You could do that - make a playlist called "Shit Songs", move those two songs in there (and others you want to be excluded from other playlists), and add the line "does not contain songs from playlist Shit Songs" in your smart playlists.
― Siegbran, Monday, 30 November 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Ha, yeah that would work.
Still, creating a playlist you don't even want in order to delete songs from one that you do....
― pplains, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
^ that used to be called a kludge
― Aimless, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Seriously every device in the modern world drives me into apoplectic rage any time I have to commit an act of maintenance - and about 10% of the time just when I'm trying to use it for its intended purpose. How did we get here?
Ditto. I seriously need to lo-fi-ify my life because everything new sucks. My iPod Classic is pretty much the only one of my varied electronic devices that doesn't require multiple hours of upkeep. Everything else is about to get dropkicked into a well.
On topic, though: my gf was trying to make a playlist in my iTunes this weekend and, after dealing with the extended freeze-ups every couple of minutes, I think she finally understands what all of the swearing is about.
― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
If you make a change in an info file while in My Music, it will reset your place back to the beginning of the alphabet.
the resetting/the strange, suddenly shitty memory for what you were just doing is what's really killing me on the later updates of this thing
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
and i never really complained about itunes before!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
I've found that if I edit track tags, add new files, delete files, etc while in the main My Music view iTunes as a whole just freezes up for a couple of minutes since upgrading to the latest version. Doesn't happen if I make the changes within a playlist, or when I've searched for a specific artist/title, minimising the files on display. Frustrating if I forget. 6 years of playlists plus iDevices leave me reluctant to move away from iTunes, plus I'm happy enough with the interface in general.
― michaellambert, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
My >10 years worth of playlists is what keeps me shackled to this thing. Still, I had to revert to an older version that I never update in order to keep from losing my mind completely. Did they ever reinstate the users' ability to have more than one playlist open at a time? Someone should've gone to jail for that decision.
― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
you can save playlists as files and import them with whatever new mp3 player you use
― brimstead, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
sorta offtopic and i mentioned elsewhere, but seriously, get Cesium for your iDevice. You can end the pain on iOS at least.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
I'd love to leave iTunes and would in a second if there was a great alternative but there's not. And yes, iTunes is ultimately pretty powerful and great but like Word it is now dragged down by uselessness (the whole multimedia and device management functionality) which adds to the complexity and creates nasty legacy issues.
In certain views, iTunes scrolls tens of thousands of files well but in other views it sputters along. But given Apple's drive to streaming, I do not think these issues will improve until I can roll my own streaming service.
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
I've actually been OK with iTunes lately. It's the airplay feature that drives me nuts. So temperamental, constantly dropping the signal.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 01:59 (eight years ago) link
thx lukas
― alo lin (alomar lines), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
I've been running into some really irritating shit- I have a large library, so of course I want to manage the stuff on my iphone manually, just dragging and dropping what I want (or, now that they've dropped the sidebar by default and I would have to keep turning it on every time I started itunes because it doesn't remember that setting, RGH, doing a group-select->right click->add to playlist->my iphone). Now they've added this fucking stupid thing where purchased music on my phone has both "delete" and "remove download" options if I'm managing it directly from the phone's Music app, and as far as I can tell, the difference is "remove download" takes it off the device (but still leaves a library entry for it on the phone's Music app because haha fuck you) and "delete" apparently deletes it FROM YOUR ITUNES LIBRARY. Like, all synced devices, and hides it in your itunes store account. Who wants that? Who thought that was a good idea?
I'm also finding that if I browse my iphone's library while it's connected via USB to itunes on my PC and delete stuff to make room for new music, about half the time it will delete it from that view- meaning I can't see it on my PC's itunes while the phone is connected- but the files will still be on the phone.
JESUS CHRIST APPLE GET YOUR/MY SHIT TOGETHER
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
Maybe the reason I'm not running into problems is that I don't have an iPhone and I'm never syncing stuff? Hmm ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
intelligently syncing media across multiple devices with vastly different storage capacities and use cases is admittedly difficult but apple has been hopeless at it (just try disentangling the photo sync options available for instance)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Syncing generally isn't a problem for me since I'm only syncing an iPod Classic via USB. I create On The Go playlists during the day as necessary and update stuff when I get home.
