. And add the attitude of the toll booth operators outside lincoln tunnel. Seriously people tolls are indeed annoying.
On sidenote, it would also help if apple keyboards were to have the R key.
Help for you (Score:5, Funny)
Man that must have been frustrating downloading all those songs and not knowing what to do next. Once you learn this "triangle trick" you might find you are able to play music on all sorts of things you couldn't before!! Those shiny discs at Target? They all have music on them as well as it turns out, once you slip them into that funny looking box in the middle of your car that until now has only emitted the tortured sounds of radio DJ's.
No need to thank me for opening the wide world of music to you.
what? (Score:3, Funny)
???
What does a Triangle on its side look like anyways?
I don't see a button that looks like this: -
Re:MP3 not AAC? (Score:4, Funny)
You're joking right? Most people come here to avoid homework.
Re:Fullscreen is a feature (Score:5, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Fullscreen is a feature (Score:5, Informative)
on open fileName
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open fileName
present movie 1
end tell
end open
Drag a movie onto the script icon and it plays full screen.
Idiot.
Re:A request... (Score:3, Insightful)
Why should we do that when you're doing such a good job?
Then prove it. (Score:2)
This comment suggests that Apple IS wrong in not releasing a Linux version of this software. If you're going to make such a large statement, you should back it up with reasoning.
Or at least link to someone else's reasoning. Sheesh.
Re:Then prove it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Highly doubtful. And even if this *was* the case, due to the fact that Mac OS X comes with iTunes, the majority of Mac users also use iTunes. If a Linux version were to be released, there's no reason for us to believe, apart from possibly facilitating uploading to an iPod, that even a fraction of Linux users would choose iTunes.
I hardly think it's the case that Apple "supports" Windows. I think it's more like Apple is trying to make its product (the iPod) available to as large an audience as possible in as convenient a fashion as they can manage, and seeing as the majority of computer users are Windows users, this seems like a sound marketing strategy to me.
I've come to the conclusion that due to the diversity of Linux (which is one of its so called strengths), in terms of things like GUIs, DEs, distros, etc..., the lack of standardization makes it virtually impossible for a company to provide a product, along with support, for Linux users. There's just too many inconsistencies from one distro and desktop to the next. And I think it's likely that even if Apple did release a version of iTunes that relied on, say, Qt, then you'd hear griping from the GTK+ community as to why Apple didn't support GTK+.
Personally, I'd highly recommend your next computer being a Mac running OS X. I'm typing this from my new PowerBook (which I've had for about a week now) and I'm loving it. I used to be a Linux advocate, but with the release of OS X, I'm not looking back (well, except for servers). My opinion is that Mac OS X is not without its faults, but it has far fewer faults than Linux or Windows... and it's just such a relief to play with applications that are usable and have been designed with the intention of being usable, unlike nightmares like the GIMP (powerful, but impossible for an amateur to accomplish the simplest tasks as I can attest to) or the KDE control panel (the most convoluted thing I've ever seen in my life).
You're missing the big picture. (Score:3, Insightful)
Linux DOES probably have more machines on its side. However, that's not necessarily relevant. Linux's overwhelming number of machines is not because they have a gadzillion desktop users. They run a lot of servers. When it comes to Linux desktop usage, I've yet to see a figure that puts it significantly ahead of Apple in desktop use.
Feel free to show me some reliable figures to prove me wrong on this.
People running servers don't need fancy MP3 playing software. The majority of deployed linux boxes ar
Wow. This is interesting. Let's continue. (Score:5, Insightful)
However, 10 points lost for giving a damn about slashdot karma. :P Anyways...
All your article says is that it's hard to count linux users. Claiming it's uncertain does nothing for your argument, so I'll just move along. It's also important to note that not all linux users, even in the desktop realm, are going to be iTunes users. The linux world is very diverse, I think we can all agree.
Err, this kind of thinking is pretty standard, and it's also why Apple is doing quite well right now. Who gives a damn about the machines? I'll say it again, in bold: Who gives a damn what the machines can do? The answer is people like me, who are engineers.
Most machines are potential linux machines. However, most users are not potential Linux users! This is important. A machine may be capable, but if a user isn't, then who cares?
Apple sure doesn't. Apple has philosophy and style, but at the end of the day, they have a bank account that needs to be full enough to pay their engineers.
Umm. Tell me, because I'm interested... How should Apple implement a consistent product on Linux. Remember, Apple's entire marketing strategy is based around the EXPERIENCE of use, and its consistency. These are important things.
Should apple use SDL? Straight OpenGL? Make their own library? What GUI toolkit? GTK+? Motif? Should it be a KDE App? A Gnome App? Neither?
Apple cannot make a consistant and reasonable player app in Linux. If they choose toolkits and run with it, they get nailed. If they make their own toolkits, they get nailed.
This is not even mentioning the huge amount of porting they'd need to do.
