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MediaCentral 2.6.3 (Mac OS X)

DANGER!  

The updater managed to move my ~/Library into the old MediaCentral.app in the trash! As it was hidden in the app, didn't notice anything wrong with the trash until I started emptying it. I stopped the process once I noted a few items were requesting to be trashed that shouldn't have. Then applications started acting wierd and finally I noticed what MediaCentral had done. I was able to replace some stuff, but now half of my library has been trashed. Great, now I've lost my keychain, and additionally am having to enter in passwords for every app that needs ones, and having to redig up serial numbers for tons of apps, let alone how many I'm going to have to now reinstall. Really sucks. If you bother with this program, BEWARE and watch closely what it does. "Show Package Contents" on the app it moves to the trash. [alert admin]

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Thursday, February 28 2008 @ 11:37 AM PST

idTunes 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)

Nifty idea  

Nice idea. [I'd really like to know where this database is coming from.] But, even as such, it isn't as big as it could be. 136 songs processed, 21 identified, 5 of which were incorrect So that is 16 successes out of 136. Almost 12% But then again, the files I tested weren't Brittany or Jessica Simpson tracks. The database isn't as exhaustive as it could be, but then again, there will *aways* be tracks that won't be in the database, so some of this is to be expected. The program does seem a little slow in saving its edits, and the fingerprinting does take a little while. But when it works, it works. I don't see the complaint someone else was making about not wanting to pay per identification. This takes a bit of processing power and resources on the other end, neither of which is free. I'm guessing the person that lodged that complaint just is used to taking things for free to begin with, and wants everything handed to them (hmmm.... just like their MP3s? I dunno about you, but in my 20,000+ song collection, there were very few that didn't get the correct CDDB info on disc insertion. My guess is that most people will use this app to correct the horrible ID3 tags that come from the downloads on the P2P networks.), or they just don't understand the issues involved in making something like this work. To complain about paying a penny per identification really demonstrates a mentality of entitlement. I think the rest of us that have jobs and are used to paying for something if we want it realize that our time is more valuable than the penny it costs to verify a tag. (How long would it take you to A) listen to a song, B) presuming you could identify it, either look up the tag info or type it in by hand, and/or C) spend more time trying to identify it if you don't know it off of the top of your head?) Even if you were able to id and type really fast, if it took you 10 seconds/track, that would equate to a wage of US$3.60/hour. I'm sure, unless you are sponging off of mommy and daddy, living in their basement, that you are making more than that. From the demo, it does seem that you are only charged per sucessful identification, which is good. I could see someone charging for each try (on the server side, it costs the same ammount of resources (if not actually more!) to not identify a track as it does to correctly identify it). Would be nice if it could cull album art also, but any app I have seen for that really only works a small percentage of the time. I would buy the app (or buy XXXX identifications), but almost all of my stuff got the right tags when I ripped it, and the stuff that didn't for whatever reason (some of my stuff goes back to 1998 and the CDDB was just an infant then) might just be off the beaten track enough to not be in some databases. If you have a lot of stuff that didn't get the right tags (perhaps you were on dial-up when you ripped and you didn't get them) then this app should work great. Just keep an eye on what it identifies and double check to make sure it is making the right choice. [alert admin]

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Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 01:08 PM PDT

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