Bought an iPod today...

I have the vile of blood and the papers have been filed for my first-born, but does anyone know which Apple office I'm supposed to send my left testicle to? I can't seem to find the address on their website.

 

I could give you my address....

I mean, yeah, I don't have the address.

 

I don't get it...

 

I recall onions.

 

Apple pretty much makes you listen to music and watch video in the way that they feel is best...for them. I almost feel like I need permission just to turn the thing on.

 

Most of my songs are mp3s and the ipod accepts them by default so...I dunno. I'm happy (and in love) with mine.

 

Welcome to Nazi America err.... I mean Apple computers. Enjoy your stay.

It's not that I hate Apple. It is just that when you want to do your own thing with it, you pretty much can't or have to pay out the ass for it.

Example. A customer of mine owned a high-end Mac Pro PC. Dual Xeon, 8gigs RAM, and it has a MAC 7300GT nVidia video card. He wanted to upgrade the card. Well he bought himself an 8800GT and after installing it, it wouldn't show any video. Turns out he needs to get a special MAC version for the MAC to recognize the video card. The price of the 8800GT was $200 (this was months ago, btw). He ended up buying a 7800 video card (slower) at the same price he paid for the 8800GT.

 

iTunes is the bane of my existence. If I could go back in time I'd get a Zune (the newer ones that don't double as a blunt weapon).

If you like tinkering, try Rockbox. I'd try it out again but I have a nice looking theme on my iPod and my next mp3 player will (hopefully) have native FLAC support.

 

Did you replace, or fix your busted one?

 

I got a brand new 160GB one

 

Go SharePod instead of Itunes

 

I don't see why everyone hates Itunes. Personally I love it and I love my 30 gig Ipod Video...

Whats so bad about it, exactly? Its nothing shallow like "MAC made it, so I hate it" is it?

 

"paying for online music? ha!"

..which does make sense to some of us ole-timers.

 

I don't hate Mac's or Ipods.

infact my sister has an Ipod video 60GB and i quite like them but when she got it she had to use my comp to install itunes on before she got her own comp and left it to me to shove all her music onto it and i just didn't get on with it although not becuase it was terribly bad but i prefer simple drag and drop of files and folders.

 

There a lot on it. For example I upload my files to Ipod and my computer crash or I reinstall OS. What happened when I connect my ipod/iphone to that fresh computer ? It will delete everything from my ipod/iphone.
I am on the go and I want made a playlist, but hell I can only make a stupid new playlist 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ....1035 and without computer I can't do anything.
Why I can't organize my songs by filename ? Why I can't easy organize my song as they are on CD ? Why I have to convert every movie by external program to by able to upload them to my ipod/iphone (and no the convert option which is in iTunes does not work in 99% of movies) ?
And so on so on...

 

no. You can disable that. disable "synch ipod with computer"

...and you can organize them via CD. You put in the track number in iTunes.

Apparently you haven't explored alot of the featurse.

 

Agreed with Henners here.

I've found that copying and pasting the contents of the folder of music you have will put it in the Itunes window in that EXACT same order.

I'm really big on keeping everything in order, and with Itunes, I had SOME trouble at first until I started doing that, and now everythings seperated and in good order.

As far as buying music goes, I don't use their marketplace.

 

yeah. Drag and drop. iTunes is just about as drag and drop as you can get. You have it open. Select your iPod. Select "music" and drop the folder into the window.

You can disable the synching, you can number each track, you're not even using the program if you didn't notice that. I've actually replaced winamp as my media player with iTunes just because it runs more efficiently. This girl I know, lent me her iPod to load up with a bunch of music today. Her songs aren't gone, and now 8GB of my music is on her iPod.

 

Everyone I know always uses the sync feature. I turn it off because I want to know *exactly* what is going on my iPod.

The reason I can't stand iTunes is because it's a bloated piece of shit. I personally cannot stand the interface. While there isn't anything immediately wrong with it, I discovered a bunch of little things that really started to pick at my sanity. To be honest, though, I couldn't name these things off because the only time I use iTunes is to transfer music to my iPod. I don't even do that anymore since there are a few dozen open-source programs that do it just as (if not more so) effeciently.

My favorite iTunes experience was when I was loading music on it, was prompted to update my firmware (by Apple), and had my iPod bricked. It wouldn't play music and eventually wouldn't turn on. After a week of it not working I decided to try and open it up since I wouldn't have made enough money off of it to buy a Zune. This is all because of a firmware update that Apple and iTunes recommended. Fuck Apple.

 

I dont know anyone that uses the synch feature...