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Apple Stole My Music

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Post by acdha »

jmiserez wrote: post #427
acdha wrote: post #267

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n.b. if anyone at Dropbox sees this or others want to reference it, here's the ticket: https://dropbox.zendesk.com/requests/3750448

That link doesn't work for me, says request not found. Can you clarify this a bit? I.e what does the Dropbox app do if you take a picture in portrait mode, and what does iOS do? Is the rotation info lost completely?

Yes: it rotates the pixel data and resets the EXIF Orientation header. That means that it looks identical even when displayed as expected with a viewer which doesn't honor the EXIF orientation.

It's a lossless rotation - you can actually use something like jpegtran to rotate it back and the pixel checksum in ImageMagick's identify will match – but it completely breaks any system which uses checksums to detect duplicates, of course. I noticed when I started testing Google Photos and had a ton of duplicate images.

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Post by odbol »

xigency wrote: post #353
clapinton wrote: post #346

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I worked with a Google engineer once and he offered me advice as I was considering buying a new phone, namely the HTC One: "Phone manufacturers know how to make hardware. Google knows how to make software. When you marry the two with both knowing their place in the world, things work out. When one tries to make what the other does, you get crappy stuff on top of your system. Stick to vanilla Android, man." Having sai…

You're lucky El Capitan works for you. Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. (And I'm sure it's the same with iPads.) At least on a Macbook you can reinstall the operating system, but an iPhone 4 is stuck like that.

El Crapitan has so many problems it's ridiculous. They broke not only all kinds of Open Source software with their overly paranoid system protection, but also a bunch of hardware by messing up the USB drivers. There are now tons of musical instruments, Arduinos, and other USB devices that don't work with El Crapitan. Apple's response was: ... there was no response.

Us hardware manufacturers are still looking for a fix. Our customers are angry at us and blaming us, and we can't do anything. There's no way for our customers to even tell Apple what's wrong, either.

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Post by odbol »

calciphus wrote: post #393
wlesieutre wrote: post #256

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Thanks for the confirmation. I've been weighing my options between Apple Music and Spotify Premium and that makes up my mind. iTunes is enough of a pain in the ass without worrying about whether it'll delete my music collection. The 3-month premium promotion that Spotify is running doesn't hurt either.

Go try Google Music. You get non-destructive music sync (10,000 songs or something?) and a massive library. Plus, the curated stations are all the old Songza content that was pretty awesome. $10/mo And you get Youtube without ads for the same price.

Their curated playlists are seriously top-notch. I've found so many new bands through the Blogged 50 and Gorilla vs. Bear playlists.

Plus, Google Play Music's UI blows the others out of the water. My favorite part is the "Play Next" and "Add to Queue" choices for unobtrusively adding songs to what's currently playing. Something that iTunes actually used to have, but then they removed it for no reason.

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Post by odbol »

bittercynic wrote: post #210
leephillips wrote: post #180

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I recommend Android for anyone in a position to change. I plug my Android phone into my Linux laptop. The phone's filesystem is mounted. I move, copy, delete whatever music and photos I want. Dead simple and rational. I put Flickr on the phone. Photos I take with the phone are automatically backed up to Flickr, and I can see them from anywhere.

This has gotten worse over time as well. It used to be you could mount your phone's storage as a mass storage device, but now (as far as I can tell) MTP is the only option.

My HTC One M8 lets me choose between mounting as a drive, MTP, or just charging. Maybe that's a general Marshmallow feature but it's great.

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Post by smelg »

Making a piece of content available for free is not comparable to removing a piece of purchased content.

It is extraordinarily dishonest to conflate the situations.

Thank you for identifying yourself as an individual who happily engages in dishonest rhetoric. Your decision to be so flagrantly dishonest and manipulative on a minor matter makes it clear that only a fool would trust you on any matters, major or minor.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by sowbug »

StavrosK wrote: post #428
sangnoir wrote: post #215

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I'm not OP, but I'm guessing they are referring to buro9[1], who posted an hour before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635184

Yeah, buro9's comment is the only one that seems to fit, but I don't read the comment as supportive of Apple at all, quite the contrary, it reads to me damning of Google.

And buro9 retracts the main critical point later in that thread when several people highlight Google Takeout.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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smelg wrote: post #436

Making a piece of content available for free is not comparable to removing a piece of purchased content. It is extraordinarily dishonest to conflate the situations. Thank you for identifying yourself as an individual who happily engages in dishonest rhetoric. Your decision to be so flagrantly dishonest and manipulative on a minor matter makes it clear that only a fool would trust you on any matters, major or minor.

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Post by dang »

smelg wrote: post #436

Making a piece of content available for free is not comparable to removing a piece of purchased content. It is extraordinarily dishonest to conflate the situations. Thank you for identifying yourself as an individual who happily engages in dishonest rhetoric. Your decision to be so flagrantly dishonest and manipulative on a minor matter makes it clear that only a fool would trust you on any matters, major or minor.

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Post by bad_user »

dingo_bat wrote: post #306
bad_user wrote: post #64

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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 G…

Check again because it does not have version history. It only does it for "Office documents". This has been one of the long requested features that's still unaddressed.

On Dropbox losing files, never had problems, but I believe you. All software is terrible.

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