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« Last post by Innuendo on February 16, 2012, 04:24 PM »
The Apple UI experience, whether it be on their personal music players or their computers, is absolutely, positively, without a shadow of a doubt the most intuitive, easy-to-use, elegant user interface that has ever been created by man...
...if your mind works the way the Apple designers do. For many, the way Apple has everything set up is sheer perfection & if the Apple way of doing things works for you then more power to you. Seriously.
However, there's a decent-sized percentage of the world's population whose workflow does not fit in with Apple's design philosophy. For those, using one of Apple's devices is not sheer enjoyment, but stirs up a feeling more akin to wearing tidy whities that are about 2 sizes too small. There's itching, chafing, and the ever-looming despair of claustrophobia and constraint.
That this portion of the population exists is also the reason why applications like Total Commander, Directory Opus, foobar2000, mp3tag and others exist & why they'll never exist in the land of fruit-friendly computing. These are powerful, extendable, free-form applications that allow you to fully grasp data and files firmly and do with them whatever your heart desires.
To this portion of the population and their power tools The Steve has said, "No. You're doing it wrong. You must edit your mp3 tags (and everything else) my way." Hopefully, now that this anal-retentive, control-hungry megalomaniac has departed this world maybe Apple will start to release its grasp on trying to control how people can interact with their data.
(And if I were going to try to load an iPod up with songs I think I'd be using one of the many unofficial programs out there that can interface with iPods rather than trying to use iTunes. iTunes will jack up your data, your tags, and your filenames & expect you to thank it for doing it.)
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