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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00E2_01C3FBA9.11595DA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today I've been mostly hating Apple.=20 I had 600 new MP3s on my linux box that I wanted to get on my iPod. The = first thing that pissed me off was that I left my iPod cable at work (I = wish the damn thing could use a regular firewire cable). I decided to = just copy them into iTunes on my iBook and worry about syncing them = later. I just left things copying slowly over wireless and went to bed hoping = that by morning I'd magically have 3.6 gig of new music. I even created = a "new cds" playlist for them. For some reason my iBook decided that it = would like to go to sleep in the middle of the night even though it was = doing something. I woke up to find iBook hung. I couldn't quit out of = iTunes. Finder had also hung. I couldn't kill either so I decided to = reboot. Which hung. I had to take the battery out to get it to reboot. I dragged the files over again and went to get coffee. Luckily this time = it managed to get everything copied over. The problem was now that I had = each song listed twice in my playlist. Poking about twice discovered = that while iTunes was smart enough not to copy each file twice, it = thought that having duplicates in my playlist was OK. I couldn't work = out how to get the stupid thing to remove duplicates so I decided to = delete the playlist. This meant that all the new songs weren't listed in = iTunes even though they were there on disk. Dragging my ~/Music/iTunes = folder into iTunes made it find all the missing songs. Fucking bastards. I miss how simple Winamp was (the 2.x version before = they made it crap). Apple seem good at making the easy things easy and the hard things = annoying. Gavin. ------=_NextPart_000_00E2_01C3FBA9.11595DA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Today I've been mostly hating Apple. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I had 600 new MP3s on my linux box that I wanted to = get on my=20 iPod. The first thing that pissed me off was that I left my iPod = cable at=20 work (I wish the damn thing could use a regular firewire cable). I = decided to=20 just copy them into iTunes on my iBook and worry about syncing them=20 later.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I just left things copying slowly over wireless and=20 went to bed hoping that by morning I'd magically have 3.6 gig of = new music.=20 I even created a "new cds" playlist for them. For some reason my = iBook=20 decided that it would like to go to sleep in the middle of the night = even though=20 it was doing something. I woke up to find iBook hung. I couldn't quit = out of=20 iTunes. Finder had also hung. I couldn't kill either so I decided to = reboot.=20 Which hung. I had to take the battery out to get it to = reboot.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I dragged the files over again and went to get = coffee. Luckily=20 this time it managed to get everything copied over. The problem was now = that I=20 had each song listed twice in my playlist. Poking about twice discovered = that=20 while iTunes was smart enough not to copy each file twice, it thought = that=20 having duplicates in my playlist was OK. I couldn't work out how to get = the=20 stupid thing to remove duplicates so I decided to delete the playlist. = This=20 meant that all the new songs weren't listed in iTunes even though they = were=20 there on disk. Dragging my ~/Music/iTunes folder into iTunes made it = find all=20 the missing songs.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Fucking bastards. I miss how simple Winamp was = (the 2.x=20 version before they made it crap).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Apple seem good at making the easy things easy and = the hard=20 things annoying.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Gavin.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00E2_01C3FBA9.11595DA0--
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