This (Wizard People, Dear Reader by Brad Neely (NOT Harry Potter)) is apparently very good. I’m currently attempting to obtain it, I recommend you do too if you fancy it, before Warner Bros. Stomp on it harder than normal.
And in other news; I’ve had to remove iTunes. I tried, I really did. I wouldn’t let it reorganise my music collection, on the basis that I wanted to be able to abandon it if I felt like it. But I tried. I did.
I used it to make CDs (very good), I used it to play music (that’s fine), I liked it’s visualisation (mmm, nice), I made it play Ogg files (no pause on my machine, or not a huge one, so that’s okay).
But I wanted to encode some music.
Simple… Stick CD in, load CDEx and… hey, where’d iTunes appear from. Repeat ad infinitum. Turn of Autoplay… “iTunes won’t be able to tell when you’ve put a CD in. Would you like to turn on Autoplay” “No(I Frigging Wouldn’t)”.
Quit iTunes, kill iTunes taskbar doojit. Put in CD. PLINK! iTunes loads itself.
Only my machine is short of memory, so it isn’t “plink” it’s WHIIIIIIRRRR GRIND GRIND GRIND [PAUSE] [STEAL ALL PROCESSOR CYCLES] WHIRRRR GRIND GRIND GRIND……. Plink.
So it’s gone. Goodbye iTunes, I’m sorry, I tried. The fact that it suddenly lost the ability to locate any music yesterday (the entire library had disappeared) didn’t aid it’s chances, it must be said.
Back to XMPlay, although James tells me I should give Winamp a chance. Of course… now fucking Windows Media Player’s decided it wants to be the new iTunes…. Gah. I don’t want it to do *anything* when I put CDs in.
