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Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/04/05 23:34
Apple wants to take the industry by force. Be prepared to be treated
like a prisoner for a good long time.
Oh, by the way... Winamp Full has a Library function. :)
- NRen2k5
typingcat@gmail.com wrote:
> Actually I use WinAmp 5.1 Lite to play mp3s for most cases. It consumes
> very little cpu cycle, thus does not interfere with my other working
> applications. I sometimes use Windows Media Player 10 to compensate the
> lack of media library of it. But recently I had to install iTunes. The
> main reason was to subscribe and listen to podcasts.
>
> There are many good podcasts listed on iTunes podcasts library page.
> I'm sure that is a web page but when I tried to open the url with
> Internet Explorer, it redirected to another page, preventing me from
> accessing it. I know most of (or all of) them are not from Apples and
> have their own homepage for subscription but it's hard to find them
> without iTunes' podcast library. Actually I usually listen to Japanese
> podcasts and it's really hard to search for the addresses of them.
> Thanks to iTunes, it became very easy.
>
> But there are several problems with iTunes.
> 1)It forces me to install QuickTime, though I only play mp3s from
> podcasts
> 2)It installs iPod servies and doesn't provide any option to remove it.
> (I don't have iPod)
> 3)It consumes much disk space. (100MBs just to listen to podcasts?)
> 4)It's very slow. Especially the embedded podcasts library web page.
> 5)It installs a CD-ROM driver (for ripping mp3s from CD?). I'd removed
> it with Security Task Manager and all CD-ROM drives got disappeared
> from My Computer. I had to restore it.
>
> I hope Applie would allow to access its podcasts libary page from
> normal web browsers. Or how about a light-weight version of iTunes only
> for podcasts? I think there are many people who are implicitly forced
> to install iTunes to use podcasts. I saw many Japanese podcasts web
> sites recommending to install iTunes to listen to their podcasts.
>
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