Miro is a great application, but i would not call it an "iTunes replacement". I use it as a "video feed reader".
Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
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Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#12I wish media player developers would stop trying to imitate iTunes. I hate iTunes. It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions), it's huge and demanding (of my focus/attention, and also computing resources) where it shouldn't be, and its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes). It's great that seemingly high quality…
"It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions)"
What? Ummmm....even my super non-techie wife hasn't done that.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#13I wish media player developers would stop trying to imitate iTunes. I hate iTunes. It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions), it's huge and demanding (of my focus/attention, and also computing resources) where it shouldn't be, and its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes). It's great that seemingly high quality…
"It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions)" What? Ummmm....even my super non-techie wife hasn't done that.
I'm Appletarded, and get confused by a lot of Apple software. I don't know how I did it, but it's happened on three separate occasions. Twice on a Windows PC and once on a Mac. Somehow my misunderstanding of the sync feature led to the PC getting what was on the iPod, and the music collection on the PC being deleted. It was many years ago; I eventually learned my lesson and stopped trying to use the damned thing. Maybe it's better/safer now. But, I'll never find out, as I can't think of any reason I'd have to use iTunes.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#14It's not an iTunes replacement at all. I have an iPhone and buy apps through iTunes sometimes. This doesn't have that functionality (nor the syncing with the iPhone). Also, it has a bittorrent client built in... Why?
So you can help out with bandwidth when downloading media (TED talks for example). Back when I used miro that was what I used it for at least.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#15I wish media player developers would stop trying to imitate iTunes. I hate iTunes. It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions), it's huge and demanding (of my focus/attention, and also computing resources) where it shouldn't be, and its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes). It's great that seemingly high quality…
"It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions)" What? Ummmm....even my super non-techie wife hasn't done that.
Mine has!
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#16I wish media player developers would stop trying to imitate iTunes. I hate iTunes. It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions), it's huge and demanding (of my focus/attention, and also computing resources) where it shouldn't be, and its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes). It's great that seemingly high quality…
"It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions)" What? Ummmm....even my super non-techie wife hasn't done that.
Has happened to me on several occasions, especially with an older iPod shuffle. Synced in some music, then set everything I could find to "manually manage music" and "do not autosync". Moved the source files around on the PC, and the next time I connected the iPod, iTunes "helpfully" automatically wiped all the music off the iPod, since it could no longer find it in its library.
I've heard others getting burned in a similar fashion. One person needed to charge the iPod before a long flight, and didn't bother connecting the external drives containing all the music. Only after getting on the plane did he realize iTunes has "synced" his "empty library" and blown away everything on the iPod.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#17The first thing that struck me was how visually identical to iTunes it was. Considering how Apple sued Samsung over UI similarity, I wouldn't be surprised if Miro could run into similar problems.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It's confusing (it's caused me to delete my entire music collection on my PC on multiple occasions)" What? Ummmm....even my super non-techie wife hasn't done that.
I'm Appletarded, and get confused by a lot of Apple software. I don't know how I did it, but it's happened on three separate occasions. Twice on a Windows PC and once on a Mac. Somehow my misunderstanding of the sync feature led to the PC getting what was on the iPod, and the music collection on the PC being deleted. It was many years ago; I eventually learned my lesson and stopped trying to use the damned thing. May…
Syncing your iPod will never delete music from your PC. It is and has always been a one-way sync, PC to iPod, as far as music content is concerned.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#19Miro's a very cool project - the Participatory Culture Foundation does a bang-up job of productizing what they do and making it pretty. For someone who'd want to switch from iTunes for higher performance and simplicity, rather than just going for an equivalent, what would I do?
I've switched to using foobar2000 ( http://www.foobar2000.org/ ) and I think it's the first music player that I actually like. It's extremely simple and I've found it quite fast and responsive, even on my netbook.
I'd also strongly recommend foobar2000. It's incredibly fast, automatically adds music pretty much as soon as it's in the directory, is extremely customizable, and can look really, really nice. It has customizable global hotkeys, addon support, but works well out of the box.
If any one is still trying to use iTunes on Windows, I strongly urge you to at least try foobar2000. Once I switched, there was just no way I was going back to iTunes. It alleviates so many of the stupid daily annoyances I had with iTunes.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm Appletarded, and get confused by a lot of Apple software. I don't know how I did it, but it's happened on three separate occasions. Twice on a Windows PC and once on a Mac. Somehow my misunderstanding of the sync feature led to the PC getting what was on the iPod, and the music collection on the PC being deleted. It was many years ago; I eventually learned my lesson and stopped trying to use the damned thing. May…
Syncing your iPod will never delete music from your PC. It is and has always been a one-way sync, PC to iPod, as far as music content is concerned.
Not quite true (music purchased on the iPod will be synced back) but near enough.
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