One thing about iTunes...
May. 7th, 2003 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgentI have a huge music collection, as far as I'm concerned. It's tiny compared to some (like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wrd, who has a collection of music in much the same way I have a collection of blood vessels in my body), but it seems impossibly huge to me. Even my 'top rated' playlist has several continuous days' worth of music in it. And, with iTunes4, they finally fixed some details that always bugged me -- chief among them the "sound check" feature. Sound check has always supposed to change the playback volume of your music so that it all sounds about the same volume at each song's loudest peak, to compensate for the sometimes wide range of recording volumes. That feature's been around for a while, but now it seems to actually work. (Which means that for the first time, Broadsword and the Beast by Jethro Tull can actually be heard on my system. This is extremely nice.)
So, I'm listening to music, and the phone rings, and though the music is pretty loud, I don't bother turning it down or pausing it. It's the Associate Headmaster on the phone, but he's moderately cool about things like this and it should be just a few minutes.
Which is when the song listed in 'Music' above came on. Loudly.
It had never come up before. I mean, I have this huge collection of music. So, I'd never been in a situation where I'm hanging out at the school, talking to a coworker or student (or superior), and suddenly having a cheerful show tune about molesting one's uncles came on.
I like iTunes, but I have to respect its power.
wrd, who has a collection of music in much the same way I have a collection of blood vessels in my body), but it seems impossibly huge to me. Even my 'top rated' playlist has several continuous days' worth of music in it. And, with iTunes4, they finally fixed some details that always bugged me -- chief among them the "sound check" feature. Sound check has always supposed to change the playback volume of your music so that it all sounds about the same volume at each song's loudest peak, to compensate for the sometimes wide range of recording volumes. That feature's been around for a while, but now it seems to actually work. (Which means that for the first time, Broadsword and the Beast by Jethro Tull can actually be heard on my system. This is extremely nice.)So, I'm listening to music, and the phone rings, and though the music is pretty loud, I don't bother turning it down or pausing it. It's the Associate Headmaster on the phone, but he's moderately cool about things like this and it should be just a few minutes.
Which is when the song listed in 'Music' above came on. Loudly.
It had never come up before. I mean, I have this huge collection of music. So, I'd never been in a situation where I'm hanging out at the school, talking to a coworker or student (or superior), and suddenly having a cheerful show tune about molesting one's uncles came on.
I like iTunes, but I have to respect its power.
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CURSE YOU!!
Date: 2003-05-07 01:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-07 03:22 pm (UTC)Did you blame Steve Jobs? Tell the AH that it's a hidden function built into the iPod to know when to play the wrong song at precisely the wrong moment?