U2's new album for free......

[Silver Smudger]

Mojooo said:

Their peak was Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby

Agreed - I have bought every album they did up to Zooropa, but now can hardly be bothered to install iTunes just to get this one for nothing

[MrsFallon]

I've just been to look at music and it's not there?

Edited to say I've now found it

Edited by MrsFallon on Sunday 14th September 09:22

[Finlandia]

Silver Smudger said:

now can hardly be bothered to install iTunes just to get this one for nothing

For me it's the itunes itself, I don't want to install anything that has the potential cockup my music library.

[MagicalTrevor]

Finlandia said:

Silver Smudger said:

now can hardly be bothered to install iTunes just to get this one for nothing

For me it's the itunes itself, I don't want to install anything that has the potential cockup my music library.

Just don't click on the 'cock up my music library' tick box when installing!

[Finlandia]

MagicalTrevor said:

Finlandia said:

Silver Smudger said:

now can hardly be bothered to install iTunes just to get this one for nothing

For me it's the itunes itself, I don't want to install anything that has the potential cockup my music library.

Just don't click on the 'cock up my music library' tick box when installing!

If it was that easy

Seriously though, I've heard too may horror stories about most things going wrong, from overwriting the album covers to wiping the library, so I'm not touching itunes.

[StevieBee]

Finlandia said:

Seriously though, I've heard too may horror stories about most things going wrong, from overwriting the album covers to wiping the library, so I'm not touching itunes.

I've been using iTunes since it was launched. It feeds my DJ software and drives much of the music content for a radio station I'm involved with. Never has it once so much as coughed.

[Finlandia]

StevieBee said:

Finlandia said:

Seriously though, I've heard too may horror stories about most things going wrong, from overwriting the album covers to wiping the library, so I'm not touching itunes.

I've been using iTunes since it was launched. It feeds my DJ software and drives much of the music content for a radio station I'm involved with. Never has it once so much as coughed.

Is that on a pc or mac?

[sparkyhx]

StevieBee said:

I've been using iTunes since it was launched.

I think thats probably the reason why its behaved itself

[StevieBee]

Finlandia said:

StevieBee said:

Finlandia said:

Seriously though, I've heard too may horror stories about most things going wrong, from overwriting the album covers to wiping the library, so I'm not touching itunes.

I've been using iTunes since it was launched. It feeds my DJ software and drives much of the music content for a radio station I'm involved with. Never has it once so much as coughed.

Is that on a pc or mac?

Mac all the way.

[Adam B]

StevieBee said:

Mac all the way.

With PC you get the additional hacking cough software also installed

[singlecoil]

It amazes me how with Macs being so good, so many people buy PCs.

[Finlandia]

StevieBee said:

Finlandia said:

StevieBee said:

Finlandia said:

Seriously though, I've heard too may horror stories about most things going wrong, from overwriting the album covers to wiping the library, so I'm not touching itunes.

I've been using iTunes since it was launched. It feeds my DJ software and drives much of the music content for a radio station I'm involved with. Never has it once so much as coughed.

Is that on a pc or mac?

Mac all the way.

That is why it works, on a pc it's hit and miss.

[sparkyhx]

singlecoil said:

It amazes me how with Macs being so good, so many people buy PCs.

cos you gotta buy into the whole ecosystem - its so much easier to mix and match on a PC.

And most people are used to them from work. Apple have just about turned into the "big bad control freak" they were complaining about Microsoft years ago.

personally I don't know how they get away with it, the EU crucified Microsoft for their practices, but Apple seem to be 10x worse.

[singlecoil]

sparkyhx said:

singlecoil said:

It amazes me how with Macs being so good, so many people buy PCs.

cos you gotta buy into the whole ecosystem - its so much easier to mix and match on a PC.

And most people are used to them from work. Apple have just about turned into the "big bad control freak" they were complaining about Microsoft years ago.

personally I don't know how they get away with it, the EU crucified Microsoft for their practices, but Apple seem to be 10x worse.

I was being a little bit sort of sarcastic, your points are never-the-less well made. I daresay MACs are good but then vintage port is good too, but does cost a heck of a lot more than non-vintage port which it is only marginally better than. I've got a high spec PC and I'm very happy with it, that much power from a MAC would have been unjustifiably more money and wouldn't have run all the software that I wanted to use.

[cianha]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29208540

For those that didn't ask for it, and really don't want it...

[Adam B]

singlecoil said:

It amazes me how with Macs being so good, so many people buy PCs.

If you can point me towards a respectable performance Mac laptop for the £279 I paid for my HP laptop ?

[singlecoil]

Adam B said:

singlecoil said:

It amazes me how with Macs being so good, so many people buy PCs.

If you can point me towards a respectable performance Mac laptop for the £279 I paid for my HP laptop ?

Did you read my 21:15 post?

[Adam B]

singlecoil said:

Did you read my 21:15 post?

Oops meant to reply to Steviebee, sorry

[audidoody]

singlecoil said:

I Paul McCartney is the best songwriter who has ever lived but I can't think of anything decent he's written in the last 4 decades.

Springsteen has written some stunning stuff since he was 40

And while I bow to no man in my appreciation of The Beatles and McCartney's output when he was a Fab you'd have to be one of his kids to call him " the best songwriter who has ever lived". His solo stuff leaves me bored and annoyed

Macca himself would probably find it curious you have not also mentioned at least Dylan, Lennon, Paul Simon. Ray Davies, George Harrison, Brian Wilson, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, George and Ira Gershwin, Chuck Berry, Lieber and Stoller, Rogers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Buddy Holly, Goffin &King etc as "the best songwriters who ever lived"

Edited by audidoody on Tuesday 16th September 11:11

[qube_TA]

Finlandia said:

If it was that easy

Seriously though, I've heard too may horror stories about most things going wrong, from overwriting the album covers to wiping the library, so I'm not touching itunes.

Yeah there's a default option to 'allow iTunes or organise my library'. Now assuming all your MP3's are legit and their metadata (ID3 tags) correct then nothing untoward will happen. However if you have a library where the tags are all wrong but you've carefully arranged everything based upon file name then because iTunes pays no attention to what a file is called only the data within then it'll make a total bks of your library and move everything about based purely on the metadata. If you uncheck the organise option then it'll leave the file wherever you decided to put it.
As lots of users, particularly Windows users focus more on filenames then they're more likely to get caught out with the different approach to file management.