Have I mentioned how whooped I feel Sunday nights?
So if you're looking for some analysis on how things went this morning, Sunday night is no time to ask the preacher. But it's nice to have new people with us!
I was pulling for Greg Norman to win the British Open. I've never particularly liked him, but how do I not pull for the old guy? (He's 53!) And he got married three weeks ago. OK, re-married. To Chris Evert.
Alas, he began today's final round in the lead and finished tied for 3rd.
I have a major beef. But I don't know who to be ticked at. I suspect it's someone at the HQ for The Society for Total World Domination up in Redmond, WA (aka Microsoft). But it could just as well be Mr. Ego, er, Mr. Jobs. Either way, I can't believe I'm the only one infuriated by this.
Why is it that with any other storage device I can drag-and-drop files directly from my hard drive to that storage device and then use them. But with a music player........
I have an MP3 player, a small one that I think only holds 3 gig of music. I use it at the gym and sometimes at the coffee shop. I decided that I wanted to take off some of the classical music I had on it (Chopin and dumbbells are not a great pairing) and put on some of the R&R I have on my laptop. There isn't room for both.
Drag-and-drop? Create file folders on the player, put the tunes in those folders and then play them from there?
Nope. Playlists!
Why do I need to create playlists? What IS a playlist? I don't know. I just know that first I have to create the playlist and then dump the tunes into that playlist. (Is "playlist" just another term for folder?) All of this has to be done through special software - in my case something called Creative Media Source, a program that is NOT intuitive.
The reason I suspect Microsoft for this is that a few years ago their Media Player switched over to the "playlist" configuration. I had been using it to play tunes off my hard drive through the normal folder format. But after one of their you-don't-have-a-choice updates I had to create playlists in order to play a song off my hardrive. Which is why I no longer use Windows Media Player. Real Player will let me find individual songs on my hard drive and play them directly. No playlists required.
Anybody else as irritated as I am by this? Can we band together and threaten to lay seige to the Redmonds Empire?
Or am I just an aging Luddite?
1 comment:
My iTunes does not require me to create a playlist to play a song. I simply click on "Music" under the "Library," start typing a word of the composer, song, album, etc in the search box and up pops the song(s) I want. I can also scroll through the whole library If I would like. Of course, the playlists come in handy for songs that are selected a lot.
Oh and those songs that are selected often also appear in a folder called "Recently Played" which has options to control how many there are. There is also a folder called "Top 25 songs" and one called "My Top Rated" songs.
By the way, it's the same on my Mac or on my Dell laptop.
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