iTunes... I hate you...

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:38 pm

I used to just tolerate iTunes , now I hate it 100% , I added 2 albums last night (about 20 songs) and plugged in my iPod so it could upload those songs and I could leave... it deleted every song off the iPod , THEN it wanted to upload every song again , but it froze up my computer twice

Now I use the ipod plugin for WinAMP , it shows all my playlists from the ipod (no songs in any list of course) , all I did was drag n drop to fill some playlists I was wantin to add , and qith no hassle and good speed , it uploaded and I was able to get out the door with the 2 albums I wanted to listen to for my drive

iTunes is long gone from my PC...

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:53 pm

gaytunes

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:59 pm

dude you missed my itunes rant a while ago!? my buddy had an 80gig ipod video, I tried all the software that's out there. all you need is winamp and ml_ipod plugin.

or if you have an ipod video 5.0 or any other lesser ipod, try the rockbox os replacement, that looked even cooler but doesn't work on 80 giggers.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:36 pm

phOnYmIkE wrote:dude you missed my itunes rant a while ago!? my buddy had an 80gig ipod video, I tried all the software that's out there. all you need is winamp and ml_ipod plugin.

or if you have an ipod video 5.0 or any other lesser ipod, try the rockbox os replacement, that looked even cooler but doesn't work on 80 giggers.

I coulda sworn I had some other itune plugin for ipod long ago but didnt have WinAMP library , so I could never figure it out , but I heard about ml_ipod on that rant thread

I tried rockbox , and I didn't like it much , it was good tho , worked great with my dvd player (which has a USB input)

Demios · Post by **Demios** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:40 pm

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PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:07 am

I don't like that anapod. I tried it, and for videos it specifies movies as 'no title" and "no name" or some crap like that, and puts them in the music videos folder. also it doesn't set a time for videos, so you can't scroll through.

ml_ipod on the other hand (it's different from the default ipod plugin that comes with winamp) puts movies in the movies folder, and gives it names and times and shit. it's perfect.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:30 pm

i'm glad i haven't had these issues.

itunes still treats me decent.

but my cousin swears up and down by rockbox.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:28 pm

ml_ipod is actually giving me a ton of shit now with Winamp 5.3 on this computer. I have an older version of Winamp 5 at home with ml_ipod and it works great.

Que · Post by **Que** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:37 pm

casualsax3 wrote:ml_ipod is actually giving me a ton of shit now with Winamp 5.3 on this computer. I have an older version of Winamp 5 at home with ml_ipod and it works great.

The further you get from the last version that the nullsoft team actually worked on, the more AOL gheyness you achieve.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:25 pm

Que wrote:The further you get from the last version that the nullsoft team actually worked on, the more AOL gheyness you achieve.

wow that's good to know. I used winamp 2.95 or whatever for the longest time, but got 5.21 cause it had awesomeness skins cause I figured it was time to move on to a new interface after like seven years. nope, I still use the good old skin

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:51 am

yeah itunes fucked up my friends desktop comp. he was ripping a damien rice CD until the program suddenly just froze. and then when he rebooted his comp, the windows wouldn't start. so i had to reformat and reinstall win XP again on his comp, deleting the gigs of work and music he had

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:38 pm

So was it the partitions or just the OS? Maybe he could've saved the data.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:14 pm

or the cd was protected. that's been known to lock up pc's. you actually have to force eject the disc to get it back. if you have something like an iMac or mac mini, you had to send it in to apple so they could extract it. they might have fixed that issue by now by adding a force eject.

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:07 pm

creaothceann wrote:So was it the partitions or just the OS? Maybe he could've saved the data.

it was just the OS. but i don't see how he could saved the data, seeing as how file transfer is near impossible w/o windows. i guess i could have used cmd, but that shit is way too big of a hassle.

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:35 pm

lockharte wrote:deleting the gigs of work and music he had

Maybe he'll start backing up his data from now on.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:47 pm

Que wrote:
casualsax3 wrote:ml_ipod is actually giving me a ton of shit now with Winamp 5.3 on this computer. I have an older version of Winamp 5 at home with ml_ipod and it works great.
The further you get from the last version that the nullsoft team actually worked on, the more AOL gheyness you achieve.

You can remove every bit of that shit

Go to the winamp plugin directory and play around removing files titled ml_XXX. My media library now shows local media, rip and burn, and devices - that's it.
Also, I got ml_ipod working, when I was fucking around with those ml files I moved one required for usb devices - oops. Put it back and everything is working great.

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:38 pm

lockharte wrote:
creaothceann wrote:So was it the partitions or just the OS? Maybe he could've saved the data.
it was just the OS. but i don't see how he could saved the data, seeing as how file transfer is near impossible w/o windows. i guess i could have used cmd, but that shit is way too big of a hassle.

lol you are stupid

how fucking hard is it to plug a drive into another machine? not at all.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:51 pm

soulmata wrote:how fucking hard is it to plug a drive into another machine? not at all.

it's damn near impossible without one of those expensive removable drive bays!

teeheehee

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:46 am

A phillips screwdriver and 2 minutes is all you need

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:44 am

but how do I open the compruter case? it says dell on it, and there's no front panel that swings open to access the hard disks. maybe I need a tri-wing screw driver.

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:11 am

soulmata wrote:
lockharte wrote:
creaothceann wrote:So was it the partitions or just the OS? Maybe he could've saved the data.
it was just the OS. but i don't see how he could saved the data, seeing as how file transfer is near impossible w/o windows. i guess i could have used cmd, but that shit is way too big of a hassle.

lol you are stupid

how fucking hard is it to plug a drive into another machine? not at all.

i didn't want to do the work.

blow me

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:37 am

lockharte wrote:
i didn't want to do the work.

blow me

So your laziness takes importance over the recovery of possible important (even crucial!) information for the user gathered in his computer?

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:31 pm

also there was no tools around.

this is college, not a garage.

Post by **badinsults** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:58 pm

lockharte wrote:also there was no tools around.

this is college, not a garage.

buy tools you douche.

A screwdriver costs about $1 at wal mart.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:10 pm

lockharte wrote:also there was no tools around.

this is college, not a garage.

You can always buy a samll toolkit for a reasonable price. That's what I did, and it has helped me to rescue data from many hard disks now.