Little known iTunes 10 benefit
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Little known iTunes 10 benefit
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#2Gee, now I feel like an idiot for buying a portable media player that just mounts as a USB drive.
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#3Gee, now I feel like an idiot for buying a portable media player that just mounts as a USB drive.
Don't worry, you still can't copy music from a device back into iTunes. I mean, obviously the bits representing the music flow from the iDevice into the computer, but the computer doesn't belong to you anymore, so you don't get access to them. Silly user.
USB devices fail in that they rely on the user to make his own decisions about whether or not to copy his friend's music collection. Apple devices let some music execs representing bands I've never heard of make them for you instead.
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#4That's a pretty big feature change... is that a mistake or did they somehow slip that past the record labels?
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#5Gee, now I feel like an idiot for buying a portable media player that just mounts as a USB drive.
Don't worry, you still can't copy music from a device back into iTunes. I mean, obviously the bits representing the music flow from the iDevice into the computer, but the computer doesn't belong to you anymore, so you don't get access to them. Silly user. USB devices fail in that they rely on the user to make his own decisions about whether or not to copy his friend's music collection. Apple devices let some music ex…
though of course you can copy music off an ipod by copying the mp3 files off it like any other mounted disk, except that they are in a folder with its hidden attribute set.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't worry, you still can't copy music from a device back into iTunes. I mean, obviously the bits representing the music flow from the iDevice into the computer, but the computer doesn't belong to you anymore, so you don't get access to them. Silly user. USB devices fail in that they rely on the user to make his own decisions about whether or not to copy his friend's music collection. Apple devices let some music ex…
though of course you can copy music off an ipod by copying the mp3 files off it like any other mounted disk, except that they are in a folder with its hidden attribute set.
And they're renamed with obscure filenames, and you can't do this with iPods touch or iPhones.
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#7That's a pretty big feature change... is that a mistake or did they somehow slip that past the record labels?
>"slip that past the record labels"
What does this feature has to do with that?
/curious
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#8I'm surprised that people who wanted this feature haven't already enabled manual-sync. Is there really some benefit in having it automatically sync your device to be worth the pain of not being able to plug it in somewhere else?
I went a step further and edited the iTunes DB file's device ids so that they are the same across all 3 of my systems. So my iPhone now recognizes each as the same system allowing me to sync my music with one of my laptops and my videos with my desktop.
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#9Really? The feature's been in iTunes 9, and well, I'm a mac guy but #1 on HN?
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#10Is it just me, or did this used to work before? I thought you could always play the music off someone else's iPod without being able to copy it.