Thursday, July 31
Sweet(ish) Clementine
So my installation of iTunes 11.3 was, um, less than entirely successful. (Three days later the program still hasn't finished loading).
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So my installation of iTunes 11.3 was, um, less than entirely successful. (Three days later the program still hasn't finished loading).
After looking around a bit I installed Clementine. The user interface is really awkward - the whole assumption is that you want to build playlists, and I simply never do that - and it's missing some features (like multi-threaded podcast downloads, or even a download queue).
But it works. I installed it, told it to import my 2TB of iTunes content, and a couple of hours later everything was there and playable (except, I'm assuming, for my DRMed audiobooks). All completed while iTunes itself was still struggling to load.
It uses 1/4 the memory of iTunes, and works about 20x faster. Even searching for podcasts on the iTunes store is 20x faster in Clementine than it is in iTunes.
I have to assume that iTunes works for someone, but when you've collected a couple of decades worth of music and seven years of podcasts under it, it becomes an exercise in futility, and it's been getting worse with each new release, until with 11.3 it became entirely unworkable.
Clementine may be something of an ugly duckling, but I'll take an ugly duckling over a turkey any day.
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What's all this running on? One of your tablets? Your PC?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, July 31 2014 08:26 AM (+rSRq)
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On my PC.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, July 31 2014 01:23 PM (PiXy!)
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