Sounds to me like you're having a bad day. Have a beer. :)
Pete
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Charles Carroll <911@...> wrote:
>
> And btm my GF and I love a lot of the same music when we listen to each
> others music we really like the same stuff frequently or acquire a taste
> for it, although we own a lot of different music and quite a few
> intersections. We both like Sting - she likes many of his slow songs I like
> his up tempo ones more and between both of us we have all his CDs with some
> overlap, as a small example. She listens to more music from this decade
> than I do, but as i listen to her choices I am beginning to enjoy it. I
> have NO IDEA why you feel the need to tell me what my GF and I think, and
> what my kids think and how we should manage/buy our music. I know what I
> need the software to do whether you think I should or not, I was just
> checking if anyone here had experience with things besides
> MonkeyMediaManager that had easier UIs because I want to buy a good
> songs/device/disk manager.
>
> And my kids are in Tokyo and go back and forth to us to spend time with me
> on school breaks 2-3 x a year and its easier to load up their 2 devices
> than send them with 100s of CDs to burn and manage, they are very focused
> on school work when back in Tokyo. They have time to listen to music but
> babysitting iTunes burning is no fun it took me weeks and months on and off
> to burn my whole collection, why should they dupe effort? Their PC time is
> limited -- popping CDS in and out of iTunes and waiting 20 minutes+ or more
> for each to burn and eject is not a great use of their time...
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:20 PM, petefromflorida
> <petefromflorida@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Let your girlfriend and your kids get their own music. Chances are they
> > don't like the same music anyway. If they do like some of your music then
> > loan them a CD and let them make their own copies.
> > Pete
> >
> >
> > --- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Charles Carroll <911@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have 4 iPods that have a variety of music on them.
> > >
> > > I have 3 computers hard disks that have a variety of music burned to
> > > them via Itunes from CD.
> > >
> > > I want to combine all of these into 1 giant collection
> > > and manage them and burn to 4 iPods: mine, GF, and my 2 kids
> > >
> > > and also transfer to iTunes on my iPad, and my Windows7 BootCamp and
> > > my Mac OSX and my Nexus 10.
> > >
> > > I did a ton of research (printing a dozen+ articles from the web) and
> > > tried some iTunes alternatives and I will say that most side by side
> > > reviews of iTunes alternatives are shallow and incomplete.
> > >
> > > It seems like the FREE or $25 MediaMonkey will do what I want but with
> > > the clumsiest most obtuse UI ever built. A UI that make it unclear who
> > > is master and who is slave in a sync and since it can delete on slave
> > > the possibility of losing songs exist if one makes bad choices (easy
> > > to do with such a clunky UI).
> > >
> > > CopyTrans has better UI but since free version only transfers 100
> > > songs it was hard to experiment with the whole UI to see how it will
> > > work with many songs and many devices.
> > >
> > > The software can run on Mac OSX or windows it just has to be easy.
> > > Dream software would run on both, but if it has a great UI I can live
> > > with Mac OSX only.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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