yeah now that I look it appears that article is from a week ago, sorry
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
I don't think I've ever once used what has "secretly been the best feature of iTunes—and a harbinger of the streaming age—for more than a decade"
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
neither have I!
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
i like smart playlists, just to catalog curiosities like my most played from a certain year or "how many songs are in my library longer than 10 minutes" or "songs with the word 'kill' in the title." I used to use smart playlists to organize music by albums and artists before they developed an album view--now i have dozens of old smart playlists for a single album clogging up my playlist bar that i'm too lazy to delete.
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
If anything, the smart playlist/filtering features of iTunes are too limited. You cannot quickly/easily drill down multiple criteria without tediously building these rules in the smart playlist editor.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
so I'm sure this isn't specific to iTunes but I haven't downloaded an app or application for ages on my Windows 10 laptop. I can either download iTunes as an 'app' from the Microsoft store - which doesn't give me an install file that I can find, or by looking for different versions, as a 'normal' .exe install.basically what the hell is an 'app' on Windows pc if it's not an application?
― kinder, Thursday, 13 June 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
I think the Apps on Windows 10 are more lightweight versions of the software that are designed to run on the Universal Windows Platform and so look (and work) the same on various devices - tablets, laptops, phones etc.
Don't use the iTunes one but do have apps for Netflix and BT Sport installed on mine
― groovypanda, Thursday, 13 June 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
ah thanks. I don't trust them!
― kinder, Thursday, 13 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Suddenly IA at iTunes turning every album cover into a RoundRect.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
does anyone else still use an iPod? i kind of collect them, tbh, because for many moons i travelled a lot through areas with no connectivity and hated having my phone drained of battery (i will not buy an iPhone, ever).
my 30GB iPod collection (i have four lol) works just fine. don't really understand why anyone would need anything else.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Yes, I have a 128 and it sounds better than my iPhone but convenience won that battle long ago
― calstars, Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
because of my hatred of iPhones it's never been a problem, i just keep one iPod in the car and a few in the house and swap them around lol.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
I use my 80 gb iPod only in the car, I wish I had a spare
― Brad C., Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
i do! but i don't have a phone. i use an 8 gb nano every single day, and i have an old second or third gen 80 gb model, still with a hard drive in it and everything, that i use as a home stereo, attached to a dock. i wish they didn't stop making nanos, it's a perfect device but someday it's going to up and die on me.
― j., Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
tbh, i do a call on social media for them every so often, and friends often just give them to me because they're viewed as garbage. that's how i've accumulated so many.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
jesus wept
― j., Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
I use a 160gb ipod for music and will cry when it dies
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
i am considering finally joining the streaming age, except it turns out what i'm considering streaming is media from my NAS at home. we'll see if i wind up going that route.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 June 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
Plex is probably your best solution for that, although it’s not perfect.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 16 June 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
10 yr old 160gb user here, very alarmed by the thought of it dying.
― fetter, Monday, 17 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Left my 10 y/o 160gb behind in a hotel room recently, heartbroken to lose it and also that i'll never know exactly how long it would have lasted under good care.
― One Eye Open, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
Siegbran otm about Plex, it's fairly easy to configure and works well for in-house streaming even with my antique iMac as a server (I don't use it to stream outside my LAN).
My 2009 VW has a slot under the center console armrest specifically designed for a classic iPod ... I might have to sell the car when my iPod dies.
― Brad C., Monday, 17 June 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
My 2013 Honda killed my 160gb iPod. I should've used the audio input, but instead used the USB (in the glove box, for some annoying reason). At random moments, the iPod would freeze when I started the car, and I'd have to power cycle it. It only happened a few times, but that combined with whatever syncing shenanigans were going on (the dash screen displayed artist/title/cover art) apparently damaged the hard drive. When I tried to restore it from my computer, only a random handful of items would sync to it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
I've got a 160 GB which I use all the time. Would really like to get a spare but they're still kind of expensive.
wouldn't mind taking the plunge for the 256GB iPhone one day but it's that damn headphone jack that's stopping me. I know you can get adapters and what not but I just think its dumb, the Bluetooth in the phone I've got goes on and off all the time
― frogbs, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
battery on my 160gb dies after 20 minutes :(
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
there’s a whole cottage industry around repairing/upgrading old iPods, so a dead drive or battery isnt necessarily the end:
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/22/17039896/ipod-diy-upgrade-battery-memory-hack
― Siegbran, Monday, 17 June 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, June 16, 2019 10:03 AM (five days ago)
jinx :( :(
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
noooooooooo
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
iTunes froze while I was ejecting the podmanually ejected from the task baras soon as I unplugged, the Apple logo came up, and the pod is just rebooting every 4 seconds, never getting past the apple
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
you tried manually rebooting it? while having it plugged in to power source?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
yep, plugged in and not plugged in
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Fuck noIt must be saved
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
Worst case scenario: now is the time when you pay someone to put a 500 GB SSD and new battery in it
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
update: it has now rebooted completely
...and wiped all of the music on it
not sure if this is worse than it just dying and me shelling out for a non-ipod player
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
jesus :-(((
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
(I will still try recovering the files in disk mode, but I need to clear 200gb on my 475gb laptop first, and get a new EHD to back up to, whee)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
This was happening to me too. I replaced it with a Sony NW-A45 digital Walkman and have been extremely pleased.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
will still try recovering the files in disk mode
oh god even if this works I've lost all my playcounts and playlists that manage them
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Sony NW-A45 digital Walkman
maximum of 48gb?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
No. It takes a micro sd card and those come in up to 400GB now
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
Up to 48GB is just the built in memory
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
The NWZ-A17 one is my go to player now - it is NOT as good an interface as an iPod classic but great sound, great battery life and the mammoth size of modern micro sd cards makes up for it
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
Basically my classical library goes on the Walkman and everything else goes on the 160gb Classic
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
Which is rockboxed - I have not used iTunes to load music onto my iPod for years
ah, ta - specs said 16gb built in, and that it took SD card, which I was taking to mean a standard card
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
if there was an mp3 player that could sync playlists and play counts to iTunes I'd be all in on it
― frogbs, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Huh, there’s software that will do that for Android phones, surprised there isn’t for the Sony.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 21 June 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
My recent phone purchase should cover me when my 160gb classic dies on me. I went with the 512gb galaxy s10, which will be my main mp3 player at some point. But that also means I'll probably have to find a new database soon.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 30 June 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
not iTunes, but this is the sort of scenario that bugs me the fuck out and the main reason why i don't trust a lot of these platforms for purchasing or even streaming media.
https://gizmodo.com/ebooks-purchased-from-microsoft-will-be-deleted-this-mo-1836005672?_ga=2.42903392.418273563.1561997751-2390524635.1521508273
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 1 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
don't trust a lot of these platforms
_ga=2.42903392.418273563.1561997751-2390524635.1521508273
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 1 July 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link