The idea of writing this post me arose another night, immediately after a tweet in which he was saying that it was leaving the iPod because it was not possible with the iTunes, that there was no the one who understood it, with the simple thing that is "copy&paste". And here it is when me the doubt arose: why iTunes does it please so little between the users of Windows? And why does the opposite usually happen to the maqueros? In this post I will try to answer to these questions and transmit a little the iTunes philosophy, for the switchers, and for not so switchers, as well as for the Windows users Of course, quite from my point of view.
The first thing is to start with the entrails of iTunes, the bookstore. I believe that all the Win's users ask about it, why I have to have a bookstore, if I already have my music folder. I believe that to explain this we have to go away some level more for below, to the operating system. You all know that MacOS is a set of many black boxes, bundles and the others. Together they do the system, but also they are independent. And I believe that it is the idea that they want to move to the music. So that to have her scattered in folders, renowned each one of a way when we her can have everything grouped in a place, as it happens with the bookstore of photos of iPhoto. I believe that this is the first step to be able to understand iTunes, see your music like a block, to forget you of the files navigator and to use iTunes to organize it.
I do not remember that it was doing in windows exactly when he wanted to listen to music, believe that it usually opened the Average Player, it was selecting the songs and was reproducing them, then I was always starting labeling and putting masks … but then someone were recorded in the song of shift and others not. Of course I had that organized the folders, to put name and the others. Then iTunes it entered my life, and I discovered the serviceability of “to throw it to iTunes“. I believe that the best way of extracting party to this program is selecting the options that you see in the image.
This way we will forget completely the management of the files. Namely we bend a folder with music, "throw" it to iTunes and once I stopped importing it can erase the folder. This is like that because these files are copied in the iTunes bookstore. Then the only thing that we will have to do is to edit the information of the songs, individually or in block, if it is incomplete and I list. In this edition also the masks are included, other of the bones of contention, we have two routes, the automation, that is to say, being logueados in the iTunes Store, activating an option in the eyelash “Store“ of the preferences, whenever we import new music iTunes he will look in online for the appropriate mask. But it could not be quite perfect, sometimes, well be because the disc is not in the Store or because the music is not labeled as Apple likes, does not find the masks, becoming necessary the manual update, we select in block, we look in Google Images and I list.
On the other hand we have the portable complement of iTunes, the iPod and iPhones. For these devices we have two options to spend the music, or manually, dragging our songs to the device inside iTunes, or automatically, that from my point of view is as all this platform was thought. Like the idea of this method is always the automation and the serviceability. For this method the lists of reproduction enter scene, we might say that there are internal "folders" of iTunes where we throw our songs, something like album in any photo program. Also we have the intelligent lists, which are to me to understand one of the big virtues of iTunes and MacOS X in general. In this type of lists a series of rules can be created and automatically he will add to us the songs that should fulfill them.
This way we can group less listened songs, with a certain genre, do that A lot of possibilities are updated randomly …. Thus with the lists, you have in your computer the organized songs, and when you plug in the iPod the only thing that you have to do is to synchronize it, without complicaste the life moving discs here or there. In my iPhone it is the option that I use, I have a list where I put my essential ones, to which in any moment you will want to listen. And rest of sound you list inteleigentes, a list with the songs less often listened, other one with the not listened ones, other one with the added songs last month … There Are infinite possibilities. Another nut return more consigie marking the songs and marking the option to synchronize the pronounced songs. This method is useful for example if you have a list with the sound-tracks, but you have instrumental topics to that you do not like listening out of house, since desmarcamos these songs and I list, in the next synchronization there will only be included the songs that let's want in the device, but in the computer we will be able to keep on enjoying them when we select the list in question.
With this post I hope to have helped you to understand a little the philosophy of iTunes, based on my personal experience and the visionado of all the existing keynotes and for having, that after all it is where tito Steve transmits his vision of the things to us … Also recommend to you to throw a glance to the tutors' page of iTunes of the proper Apple.
