Thu, 11 May 2006
Fuck You iTunes. And Your Whole Company Too.
I'm using iTunes because my workplace got one of those
Apple
Airtunes thingies
that let you "wirelessly connect" to speakers from your iTunes library. I might
mention that this adventure began with installing VMware on the GNU/Linux host
OS and installing Windows XP as a guest OS. Then installing the sound drivers and
iTunes in that. Fuck you iTunes #1, you don't support my operating system.
So I start importing my big ass folder of music only to realize that 80% of it
isn't getting added. I then remember that iTunes is the last big player to
intentionally not support ogg/vorbis by default. Fuck you iTunes #2.
I find the official xiph.org vorbis Quicktime component. Cool! They took over
the dying project from five years ago. I install the component and lo and
behold, the rest of my music library is added. But wait! There's no metadata.
Huh? I'm very particular about marking up music files and I know I have
metadata on all of these. I confirm this and say fuck you iTunes #3, you make
volunteers program to a crappy API that only half functions on your product.
Whatever, I can handle re-adding some metadata. Artist and album will do fine
cause all the filenames are the track title. I do that and listen to some music
in my franken-os-itunes-ified virtual machine. I'm using headphones from my
computer's sound card. Now's the chance! I "connect to remote speakers" and
start playing some mp3 files over the speakers. THen I start playing some of
the ogg/vorbis files. Guess what? They don't play with airtunes, only on the
local system's sound card. Fuck you iTunes #4, your product's components don't
work with your other products.
Then I notice the cool sharing feature. I share my music, hell yeah! Then I
connect to a co-workers shared playlist and try and play a file. Oh shit! It
asks me for a password because "
that file is only allowed to be shared with 5
others". 5 others? Who though up that number. Fuck you iTunes #5, you're just
being stupid this time.
I later discover that a xiph.org employee was approached by the company who
makes the software on the ipod and told they will never support vorbis. Guess
what? That company wasn't Apple. Fuck you iTunes #6 your compatible products
software isn't even made by the company that makes you.
All this so I can play music over the office speakers. Seriously. Ughhh!
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