My entire music collection is encoded using Vorbis. OGG has its drawbacks despite being, for me, the best sound format choice based on principles, quality and practicality. The biggest drawbacks are the lack of hardware and software support, I had to do a fair bit of research before buying my Samsung YP-U2 and software support for OGG is an issue on Mac OS X.
I've have over 5GB of OGGs stored on my NAS, and iTunes doesn't want to know about them. Had I chosen AAC as my preferred format, I wouldn't have a problem.
I'm wondering what should I do in order to be able to playback my songs on my new Macbook. I could convert my entire collection to MP4, but this would take a considerable amount of time and effort, and would leave my Samsung YP-U2 redundant. Or, I leave them as OGGs and figure out a way to get iTunes to play nice? I prefer the later option I think.
31 December 2006
30 December 2006
My New MacBook
I've just got my hands a brand new MacBook. So far my Apple experience has been great.
What I've liked so far:
What I've liked so far:
- All of my favourite UNIX commands are available (ls, grep, mount, bash, vi, rsync, etc.)
- Beautiful UI. The font rendering especially is superb.
- System Preferences UI seems logical. No hunting down preference options in weird places, unlike in Windows.
- I don't have to mess around with configuration files in order to get correct modeline to be used.
- Spotlight is great.
- Mounting shares is easy. It can be slightly tricky in Linux with regards to setting permissions.
- Adium is a great app.
- Automator is fantastic.
- Finder could do with an address bar.
- Setting up my networked printer was a bit of challenge.
- Getting shares to mount on startup/login. I got there in the end, but I was a bit lost without an /etc/fstab.
- mount -o loop -t iso9660 my.iso /mnt/cdrom doesn't work.
- Spotlight doesn't seem like it wants to index my network drives.
- No native support for ogg.
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