The twisted geek inside of me…
The twisted geek inside of me (oh, who am I kidding, the twisted geek that IS me) just added a 120gb music drive to an itunes library via samba. See, I normally run winamp, but winamp’s sort of mediocre, and I was thinking “hey, to watch this h.264 stuff, I got stuck with itunes anyway, might as well try it”.
Oh, but it gets better.
Itunes gives up. LONG before it gets done with my collection. Like …. we’re talking less than 10% done with the one drive. Yep, that’s right … less than 10% done. And at that, less than 10% done with merely 2/3 of my collection.
That’s …. great. So my choices here are …. clear it all and manually import subdirectories (no thanks! there’s about 1200 directories I’d have to import) … or maybe I could copy the 160 gigs of mp3′s over to my half-full 40 gig local disk! Err, no. How about … I know, I could … run daapd, and not be able to do things that itunes is useful for (like categorizing/sorting, indexing, etc). Hmm …. nope.
Well, tenacity gets the better of me … so I go ahead and start adding subdirectories. And here I am, now about track 18000, and let me tell ya …. maybe it’s just CRAWLING! I mean like WOW crawling. Like “are you sure you aren’t running seti@home on high priority while you’re doign this” crawling. ITunes does more than winamp … but more importantly, it does more than winamp in nearly four times the memory load. I’ve
only added 2/3 of my music, and it seriously takes it nearly a minute to move from one visible song on the playlist to another. Scrollwheel? Don’t bother. Horizontal scroll wheel? Even more of a “don’t bother”.
It’s pretty. It’s slick looking. At 20,000 tracks, it’s entirely too fat to use, even on a medium-high end system that’s not doing much else.
*sigh*. Guess I’m stickin’ to winamp.