Is it just me...

[jsbowden]

I have 310 albums, quite a few of which are multi disc, and yet, iTunes only seems to cycle through about 30 discs if I leave it on repeat all.

Really, is it so hard to ask that it never play a song again until it has gone through every other song available?

Oh, and remember where you were so you don't START OVER every time I have to restart.

I really don't think I'm asking much. The logic here isn't terribly difficult, but Apple don't seem to grasp it.

Shuffle everything, repeat all of it, nothing gets played more than once until the entire library has been cycled through, and remember where you left off between sessions.

In a program the size of iTunes, there's no reason why it can't do this.

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[mcswan.livejournal.com]

Then wait till you pick up the iPhone!

It won't even remember where you left off if you DON'T EVEN TURN THE DAMN THING OFF!!!

I download a podcast each week and have 20 mp3's where the first 20 or 30 characters of each and every mp3 is IDENTICAL, but if it's been several hours since I utilized the iPod capabilities, it will forget where I was and go back to "base," as if I had just synced. My podcasts are about 45 minutes a pop and that'll piss you right the hell off to not only forget where you were in a particular file, but forget which damn particular file you were on to begin with!

ARRRGH.

Not to mention, they have taken the (what I think) was the absolutely wonderful wheel function, and chucked it right the fuck out the window. Now we get a *tiny* scroll bar at the top of the album cover with which to scroll through the song. With the larger files, the "jump" of a drag can be up to 4 or 5 minutes. With the wheel, I could scroll to the second if I needed to listen to something again, or find my spot after a sync.

Frustrating to say the very least.

[mcswan.livejournal.com]

Me ranting about the names of the podcasts doesn't make any sense, because I forgot to come back and finish my thought...

The ticker crawl feature, where it would crawl through the entire file name?

GONE.

WTF, Apple? Seriously?

My file names are too long to see the important part at the end, namely the date and session. (4 sessions a day, 5 days a week) The file names as I see them on the iPhone:
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...
Umptysquat Discussion Aug...

It hurts.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

This won't be an issue, as the iPhone is only available on SBC Wireless (aka AT&T), who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire, much less give money to.

SBC

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

This acronym always confuses me.

"Seattle's Best Coffee? Since when are they a cell phone provider?"

Re: SBC

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

SBC is the baby bell that swallowed up a bunch of other baby bells and what was left of its original parent. SBC was Southwest Bell.