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Apple Stole My Music

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Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by wvenable »

Yhippa wrote: post #151
rossng wrote: post #74

Every time I am asked to set up someone's Apple device, I find it incredibly difficult to: * Get it synced properly * Determine what is stored in iCloud/on-device * Ensure that device contents are actually backed-up, unless done manually * Set up simple things like email accounts Just a month or two ago, I was helping someone whose iTunes music wouldn't sync to their iPhone. It turned out that, when they signed up to…

I got my parents an iPad mini recently and some of the contacts on my mom's phone sync and some of them don't. I am a developer and love tinkering with computers but for the love of me not figure out how to fix this.

Yeah I got my daughter a new Mac and synced it up to the iCloud so she could iMessage from the desktop and she got an odd (incomplete) set of contacts that don't seem to match any other device.

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Post by passivepinetree »

konart wrote: post #281

Never understood why people use iTunes. If I'd ever had to name the worst Mac app - this is it. Store your music, listen via http://swinsian.com (for example), back it up, be happy.

As someone who can't bear to let go of his 160gb iPod classic (but still hates iTunes with a burning passion), is there an alternative like Swinsian that will still sync my iPod?

I've been handcuffed to iTunes for years because of the iPod syncing mechanism but I'd love to switch.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by joesmo »

konart wrote: post #281

Never understood why people use iTunes. If I'd ever had to name the worst Mac app - this is it. Store your music, listen via http://swinsian.com (for example), back it up, be happy.

Apple forces you if you want to get music onto your devices. But I agree. It's total shit without a single redeeming quality. Now it's just malware.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by mjw_byrne »

FilterSweep wrote: post #276
mjw_byrne wrote: post #233

I've been telling people for a long time to avoid Apple because it's an organisation which has demonstrated a pattern of contempt - to its customers, to its competitors, to the developers who use its app store and to the courts. The replies I get are so depressingly apathetic: "but the iPhone is nice"; "I like how simple it is to use"; "the design is so pretty". How can people be so easily charmed into bending over f…

Don't pretend for a second that Microsoft's "Telemetry Services" (and forced telemetry updates to Windows 7 users who refused to upgrade) or even Ubuntu's search tracking for Amazon coffers is ANY different. Or even worse, the malicious firmware code shipped with some Windows-based machines. The entire industry is fraudulent to consumers - turning consumers into products themselves. With this industry, you pick your…

I don't single Apple out (although this wasn't clear in my original comment) - there are plenty of other organisations and systems out there which are just as pernicious, and my stance is to simply not use them. Remember Sony and the rootkit stuff?

There are plenty of good alternatives out there. The price you pay for getting to use computer systems which don't betray you is the cost of learning to use Linux or BSD (these days, nothing like as painful as it used to be) and going without some "conveniences" like magical available-everywhere cloud-synced everything. In my book that's a tiny cost for the ability to keep proper control and ownership of my own shit.

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Post by dingo_bat »

bad_user wrote: post #64
dingo_bat wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly why I use OneDrive to backup my photos along with the google photos thing. I've tried explaining my logic to several people but usual replies are "but I can still see them on the website!". "But you won't have the image files anymore." "But I can open the website and see the pics, right?" At this point I just sigh and give up. Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original f…

OneDrive is horrible for backup because it doesn't keep any history of your files. Get a Ransomware on your computer, then watch in horror how your files are gone and how totally useless OneDrive can be. This is why I prefer Dropbox. They keep 30-days worth of history so you can revert any file changes during that period. And I prefer to pay extra for the Extended History add-on, giving me 1 year worth of history. Th…

>OneDrive is horrible for backup because it doesn't keep any history of your files.

I hadn't considered that. Though a dropbox bug lost my documents and also deleted all version history. That was one reason I stopped using it.

Edit: I checked and it seems Onedrive does have version history.

> This is why I prefer Dropbox.

Dropbox is too expensive and I don't really need 1 TB :/

> Google Drive

I will not pay for any Google service. I'll use the free stuff and expect them to disappear/stop any time.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by dingo_bat »

fps wrote: post #150
dingo_bat wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly why I use OneDrive to backup my photos along with the google photos thing. I've tried explaining my logic to several people but usual replies are "but I can still see them on the website!". "But you won't have the image files anymore." "But I can open the website and see the pics, right?" At this point I just sigh and give up. Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original f…

> Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original files. It does return the original files. Here are two files, one that got backed up off my phone by google photos, which I then downloaded from google drive, and one that I copied directly off my phone via USB: $ md5sum IMG_20160504_160057648_HDR* 4bcb38a2e3869b4c769301c1664f5846 IMG_20160504_160057648_HDR (1).jpg 4bcb38a2e3869b4c769301c1664…

How big are your files? How many megapixels? I just see that the pictures in my phone are ~4-5 megabytes big and when I download them from google.com/photos, they are just a bit under a megabyte mostly.

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Post by minusSeven »

IBM wrote: post #277
simonster wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But other people have posted here and said they enabled Apple Music and their music was not deleted, so clearly this doesn't happen under all circumstances, and this wouldn't be the first time a technical support representative was wrong. This is a pretty extraordinary claim and I'm not really willing to believe everyone loses all their local music when they turn on Apple Music without more data to confirm.

Apple Music doesn't delete the original files. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204962 >When Apple Music adds these matched songs to your iCloud Music Library, Apple Music doesn’t change or alter your original music files that reside in iTunes for Mac or PC or on your iOS devices from which they were added.

But then that is clearly wrong as per the article posted. There OP claims his songs are replaced with inferior version online.

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Post by preetbhinder »

loup-vaillant wrote: post #198
preetbhinder wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While free software is good, the real problem is not being in control of your data and trusting the cloud blindly.

And how do you think you lost control of your data in the first place? Free software would never have deleted your files without asking you. Or maybe once before it would be fixed as a critical defect in a matter of hours.

I'm agreeing with you. However, when you move your data into the cloud, even if the software is supposedly free, you have no ability to verify that. You also don't control when or how that critical defect is fixed.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by dingo_bat »

jmiserez wrote: post #61
dingo_bat wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly why I use OneDrive to backup my photos along with the google photos thing. I've tried explaining my logic to several people but usual replies are "but I can still see them on the website!". "But you won't have the image files anymore." "But I can open the website and see the pics, right?" At this point I just sigh and give up. Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original f…

The Dropbox app has a camera roll auto-upload feature. It's reliable, full-resolution image file backup and works for iOS and Android. iCloud Photos is the worst: Last time I tried to download all my iCloud Photos/Videos (~1000) from the website it turned out to be impossible: You can download a few, but after 200 or so you just get server errors. And it always chokes on videos, stopping before having finished downlo…

> The Dropbox app has a camera roll auto-upload feature. It's reliable, full-resolution image file backup

I know. I used to use it. It worked perfectly. I switched to Onedrive primarily because my free 48GB Dropbox expired and I got 100GB Onedrive with my new phone.

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