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 Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. |
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16-04-2008, 23:07
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17-04-2008, 00:31
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 The beta is better suited at importing music IMO, you set it to monitor a folder and thats what it does, you don't need to inform it ala iTunes everytime theres something new in your music folder. Its more customisable, whether thats good or bad is moot i suppose, but i have it looking like WMP or iTunes so my friends don't get scared of it (this is good at parties) It has a freaking Now Playing list! Why oh why doesn't iTunes have this?!?! You can on the fly add what you want to play as you find it, iTunes is ridiculous in this manner. Auto playlists are like smart playlists in iTunes (so you dont lose them either )Syncing is truly something else, first it supports everything (well mostly i think). But you can set it to sync auto playlists (like iTunes) and then set it to sycn a random subset of your remaining music to fill the player, and you can set it to favour higher rated music. You can (with a plugin) Autorate your music, depending on how often, how much a song is played, how much its skipped, or override it manually. You can integrate (or scrobble whatever you want to call it) all this into Last.fm, so last.fm will start advising you what music to look out for (invaluable to myself) Theres an autoDJ which is exactly like iTunes party shuffle, but autoDJ can be set to work intelligently from last.fm, so when MM gets to the end of your Now playing playlist, it checks what was at the end, queries last.fm and checks to see what music you have that is similar to this song, rather than choose at complete random (this is great for hearing all the music you own, if you own lots!). Theres also a party mode where everything is locked out and you can restric what people can do (ie no deleting music etc..) for those drunken party dukeboxes Thats off the top of my head now, there are countless other things if you need more convincing, but the beta 3.whatever is definitely worth a good look at, and playing with for a bit. Once its all up and running its fab, i've converted two flatmates recently, theyre pretty technophobic and get on great with it! I am not recieving commision for this post... 
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17-04-2008, 00:57
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Moonshine
Join Date: Sep 2007
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1 question, which is something I never managed to get itunes to do...
If I create a custom playlist, and manually add songs to it, can it be set up so that that playlist is synced to the iPod (and so any additions/removals to that playlist are added/removed from the iPod)? So if I happened to need to reset the iPod, i could just sync up that list rather than trawl my library like I do now?
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17-04-2008, 01:50
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Bananaman
Join Date: Jul 2006
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AFAIK custom playlists "update" themselves with iTunes i think somehow ( i don't have it installed anymore but i think i did do something like what your after). Mediamonkey *definately* does this, you can tell it whether or not to remove files from your MP3 player, if they're not on a playlist anymore, or have been removed from your library etc... I use that all the time
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17-04-2008, 16:45
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For actually listening to some tunes, it's WinAmp for the win. The new version is most excellent. For freeware, you have to say it is a superb application. |
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17-04-2008, 16:59
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Bananaman
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh
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MediaMokey can actually use the winamp engine if you so wish
And does everything else too, also just found out it tags from amazon if you wish too! Exactly what i was after!
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17-04-2008, 17:14
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Screaming Orgasm
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Newbury
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Think I'll have a look at MediaMonkey. If I can get it to do autoDJ via an interface as unobtrusive as Winamp, I'll be away.
Currently ripping my 70th CD to my all-new library (properly tagging everything as best I can as I go). Only another 140 CDs or so in the current stack to go (with probably another 100 or so I haven't found yet), then I need to bash together a little software to organise everything the way I want it. |
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17-04-2008, 17:28
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Absinthe
Join Date: Jul 2006
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The itouch is MORE than just music thou.
There are The internet in Safari - fab Email - I set it up to Gmail and it sync Video is great, soooooooooooo cool Photo, it's more about showing people your photos, as you can't sent them or receive photos Weather - its quite nifty Stocks - not really paid attention to it Youtube, works perfectly |
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17-04-2008, 17:33
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Sofa Boy
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Wield of the Shire
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When have you ever been out and about and thought "Crickey, what I wouldn't give to be able to get on YouTube right now.."?
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