That website makes me not want their software.
You obviously don't visit much open source software websites. I thought this one wasn't bad at all compared to what I'm used to.
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
#52I 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.
Happened to me as well. Many years ago I used Itunes and it wiped my collection off, since I was using automatic syncing. I guess this fixed it now, but I have moved away from iTunes since then.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#53I 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 currently have two copies (pointing to the same file) of most of my music collection in iTunes. No idea how to fix it. It happened when I tried to import some MP3s from an old laptop that had some overlap.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#54I 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…
its integration with iTunes store is pointless and annoying to me (I don't shop at iTunes)
The best thing about iTunes is its open DB: Anything can read or write to it. It's barely less elegant to shop at Amazon MP3 (or at least it was until they made the Cloud Player the intermediary stop for every purchase).
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#55It'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?
Because Miro is the client for a video publishing platform that allows content providers to publish video streams to miro using rss and then have miro distribute it via bittorrent. Users are then able to search the Miro catalog and subscribe to those feeds if they are interested. For video-podcast addicts, thats really great. Its not a tacked on feature, this is actually the core feature of Miro - its a distributed v…
This makes that BitTorrent client really make sense. Distributing video podcasts really has to be done via YouTube or not at all for a lot of people because it's such a pain to distribute the video due to bandwidth costs. BitTorrent helps, but many people aren't savvy with BitTorrent or are freaked out by piracy concerns.
I'm a huge proponent of more legitimate BitTorrent usage. It really is a good distribution protocol.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#56I know iTunes isn't very popular with HN readers, so I'll balance things out a bit and play devil's advocate for a while: I like iTunes quite a bit. There are certainly some minor gripes and irritations, particularly with the UI, but overall I'm satisfied with the performance of iTunes and wouldn't want to replace it without much careful thought. I'm not a computer power user, more of a 'system dadmin'; we run iTunes…
Yeah, I agree with you. iTunes has some stupid things and "wtf?" moments, but overall I do enjoy using it. It makes media consumption very easy.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#57But can it play files over DAAP? That is the (my) holy grail for Mac music. Songbird sort-of can, in a buggy crashy way. Nothing else I have tried (Banshee, Amarok, Rhythmbox, firefly player jar) compiles and loads and runs an plays on Mac.
Yeah, it has DAAP support.
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#58Earlier 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 currently have two copies (pointing to the same file) of most of my music collection in iTunes. No idea how to fix it. It happened when I tried to import some MP3s from an old laptop that had some overlap.
I had that too.
Steps were from memory:
* Delete collection from iTunes.
* Change library location.
* Change library location back to original location.
* Wait 30+ minutes while iTunes freezes rescanning you library (I haven't used iTunes on Mac but on Windows it is a horrible experince, seriously haven't they heard of threads?).
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I currently have two copies (pointing to the same file) of most of my music collection in iTunes. No idea how to fix it. It happened when I tried to import some MP3s from an old laptop that had some overlap.
I had that too. Steps were from memory: * Delete collection from iTunes. * Change library location. * Change library location back to original location. * Wait 30+ minutes while iTunes freezes rescanning you library (I haven't used iTunes on Mac but on Windows it is a horrible experince, seriously haven't they heard of threads?).
Won't delete remove things from my hard disk?
Re: Miro 4, the open source music and video player, is released
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had that too. Steps were from memory: * Delete collection from iTunes. * Change library location. * Change library location back to original location. * Wait 30+ minutes while iTunes freezes rescanning you library (I haven't used iTunes on Mac but on Windows it is a horrible experince, seriously haven't they heard of threads?).
Won't delete remove things from my hard disk?
Pretty sure it will only delete if it setup to manage your library.