“Don’t you hate it when a band covers your favorite song with a new version that’s inferior to the original? Microsoft’s new music service, MSN Music, which makes its debut in mid-October, is not nearly as bad as, say, William Shatner covering the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” but it’s no Apple iTunes Music Store either,” Peter Lewis writes for Fortune.
MacDailyNews Take: So far, so good. But, later in his article, Lewis gets downright perplexing and totally confusing.
Lewis writes, “Windows Media Player 10, in contrast, is Exhibit W of the Microsoft ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ school of software development. Windows Media Player 9 was so anemic that it was often referred to as WiMP 9, but version 10 is much more robust. Unlike Apple’s iTunes, WMP 10 is truly a media player, capable of displaying music videos, album art, film clips, and photos as well as managing song libraries and radio stations.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Weird, huh? We fired up iTunes just to make sure we weren’t hallucinating. Apple’s iTunes displayed music videos, album art, film clips, photos and allowed us to manage our song libraries and radio stations. Does Lewis know that Microsoft has already admitted that they tried hard to copy Apple’s iTunes? Does Lewis understand that the world’s first and most robust media platform, Apple’s QuickTime (the one Microsoft also copied for WMP), is the underlying technology that powers iTunes? We still cannot believe that the normally thorough Lewis wrote this and that Fortune is publishing it. Are you a flabbergasted as us? If, for some reason, Lewis meant to distinguish WMP as a “pure media player” unlike iTunes, he should have made it clear that every single one of his list of WMP features are also included in iTunes and that Apple did it first, as usual. Perhaps an editor mangled the sentence structure, so that its meaning is not what Lewis originally intended? We’re very confused. Fortune’s readers will be, too – most without knowing what’s wrong with this article. In the hope that this can be fixed or explained: Lewis’ email at Fortune is plewis@fortunemail.com
Here is a great free app that solves the full screen playback issue.
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/FullscreenMoviePlayer.shtml
I use it all the time.
iTunes lets you import CDs you own into a digital format.
What about importing movies from a DVD you own into a video file ?
Then, having an app to organize them would make sense (if computers shipped with 1 TB of disk space, that is)…
Just a thought…
OK Mike. I give up. I’ve tried my best to explain why we agree, but you’re obviously astonishingly stupid and blinkered (or is that blindered in the US?).
Just to clarify. I did not steal any of the fucking movie clips. Some I created (FCP, BTW will not put things automatically in the movies folder), and some were downloaded from the web (not P2P). If you have Quick Time Pro, you can save quicktime clips. So I have some Apple ads, some movie trailers and some flash funnies.
If you have another go at me you’re either a) too stupid to understand; b) just a fucking troll or c) ron.
Recognize a troll when you see one.
he’s dogging the Mac community intentionally. He knows EXACTLY what he is doing with the article. Lawyers call it mud slinging ’cause it sticks and anyone writing to set him straight tells him it worked.
How is it possible that, in his article comparing iTunes and the new WMP, that he failed to mention that all of the new functions of WMP were ALREADY available in iTunes and that Microsoft has ADMITTED to copying them?
Oh wait, I see…another misleading, �Apple bashing�Windows-is-the-way, just believe me!� @#$%&! story.
I thought he was better than that. Most people are afraid of others hearing the the whole truth and being able to make their own decisions based on it?
Typical Apple bashing.
Shame.
He is now as credible as CBS…
I just tried to email him for a response and it bounced back.
Anyone using automatic music playlist software – not just play and shuffle and random- but someting like a radio station with some intelligence to it where the songs flow together better. I’ve been told there are a few programs out there.
I want the ability to store movie clips in iPhoto. My digital camera can take movie clips and I routinely shoot snipits of video along with photos. I want to keep those movie clips organized with my photos in the same application with all of the same metadata.
I’m a PC users and currently use Adobe Photoshop Album which works great. However, I’ve been a longtime Mac fan and am looking seriously at a new 20″ iMac G5. I need to be able to import all of my Photoshop Album (not available on Mac) photos, movies, and metadata into iPhoto or a similar piece of software. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks,
Druze
Druze
You might want to take a look at Graphic Converter’s browse feature
I don’t understand the person who can’t view DVD’s in full screen mode. I use the free DVD player that came with my TiBook and it works great in full screen mode. Is this the full screen mode you are referring to or is there something else?
“I don’t understand the person who can’t view DVD’s in full screen mode.”
No, that’s not what I’m talking about. DVD Player only works with DVD movies. All other movie clips have to be opened in QuickTime (or another program that support such files), and in QuickTime full-screen playback is not free. There _are_ free alternatives, but they doesn’t come bundled with OS X, so this IS an issue.
Jack A, Re: Fullscreen Movie Player
Keep an eye on CocoaMovieBrowser. Clearly alpha quality right now but it has potential to be quite a nice video organizer/player.
Comment:
From: Hywel
Sep 20, 04 | 4:07 pm
as the above person said. well put.
having many windows open is annoying. using many programs is aswell. intergrating a music player to play dvds etc is a great thing. learning to use one program is better than 2 or 3 or even more. dont u think?
quicktime player aint that good. i prefer power dvd than that.
you don’t need iPhoto to view pics when paint does the job, but thats just my opinion.
apple macs are good but iTunes could improve by playing dvds aswell.
also iTunes doesn’t organise artists properly. when 2 or more artists are in a song then it won’t organise that as a song for both artists, unless u create auto playlist.
media player does this with no prob. when u use an ipod to store music its annoying for browsing songs for each artists since its not organised.
SO APPLE, PLEASE SORT THIS OUT.
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