I HATE APPLE

yeah i had to use a third party app to get rid of those greyed out songs - agree 5000% that managing music on the iphone is the pitts

The only music I've had on my phone since 2012 has been the mbv album, plus a John Hodgman audio book from the library that never went away. I don't listen to music in my phone - it's for talking, not music!

now ical has stopped syncing right with google calendar

f*ck this yosemite garbage

my problem w/ itunes is this... once the library gets over a certain size (i haven't yet figured out if there is a magic number), functionality begins to get a little wonky. e.g. if you select a whole album and change, say, the year in the metadata, itunes will change the year in 10 of 12 tracks, not all of them. other times, i go to the menu bar to save something or perhaps quit the application and it's grayed out -- no options. i have to force quit itunes and reopened the program.

if my itunes library is more manageable -- say a few thousand tracks -- i don't have these problems.

i'm running 10.6.8 btw. this is on a macbook. i don't fuck with smartphones.

I just hate LIBRARIES! I liked that on my Android I could just drag and drop songs like files. Fucking libraries - my tags were always a wreck, adding and managing tracks was too hard, and I finally just gave up on listening to music on a mobile device.

Turning off the internet search results in Spotlight made it return to the old snappiness, I should've done that right away after installing Yosemite.

just bought my third replacement magsafe power adapter in two years

>:-(

Why? Where?

they keep fraying to bits

^^^

the first one, i take responsibility for, i was wrapping the cord around the box too tightly when i was wrapping it up. the second one, ok, i was still wrapping it, but loosely this time. but this one that just frayed, i wasn't wrapping it at all.

I've had three replacements for exactly the same reasons (with the same evolution of wrapping technique) - so far all under Apple Care, but after next year I fully expect to have to buy one at some point.

wait, they told me these weren't covered under apple care!!!

Really?! Mine is magsafe 2, with a mid-2012 Macbook Air. I'm in Canada, but I bought the Air and the Apple Care in the US.

Yeah they really need to do something about those

Anywhere to buy them cheaper than retail?

This looks SOOOOOO dumb, gl apple:
http://www.beatsmusic.com/features

*All of ILM gets jobs working for Beats*

I wonder if Stevie Wonder gets easily seasick on boats.

I use beats music btw, ask me anything

Does Stevie Wonder get seasick on boats?

how the fuck do I drag and drop MP3 files into this iPhone 6 my wife bought? No iPod interface, seemingly the only music you are allowed to put onto its internal storage are purchased MP3s from their store, wtf Apple

you're gonna need iTunes on a Mac or PC

have that, but it insists I turn on "Hone Sharing" and doesn't recognize the apple ID. I get the null bar/circle when I try to move the files from iTunes window to iPhone icon in Explorer

if there's no way to just drag and drop outside of iTunes, it isn't worth the hassle, she'll just use a separate PMP.

thanks btw

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201593

can you login on the device w/the same apple ID as the PC?
i think there is third party software you can use to manually manage the files but i haven't looked into it in a while

I use iFunbox to shift music and movies onto the kid's ipad, but I have jailbroken the device which I found a bit of a learning curve to say the least.

Man this is one of the many reasons my Android tablet is making me hate my iPhone

updating my iTunes on the Mac to 11.4 did the trick, thanks y'all, dragging and dropping from the hard drive as I type

how the fuck do I drag and drop MP3 files into this iPhone 6 my wife bought? No iPod interface, seemingly the only music you are allowed to put onto its internal storage are purchased MP3s from their store, wtf Apple

Should we googleproof this thread, or, direct this lovely person to Yahoo Answers?

fuck you, you racist piece of shit

that escalated quickly

Oh Spotlight. What happened. All I wanted to do was open Chrome.

http://i.imgur.com/6qlH0Q5.png

i think we all know what you wanted

when you're lost out there and all you're alone, Spotlight will be waiting, to carry you home. Spotlight knows your inner desires.

shibba-da-bop-a-doo-wow

i already said this upthread but spotlight sucks so bad now

just turn off the internet searching

yup http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground

Kind of harsh.

well sure os x was a mess for a long time, but it was improving in the sense that the long term stability/bug trend was in the right direction. that's no longer the case.

and everything they touch related to sync, cloud and itunes is a disaster.

also they still haven't fixed the finder.

I feel like iTunes is messy but serving them well enough, but agree on sync and iCloud

switching to desktop linux is still the burning forest to spite a handful of trees approach

I have occasional work on linux as a desktop, use Windows mostly as a development platform, and honestly use iOS at home probably twice as much as anything else. I guess if particular things fit needs, then go with what fits your needs?

fwiw, "linux" as a desktop is still a grab bag of whatever you want, afaik, but prob ubuntu? windows in corp environments is mostly windows 7 to my knowledge, but might migrate toward 10. whatever windows server corresponds with win 8.1 is nice and powershell is kinda tight

caek I know you do mostly scientific work, do you do scientific crunching with some programming? I am tangentially involved with people running a lot of distributed python on clusters, these days

I've rarely had any sync issues with iCloud. I feel like it's just one of those things that once it is set up, it's fine. Maybe I'm just lucky.

The whole transition to iCloud Drive was/is a total fucking mess. There is literally no way to keep everything in sync and accessible from iCloud unless you *only* use iOS 8 and Yosemite. Old devices can go swing.

Sad to say it's probably better that way, for the sheer fact that Mavericks didn't really get it down right either

bought a macbook pro 18 months ago and right now it is basically as slow as the 5-year old macbook that i replaced. we have a shit load of photos and music but i can't imagine we have any more than any regular higher-use "layperson". we aren't photographers or musicians or anything. we basically just use it for web browsing, iphoto, and itunes. i'm not sure what's up?

how much % of your HD is free?

oh i can't totally remember, at least 50%-60% though.

ok just checkin, that should way more than enough
check your browser extensions/add-ons in Chrome/Safari/Firefox, a family member recently had major problems due to spyware hijacking (yup, it's come to Mac OS)