I hate apple part 2
by drinker on Sep.29, 2008, under Random Thoughts for the Day
To see the crap I had to do deal with apples in my life go to here. If you just want to hear about the ipod crap then read on.
So after a few years of everyone having an Ipod, I finally get one for Christmas. Mainly my wife wanted something big and so she needed to get me something big. I would have been happy with a few pairs of pants and an Xbox game or two.
So I have my brand spanking new 160gb Ipod. I have two computer with music scattered on both. Well itunes will only accept songs from one computer if you hook it up to another computer any songs on the ipod that are not on the new computer are deleted. In addition if you try to use the ipod as a mobile harddrive. Who has a 160gb of songs anyway. It craps out. It must reinstall the os and rewrite the songs to the ipod. WTF!!!!
I figured it out eventually. I just use the ipod to move all the songs to one computer. Let it reset and behappy.
Well the first computer died, the one with all the songs. Now I have to move everything over to the back up computer before itunes tries to delete everything.
In addition the ipod has just turned into a 400 paper weight because it is frozen with the screen on. None of the buttons work and there is no easy way to do a hard reboot of it. So an old megadeth song is stuck at 13 seconds left to play. And yes I tried to lock and unlock it, plug it into the wall, plug it into the computer. Still nothing.
What a great weekend.
