Wednesday, September 12, 2012

iTunes rant

I put up with no iTunes on Linux, because a lot of stuff doesn't run on Linux.  You play as an oddball, this is what you can expect.

But why in the name of all that is sacred does iTunes not sync my videos from my iPhone to my Windows box?  Plain vanilla OS, plain vanilla iTunes, plain vanilla phone.  No videos synced.

9 comments:

  1. Tim CovingtonSeptember 12, 2012 at 9:22 PM

    Because it is an Apple product. They are more evil than Microsoft. Drop the iCrap and get an Android phone like the Galaxy SIII.

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  2. WolfmanSeptember 13, 2012 at 12:35 AM

    I think the only thing I dislike more than iTunes is the Windows I require to run it on. Whats that you say? Why yes, I could buy a Mac, at only thrice the outlay of cost. Or I could run Ubuntu, and put up with the laggy, ridiculous Windows partition that only gets started to run a minimum of items (I need it for printing, too, since Lexmark ALSO doesnt play open source. Meh). On a computer that is damn near ten years old, and still runs as fast as Windows 6 mo after original install, when the bloat and tray helpers catch up. iTunes tray helper has the unique ability to sink the WHOLE SYSTEM, which negates the stated purpose of help iTunes load faster. HEY APPLE! ITS A MUSIC PLAYER! IT DOESNT NEED TO BE THE LARGEST PROGRAM FILE ON MY COMPUTER! Suffice to say, I agree.

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  3. instinctSeptember 13, 2012 at 10:56 AM

    Because iTunes knows that you love Linux more than you love it, that's why :)

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  4. BobGSeptember 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM

    Has anyone come up with a good Linux program that will run off an iPod?

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 1:59 PM

    Linux..
    For thinking people..
    Apple..for Birkenstock wearing, Bug driving yuppies..
    Windows..
    To piss the above off people..

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  6. BorepatchSeptember 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM

    BobG, Banshee is supposed to do a decent job.

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  7. NotClauswitzSeptember 13, 2012 at 4:03 PM

    Had a paid-for movie downloaded on iTunes that I wanted to watch on the flight to Maui, but at 35,000 feet and 2,000 miles out to sea iTunes couldn't raise the Great Mother Ship Internet to check and see if I was truly worthwhile - so it would not run the movie and we had to watch the Airline excrement-video instead.
    But they refunded my money.

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  8. WolfmanSeptember 13, 2012 at 10:02 PM

    Banshee syncs music on and off an ipod like it was a thumb drive, which is refreshing. In fact, if one has lost/misplaced cds/original media, it will migrate to a new computer without wiping, also a nice thing. On my box, banshee is a bit unstable, but thats on a comp thats 8 yo, with 750 MB RAM. It happens. Im still a little leery of hooking it up to my lovely wifes iPhone, however. That thing talks to the mothership a LOT, and I dont want it yelling at her.

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  9. nbcSeptember 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM

    There used to be a freeware alternative to iTunes available at sourceforge which I found my iDiot boss, but I don't know if it's still available. He managed to use it for years without borking things too badly.

    Have a look at these

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