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… my library became so big that it was literally impossible to keep track of it all in a nice and orderly fashion. I’m currently at over 18,000 songs (110 GB) and iTunes is the best tool out there for managing such a large library.

My response: I completely agree with above post!

I will refrain from incriminating myself (revealing in a public forum how many mp3 songs I’m managing with iTunes). In any case, I am AMAZED how effortlessly iTunes handles my huge mp3 library. I have many more than 18,000 of mp3 songs!

Here’s what I like about iTunes after already having tried WinAMP, Roxio, Musicmatch Jukebox.

1) iTunes seems to have the biggest most comprehensive online music matching database. Almost every time iTunes finds the correct album and song info for the CD I’ve just popped in for ripping
2) downloadable album artwork from iTunes (resolution, color) album artwork, and a is good quality and pretty comprehensive library
3) More convenient to sort music using front end interface
4) very easy to rip CD’s into mp3’s – but you gotta set it to convert to MP3 instead of the stupid Apple proprietary format.
5) I love the albumflow interface that lets one “spin” through a visual jukebox of your album covers to choose something to play.
6) I love the ability to modify any field of multiple MP3 album/song info at the same time. You can select all songs in 10 different albums and edit any fields all at once

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… my library became so big that it was literally impossible to keep track of it all in a nice and orderly fashion. I’m currently at over 18,000 songs (110 GB) and iTunes is the best tool out there for managing such a large library.

My response: I completely agree with above post!

I will refrain from incriminating myself (revealing in a public forum how many mp3 songs I’m managing with iTunes). In any case, I am AMAZED how effortlessly iTunes handles my huge mp3 library. I have many more than 18,000 of mp3 songs!

Here’s what I like about iTunes after already having tried WinAMP, Roxio, Musicmatch Jukebox.

1) iTunes seems to have the biggest most comprehensive online music matching database. Almost every time iTunes finds the correct album and song info for the CD I’ve just popped in for ripping
2) downloadable album artwork from iTunes (resolution, color) album artwork, and a is good quality and pretty comprehensive library
3) More convenient to sort music using front end interface
4) very easy to rip CD’s into mp3’s – but you gotta set it to convert to MP3 instead of the stupid Apple proprietary format.
5) I love the albumflow interface that lets one “spin” through a visual jukebox of your album covers to choose something to play.
6) I love the ability to modify any field of multiple MP3 album/song info at the same time. You can select all songs in 10 different albums and edit any fields all at once

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… my library became so big that it was literally impossible to keep track of it all in a nice and orderly fashion. I’m currently at over 18,000 songs (110 GB) and iTunes is the best tool out there for managing such a large library.

My response: I completely agree with above post!

I will refrain from incriminating myself (revealing in a public forum how many mp3 songs I’m managing with iTunes). In any case, I am AMAZED how effortlessly iTunes handles my huge mp3 library. I have many more than 18,000 of mp3 songs!

Here’s what I like about iTunes after already having tried WinAMP, Roxio, Musicmatch Jukebox.

1) iTunes seems to have the biggest most comprehensive online music matching database. Almost every time iTunes finds the correct album and song info for the CD I’ve just popped in for ripping
2) downloadable album artwork from iTunes (resolution, color) album artwork, and a is good quality and pretty comprehensive library
3) More convenient to sort music using front end interface
4) very easy to rip CD’s into mp3’s – but you gotta set it to convert to MP3 instead of the stupid Apple proprietary format.
5) I love the albumflow interface that lets one “spin” through a visual jukebox of your album covers to choose something to play.
6) I love the ability to modify any field of multiple MP3 album/song info at the same time. You can select all songs in 10 different albums and edit any fields all at once

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Apple products? I never used them previously…but in the last six months I got my chance with an odd work assignment. Bosses told me to go buy about $10,000 of Apple products (Mac Air, iPhone, iPods, iTouch…) and use them then take them apart and write up reports on design and assembly.

So after playing with them for a couple weekends I have to admit, Apple makes some pretty cool products.

The worst part of the assignment was my having to disassemble (destroy) $10K of all those BRAND NEW great toys from Apple. My wife also fell in love with them also so was sad to see them later as a bag of dissassembled parts.

