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Re: How iTunes Is Changing on PC

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Post by abhinavk »

fshbbdssbbgdd wrote: post #205
aniforprez wrote: post #30

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Apple TV is also somehow hot garbage I don't understand. These are "just" media players and all split up to do one thing each. How do they all do that one thing so miserably. TV hangs for multiple seconds every single time I download or delete episodes of TV shows and the player is so incredibly bad and doesn't save your progress properly

Huh, it never occurred to me that you could download episodes on an Apple TV. What’s the use-case? I download shows on my iPad so I can watch them when I’m traveling without internet, but my Apple TV is always plugged in. Intermittent connectivity in the home? Maybe bugs stick around because the feature is rarely used?

It's small enough to be carried when you are traveling. You could take it to hotels.

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Post by at_a_remove »

miles wrote: post #215
at_a_remove wrote: post #109

Someone local has some kind of i-device (iPod? iTouch? He doesn't remember) from which he would like to extract copies of the music on it. I'm not even sure what to do. I have heard so many horror stories of iTunes just trashing libraries ... I'm not even sure what I would search for in terms of Windows software or what kind of cable I would need. And Apple's branding is so ... operationally overloaded, overlapping,…

Over the years, I've had success with both of these third-party apps on Macs and PCs to do exactly that: Transfer Music from iPhone, iPad, & iPod to your Mac or PC https://macroplant.com/iexplorer/tutorials/how-to-transfer-m... Transfer iPhone & iPod Music to your Computer or to iTunes https://imazing.com/iphone-music-transfer

This question seems a little dumb, perhaps less so in terms of our DRM world: by "transfer" does that mean move or copy? Because we're hoping to copy, not move.

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Post by jazzyjackson »

yardstick wrote: post #94
SirMaster wrote: post #88

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Hmm, I have never had a problem dragging and dropping them off my iPhone via the device that shows up in the My Computer screen when I plug my phone in via USB. I have done it this way since forever.

Sounds like you are doing a few photos at a time? My library count is now over 200k photos. It worries me that it is almost impossible to get a guaranteed backup of them from iCloud to local storage. Even when I tick the box in Mac photos app to store originals, from my own testing I’ve found lots of images are still only locally loaded when first viewed. Not great for making local backups!

I downloaded my iCloud library from privacy.apple.com, you can request a copy of your data there. It will take a few days before they send you a link that expires in a week but you'll get your whole library in 50GB zipped chunks.

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Post by Kwpolska »

bee_rider wrote: post #131
Kwpolska wrote: post #118

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> Basic, Air, Pro is also their laptop lineup In the most recent iteration of this lineup, the 12-inch MacBook was comically underpowered, especially for its price, there was no good reason to purchase that instead of an Air or a Pro. This was also quite short-lived, with an official discontinuation after four years.

Huh, I didn’t know they’d dropped the basic model. It always made sense to me, at least: “pro” is premium in a power direction, “air” is premium in a lightness direction, and the base model is just the base model. But I guess it is unsurprising that Apple doesn’t want to do a base model, haha. Another way of looking at it, I guess, is just that it is an evolutionary process, and every MacBook is a descendent of the A…

The 2015-2019 12-inch MacBooks had zero benefits over MacBook Air, maybe other than the Retina screens, until the release of the 2018 Retina MacBook Air. Other than that, they had CPUs <= 1.4 GHz, a single USB-C port, and even the camera was only 480p. They were never cheaper than the base model of the 13-inch MacBook Air.

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Post by folkrav »

karaterobot wrote: post #83

Has iTunes on Windows ever been good? I think I tried it in 2003-4, and it was garbage then, so I uninstalled it. In the intervening 20 years, I've never heard anyone say "it's good now!", so I never re-installed it. I assumed that if you were a dedicated Windows user, you just wouldn't use iTunes, and if you weren't a dedicated Windows user but loved your iPhone, you'd do what Apple wanted you to do in the first pla…

Somehow, in high school around that same period, while everyone was over on Winamp, it was still my favorite to both catalogue/tag and listen to the ~80GB library I had back then.. Genuinely can't remember why, though, but I do remember everyone else hated it.

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #214
refulgentis wrote: post #178

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I've never 100% understood it either, the only steelman I've been able to come up with over years is most people are like me and lose or damage the wireless earbuds every 6-12 months. I'm lucky enough to be a yuppie tech nerd with disposable income to treat it as a fact of life. Whereas for them it feels like a forced march to spend $150 every year.

I hate wireless headphones because they are a strictly worse product. They cost a lot more, can be lost, and need to be charged. But the only advantage they offer (being wireless) isn't actually useful. So I use wired headphones, because they are flat out better in every way that matters.

Not having a wire is an obvious advantage, even if the negatives you listed are true. Obviously this only applies to me, but having to avoid yanking or catching me headphone cord significantly impacted my range of motion if I was doing anything other than walking or sitting down.

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Post by progman32 »

refulgentis wrote: post #197
philwelch wrote: post #185

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Maybe as you matured and developed more responsibilities as life went on, you had less time and energy to invest in music as a serious hobby. This is a normal development.

I checked in with the poster: they got oddly indignant about it and claimed they knew themselves well and they meant their comment. I asked for more concrete proof that their lifestyle hadn't changed significantly and they refused.

Is this parody, or an actual private conversation you had with the poster?

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Post by NoPedantsThanks »

tfandango wrote: post #79

I hope ability to get photos off iPhones is improved. I can NEVER get it to fully work for more than a few pictures. I know we are supposed to sync them to the cloud now but it's nice to be able to put them on the big drive on the PC sometimes too.

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Post by NoPedantsThanks »

accrual wrote: post #156
tfandango wrote: post #79

I hope ability to get photos off iPhones is improved. I can NEVER get it to fully work for more than a few pictures. I know we are supposed to sync them to the cloud now but it's nice to be able to put them on the big drive on the PC sometimes too.

It's only available on macOS, but I've been using the built in "Image Capture" app to do this. It's the only thing I've found that correctly handles all the photos and dumps them in a sensible way. My process is: * Connect iPhone to MacBook or similar * Use Image Capture to dump all photos to a local directory in $HOME * rsync the directory to my NAS * Run a wrapper script around ExifTool [0] to sort the photos into…

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Post by smileybarry »

karaterobot wrote: post #83

Has iTunes on Windows ever been good? I think I tried it in 2003-4, and it was garbage then, so I uninstalled it. In the intervening 20 years, I've never heard anyone say "it's good now!", so I never re-installed it. I assumed that if you were a dedicated Windows user, you just wouldn't use iTunes, and if you weren't a dedicated Windows user but loved your iPhone, you'd do what Apple wanted you to do in the first pla…

I liked using iTunes for library management even before I got an iPod, I kinda liked the “hub” UI design rather than the miniplayer + library window (and even + playlist window) the others had.

Even if— sorry, when— my library got corrupted, and when different sections started taking 1-2 seconds to load, I still liked using it.

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