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Hi,
I'm a long time ipod/itunes user and recent macbook purchaser. I've come across a few ways that PC iTunes seems to have a one-up on Mac iTunes and was curious as to people's opinions.
1. I've stumbled across a very weird nit that I described in another thread: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49265. On my PC, I would make "back ups" of individual songs and move them to an external HD very easily. I'd just copy the files and then move the copies to the external HD. With the Mac, I can't move the originals or the copies to an external HD because those files are located in the "Music" folder.
2. I have created some very complicated smart playlists (some involving over 20 rules). On the PC, the smart playlist window would scroll up and down so I could view all the rules. On the Mac, the scroll window doesn't come up. Hence, you're the number of rules you can build into a smart playlist is confined to the vertical height of your screen. I don't have a screen shot of this at the moment. I'll try to post one later.
3. When watching video files on the PC, if I X'd the stand alone window, the video would then continue to play in the lower left window of the itunes pane (video and sound). On mac, if you X the stand alone window, the audio keeps playing, but the lower left window just displays the "album art" for the video.
4. This one probably only applies to me, but I used to "trick" my PC iTunes into thinking one music file was another. I would often run into this scenario. I have a song that I've had for years and listened to many times. I then get a higher bit rate (better) quality version of that song. I could manipulate the location of the files in such a way that iTunes would replace the old version of the song with the new one, but retain the "Date Added", playcount, etc. So far I haven't figured out how to do this on the Mac.
What do you think?
I'm a long time ipod/itunes user and recent macbook purchaser. I've come across a few ways that PC iTunes seems to have a one-up on Mac iTunes and was curious as to people's opinions.
1. I've stumbled across a very weird nit that I described in another thread: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49265. On my PC, I would make "back ups" of individual songs and move them to an external HD very easily. I'd just copy the files and then move the copies to the external HD. With the Mac, I can't move the originals or the copies to an external HD because those files are located in the "Music" folder.
2. I have created some very complicated smart playlists (some involving over 20 rules). On the PC, the smart playlist window would scroll up and down so I could view all the rules. On the Mac, the scroll window doesn't come up. Hence, you're the number of rules you can build into a smart playlist is confined to the vertical height of your screen. I don't have a screen shot of this at the moment. I'll try to post one later.
3. When watching video files on the PC, if I X'd the stand alone window, the video would then continue to play in the lower left window of the itunes pane (video and sound). On mac, if you X the stand alone window, the audio keeps playing, but the lower left window just displays the "album art" for the video.
4. This one probably only applies to me, but I used to "trick" my PC iTunes into thinking one music file was another. I would often run into this scenario. I have a song that I've had for years and listened to many times. I then get a higher bit rate (better) quality version of that song. I could manipulate the location of the files in such a way that iTunes would replace the old version of the song with the new one, but retain the "Date Added", playcount, etc. So far I haven't figured out how to do this on the Mac.
What do you think?