Douglas Dollars is Six Times AliveThis is what your iTunes equalizer should be set to. Whether you’re using your poor laptop speakers, the default Apple earbuds, or fine pieces of engineering from a company that gives a damn, this removes the ‘flatness’ of the default EQ sound and makes whatever you’re listening to sound “more” like itself.
If you don’t agree, let me know.
iTunes in NA is selling Forget for $6.99 through the 19th. No substitutions! http://bit.ly/aSKDRM
If you’re not yet listening to Twin Shadow, you need to get this album. You’ve likely already spent more than $7 on coffee this week.
Forget has been one of my favorite 2-3 albums to keep in near-constant playback in the last couple months. I am right about these things, and you tend to appreciate it.
I am now on iTunes “Ping!” I am under “Dave Holmes!” You can follow me and then I don’t know what happens!
My experience of Ping for iTunes, the first ten minutes:
* As much as we like to pretend that Twitter is so popular remember the factoid that there are more people inside Facebook playing Farmville than the total population of Twitter users.
iTunes “Movies of the Week” March 14, 2010.
We pretend that Apple thinks highly of its customers and only acknowledge the areas that we participate in as the high-minded examples. Apple’s Movies of the Week feature chooses three movies from the iTunes Store and offers them for a 99 cent rental or a $4.99 purchase.
In the middle of the image above is the direct-to-video Legally Blondes, AKA “Legally Blonde 3,” and has rated at a solid 3.7/10 at the IMDB. I’m not singling it out- “Are We There Yet?” rates 4.2/10 and “American Virgin,” the lowest rated film of the three, earns 3.6/10. These might seem low, but please keep in mind that IMDB scores are generally considered to be higher than critic scores because the general public is allowed to vote on what they feel the quality of a movie is. These aren’t movies that “only fans understand”- in the case of American Virgin, it’s most supportive group (females aged 18-29) still only rated it a 4.7/10 on average.
iTunes Movies of the Week: Movies too dumb for even dumb people.
Into the S-bands now. Probably only about two more hours until the transfer is done and I’m able to do anything in iTunes again.
P.S.: Locking someone out of an primary interface for all their media for 3+ hours isn’t really good form. Then again, we’re still waiting on that iTunes rewrite to Cocoa, aren’t we? Maybe then iTunes will be awesome again.
A few words for your benefit. The ‘Consolidation’ feature of iTunes, despite what the Apple knowledgebase may lead you to believe, does not only collect all files used by iTunes (such as iPhone apps or Podcasts) but all files used in iTunes (meaning anything you’ve ever played, opened, or even pointed iTunes at). So if you kept Podcasts managed by iTunes, but didn’t want to move the 120+GB of music or, say, 5TB of movies you have in external storage (but playable in iTunes), tough luck.
Pictured: Currently transferred ~11GB of 120+GB, with no way to reverse the mess iTunes is making in destroying a directory structure that had served me well since 1998. What was “Album Artist - Year - Release Name” is now Album Artist > Album Name.
“But Doug,” you’re asking, “what about albums with more than one artist? (like every rap and classical album because you spent months properly tagging things)”
For that, iTunes just dumps it all into a big directory named “Compilations” and then has subdirectories with the name of the Album, and then treats compilation albums differently than single-artist albums to the point that they’re in a different menu entirely on your iPhone and a “compilation” album an artist is on won’t appear with their non-compilation albums. Have a Lil’ Wayne album that’s poorly tagged? That’ll show up as just his. The same Lil’ Wayne album properly tagged with every featured performer listed? That’ll show up as a compilation and not even as a Lil’ Wayne album!
I’d pay $100 for an Apple-made “iTunes Pro” that just learned to let people obsessively control how their media is stored and presented. C’mon Apple, at least treat performer names like tags (without relying on the in-app search) so I don’t forget every album you think is no longer a real album.
Rating this process 0 stars out of 5. Provides zero upside over the previous solution and still ‘forgets’ to get the album art for half the tracks not purchased in the iTunes store.
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