Re: iTunes again
- From: jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie Kahn Genet)
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:02:34 +1200
AES <siegman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1iyo7u2.q1crkg39dm3jN%dcohenspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dcohenspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Cohen) wrote:
So I would like to be sure my iPod library reflects what I have in my
Music folder, which may have both added and deleted items since the last
time I added items to the library.
Obviously I can do this manually, just noting what I added since the
last time.
But is there an efficient way of keeping the library up-to-date? A piad
third-party application might well be acceptable. Essentially, I suppose
I am asking for some kind of "rescan Music folder" option.
A good start might be to recognize that iTunes is, among other things, a
(seriously crippled) _cataloging_ app for audio files. That is, one of
its core functions is to provide a _cataloging_ function for audio files
(even if Apple seems to want to suppress this very concept; see below).
In addition, the iTunes Library (the file created by iTunes and
generally located in the Music folder) is NOT a library in any normally
used sense of that word -- it's only a _catalog_ of audio files.
That is, this "Library" contains no audio _content_ itself. It's only a
_catalog_ containing pointers to files containing audio content.
Recognizing this and responding appropriately could greatly clarify many
of the discussions of iTunes, and also help clarify why some of us (a
minority, to be sure) so dislike, if not despise, iTunes.
Out of curiosity I once did a text search on electronic versions of a
collection of all the iTunes and iPod user guides, help files, and
manuals any Apple source that I could lay my hands on, and discovered
that the word "catalog" (or any variant on this root) did not appear
_anywhere_ in this corpus.
This total omission seems to me to be too striking to be accidental.
Would anyone have any ideas on why Apple might deliberately suppress any
reference to iTunes as a _cataloging_ app? Is there some bizarre
tactical purpose for this? Or do Apple's designers and programmers
simply not know any better?
(And, would anyone know of a good audio file cataloging app for the Mac,
comparable to the several image cataloging apps that are available?)
Would anyone have any clue as to why Apple
Fortunately for us at this point MT-NW refused to accept any more of
your insanity.
I bet you think the files on your HD actually move when you place them
in a different folder, huh? Or maybe you even think the little icons you
see in the Finder ARE the actual files?
Gods I can feel my intelligence just leaking away as I read your post...
uggg.
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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