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withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Is there a Foobar2k equivalent for Mac? Mainly I want a tree view to browse my library organized by Genre->Artist->Album or similar without having to navigate a list of things hundreds of items long or more. Something like this. Is there a way to make iTunes work like that?

# ¿ Jul 21, 2011 21:57

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 02:08

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

I love how there's always one person with a completely hosed up system going " APPLE! "

The guy who is furious about a bug that he thinks crashes every computer every time it runs (just no one ever talks about it) is OS-independent.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2011 22:21

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

japtor posted:

Kind of but not exactly. If you hit command-B (or search for "browse" in the help menu) it'll bring up columns which let you drill down similarly. I think you can configure them to an extent somewhere too, I have my iTunes set up with Genre->Artist->Album, and you can set it up as horizontal or vertical split panes, I prefer the latter to see longer lists.

You can also command/shift click stuff to select multiple criteria within a list which is nice if you want to do something like listen to more than one genre, or only a few artists or albums within a list.

This is about perfect thanks. iTunes is way easier to work with on a brand new iMac than on a 7-year-old PC laptop.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 03:59

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

That is it.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 00:28

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Space Racist posted:

So I know inverted scrolling has gotten a mixed reception, but as far as iOS style features go, how many people have opted to disable indicator lights for active applications? I've thought about it, but I feel like I'd at least need 8 GB of RAM to safely give no fucks like that.

Supposedly along with that option, other iOS-like stuff will happen that will kick unnecessary stuff out of memory if required.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 06:23

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Why does both scrolling in Mission Control and the four-finger swipe up/down gesture work backwards from the "natural" two-finger scrolling. Having to rely on trial and error to figure out which direction the scrolling goes in a given context doesn't help ease the transition, Apple. :argh:

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 20:14

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Vertigus posted:

Word does have a fullscreen view that I like a lot.

Should be under View -> Full page or something like that.

Pages has this too.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 20:17

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

x-virge posted:

It should work the same as your preference: If you have natural scrolling, Spaces move with your fingers. If you don't, they move opposite your fingers.

Not sure what you mean about the four finger up/down gestures, though. Those don't track with your fingers anyway.

I have natural scrolling turned on but when I swipe left with three fingers in Mission Control then it pans over to the dashboard (i.e. swipe left moves the content to the right which is the opposite of natural scrolling).

In Firefox four fingers up/down seems to do home/end, but it also works the opposite if natural scrolling (i.e. swipe down jumps to the end of the page, content move up).

# ¿ Jul 23, 2011 21:44

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Teenage Fansub posted:

Does anyone else have embedded Youtube videos crashing their macs since installing Lion?
That's with Firefox on a 2011 i5 iMac.
It's happened about once a day since I upgraded.

Lots of people.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 15:02

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Just throw out the 32MB drive.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2011 20:22

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

I'm trying to install win7 through the boot camp assistant in Lion on a new 21.5" i5 iMac. My win7 was downloaded as an iso from microsoft and burned to DVD. I can read the DVD and everything on it looks fine. When it comes time for the install disk though, boot camp assistant says that the install disk couldn't be found. The boot camp docs say if you get this error then to make sure you are logged in as administrator.

I'm the only user on this computer and when it asks for my password for admin stuff the password works fine, so I'm pretty sure I am an administrator. Why can't boot camp assistant find the install disk? It's right there in the drive!

# ¿ Jul 31, 2011 17:54

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Ziir posted:

I downloaded a Windows 7 iso file from my university through MSDNAA and I have no idea how to burn it with Disk Utilities in order to install it. I right clicked the iso file and selected "Burn…" and then went through Boot Camp and partitioned my hard drive for Windows. Now I'm at the screen where it tells me to insert the Windows installation disk and press the "start installation" button. I press it but it tells me the windows installer was not found.

I had the same problem with an iso from the MS store and got around it by using the provided DVD/USB creator from MS to burn the image from a Win7 computer. Apparently just burning the image doesn't create the right kind of install disk; that app must do something to it as well.

This is not helpful at all if you don't have a windows computer handy to burn that disk.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2011 22:47

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

SourKraut posted:

As it is, there was literally no reason for Apple to completely remove it. They could easily have left it in as a feature for those who wanted it. It was a ridiculous decision.

If you want people to switch then the best way is to just take away the old option, like pulling off a band-aid. Leaving the old way in won't help people transition; they will just ignore the new behavior and go to greater and greater lengths to force their crusty old workflow into the new system.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 01:05

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

File a bug report.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2011 05:14

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

At the end of the interview tell the interviewer that you have a problem with your phone and were wondering if he or she could fix it for you.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 17:50

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Crisis posted:

...those only apply to upgrade editions.

Really? I wonder what the logic is behind that?

# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 01:15

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

I put to you that any newsreader which chugs on a regular hard drive isn't that good of a newsreader.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2011 03:34

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Your mom already knows about your pornography.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2011 03:17

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

silloh posted:

It'll just turn on for a second, then immediately turn back off. Is this a feature to prevent people from "bricking" their computers?

Probably. If it loses power (like if the battery runs out) while it is doing the last step of the update after rebooting then things might be permanently hosed.

edit: Not permanently like bricked, but it might screw up the OS if it gets interrupted while writing important files.

withak fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Oct 16, 2011

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 21:42

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Xenomorph posted:

I'm trying to use the Tragic Macpads. My primary concern is that I'll like it so much that I'll want to use it on every computer I touch.

Does anyone here feel it is truly superior to a Mouse?

Yes, thought I imagine that it depends on your computing habits and what kinds of things you use your computer for

edit: Though I use a thumb trackball everywhere I can't use a trackpad so I may not be a very representative sample.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2011 21:14

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Why use anything but 7?

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 23:54

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

japtor posted:

Uh no, if you know what app that is I guess you should check out its settings to see if there's any "insert Finder shortcut" type thing.

...if you don't know,

Looks like Colloquy.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2011 21:28

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

My colloquy window casts a shadow.

edit: Though the connections window does not.

withak fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jan 7, 2012

# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 05:02

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Martytoof posted:

If you minimize it and then bring it back by clicking on its preview icon in the right hand side of the dock, does it still have a shadow? That seems to be what makes mine lose it's shadow

I'm not sure what preview icon you mean, but the shadow is still there after a bunch of minimizing and maximizing.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 19:50

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

timb posted:

Actually, I have seen upside down traffic lights some places. I've also seem them do sideways lights the wrong direction.

Red should always be on the top or left so that colorblind people know what's up.

Report it to the state DOT and I bet some city engineer gets a stern letter.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2012 01:17

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Astro7x posted:

My biggest gripe with Text Edit on Lion is that all the versioning stuff doesn't work if you are saving the document to a different drive that is not compatible with Lion's versioning.

IIRC versioning is actually part of the file system. To use it on an incompatible drive every app would have to implement its own versioning system.

withak fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Mar 15, 2012

# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 23:07

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

~Coxy posted:

Is it possible to turn off the "feature" where inactive apps are shut down but still look open?
It seems rather buggy to me and I have a good enough machine not to need it so I'd rather disable it entirely.

What?

# ¿ Apr 15, 2012 03:29

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

mike- posted:

I use launchpad too but sometimes it feels like I am the only one. It's pretty convenient for launching stuff not on the dock.

You obviously don't have enough stuff in your dock.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2012 06:30

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

timb posted:

So, it seems like Safari 6 now properly refreshes the post counts in the User Control Panel when I go back. Awesome.

It's actually refreshing the page every time you navigate back/forward. If the list of threads hasn't changed order then the new fadey animation makes it look like the only thing that has changed is the post counts.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2012 21:41

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Leempi posted:

Is this site: http://ats-vs-world.cadillac.com/ causing a system freeze for anyone else? Opening it in Safari 6 ML. After the site loads and the 'tiles' turn around, I need to hard reboot the MBP, nothing responds anymore.

Found the link as an excellent example of HTML5 being used. Apparently.

Works fine on a mid-2011 iMac in ML.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2012 21:52

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

On a Magic Trackpad you can start the swipe from over near the right edge.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2012 00:57

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

IUG posted:

Oh, that's a weird one. I've never had a gesture start from off the trackpad before.

It doesn't have to start off the trackpad, just nearer to the edge than usual.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2012 02:18

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Terpfen posted:

It's been a long time since I've seen such ferocious protection of $20.

You should read the iOS apps/games threads.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2012 02:19

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

TheJoker138 posted:

Hey, is there some reason that Apple loving charged me twice when I bought Mountain Lion tonight?

It is how they keep their profits high.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2012 14:39

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

gently caress, I didn't know I was using an Internet Explorer clone. Thanks ADP for letting me know!

quote:

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# ¿ Sep 2, 2012 03:11

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Bob Morales posted:

That sort of reminds me of my old boss who named his folders like this:

'1 - Addresses'
'2 - Invoices'
'3 - Designs for Foo'
'4 - Letters'

Basically creating his own sorting solution.

I number folders all the time when I want them to always be sorted in chronological order (the order I actually did them, not the last time they were modified).

# ¿ Sep 25, 2012 14:39

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Zombietoof posted:

Question to you 10.8.2 folk:

I just upgraded to 10.8.2 yesterday from 10.8.1 and now I'm having this thing where sometimes if I load a SA page I will get a completely blank page until I scroll down at which point the entire page redraws and the content appears.

I hesitate to ask in here since I'm on a Hackintosh and not a for-reals Mac, but I'm trying to figure out whether this is something that other people are seeing as well, or whether this is localized to my computer.

I get it on my mid-2011 iMac also.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2012 02:54