Wasn't that claim determined to be a hoax?
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iTunes Has Slowly Destroyed My Will to Collect Music
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#12http://beets.io/
beets has done an amazing job helping curate my music. I'm sure it's been covered here before.
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#13I've purposley avoided Apple Music for this reason. I still use it as my main library, but i've starting using Google Play Music for their radio stations, which I have found superior to iTunes.
Anyone have advice for moving off of iTunes completely? Do you backup to S3 or a external disk?
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#14Someone has to say it: why do people keep using it? If it's not doing the job it's supposed too, or worse, actively deleting your music it's time to scrap it!
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#15Wasn't that claim determined to be a hoax?
(Assuming you're referring to the James Pinkstone story referenced in the beginning) Sort of. Pinkstone was telling the truth in that iTunes did delete all his music, but after some follow-up with Apple it was determined that it was a bug and not, as he speculated in the first post, the result of a conspiracy to control what happens to music you already purchased (the Apple CSR was just clueless; which is well within the realm of possibility)
That doesn't really matter to this story's context though: the Slate author is complaining that its the general shittiness of iTunes, not any sinister agenda on Apple's part, that is destroying his desire to collect music.
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#16http://beets.io/ beets has done an amazing job helping curate my music. I'm sure it's been covered here before.
Has it gotten better at tagging classical music? I used it for a while a year or two ago and back then it was pretty bad for tagging classical music.
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#17Someone has to say it: why do people keep using it? If it's not doing the job it's supposed too, or worse, actively deleting your music it's time to scrap it!
There's still nothing better than iTunes, at least on OS X.
It's the best of a bad bunch.
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#18This is why I still use iTunes 10. After that point, the program no longer had the organizational features I'd been depending on ever since iTunes 4 or maybe even earlier. It's unfortunate that there isn't a similarly feature-rich music organization app for OS X available (and I've tried them all).
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#19When I was a young teenager in the early nineties I dreamt about having all the worlds music available to me via the internet.
This is more or less the reality today.
Access beats ownership anyway IMO.
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#20I've purposley avoided Apple Music for this reason. I still use it as my main library, but i've starting using Google Play Music for their radio stations, which I have found superior to iTunes. Anyone have advice for moving off of iTunes completely? Do you backup to S3 or a external disk?
I just spent a while offloading a bunch of music from a Macbook Pro that had to be returned to an educational institution after years of use. I was able to get to the music files directly and copied/pasted them over to large flash drives. I did the same for photos on that machine. From there I uploaded them to a network storage device where they've just been chilling until they're downloaded to a new machine.