I’m hooked on iTunes now. That is really cool software. But I’m using it on my Dell windows laptop, so I’m wishing for an iPHone or iTouch.

Now would I use a Mac laptop for work?

Sure if I did graphics design for a living. I don’t.

I run CPU-intensive engineering software. I have a dual-CPU Dell laptop that is way faster than any laptop Apple offers.

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Apple products? I never used them previously…but in the last six months I got my chance with an odd work assignment. Bosses told me to go buy about $10,000 of Apple products (Mac Air, iPhone, iPods, iTouch…) and use them then take them apart and write up reports on design and assembly.

So after playing with them for a couple weekends I have to admit, Apple makes some pretty cool products.

The worst part of the assignment was my having to disassemble (destroy) $10K of all those BRAND NEW great toys from Apple. My wife also fell in love with them also so was sad to see them later as a bag of dissassembled parts.

I’m hooked on iTunes now. That is really cool software. But I’m using it on my Dell windows laptop, so I’m wishing for an iPHone or iTouch.

Now would I use a Mac laptop for work?

Sure if I did graphics design for a living. I don’t.

I run CPU-intensive engineering software. I have a dual-CPU Dell laptop that is way faster than any laptop Apple offers.

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Apple products? I never used them previously…but in the last six months I got my chance with an odd work assignment. Bosses told me to go buy about $10,000 of Apple products (Mac Air, iPhone, iPods, iTouch…) and use them then take them apart and write up reports on design and assembly.

So after playing with them for a couple weekends I have to admit, Apple makes some pretty cool products.

The worst part of the assignment was my having to disassemble (destroy) $10K of all those BRAND NEW great toys from Apple. My wife also fell in love with them also so was sad to see them later as a bag of dissassembled parts.

I’m hooked on iTunes now. That is really cool software. But I’m using it on my Dell windows laptop, so I’m wishing for an iPHone or iTouch.

Now would I use a Mac laptop for work?

Sure if I did graphics design for a living. I don’t.

I run CPU-intensive engineering software. I have a dual-CPU Dell laptop that is way faster than any laptop Apple offers.

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Apple products? I never used them previously…but in the last six months I got my chance with an odd work assignment. Bosses told me to go buy about $10,000 of Apple products (Mac Air, iPhone, iPods, iTouch…) and use them then take them apart and write up reports on design and assembly.

So after playing with them for a couple weekends I have to admit, Apple makes some pretty cool products.

The worst part of the assignment was my having to disassemble (destroy) $10K of all those BRAND NEW great toys from Apple. My wife also fell in love with them also so was sad to see them later as a bag of dissassembled parts.

I’m hooked on iTunes now. That is really cool software. But I’m using it on my Dell windows laptop, so I’m wishing for an iPHone or iTouch.

Now would I use a Mac laptop for work?

Sure if I did graphics design for a living. I don’t.

I run CPU-intensive engineering software. I have a dual-CPU Dell laptop that is way faster than any laptop Apple offers.

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Apple products? I never used them previously…but in the last six months I got my chance with an odd work assignment. Bosses told me to go buy about $10,000 of Apple products (Mac Air, iPhone, iPods, iTouch…) and use them then take them apart and write up reports on design and assembly.

So after playing with them for a couple weekends I have to admit, Apple makes some pretty cool products.

The worst part of the assignment was my having to disassemble (destroy) $10K of all those BRAND NEW great toys from Apple. My wife also fell in love with them also so was sad to see them later as a bag of dissassembled parts.

I’m hooked on iTunes now. That is really cool software. But I’m using it on my Dell windows laptop, so I’m wishing for an iPHone or iTouch.

Now would I use a Mac laptop for work?

Sure if I did graphics design for a living. I don’t.

I run CPU-intensive engineering software. I have a dual-CPU Dell laptop that is way faster than any laptop Apple offers.

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PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE! PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN THIS DYING HORSE AND PUT IT OUT OF OUR MISERY!

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PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE! PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN THIS DYING HORSE AND PUT IT OUT OF OUR MISERY!

