New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57556548-37/7-features-apple-killed-off-in-itunes-11/

I just downloaded 6 itunes alternatives, installed them, saw that they were terrible and didn't have the feature I needed, and deleted them all.

mpd is the true nerd's music player of choice. But it definitely won't manage your iPhone library.

I noticed the lack of gapless playback. Bummer. Also, I can change an mp3 to be an audiobook but not a podcast. When I change the file type nothing happens.

maybe YOU're the one that changes

the only piece of software i'm jealous that winblows lusers get is foobar2000

it still hangs when you're trying to sync with files on a drive that isn't connected. it's been doing this for what, 10 years?

god foobar2000 rules, so does media monkey.

media monkey for windows xp r.i.p, it's on to the bladerunner future from here.

I noticed the lack of gapless playback. Bummer.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait this is the new itunes you're talking about or one of the alternative apps?

new itunes. Gapless playback has disappeared from the options tab. Totally sucks ass.

SUPPOSEDLY the only thing that checkbox ever did was override whatever setting you had for crossfading between tracks. so if you don't have itunes crossfade normally you should be fine. there's an article about it somewhere.

Hm. Basically all I care about is whether e.g. the transition from the 2nd to the 3rd movement of the Beethoven "waldstein" sonata will still play without a gap, even if I can't tell itunes via that check box that those tracks are gapless.

Is anyone a Clementine user?

T-Mobile USA just announced they'll finally be selling the iPhone and iPad at some unspecified time in 2013. They've been busy moving their reasonably fast HSPA+ network to frequencies the iPhone can use over the last year, and will start rolling out their LTE network next year as well.

I think gapless playback is still there, there's just an option missing in one of the menus

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/gapless-playback-in-itunes-11/

as lukas said

So if I import a mixed album (with tracks) using a different encoder, how does it know to play it back gaplessly?

it doesnt, also by doing so you have voided the warranty on your computer

Stepping back a couple of days:

I think the answer was to go to the little magnifying glass and switch search from "Entire Library" to "All". This appears to make search work like it used to, and is definitely improved my performance on an external drive

This doesn't seem to work since it was already set to both those, "Entire Library" AND "All." So...hmm.

Again, for those wondering: I am trying to determine why iTunes essentially locks up on me when trying to do a search when my actual library file is only 85 MB, but the music itself is located on an external drive.

click on "entire Library" again. It will deselct it.

Thank ya. Out and about but will try again when home.

And that did indeed do the trick! Thank you VERY much for that.

you're welcome!

In my experience, if you quit itunes you have to do it again. It wants desperately for you to use its slowass spotlight wannabee searching.

Here's a probably stupid question from a tech-challenged ilxor named me.

Can the iPad communicate with a thumb drive/small ext hard drive without a proper computer being involved in the transaction?

(i don't own one, just contemplating it)

If you're wondering "hey how come my podcasts stopped updating?", the answer is that new iTunes turns off updates for podcasts you haven't listened to for awhile, so you have to manually go into each podcast and see if it's turned off. Not sure how to globally turn that feature off.

the old itunes did the same thing, but it put an exclamation next to the podcast name in the list

it once looked like this:

http://myblog4fun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/3d82c942-3a88-4e84-a7c7-db1d4e362a7fimage_5_2_thumb.png

Ah, is THAT what that meant. Haha.

haha yeah

Can the iPad communicate with a thumb drive/small ext hard drive without a proper computer being involved in the transaction?

nope

The Remoteless app for Spotify is really great.

xpost damn. Why won't someone make something small and smart that can also talk to portable storage on its own?

There is the camera connection kit, which gives USB connectivity, but unsurprisingly only allows you to transfer photos. Actually you can also use it to plug in MIDI devices too. I don't know if there are more uses being made of it...

I dearly miss Google Maps on iPhone. Using it on a browser it for shit.

Before: I could look enter "The Palomaar Htelolwtf" and Google would know that I meant "Hotel Palomar, 530 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois," and I could see a pic of it in Street View.

Now: Maps is baffled by "The Palomar Hotel," and even "The Hotel Palomar." I had to remove the fucking "The" in order for it to give me ANY RESULTS AT ALL. I guess at least I didn't wind up dead in the outback while on my way to a Christmas party.

I have at least one annoying moment with Maps every couple of days.

recently I gave it an address in north rd (a major road, 3 km away) and it took me to a 'worth rd' somewhere in america

complete balls is what it is

new iTunes turns off updates for podcasts you haven't listened to for awhile

For my part I think this is a great feature!

I think it's shithouse

there are times when I'm too busy to listen to all my podcasts, and times when I can smash out a load of them in a few days; it is not apple's place to decide when and how I do that

yes I understand people host podcasts at their expense, and listeners just leave them in their podcatchers for years and leech serving quota, but at the very least there needs to be an option to turn off this dumb shit

xp still re maps: I was used to typing in a single name and if I didn't get the exact result I wanted, I at least got a list that contained what I wanted. The problem isn't just the data in the maps, it's the shitful search function. The other day I was looking for a sporting goods store on the north side of Chicago, so I zoomed the map appropriately and typed in "sporting goods." 0 results. As a test, I tried "Sports Authority" b/c I know the location of 3 Sports Authority stores, and the map zoomed way in on the Sports Authority downtown, but it omitted the other two I know about within a few miles' radius.

And over Thanksgiving when I tried finding a certain Mexican restaurant in a small town in North Carolina, I was transported overseas to a town in northwestern Spain that had the same name as the restaurant I was looking for.

Oh oh, and when I hit the bus icon for a directions on public transit in Chicago? It took me to public transit apps in the App Store. Cool.

I'm done for tonight, but if anyone has any requests, I'll be back to bitch more tomorrow.

I am loving my first Mac, however. I am probably going to become one of the obnoxious Mac stans unless Tim Cook and friends fuck that up, too.

its so your entire hd doesnt fill up with podcasts

I can totally see why that might be helpful. I want to be able to turn it off.

unless i'm not understanding what AA thinks it's not apple's place to do, it's not a new feature though. been there since like itunes 8.

Huge news:

Google Maps is back! The official Google maps apps just launched for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, including support for the 4" screen in the iPhone 5. Looks like you'll need a Google account to use it, which I don't have yet so I can't try it out yet and see how we'll integrated it is with other apps.

and it's very very good

although it looks like it's not indexed properly yet – it wasn't coming up in search results, and some people can't even download it using the direct link