As for your complaints about movie trailers, I suggest you get over it. There is a small price to pay for freedom man. When I started using Linux, I couldn't even watch movies at all.
What Apple is doing with Quicktime is no better or worse than what MS and Real are doing. They're trying to make money with a quality video/audio encoder and decoder. The end quality of the product isn't important, it's the intention that dictates the reasoning here.
They make money by spreading the quicktime decoder and convincing people to use it. Then professionals (you know, commercial use of software to make products) will buy the encoder software to publish their work.
Do you remember how business works?
Umm. For the same reason there isn't a Linux one. I'm sorry, Apple has kicked back to the community in other areas. Areas that are arguably more important than a media player.
Re:Updates timing (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Updates timing (Score:3, Interesting)
If they release it in pieces then everyone complains about having to install in chunks. People just love to gripe I guess it's human nature.
Re:almost unrelated Quicktime question (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:iTunes is the Devil (Score:5, Insightful)
Blaming Apple for this system is crazy - it's a shitty system, but there's plenty of blame to go around. I'd rather buy music legally from good bands that put effort into making quality albums where I get my moneys worth, whether I buy online or at stores, and focus my effort on defeating the unconstitutional measures the entertainment industry has supported (the DMCA for example) to keep their monopoly and prevent me from using the music that I already legally bought.
Re:iTunes is the Devil (Score:4, Interesting)
I can't fault DHB for trying, but I can fault them for not trying hard enough. The site seems built more on FUD than facts, and a little bit of something resembling backmail is there too(That could really change the industry. (and we promise we'll take down the iTunes iSbogus page)).
Re:Still waiting... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Wal-Mart Launches $0.88 Download Service (Score:3, Insightful)
So if your ISP starts blocking web sites they disagree with, it isn't censorship? If your local tv station blanks out part of a show they deem inappropriate, it isn't censorship? After all, they aren't the government.
I will agree that Walmart is in their rights to sell only certain versions, as long as they post this fact. But that doesn't change the fact that it can be the start of a long slippery slope.
Re:Quicktime sucks. Who cares? (Score:5, Informative)
Really - before you start ranting you should at least bother to learn something about the subject. You can write plugins [apple.com] for QT. There is technical documentation [apple.com] at Apple's Quicktime developer's [apple.com] site, and you can download both Windows [apple.com] & Mac [apple.com] SDKs. Also, check sourceforge for other QT Components [sourceforge.net].
Re:Quicktime sucks. Who cares? (Score:4, Informative)
The "Quicktime Player" is just a free front-end demo sort of thing that doesn't want to die. Seeing how Apple has published all the specs for the QT framework, I'm amazed someone hasn't written a nicer player frontend.
Most people only use QT for DV25/DVCPro25 and DV50/DVCPro50 video editing (and futher down the data path, MPEG2 for output). Be it at home from their MiniDV camera in iMovie and output to DVD via iDVD or a pro using Final Cut and DVD Studio.
Soooo many of
I don't hate QT, it's part of what makes Macs and their applications a more sane world, but I do with QT had a few more codecs and wish there were some better frontends/players. (There were gobs of third-party/shareware/freeware QT player frontends back in the oldschool classic Mac OS days... but very few for OS X).
Re:Fullscreen support? (Score:5, Informative)
Try the following AppleScript:
Re:woah, cool, MOD PARENT UP (Score:3, Informative)
I did make a few modifications, however.
Re:Where is sort by path anf filename? (Score:5, Informative)
Why would you have two instances of the same song on your machine unless they were from different albums, different encodings, or sample rates or such? iTunes just did you a favor, it found you some wasted hard drive space. Delete the duplicate(s) and move on.
If they aren't exact duplicates then use the "View Options" to add the appropriate colums to the display so you can discerne the differences between the tracks.
iTunes stores enough tag and other meta information that you should never have to sort files manually. Manual and smart playlists are tremendously powerful, especially when you can create smart playlists based on the contents of the "comments" box for each track. For example, I use terms like "male female group solo singing instrumental acoustic live remix" in the comments field. I have several smart playlists that sort on these, such as "live group rock"; this is powerful voodoo.
To backup your comments and such, simply copy the "iTunes 4 Music Library" file. You can later restore it to the appropriate place and all will be well.
Chances are that if you are going to "move my data on my machine to another location" that you would be moving the entire location of your "my documents" folder. iTunes would then look for its file(s) relative to that new location. If you DO just want to move the iTunes database, simply use a shortcut (alias to MAc users, symlink to BSD heads).
Unless you are a geek who wants to tweak, there's little to no reason for iTunes to complicate matters by offering alternate locations for the database. The standard options allow for a centralized store of music, and each user to maintain their own ratings, comments, etc.
The window maximize thing is annoying. It doesn't even work on the Mac like it's supposed to (hold Option, click the window zoom button). To make a maximized iTunes window you have to manually drag the window to size. Apple does occasionally break its own HIG documents, and this is one of those occasions.