KVR Audio

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:12 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Any tips on making iTunes work the way I want? It doesn't seem to organise anything according to the proper file names and folders - instead it goes by tags and genres (which are irrelevant to me) so if I import a folder of mp3's with albums organised by sub folders it seems to not respect my organisation if something is tagged differently. I had a lot of my mp3's stripped of tags anyway as they are a nuisance - now I'm having to use them just to organise things which is a pain and the way it decides seems so un-transparent - I currently have an entire album of favourites by one particular band but one of them it refuses to put with the rest and has it in another "album" even though I have made sure it has the same band name, album name etc. Is there an alternative to iTunes that works with the iPhone but uses a more logical way of organising files?

+1 looking for an app to play music, not Itunes. And something to let me download files.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:12 pm

.:illanoise:. wrote:Just jailbreak it, and the filesystem is open.

Yeah but I also lose my warranty

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:18 pm

aMUSEd wrote:
.:illanoise:. wrote:Just jailbreak it, and the filesystem is open.
Yeah but I also lose my warranty

Well I think if something goes wrong, you can always flash it back to factory spec. But If you say it loses warranty, that might also include physical damage. I'm going to ask them today as it is day 30 on the first month and I can always return it for 20 bucks. Will let you know.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:22 pm

Thanks

This is frustrating though. I have a folder full of favourite tracks by Bjork culled from several of her CD's - I have tried my best to make sure all the fields are the same but for some reason it's insisting on splitting them between 5 different "albums" and I haven't got a clue how to get them all in one compilation. I tried the sort fields but that doesn't work. It should just go by folder on my harddrive.

.:illanoise:. · Post by **.:illanoise:.** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:36 pm

aMUSEd wrote:
.:illanoise:. wrote:Just jailbreak it, and the filesystem is open.
Yeah but I also lose my warranty

Nope, just flash it back. Also, if you brick it for some odd reason, it really is easy to connect back to itunes for a restore. (speaking from personal experience)

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:40 pm

What does "Jailbreak" do exactly?

Does it allow you to:

Play more audio file formats?
Use a different audio player app?
Use the iPhone as an external harddrive?
Use other phone providers?
Copy paste?
Browse folders in IPhone? (proper file management)

.:illanoise:. · Post by **.:illanoise:.** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:07 pm

aMUSEd wrote:What does "Jailbreak" do exactly?

Does it allow you to:

Play more audio file formats?
Use a different audio player app?
Use the iPhone as an external harddrive?
Use other phone providers?
Copy paste?
Browse folders in IPhone? (proper file management)

Use google.

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:08 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Any tips on making iTunes work the way I want?

No.

Seriously, though, if you want to change the tags on a bunch of songs, you select them then right click and choose "Get Info". No, it doesn't make any sense, but try to think of yourself as being wrong and iTunes as being right. Anyways, it will ask you if you're really sure, then it will allow you to make sweeping changes.

I've discovered that iTunes can do a lot more than you'd think, it just requires you to fight it, to discover through mistakes (or what seem to be mistakes), or to just give up an weep uncontrollably. I've banished it from all but one computer.

Be warned that sometimes it will "help" you by removing the stuff you've bought from your iPhone. If you plug your iPhone into someone else's computer running iTunes say goodbye to all your apps until you plug it back into your own computer.

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:13 pm

BTW, you can add songs and videos directly to your iPhone through iTunes by dragging them from the filesystem over to the icon of your iPhone in iTunes (on the left). (I think. It's been a while.)

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:15 pm

Thanks - I'm wise to that one - turning off automatic syncing was the first thing I did. I hope that is enough to prevent that from happening (because sometimes I might have to use my laptop to charge it).

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:17 pm

pough wrote:BTW, you can add songs and videos directly to your iPhone through iTunes by dragging them from the filesystem over to the icon of your iPhone in iTunes (on the left). (I think. It's been a while.)

Thanks - also I just found an option "manually manage music and videos" so I've checked it - lets see if that helps

Needless to say the stupid "Genius" feature is also turned off

pough · Post by **pough** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:39 pm

Did you try selecting all those Bjork songs and changing their album to "aMUSed's Super Awesome Bjork Megacollection of Her Bestest Songs and Shit" yet? I'm curious to know if that will lump them all together in the way you were wanting them to be lumped.

bernhardtjeff · Post by **bernhardtjeff** » Fri May 01, 2009 3:57 am

aMUSEd wrote:
nuffink wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:How do you get them on it though? There isn't any file browser as such as far as I can see and it doesn't show as a drive in My Computer.
How Files Lite works is the iPhone app displays an ip address which you can associate with a folder in windows explorer and, I presume, Finder. Then it's just a matter of dragging and dropping to the folder. Wi-Fi does the rest.
Oh that's a bit naff - I have a physical usb connection and it wants to use wifi? I don't have wifi on my PC!!

sorry to be a dick, but did you even check out what the iphone does before you bought it? the iphone user's guide is on apple's site, and it probably would've answered most of your questions before you bought it... not to mention google. did you maybe win it in a contest or something? 'cause i can't imagine plunking down a few hundred bucks or whatever for an iphone but not even knowing that it uses wi-fi extensively.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri May 01, 2009 7:57 am

Of course I knew it used wifi - I want it to use wifi, just not exclusively. But that it can't use its own usb cable to transfer data is not something that was clear to me (having had experience with iPods I did assume it would be no different in that respect - nor did I know it has other silly limitation like no copy/paste or internal file management). It's still a great piece of kit and I'm enjoying all the apps etc but they should address these basic limitations - in some respects the XDA I upgraded from is more powerful and certainly more customisable.

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Fri May 01, 2009 9:42 am

They told me don't send it in for warranty repair while loaded with the jailbroken software

Hopefully it don't fry the firmware.

iPhone - tranferring files painlessly