iTunes Disables MusicMatch

spooza writes "If you own an iPod and use it with MusicMatch on a Windows machine and then install iTunes, strange things happen: after the installation, MusicMatch is unable to communicate or even find the iPod anymore. Of course this might be a coincidence or bad programming on the Apple side, but since MusicMatch also introduced a pay-per-download service it seems not too farfetched to suspect that Apple simply took the opportunity to knock out an opponent. The funny thing is, Apple and MusicMatch cooperated before, because Apple wanted to have software that was able to work with iPod and thus not lose potential customers that want to buy an iPod but have only Windows." MusicMatch recommends deleting, then downloading and reinstalling, the MusicMatch software to reenable it.

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If I read this right...

[terraformer]

...then it only affects using MM to access the iPod and not totally disabling MM. Now MM sells music using WMA format which is incompatible with the iPod. There is no conspiracy here since the MM service is totally incompatible with the iPod and since disabling access to the iPod from within MM does nothing to lose the std mp3 files I am figuring this is just apple's way of simplifying the process of users "switching" (pun intended) to iTunes without having people utterly confused.

This is classic Apple (as I type this from my 15" TiBook) and lets face it. Apple is used to controlling the environment it is in (why the hell freezing over joke was less of a joke than outsiders realize) and this only smacks of something any Apple user has known since they became an Apple user. That Apple takes care of the hard part and doesn't leave much control to the end user as a result. ie; It just works...

FYI: I like that as much as I like the exact opposite with Linux, which I run on multilple machines so the above was not a dig.