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PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE! PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN THIS DYING HORSE AND PUT IT OUT OF OUR MISERY!

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PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE! PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN THIS DYING HORSE AND PUT IT OUT OF OUR MISERY!

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PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE! PLEASE PUT A BULLET IN THIS DYING HORSE AND PUT IT OUT OF OUR MISERY!

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I’m sure you’ll laugh at me but I am also a man who is a big coupon-clipper. I agree with fat_lazy_union_worker that you can SAVE BIG with coupons, albeit on a very limited set of items for which coupons regularly appear.

For a year I’ve been showing my wife about the fun of using coupons and she’s finally getting into the fun of it. Each weekend about five different newspapers land on our stoop, and I clip coupons after reading the financial news. We have a manila folder completely stuffed with coupons, which we pick through for deals while shopping.

My wife has finally seen the light of the cheapskate lifestyle by watching me weekly do the Double Slam (manufacturer coupons combined with a grocery story coupon) to get $3 or $4 priced items for less than a DIME each.

One typical example are the triple and quad-blade shavers for men and women. Some suppliers have had a hard time selling those expensive shavers, so they have resorted to coupons offering $3 or even $4 off a package of one or two quantity of those razors. Combined with the occasional store discounts (Wal-Mart or Target), my wife and I have been getting those 3-blade or 4-blade razors for about $0.10 each.

Plus you OFTEN have the added benefit that those moronic Wal-Mart checkout people won’t even check the coupon expiration dates or even notice when two coupons cannot be used together. And they often get confused by coupons and invariably make a mistake on our order that is very much in our favor.

We like to make being cheap a Way of Life!

We are also brutal on the grocery stores when it comes to attacking their “loss-leader” specials on select items. Von’s or Safeway might once every three months have a coupon in their ad sheet for say five lbs of sugar for $0.50. We’ll go use five of those coupons separately to buy twenty-five lbs of sugar for $2.50. We are such cheapskates.

You know how I learned to be a cheapskate shopper? Hanging around with Chinese people who came from mainland China! They are unbelievably skilled at saving money. The older ones lived through Mao’s horrible famine from the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 when some 30 million Chinese starved to death. Honestly, these people will show you how to eat in America for about a dollar a day.

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I’m sure you’ll laugh at me but I am also a man who is a big coupon-clipper. I agree with fat_lazy_union_worker that you can SAVE BIG with coupons, albeit on a very limited set of items for which coupons regularly appear.

For a year I’ve been showing my wife about the fun of using coupons and she’s finally getting into the fun of it. Each weekend about five different newspapers land on our stoop, and I clip coupons after reading the financial news. We have a manila folder completely stuffed with coupons, which we pick through for deals while shopping.

My wife has finally seen the light of the cheapskate lifestyle by watching me weekly do the Double Slam (manufacturer coupons combined with a grocery story coupon) to get $3 or $4 priced items for less than a DIME each.

One typical example are the triple and quad-blade shavers for men and women. Some suppliers have had a hard time selling those expensive shavers, so they have resorted to coupons offering $3 or even $4 off a package of one or two quantity of those razors. Combined with the occasional store discounts (Wal-Mart or Target), my wife and I have been getting those 3-blade or 4-blade razors for about $0.10 each.

Plus you OFTEN have the added benefit that those moronic Wal-Mart checkout people won’t even check the coupon expiration dates or even notice when two coupons cannot be used together. And they often get confused by coupons and invariably make a mistake on our order that is very much in our favor.

We like to make being cheap a Way of Life!

We are also brutal on the grocery stores when it comes to attacking their “loss-leader” specials on select items. Von’s or Safeway might once every three months have a coupon in their ad sheet for say five lbs of sugar for $0.50. We’ll go use five of those coupons separately to buy twenty-five lbs of sugar for $2.50. We are such cheapskates.

You know how I learned to be a cheapskate shopper? Hanging around with Chinese people who came from mainland China! They are unbelievably skilled at saving money. The older ones lived through Mao’s horrible famine from the spring of 1959 and the end of 1961 when some 30 million Chinese starved to death. Honestly, these people will show you how to eat in America for about a dollar a day.

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