Tetsuo Time

The main downside to having a non iPod MP3 player is not being able to easily sync with iTunes like you
can with iPod... so some people have made applications like SyncTunes so you can. Well I tried it and I have a playlist that's the right size to fit on my MP3 player but when I sync it with SyncTunes it only copies half the songs in the playlist to the player. So I went back to using Path Finder and just selecting all the songs in iTunes and dragging and dropping the files to the mounted MP3 player drive manually. I do that because the regular finder crashes when I try do that with it.

As some of you may know I had been disenchanted with the iTunes music store because of the restrictions. Not only are you getting a lower quality file for practically the same price as the full CD\DVD if you bought a whole album, a season of a TV program or a movie but you also can only download it once.... ( but with steam it's different... )

I know it's fast since my last desktop update but I just wanted to show the work I did on iTunes to make it match the theme I'm using right now which wasn't too far off from how iTunes looked so now the iTunes matches the theme and the theme matches iTunes.

This is just a personal edit of the theme though (it's not for release).

Looks like today (yesterday by the time you read this) was "Showtime" for Apple. Of course I have thoughts on Apple's new product updates and here I am as usual to talk about it some of this might be brief.. others might be longer.
( LJ Cut for your convenience... )

One more thing before I go to bed:
I am sorry to say that I can't recommend buying music and especially not videos from the iTunes music store. Why? Well for one thing the videos you get charged 2 dollars a piece for are barely MPEG1\VHS quality and if you buy a whole season it comes out to costing as much if not more than buying it on DVD. The second reason I don't recommend it is because if you happen to have to restore your hard drive and where unable to make a backup of your iTunes music store files like if your backup was a little out of date and didn't have your most recent files you can't redownload the videos\music you have bought. Then of course the videos seem to me to have stricter DRM than music files do making backing up the files harder.

I could be wrong about that because I heard that with music at least the DRM is lenient enough but I wouldn't be surprised. I did however think I read when I tried it out buying one video that you can only have a copy of an iTunes video on a single computer evidently though the iPod doesn't count against that. I think it's better to encode free videos for your iPod if you are going to watch videos on it.

There are two things I would like to see Apple change in the iTunes music store before I can endorse it. First of all for the money I think that the videos they sell should be DVD quality. Second of all they should be able to tell if you paid for a certain video and also if you have bought the video and it's not in your iTunes library it should allow you to download or re-download it as necessary. Currently there is a purchase history section but it is only for you to read it doesn't have any function other than that.