All apologies to Matt, who started this thread. The
"communist" comment was supposed to be directed at Mike,
who directed the trollish comments at me earlier. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Ribe</b> <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm personally interested in his success with MythTV, Mac Mini and<br>
Linux. If I find out that that it works well for him, I might be in the
<br>same boat and want to go buy one too. I could care less about OSX or any<br>of the applications designed to run on OSX. If I get one it'll be<br>running linux with mythtv and nothing else. But not to be too frank<br>
about it, I've used iTunes... I personally think its inadequate and
<br>quirky as a media management tool. The purpose for iTunes, above all<br>else, is for you to buy music from Apple and make Apple stock go up.<br>Everything else is just icing. If I were to use something like iTunes as
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a media management tool for a desktop (which again, has little to do<br>with mythtv...) I'd be more inclined to use something that doesn't run<br>so badly with the size of my library much like mediamonkey. But I have<br>
to ask, why should a mythtv list even care what I think about tools like
<br>this?<br><br>-Mike</blockquote></span><div><br>
I don't know if you are aware of this, Mike, but there is a working
frontend available for OS X. Apparently there isn't one available
for FC4 on the Mac Mini. <br>
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If one was going to use a Mac Mini as a dedicated frontend, OS X would
seem to be the obvious choice for the operating system (I understand
that Matt is using Fedora for other reasons). Not only is it the
only operating system anybody has gotten Myth working under on that
platform, but it is included in the price of the machine. <br>
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Given that OS X is a perfectly reasonable choice of operating system
for a Mac Mini myth box, and absent a religious devotion to Linux, one
might consider using iTunes for music, don't you think? <br>
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I can certainly empathize with Matt's plight. I recently went
through a similar experience, except in my case, it was MythMusic that
I found execrable and iTunes that I wanted to be using, and I had to
jump through hoops to get Windows working on a box which had previously
been a KnoppMyth frontend. <br>
<br>
I like iTunes, but don't harbor any delusions that it is the end all
and be all of music library software. I have an iPod
though, which enhances iTunes value in my eyes. I find that
the $.99 transactions which enhance Apple's stock price, as you say,
provide me with at least $.99 worth of enloyment, so I make them
willingly.<br>
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Believe it or not, Matt, some people use Linux because they think it is good software, not just because they are communists.<br>
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