Haven't been around in a while...

So I haven't posted in a while... just thought I'd drop by with some thoughts

The other day, I bought an IPod Video - the thing is awesome. But, I somehow managed to mangle my entire MP3 collection on my house server by letting iTunes reorganize it. I probably wasn't paying enough attention, but needless to say I wasn't pleased.

Empeg to the rescue! I decided instead of reconstructing all the directory structures and file names - I would simply dump my empeg onto my server using jemplode (with leading 0's for track numbers!). I let that sit copying over night - Problem resolved!

I've just got to say that even now, years and years after the Empeg went EOL - it never ceases to amaze me the amount of support, contributions from the community, etc that still continue to exist.

With my current job and schedule, I don't have a whole lot of time to spend on forums or the Internet anymore, but I'll definitely make an effort to stop by more often!

Oh and despite the iTunes woes - I still like the Ipod Video... Needless to say I set all the features in iTunes now to "manual".

I like the new Empeg Wiki!

oh and I forgot to add, iTunes has nothing on emplode/jemplode... Emplode and jemplode are way more intuitive and IMO have much better interfaces.

But you already knew that.

Preach it, brotha!

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oh and I forgot to add, iTunes has nothing on emplode/jemplode... Emplode and jemplode are way more intuitive and IMO have much better interfaces.

But you already knew that.

I disagree. Both emplode and jemplode are fantastic programs, but neither seems to support unicode properly. This puts iTunes on top IMHO. And to be honest, the interface in iTunes seems FAR more intuitive for the way I work. This isn't a slam on emplode / jemplode, just a matter of taste really. I'd be curious to know how you feel it is less intuitive, though.

I've never had iTunes crash while uploading music (because I forgot to rename the mp3 to something with only western characters) causing me to wait for 2 hours while my iPod checks its discs and rebuilds its database 3 times, either.

I would be thrilled if RMM had empeg support, as it correctly handles unicode and I have never experienced problems while working in it. Until then (ie. from now on) it's likely that the music that is currently on my empeg what will be there for the forseeable future. It's just too much of a pain putting music with non-western tags on it.

Don't get me wrong; I'm forever appreciative for the Japanese-capable empeg player software, and I think (as I said) that emplode / jemplode are amazing programs. They just don't do what I need them to do very well. iTunes, on the other hand, does EXACTLY what I need it to do.

Now who wants to figure out how to use iTunes for the empeg?