I love iTunes and use it to manage my iPod’s and some video podcasts. I must admit here that many of my friends use Anapod explorer to manage their iPods, but I love iTunes (Smart Playlists). I use Quicktime when I need to open QT movies and most of the time I even forget that I have QT installed on my machine. But this author from Roughlydrafted goes little further and says Apple already managed to convince hundreds of millions of Windows users to download and use iTunes and Quicktime in place of Windows Media Player.
If Apple had not already managed to convince hundreds of millions of Windows users to download and use iTunes and QuickTime in place of the Window Media Player software that comes bundled with Windows, it might be hard to imagine why Windows users might want to use Safari.#
IMO it’s BULLSHIT. I admit that I am a Windows user all my life, but right now I am planning to switch to Mac very soon and join the club. I am also closely following all the Mac related websites in my feed reader and after reading couple of articles on the above mentioned site, anyone can guess what he is trying to tell. So here is my question to all of you.
Do you use iTunes and QuickTime instead of Window Media Player ?
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I dont use neither iTunes nor QuickTime.
They really cost too much ram memories under Windows system, i still prefer using Windows Media Player to manage my audio library, as well VLC meets my basic needs in video playing.
P.S: I’m a linux daily-user, Amarok and VLC are always my first choice.
I’m a fairly recent Windows user who made the leap and bought a MBP. At the end of it all I’m not a total convert since I spend an equal amount of time on both my windows and mac machines.
But to answer your question, I use both. I use quicktime to view quicktime files and WMP to view .wmvs and .mpegs. On my MBP I ended up installing WMP for Mac OS just in case.
I am with punkd … the only reason I use itunes is because I had to purchase a few songs from itunes store. Which is also the reason why a lot of people seem to have itunes on their comp
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I use only iTunes and just for listen to the music. It’s to manage my audio library and share song with the other people.
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Hmmm… I never used them! May be I should try them out! I use WMP all the time!
I’m running OS X 10.5, so there isn’t a huge amount of choice, but:
iTunes is AMAZING for managing music libraries. It keeps everything organized and looks good doing it. I hear it isn’t quite as stable on Windows machines, but I’ve never had a problem with the app. Just make sure you go through the preferences to tweak it to suit your tastes. Plus, on Apple machines, iTunes is infinitely customizable with Apple Script Plug-Ins. For example, I have one called “Proper English Title Capitalization” which goes through the songs I select and capitalizing main words, while leaving things like “the” or “in” lowercase. It is pretty amazing!
Quicktime… yeah, not so much. I have it installed and I do run things through it sometimes… but, really, it would be stupid to not use VLC for video watching. It is able to play many more filetypes (even wmv on a Mac!) and is, all around, a more full-fledged option.
So yeah, iTunes = fantastic. Quicktime = not really necessary.
Apple pretty much forced me to use iTunes when I bought my iPod and I hated it initially because i liked WMP. But now I am used to it and it does a good job. Smart playlists are pretty neat!
But Quicktime is one of the suckiest players out there (like Real Player). I use VLC Player or Media Player Classic to view qt movies and so Quicktime is pretty redundant for me.
I still think that WMP is great tho!!