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Apple Stole My Music

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Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by andrepd »

wvenable wrote: post #296
VonGuard wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple fundamentally does not understand software. A shame, as the software, really, was their original special sauce with the Mac 128k and beyond. Today, however, the company really doesn't understand how to make, maintain, or market software. It sees software as a way to spread their control of their hardware further into your life. It's going to be the death of Apple, mark my words.

Out of all the consumer electronics companies, Apple makes the best software. (Edit: This is not a compliment)

I beg to differ.

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Post by dingo_bat »

piyush_soni wrote: post #66
dingo_bat wrote: post #50

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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…

Wait. I assume even OneDrive doesn't have free unlimited storage right? After a certain limit, you've to pay. Similarly, if you pay, you can store all the photos in their original size (not the smaller max 16MP versions of them - which are free & unlimited) in Google Photos as well, and download when you want. I store my photographs in external Hard Disk as well as Google Photos - because of the amazing search and ca…

I have 100 GB space free in my Onedrive which is enough. Also, my pictures sync directly to my laptop, unlike Google photos, which shows in the website and you have to manually download them later.

Also, I cannot see my photos in Google drive at all. I have to go to google.com/photos to see or download the backed up pics. This is what my drive looks like if I click on the Google photos button on the left sidebar: https://imgur.com/wh9ONt5

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Post by leephillips »

digi_owl wrote: post #298
leephillips wrote: post #219

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Yes, it's MTP with my current phone and linux installation. Is there a problem with this? After I figured out where the filesystem was mounted (a bit of a pain), I could use it like a normal mount, as if it were an external USB drive.

MTP is a bit of a mess. First off, file access is mediated via software on the Android side. What you are seeing is a database representation of the device FS. And this database can be incorrect (people have in the past deleted folders they thought were empty only to lose files) or used to implement DRM. Second, it is bloody slow.

Interesting. Is there a way to bypass this and mount the phone as an ordinary filesystem, as in the old days?

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Post by RonanTheGrey »

daveheq wrote: post #244
simonster wrote: post #163

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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.

I'm afraid to use iTunes at all at this point. Most of my mp3s were ripped from CD or bought from Amazon

I haven't used it in years and am happy never to go back. There are so many other programs out there that can manage your music.

When I want the fad-of-the-day music I will pay to stream it. Which isn't very often. We all have our guilty pleasures :)

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Post by dingo_bat »

kyriakos wrote: post #187
dingo_bat wrote: post #50

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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…

I keep my RAW images on OneDrive for backup and use Google Photos with the free version / high quality version. I find Google Photos's client really good as a gallery on Android, (OneDrive is really slow). So when I show people my photos I use Google Photos but the originals are on OneDrive.

The stock gallery app in my phone runs circles around the Google photos app in speed. Also, editing pics in Google photos app is a clunky, hit-or-miss affair.

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Post by konart »

joesmo wrote: post #303
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.

Well, I'm using nPlayer for this. You can transfer music and video directly to app via wifi. Latest updates made music playing experience very satisfying (it is video player originally).

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Post by NicoJuicy »

wvenable wrote: post #296
VonGuard wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple fundamentally does not understand software. A shame, as the software, really, was their original special sauce with the Mac 128k and beyond. Today, however, the company really doesn't understand how to make, maintain, or market software. It sees software as a way to spread their control of their hardware further into your life. It's going to be the death of Apple, mark my words.

Out of all the consumer electronics companies, Apple makes the best software. (Edit: This is not a compliment)

Tell that to the author of this post

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by konart »

passivepinetree wrote: post #302
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.

Never owned one, so I'll have to look for a solution when I'm home (I remember Foobar2k had a pluging for this, but F2k is win-only).

After I've switched to Apple and used Apple music for a couple of months I just bougth Fiio X3 II. Great thing for a good price.

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Post by te_platt »

mrep wrote: post #268
yks wrote: post #92

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No. iTunes is probably the worst piece of widely used software out there. It's just a UX nightmare, hard to grasp how to do things, almost impossible to grasp what the consequences of doing things are.

^ 100% agree, it is literally the worst UX design ever! I'm currently using the 3 month free trial and every time I use it i have to tell myself "it's free money, just 1 more month until I switch back to spotify". For example, the playlists I create on my laptop don't sync whatsoever with my phone. I spent a little time trying to research how to sync them and just said screw it. On what planet does a user not want th…

Did you ever use Lotus Notes? I agree that iTunes is poorly designed but you can't just toss out "worst UX design ever!" without old Lotus Notes users taking exception.

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Post by dingo_bat »

oarsinsync wrote: post #172
dingo_bat wrote: post #46

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> Well, to save precious local storage space of course. Apple's just being helpful here. Yeah, storage that was made precious by apple by not supporting an SD card slot. Very "helpful".

This isn't about a lack of expandable storage (all Macs have at least one USB port, some come with SD card slots), but rather that a lot of Macs come with very small SSDs. I can totally see how this might have seemed like a good idea. Shame it's just... not.

I was kinda assuming the iphone here. Didn't think the app on a desktop OS would show that behavior. Is this true? Do people really run out of space on laptops and desktops due to photos?

I just checked the apple website and it seems you're right. 3 out of the 5 available Macbook pro variants have <= 256GB storage.

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