Dave's Not Here

A Cry for Help (iTunes Suckages)

by on Feb.08, 2010, under Dave's Rants

I have several iTunes issues, and, hopefully, my intar-web friends out there can help me solve some of them.

First, the setup: My music files are stored on my linux file server, and I can access them via AFP (netatalk – linux), NFS, or SMB. Currently, I’m using AFP, but, that may be causing some of my problems — see below.

1) iTunes Sucks — Is there an alternative?

Since my iPhone is jailbroken, I’m really not tied to iTunes anymore. The Pwn Player seems to work fine. And, while I’ll miss genius, as long as I have a decent shared playlist alternative, I can live with it. I have tried Songbird, but it hangs when importing my music.

2) Is AFP the best way to share the files?

They need to be accessible from my computer, my wife’s Macbook Air, and my kids computers. And, I prefer if new additions were all owned by the same user, to avoid issues.

3) I have some non-apple mp3 players, so, I’d prefer not having to have duplicate playlists.

And, this means that I’d like to be able to sync to a directory, not just to an ipod.

4) I would love it if the application keep the music organized for me, and downloaded album art on it’s own.

Since songbird doesn’t work, what are my choices? How would you set it up, so that you could get to your music on your computer, iPhone, iPod, and non-apple mp3 player? My iPod is also set up with rockbox, so, it would be more than hapy with a directory sync, instead of an ipod sync.


Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Looking for something?

Use the form below to search the site:

Still not finding what you're looking for? Drop a comment on a post or contact us so we can take care of it!