[ABE.pm] I'm a Mac user!

[Steve Lidie]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:

> * Faber Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> [2006-08-18T08:47:31]
>>> You have an iPod, you want to use iTunes.  Trust me :)
>>
>> That's what I'm doin'!  So far, it's weird! Maybe if I buy  
>> something it will
>> straighten out. :-)
>
> Ha.  I've pretty much given up on buying things at iTMS.  I just  
> don't want to
> lose my music because they suck.

I, on the other hand, buy lots of stuff there, music and spoken  
content (podcasts too, but they are free). But the ITMS really shines  
when I'm in the middle of some iMovie or iDVD project and I need an  
audio background track.  I can always find something appropriate and  
I get it instantly.  Oh, and there's the free tune-of-the-week every  
Tuesday :)

But don't forget to backup purchased music.  Speaking of backups,  
which there was but one passing remark: do backups.  I use Retrospect  
but that is overkill for most folks. Carbon Copy Cloner is a long  
time favorite for cloning your boot disk to an external media, which  
then itself becomes a bootable copy.  SuerDuper is gathering steam as  
its replacement.  There's also Apple's Disk Utility which allows you  
to image your machine - see me offline for details on that one - it's  
used mostly for deploying images.

> That said, iTunes playlists, especially smart
> playlists, and its gathering of metadata from my iPod, make it  
> indispensible.
> When I see people using mp3 players that don't do things like track  
> ratings or
> play count, I feel pity.

100% agreement there.

Oh, and what type of iPod?  USB or FireWire?  My nano is my music  
iPod, my old 40 GB FireWire model is now just an external disk I used  
to carry images around ...

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