iTunes Library Updater does what iTunes ought to do by itself: It keeps iTunes' library updated by automatically adding new tracks from the directories of your choice and removing tracks for which the files no longer exist. It's a simple and straightforward app and there's even a command-line version so you can schedule it to run without having to babysit it.
I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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cuby said 1:01AM on 12-27-2005
been using this for a while, and can confrim that it's the simplest, most straightforward solution for fixing itunes insanely negligent oversights i've seen yet. i do run into problems when choosing just "update trackinfo" ... for that, it seems the best solution remains "select all" in itunes and then "get info", which updates all tracks' tags.
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Ben Hollis said 3:24AM on 12-27-2005
Oh man, pretty soon there will be enough handy third-party apps and hacks to make iTunes halfway as functional as Winamp has been for years!
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cuby said 10:02AM on 12-27-2005
sorry bud, but winamp is dead. it's ill thought-out, boorishly inelegant in its base skin and garishly overwrought in usermade skins, and the music management is a total afterthought. it was great back in 2.x, when it really was king of the hill.
yes, you have to utterly sell your soul to adopt the iTunes way, and there are many who -- like me -- succumbed only after auditioning every other piece of software and finding them all deficient in one way or other, and decided that id tag organization was unfortunately the best way to do things. once you figure out a routine to make iTunes work for you, it's really very pleasant to use.
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bigpoppa said 1:36PM on 12-27-2005
Yes, but at least with Winamp I can have 5000+ tracks and still add another 10 in under an hour, something iTunes apparently can't handle.
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Ben Hollis said 4:01PM on 12-27-2005
See, I keep trying out iTunes with every version, and find it lacking in many basic Winamp features. Beyond that, it's an unbelievable memory hog. The version of Winamp I've got can do podcasts and iPod transfers, great media library mamagement, and can handle more of my music-listening needs than iTunes. It's another case of Apple making a fantastic product for 80% of people, that falls way short for the other 20%.
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