Comments on: Some freewares I can’t live without (Mac)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:10:11 +0000

Really? Select your finder window and then Finder>View>as List. Is that what you were looking for?

By: Minotronic

Minotronic — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:37:16 +0000

Hi minotronic!

If you are talking about the coverfolw, it doesn’t exist in 10.4. Everything else is the same. Does that answer your question?

Hi, thanks , but no, was not even talking about coverflow… can’0t really gest a lsit like this on finder under Tiger…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:00:49 +0000

Erghhh.
Still on 10.4, and a question, probably stupid, how to use the finder the way you mention ?

Hi minotronic!

If you are talking about the coverfolw, it doesn’t exist in 10.4. Everything else is the same. Does that answer your question?

By: Minotronic

Minotronic — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:05:38 +0000

Erghhh.
Still on 10.4, and a question, probably stupid, how to use the finder the way you mention ?

By: nico

nico — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:33:20 +0000

Besides, iTunes has a magic feature: as long as they stay on the same disk, it will play your music files in its collection even if you moved them in the Finder, so no need for having the songs twice. They don’t need to be in the iTunes music folder either…

By: nico

nico — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:49:15 +0000

Hi all, thanks for all the comments and the kind words!

I’m awesomely bad at music theory, and was quite amazed when I discovered that there was actually a way to predict which track would fit with another :) .

I just used to go by ear and, worse than that, I actually sang the pitched song in my head to know if it would fit… Must have had learnt all that more or less subconsciously. I was really glad to get the master tempo feature, so I would be able to get rid of the chipmunk voices on some mixes, but then suddenly, it looked like my mixes didn’t fit together as they used to, so I stopped using it, lol :)

Anyway, mik is great, works really well, and the camelot circle is perfect for someone like me who doesn’t know what a proper circle of fifths looks like. I tried RE, but it assume that you know what you are doing, which I clearly don’t in this case.

@ATP, I’ve dropped iTunes too. I just use ToolPlayer, it is lightweight, and read absolutely any file you throw at it ( http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/toolplayer.html ). I have set in the Finder all my music files types to open with it (apple - I on a music file, then choose Toolplayer in ‘open with’ and then ‘change all’). When I play out, I first launch Toolplayer and drop the volume to zero, so if I double click a music file by mistake, it starts to play in Toolplayer but with no volume, so I can just quit it without any embarrassing moment. Also, you avoid to launch iTunes in the middle of a set this way, which, if you are tight on processor, can cause dropouts.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:08:52 +0000

My PC broke at the weekend, I was on my way out to buy a MAC when my bro fixed it. Damn him!! :p

By: ATP

ATP — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:48:16 +0000

Also, @ilo, I’ve used RE on the mac. It’s a pain in the arse. Beyond that, it never actually wrote the keys it discovered to the file tags…thereby making it useless to me. (Maybe I did it wrong, help me is I did, please.) I want something to key my music, write the keys to the file tags, and stay out of my way. I want to be able to just key my music all at once, and worry about playing it and finding it all within one interface. I might try the “record bin” method with folders in the Finder now…but that will wait for the day when I have enough hard drive space to host my regular music collection for iTunes listening AND all of the same chopped up and moved around in Finder - on the same computer.

Anybody know a good, smooth workflow that involves simple browsers and tags? I’m a big fan of the iTunes style of organisation. I just use the playlists and the main browser and make sure all my tags are accurate (spent a summer going over them).