New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Consistent use of ratings + smart playlists is the way to go. Always surprised to see so many people neglecting the rating system

the ratings system requires an enormous amount of attentive anality to make any sense

Nah. If I like a song I give it four stars, if I REALLY like it I give it five stars. Then I have 'good' (4-5) and 'best' (5) smart playlists to make sense of it all, the end.

oof, yeah, it's great for micromanaging a certain kind of playlist, i guess, but fuck if i have the time to contemplate the starriness of all 60GBs of my music

Ah, see I rated all my music back in the 45Gb days.

if i were really going to take the plunge into obsessive that rating all my songs would require id need way more than five stars

what i REALLY wish itunes had was a tagging system a la netflix

"coked-out studio masterpieces from the 1970s"

code it yrself

kill yourself

(i use hazel to automatically add new tracks to that playlist). i don't like "smart" playlists because i don't feel in control.

does not compute

well, all it does is put downloaded files on an external HD then adds it to the "in rotation" playlist. it's just file management, there's no auto-judgement involved. jesus we should take this to the "digital media management" thread already

max!

what i REALLY wish itunes had was a tagging system a la netflix

if the search box in itunes actually searched through ID3 tags you could put whatever you wanted to in the comments field and then type in, like, "coked" and it would show up *bangs head against wall*

what is hazel exactly? i'm tired of having two itunes libraries, one big one on a HD and one smaller portable one on my laptop. can it help me

Maintaining two iTunes libraries sounds far more difficult than ticking checkboxes, just saying

it is annoying and i hate it but i didnt have the HD space on my laptop so what can i do

fair point

I had to do that for a number of years fwiw

if anyone has a solution i would greedily, gratefully, grasp at it

buy a bigger laptop HD

getting a new laptop putting tb hd in there all my music on it boom

well i actually have a new laptop with a bigger HD in it but im kind of scared of using 100gbs of it just for music ~

Why?

btw if you don't care about your DVD drive just slap this in there

http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/

get 2 1TB hard drives you're carrying around 2TB all the time what could be easier it sells itself

it's very silly but because i was running on like, 7-8gbs left over for at least a year, i'm terrified of not having big huge swaths of extra space at my disposal. i just know i'm gonna fill the whole thing up before i know it...

but i should prob just do it.

i need my dvd drive for burning cds & dvds

u r so 2 thousand and l8

you can still keep your optical drive in an external case. normally what I do is rip all my DVDs to the hard drive, then watch them using DVD Player or VLC. works fine

or better yet, encode them to m4v's using handbrake, then stream them to my iPad using air video. it's a treat

btw if you don't care about your DVD drive just slap this in there

http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/

get 2 1TB hard drives you're carrying around 2TB all the time what could be easier it sells itself

― ＿|￣|○|￣|○|￣|○ (dayo), Sunday, November 21, 2010 11:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

p dope product tbh

i need to be able to burn dvds and frequently, when im travelling :/

man that is effing tempting though... upgrade my regs to 750, get the 750

if you had an older MBP you could install a SSD expresscard as well...then boot off that, have 2 internal 1TB drives...~wow~

wow i need to step away from the computer for a sec just to like... deal

s1ocki the best way to see what hazel does is to click "video tour" on this page -

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php

how the heck do I get iOS 4 onto my iPad? it says the OS is up to date at version 3.2.2.

there is now iOS 4 for iPad as of yet...unless 4.2 is supposed to be for iPad also?

you've got to wait until california gets up. ios 4.2 for ipad later today.

can't wait for this - tired of flicking through endless home pages on the ipad

10am PST apparently (ie in two and half hours)

Find My iPhone will now be free on iPhone 4, iPad and 4th gen iPod touch.

Find Alba's iPhone.

dang westcoast slackers

It's cold out here and we didn't want to get up.

found yr iphone

So as I am leaving to catch a plane in 20 minutes I should not allow my iPhone anywhere near an iTunes amirite

yuright.

Apple TV update! Adding airplay to this thing might alleviate (not eliminate) the main problem I have with that futching interface.

What, the old school one or the new one?

it removes checkboxes?