Kitchen devices get damaged easily and I'd hate to have a HomePod near the spaghetti sauce. If you want a kitchen device honestly the Amazon device seems better other than the lack of Siri. If you have a full house a receiver and real speakers makes much more sense. This really seems like a device targeting apartment dwellers. There will always be better audio quality from another set of speakers that costs a bit more and is a bit bigger. I am sure Apple's audio quality will be great, but it can't rely on that alone. And if you want music on your Apple watch, only Apple music fully supports you. Today, Apple would only let me buy two anyway.Īpple's biggest strategic advantage, the more I think about this, is that if you want voice-controlled Apple music, it's the only game in town. It's another annoying platform war and that's a hard fix who've already bought into one platform or another. Hoping for third party podcast support down the road - are you listening Marco? If it sucks, I have 14 days, right? Anyone else have a confession to make? Nope, but I've currently got my audio dollars in Sonos, and moving to HomePod would not only require me to replace that hardware, but Apple's hardware is more expensive per speaker. The Siri functionality is interesting but, in my imagination, is taking a back seat to the sound part. Mostly because one occasionally hears tales of early delivery. No joy by so I went back to bed - but when I awoke for real 7ish? I chose Space Grey delivered to my doorstep. After losing a debate with myself surrounding fiscal responsibility, my intent to buy a nother bicycle this spring, and the long list of MFT camera glass on my wishlist I found myself setting an alarm for 2am local. Another feature I don’t consider essential is the interface with an iPod or iPhone, but it’t been years since I’ve “needed” that function.I was curious as to whether or not anybody else here jumped on the HomePod bandwagon. That feature uses airplay, which isn’t something mission critical. iTunes was accessible by remote using the remote app. I have a specific folder that my downloaded music goes to, and when specified as a watched folder, those songs are added to my library.ĭespite Swinsian exceeding my expectations as a music player and organizer. You can tell Swinsian to watch a specific folder for new tracks and they will automagically be added to your library. Another feature I really enjoy is watched folders. It’s been a couple of years and I really like Swinsian While there is a license cost for it, Being able to have my library not crash the app is worth it. Music downloaded from AmazonMP3 has no DRM requiring logins to share music across platforms withou needing my iTunes password to be known. I did this through several highly curated playlists and a series of smart playlists of artists, genres or other criteria, I can’t remember the last time I purchased music through the iTunes Music Store, because for over 10 years I’ve exclusively bought music through Amazon’s digital music service. The main uses I had for iTunes was to listen to and organize my music. I can’t remember if there’s a Windows version, nor can I speak to any functionaliy While not free, (license fee per installation), it fit the bill for running “thin” without hogging resources like iTunes/Music would do even when not active, and could handle a large library like mine without taking a galf hour to open. With that in mind, he recommended I try Swinsian. I asked him if he could recommend an alternative to iTunes that could handle a massive sized library and similar playlist functionality. Specifically the size of my library (around 6 terrebytes, and the second being my smart playlists. As he used his diagnostic tools to assess why my Mac became unresponsive so often and found the primary problem to be with Mac Music. I started having so many issues with my Mac that I was in over my head at knowledge and skill with MacOS, that I engaged with a local Mac specialist. At some point, iTunes became “Music” and was built in to Mac OS. I always had it installed on both work and home machines. iTunes was the first application I downloaded and installed on a new computer along with Chrome. Once Apple launched their store, I found it almost too easy to purchase music that I didn’t have in my piles of CDs. I used it to build hundreds of playlists and a simple mechanism to burn a playlist to a CD. In fact, I’d go as far to say I was a power user of iTunes. I’d been an iTunes power user since early on when it became compatible with Windows in the mi-2000s. The title of this post is a play on the title of Elvis Costello’s book How To Play Guitar & Y, of which I recommend the audiobook
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