For example, each time I imported music from an audio CD into my iTunes library, when I tried to eject the CD from within iTunes, the application would simply freeze altogether. I had also started experiencing new bugs that were beyond irritating. In addition, knowing that this was at least partly due to iTunes constantly writing and rewriting the bloated files called “ iTunes l” and “ iTunes Library.xml” in the ~/Music/iTunes/ folder was not reassuring at all.
#Swinsian iphone update
While the iTunes 11.0.1 update released in late 2012 did address some of the worst issues introduced with iTunes 11, I still found myself constantly looking at the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, even for the most mundane of tasks (like starting or stopping playback!). Meanwhile, of course, my music collection is not getting any smaller.Ī couple of months ago, I decided that I had finally had enough. Instead, as time goes by, iTunes is becoming more and more bloated with things that are at best marginally useful to the music collector, and it’s becoming slower and slower, and buggier and buggier. But of course, hoping that Apple itself would release such a product is nothing more than a pipe dream. For years now, I have been praying for the introduction of some kind of version of iTunes optimized for music collectors - a kind of iTunes Pro, if you will.
#Swinsian iphone mac
What are the options for managing these digital files? Well, on the Mac side, there seems to be pretty much only one option, which is iTunes.
The CDs are effectively my hard drive backup, and the medium for listening to the music on my main sound system, whereas I listen to the digital files with the sound system in my office.)
(I still buy lots of music on CD, but I convert everything into digital files on my hard drive as well. This means, among other things, that I have amassed a rather vast collection of recordings, which needs to be maintained and managed. I also follow a number of other artists fairly closely, and also have a wide range of other musical interests. (My knowledge and appreciation of these bootleg recordings might affect my perception of the artist’s œuvre, but it certainly does not have an impact on my decisions when it comes to purchasing the artist’s official releases: I still buy everything he puts out.) These recordings might not have the blessing of the artist himself, but at least there is no money involved and collecting them does not deprive the artist of any revenue.
But thankfully, with the advent of the Internet, it has become possible to build a very decent collection of bootleg recordings without spending a cent. Back in the pre-Internet era, I actually spent some of my hard-earned cash on bootleg LPs, CDs, and VHS tapes. As a music lover, I collect, among other things, lots of bootleg recordings of live Prince concerts.
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