Oh My Darling Clementine
Aug. 8th, 2014 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydyWhen I whined about wanting music and iTunes making me cry, Laurel suggested an app called Clementine. I downloaded the most recent version, which totally didn't work. Then I cried some more. Then DDB looked at the web page, determined that my OS would only play with a previous version, which I downloaded, and there was joy in Mudville.
It's really nice. It loads the entire music library very, very fast. (A previous version of iTunes took several hours.) It allows me to create playlists, and seems to have pretty good functionality. Since I don't want very much, it has pretty much everything I want. I wish it had the WinAmp option to "play random tracks for X amount of time, then quit" but it doesn't seem to. Although, you know, it might. It has all sorts of things, NONE OF THEM DOCUMENTED. Fuck me blue. Guys, you have all these cool things, TELL ME ABOUT THEM. Would it kill you to put out a user manual? Really?
I spent some time looking at a sound solution, as well. Tinny doesn't really do my MacBook Pro speakers justice. Tiny tinny and really not very loud comes closer. Poked around at MicroCenter and Best Buy and Amazon. Bluetooth speakers seem to be running $60 and up. And up. And up. Not this is unreasonable, but still, it's money. Another solution, getting a bluetooth dongle, and attaching it to an existing pair of speakers, looks to be about $30. I dug out my very old external speaker system. It's a Cambridge SoundWorks system with a subwoofer and two tiny speakers. It was probably about $50 ten years ago. The ivory colored plastic has not so much yellowed as browned. However, they work. And while I wouldn't call it _good_ sound, it's way, way better than my built-in speakers. At the moment, I'm just plugging it into my computer (it has a really long cord, and this makes it pretty easy). I was thinking of getting the $30 dongle so that I could reposition the speakers, but you know, the current placement is absolutely adequate given the quality. And, free. Well, not ten years ago, of course, but free now.
Technology and I seem to be doing well, this week. Wonder what next week will bring.
It's really nice. It loads the entire music library very, very fast. (A previous version of iTunes took several hours.) It allows me to create playlists, and seems to have pretty good functionality. Since I don't want very much, it has pretty much everything I want. I wish it had the WinAmp option to "play random tracks for X amount of time, then quit" but it doesn't seem to. Although, you know, it might. It has all sorts of things, NONE OF THEM DOCUMENTED. Fuck me blue. Guys, you have all these cool things, TELL ME ABOUT THEM. Would it kill you to put out a user manual? Really?
I spent some time looking at a sound solution, as well. Tinny doesn't really do my MacBook Pro speakers justice. Tiny tinny and really not very loud comes closer. Poked around at MicroCenter and Best Buy and Amazon. Bluetooth speakers seem to be running $60 and up. And up. And up. Not this is unreasonable, but still, it's money. Another solution, getting a bluetooth dongle, and attaching it to an existing pair of speakers, looks to be about $30. I dug out my very old external speaker system. It's a Cambridge SoundWorks system with a subwoofer and two tiny speakers. It was probably about $50 ten years ago. The ivory colored plastic has not so much yellowed as browned. However, they work. And while I wouldn't call it _good_ sound, it's way, way better than my built-in speakers. At the moment, I'm just plugging it into my computer (it has a really long cord, and this makes it pretty easy). I was thinking of getting the $30 dongle so that I could reposition the speakers, but you know, the current placement is absolutely adequate given the quality. And, free. Well, not ten years ago, of course, but free now.
Technology and I seem to be doing well, this week. Wonder what next week will bring.
