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iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods
evil_liam asks: "In our office we've been running an older 5gb iPod with both Macs and PC's (using Xplay), but when we installed iTunes for the PC the iPod stopped working. Songs and playlists transfer over fine, and you can see them and play them in iTunes, but you can't listen to them on the iPod, itself. It shows the song details and so forth, but skips through the tracks, playing 0 seconds of each one until it finishes. This only applies to tracks added since iTunes was installed. No amount of reformatting, or rolling back firmware seems to work. When I called Apple, they stated that they simply don't support the use of the older Mac iPods on PC's and are not responsible, even though they admit that it was their own software that caused this. We're not alone, see this thread at Apple.
I'm not quite suggesting that this was deliberate, but they are aware of it and don't seem to care." Does anyone have ideas on possible fixes for the afflicted iPods?
quit buying overpriced apple crap .. how 'bout
them apples?
you're a bunch of goddamn assholes
I am EJACULATING on your face, bitch.
And this is an FP!
FECES POST!
150 pathetic jobs-cocksmoking apple fanboys will try to find excuses for this.
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Lots of discussion in usenet on this.
Apple always seems to shit on their customers, at least from the lower echelons of their support and management ladder. Once word gets to someone with real power the problem will likely be remedied.
How often does
Trolling is a art,
Not, of course, that Windows doesn't completely fuck up on older hardware, or that MS doesn't break other companies stuff...
#define DRM chmod 000
I work for Apple and am therefore posting anonymously. This was not done on purpose; it was buy a sole developer, and not a decision by Apple. That developer has since been let go.
STOP BUYING CRAP FROM APPLE.
Apple sucks. All jobs is in for is endless blow jobs from lifless apple freaks who have nothing better to do with their time.
FUCK APPLE.
FUCK IPOD.
A nomad jukebox is soo much cooler and not GAY!
PROPS TO MAUS.
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
Patches and fixes, and "it's not our problem" horror stories, are now almost a daily news item on /.
;)
That donation Microsoft made a few years back is really working wonders. Who would have thought?
I'll second that.
The only good Mac computer is one dumped at the bottom of the ocean. The only good Mac user is one drowned at the bottom of the ocean.
Simpletons. Just because it comes in a pretty box it somehow makes the computer great? Lack of configuration options, comes with a one button mouse. Urgh.
Apple isn't a software company.
And the people there (I was an Apple employee until this past July!) have an attitude that "Windows Sucks Period". So even though there may be 1 or 2 people who want the windows iTunes to work, they get little support from zealos coworkers.
Apple had so much trouble getting the software in the first iPod to work right, that they had to contract with software company "Pixo" to finish the job.
All Apple's good at is making nice looking boxes with non-standard OS, CPU, and peripherals.
Its just a valid observation. Just because you dont like his observation doesn't mean that it should be censored.
If I understand correctly then there's a "Mac ipod" and a "Windows ipod"? I've browsed the apple store and certainly not had this distinction leap out at me. If Apple is relying on people reading this fine print in order to avoid buying "the wrong kind" of ipod, I'd say that it's Apple responsibility to do far better than that. I hope my understanding is inaccurate, but if not then it's just like a car dealer forcing car buyers to read fine print to see if the car includes the "reverse" gear, something they'll probably not catch otherwise.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Quit thinking that Apple cares about you.
They don't. They care about money. Just like every other company. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a lyer.
I'm just amazed at all of the disillusioned mac fanatics that are just now realizing that steve jobs and co really really don't give a damn about them.
Even better fix: stop sucking cock.
For $299 I can buy an M$XP pro, an OS that runs, maybe buggy, but runs 95.98 % of the software out there, on market standard hardware, maybe it is not the developers choice, but maybe it is, OR I can spend $499 for OSX 10.3 which runs , quite well I might add, a hefty, let's be generous, 15% of the commercial software out there, on proprietary hardware....I fail to see how one is always a bad buy, and if so, I'd have to say Apple was the poor investment based on their back level support or lack thereof for old hardware.
WOW that M$ company is really GOOD, they are issuing patches that break other companies products THROUGH other companies...Wonder how apple feels about that idea, or maybe they thing it is as ludicrous as I do.....I think there is a place for both OS's, the problem is there is not a place for the FANATIC zealots, be it OSX, Linux, or M$. A fanatic is scary period....
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Remind me again why anyone gives a fuck what Apple does? I can get a portable MP3 player for $50 - why would I spend hundreds for an iPod? Because it's pretty? So I can hang out with a bunch of homosexual graphic designers from San Francisco (i.e. typical Mac users/Apple fanboys)? Thanks, but I'll stick with my $50 MP3 player and my Windoze box.