Why won't my music work FTW [lifehackers and /.ers move along]

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

Apparently, Apple is conducting a very lucrative experiment. See how many people will download this player onto Windows and actually let it go through their music libraries & convert all those ripped CDs to .m4a or even [ghasp] Lossless.

Has Stevie B thown another chair yet? Is this old news? If this is a dupe, my apologies... Long week of actual work away from the Internet.

"oh yeah, and we'll go through your library & add cover art if ya like..."

I wonder if M$ will create a "Virus Removal Tool" on this one..

/admins feel free to punt this if it is too far off topic or too old ;-)



--edit: oy, I guess I should have thrown my [/sarcasm] tag to this one.. With lusers thinking OMGFREEMOVIES!!, they'd d/l iTunes right away on their windows machines & want it to work for all their music. Then they would notice that album covers could be added to their songs and CoverFlow (once a separate application, now a part of iTunes) will show said album covers in its shiny glory. Again, sorry for misunderstandings. If anything, you all had somebody to vent at today.

Comments

[mawz.livejournal.com]

You do realize that AAC is just MPEG4 Audio, just like MP3 is MPEG Layer 3 Audio. Completely standard. And iTunes doesn't convert your music unless you tell it to.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

iTunes doesn't seem to ever do what I really want it to do.

It deleted my entire music library once. I wanted to remove songs from the iTunes library, but it deleted the files themselves, instead.

Most recently, it deleted everything off my iPod. Apparently, plugging an iPod into a computer with an empty iTunes library means that you want iTunes to put its information on the iPod (one-way sync), which deletes everything.

If there's an option to change that, I don't particularly care, because that shouldn't be the default behavior.

Needless to say, I haven't touched iTunes with a forty-foot pole since.

[torkell]

You actually needed iTunes to do that? *Real* computer users can delete their entire music collection with less than 10 keystrokes (sodding Windows managing to select my entire music collection when I only wanted to select two files, and then making it look like I'd only picked those two. Yay backups).

[taleya.livejournal.com]

ughh turn off auto sync. off. off I HATE THE FEATURE *stabs it*

I have a first-gen iPod. Yup, the original. First time I plugged it in...I had issues. It auto found my mp3's and tried to sync

Ipod capacity: 4gb
MP3 collection: 76gb

There were...issues.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

what idiot would let something RE-convert and re-encode what's already been ripped??!?! encoding the encoded never comes out well unless you go the lossless way but then what the frick is the point

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

What the hell are you talking about? What piece of software? iTunes? Mine does what I tell it to. Mostly. Are you talking about iTunes? What are you talking about?

[jecook]

I don't have an iPod, so I don't have iTunes installed.

I even looked for (and downloaded) the standalone QT player the last time I needed to update stuff.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

It's not a bug, it's a feature! No, seriously - I've used iTunes conversion abilities to rescue files trapped as .wma and convert them to .mp3. Works like a charm, and most importantly, is NOT automatic as you imply. Next time, try using the software you're condeming before shooting your mouth off.

Also, I'm stunned by the "IT professionals" responding to this thread who couldn't figure out how to use iTunes. If you can configure Linux, surely you can learn how to click off one or two options in your music player, yeesh.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

in b4 flamewar

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

My SO told me about the time the company he works for brought in some high school student interns. By the end of the week, half of their assigned computers were infected with iTunes.