"iTunes is a free application for your Mac or PC. It organizes and plays your digital music and video on your computer. It keeps all your content in sync. And it’s a store on your computer, iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV that has everything you need to be entertained. Anywhere. Anytime."
It's so good that it's currently on version 10... and it STILL HASN'T ADDED ANY FORM OF MEDIA MONITORING. Let me give you an example:
Let's say I get a spat of OCD one day after watching Monk and I decide I want to organize my music folder. I added a bunch of mp3 files to iTunes when I started using the application that I had already ripped onto my computer. So I move files around and organize them by artist, album, etc. I go back to iTunes and play a song...
Whoops! It seems that iTunes is fucking retarded and needs to know exactly where every media file is located. It can't track certain folders automatically and reflect any changes I make to my media library manually. Nope. Why do that?
OK, open Windows Media Player. Play a song. Then, go to your music folder and move it to some other location. Drop it on the desktop, whatever. Now, hit F3 (or go to File, Add to Library). You get this:
What a novel concept. If you add the Desktop to a monitored location then any media stored on the Desktop will be updated automatically to reflect changes.
To my knowledge, this feature has been around definitely since at least four or five years ago, when I first started actively keeping a music library. iTunes was probably in version 7 or so then. Why haven't they implemented a media tracking feature in their media playing application yet? Because they don't want to copy Microsoft?
Zune Social: Launch date: November 2007
iTunes Ping: Launch date: September 1, 2010
Well never mind. That can't be it.
Let me show you another reason why iTunes is so awesome.
I added The Gallery into iTunes and it looked like this. For some reason, it seems to think that Dark Tranquility released the album three times and twice with only one track.
I added The Gallery into Windows Media Player and it looks like this:
Hey, look! One album. That's how I remembered it.
In closing, use iTunes as little as possible. It's a child. It always wants its way and gets mad at you if you don't listen to it.
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