― The Featureless Mash That Was Once My Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
i get that it's difficult to create software that will sync media across multiple platforms/devices. i don't get why it keeps getting worse with every new version of itunes. or why itunes' most basic function (sorting/playing media) keeps getting more cumbersome and terrible to look at.
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
All of Apple's software has been steadily getting uglier, more bloated, more cumbersome and less useful, especially iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie. Waiting for them to introduce a talking paperclip that walks you through everything.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Photos is an improvement over iPhoto, for sure.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Scotch-taping a polaroid picture to your computer monitor would've been an improvement over iPhoto.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
I'm getting a new computer today, looking forward to leaping up several generations of tech and software immediately, after the hassle of transferring everything over.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
I love that feeling. Also the feeling of having a clean install
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
Pp, true true
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
The more Apple follows Google's horrible eyesore of a UX/UI, the worse it becomes. And iTunes is no different.
And yo Tracer, syncing media across multiple platforms (let alone dealing with all the charming legacy issues) is no easy trick but it's something Apple's been (trying) doing since the iPod. Am kind of expecting it to really just work at some point.
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
yes cosine
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
I guess we're supposed to sit back and assume that STREAMING WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING.
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
yep
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
files on your own computer are so 2011
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
I finally abandoned iTunes and having files on my computer. Since I haven't had a real desktop in years, the hard drives have too small for my iTunes library, so I use Spotify and then records when I really want to listen to music.
I miss having some not-officially-released tracks that were in my library but Spotify handles 99% of it without issue.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 3 December 2015 07:23 (eight years ago) link
you are freaking me out
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
i couldn't see an album in the Music app on my iPhone that i knew i had, had to use search to find it
album displays fine in cesium - that was crashing for a while but seems fixed, so goodbye Music
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
had to use apple music again today and the UI is just spectacularly, hallucinatorily bad, it is crazy
even if it were the nutz though, the fact that it forgets what what point you were in the song you were listening to (like, ahem dj mixes), if it has to unload itself from your iphone's memory, is unforgiveable
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
iTunes' flakiness had been getting so bad for me that last night I deleted all playlists, music, everything and reimported my files. I hadn't reset my iTunes library in close to 10 years so who knows what the library files were looking like.
So much better now!
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 26 March 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Not being able to edit stream URLs in the info box anymore really pisses me off. My WFMU stream's playcount was at 4500+ until they changed the stream address the other day.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:06 (eight years ago) link
iTunes has crashed and deleted my entire library twice in the last couple of months.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
I really can't be bothered to reinstall it all this time, I'm just streaming shit for the time being.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 13:12 (eight years ago) link
itunes now won't add new podcasts, synch with my ipad or let me access my old purchases. nice work, apple.
― ðļa hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
For some reason starting today, whenever I manually copy music from my library to my iPhone, it doesn't copy the artwork- each track I copy to my phone has its artwork replaced with a seemingly random other track's. I've updated iTunes and my phone but I can't find any way around it.
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 21 July 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
lolll forever at this piece of shit program, it's really quite something
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link
the 'rack of guitars' icon for the "genres" column label is nice though
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 September 2016 09:33 (seven years ago) link
just had to use it this week. ipod no longer has any menus associated with it. you need to click on a tiny icon to access it.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
I thought this retrohack was pretty clever, though I doubt I'd ever commit to such a project:http://imgur.com/a/VmT9e
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 3 September 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Does anybody use Roon?
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
kudos to dude for having ifixit's guide that also shows pictures and steps to do exactly what he's doing open in the background.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh ð), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
i don't think i've updated iTunes in years
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
I desperately want to buy something off iTunes Japan, is this easy to do or do I have to jump through a shit ton of hoops
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link
The purchase of digital media from countries other than your own almost always involves a piracy-promotingly high level of hoop jumping.
― Our Salads Are Now Almost Entirely Blood-Free! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
and likely you can "find" it online somewhere
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
I wish - there's a few things that haven't appeared in the usual spots yet
Was hoping someone developed a more streamlined process where you could just PayPal and get the MP3s, but I guess not - everything involves buying weird gift cards and changing a bunch of iTunes settings
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link