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Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/21/07 19:57
"Spex" wrote ...
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>> "Spex" wrote ...
>>> Richard Crowley wrote:
>>>> "Spex" wrote ...
>>>>> Richard,
>>>>> The default iTunes mode is for the general simpleton who has to have
>>>>> iTunes sync everything automatically. Turning off sync everything
>>>>> clears the iPod ready for manually updating.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, people keep saying that, but I've spent only an hour
>>>> trying to discover how to "turn off" this "feature". The UI
>>>> design drove me so crazy that I gave up after an hour.
>>>>
>>>> If this is really possible, surely someone has published a web
>>>> page that shows how to remove the fangs from iTunes.
>>>
>>> When you connect you iPod to the computer iTunes will open at the iPod
>>> summary page....
>>
>> IME, it immediately starts doing *something* (which it doesn't
>> reveal) and won't let you interrupt until *it* thinks it is done.
>> There still appears to be no way of neutralizing it before you
>> risk attaching your iPod. That is "user-visious" in my book.
>
> I've never encountered that. Mac or PC or have you seen this on both
> platforms?
PC only. I'm not a Mac user (yet, but maybe soon!)
My first data point was from initially installing iTunes on my PC.
That was when it (automatically) went off thrashing my hard
drive without asking permission (or even revealing what it was
doing.)
Additional data points from friends plugging their iPods into
a computer (to recharge) when visiting another friend and
having their entire content wiped out (automatically and without
warning) by iTunes. I've vowed to never install it again as a
result of both first-hand and close 2nd hand experience.
I currently use RedChair Anapod Explorer which integrates the
iPod right into Windows Explorer. It is completely straightforward
and intuitive and I like it a lot. It is not perfect, but then Apple never
officially released any interface specs and all the 3rd party
vendors of such stuff had to reverse-engineer the protocol.
> I only have a small part of my music collection in iTunes which only
> amounts to 1500 tracks so far but it loads instantaneously. Perhaps the
> *doing something* is a corruption of the itunes database and it's being
> rebuilt. Just guessing.
>
> I have a PC here with iTunes on it and it takes ages to load because it is
> looking for a dll that it never finds. Both iTunes and QT look for this
> dll and give an error when they don't find it.
I have a love-hate relationship with QT as well. It will play back a
24-bit WAV file (which WMP could, if MS hadn't artifically crippled
it). OTOH, several versions on several different computers all
play video (and frequently audio as well) very intermittently. None
of my other media players seem to have this problem.
But worst, whenever QT is installed, it hijacks all the MIME types
from IE and after hours of trying to find exactly the right place(s)
to undo this, I have given up. Nothing works for me except to
remove QT Player completely. I know that others claim that you
can restore your PC to "nominal" file associations, but, again,
I have never found the magic combination.
I surmise that Mac users are just different from us PC types and
that is why the UI seems so user-vicious to us. :-(
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