I'm not disputing that this happened to this guy, but deleting local files is not the standard behavior. I am also an indie musician with dozens to hundreds of my own compositions in my iTunes library. I signed up for Apple Music and none of my local files were touched at all. Sounds like he got hit by an unfortunate bug. Sucks that it happened, for sure. Hopefully anyone who signs up for a streaming service in the future will think to make a backup first, but it stinks that you have to do that.
You can trigger Siri then hold the phone to your ear like you're making a normal phone call. She replies through the earpiece instead of the main speaker.
There is a workaround for this. Type until you get Alice COOPER then back up and delete the first cap O, replace with little o, and keep going. It's dumb but it works.
I'm sorry this is happening to you. Have you tried doing any troubleshooting? (I know, it's not your job, it should just work, but it would be interesting to know if there is a reproducible case. If you had one, you can report it to Apple. They do look at bug reports from users.)
Also, you might want to try using "Manually manage music and videos". (Connect your device, select its icon from the row of icons at the top left, then look under Settings, Summary, Options. It's at the bottom.) Once you check that box, iTunes doesn't try to sync the host's library any more. You just drag whatever you want from iTunes to the device and it gets copied straight over. (Theoretically - would be interesting to know if that fixes things for you.)
You need a better IDE. I use Netbeans and Sublime Text (mostly ST these days) and as soon as I start typing the function name, both editors give me a completion popup with placeholders for the parameters.
I've been using Reeder on my Mac + iPad, and it's pretty good. Feedly is also pretty good. Not sure which I'll end up with long-term, guess we'll see how I feel once Reader is finally dead and buried.
Ten years ago, when hard drives were small and NAS systems for home use didn't really exist, I could see the point of all this ripping and converting. But now, with multi-terabyte HDs and the proliferation of NAS appliances, there is a limited need for this or any other 'compressed' music file format.
I'll give you one: metadata. WAV doesn't really support it in a standard way across applications. AIFF is a little better but it doesn't have a lot of traction on Windows. FLAC has a robust tagging scheme. Since converting to lossless is incredibly fast, and you typically save about 30% of the disk space, why not do it?
I have no idea how this is even possible, but BT Sync kills my home Mac's network connection. It's so weird. I can ping out from my mac fine, but pinging TO the mac results in 90% packet loss. Needless to say, this makes the network quite useless. Quit the app, no more packet loss. Took me quite a while to track that down!
Which is kind of ironic considering their cloud vending came from their retail business. Amazon used to have tons of extra server power set aside which was just used keep the site running smoothly during the insane blitz of online shoppers during the holiday season. Of course that only lasted for a month or so out of the year so they began to lease out that extra server power during all the months it wasn't in use.
Google apps is sold with a 99.9% uptime guarantee - that works out to a maximum of 526 minutes downtime per year.
In the last three years that we've been using Google apps, I've never had more than one hour of cumulative downtime in a calendar year. I also haven't spent a single second configuring or monitoring email servers, backing up email data, or with an executive breathing down my neck while I work on a server problem.
I'm pretty happy about that track record.
This. 1000x this. We've been using Google Apps (paid) for 5 years and I can't remember any significant downtime in that period. We've had more problems with our internet connection than Google problems.
get a raspberry pi and set up xbmc on it. i did. it has 5.1 out, hdmi cec (turns on tv + amp, sets to right inputs automatically), runs linux, can handle 1080p video. plus it's just so cute. also unlike an old xbox it is tiny, silent, and runs off a phone charger.
The person who finds it would still need to know your password.
You can have multiple trusted devices (I set up my phone and iPad). There is also a special "recovery key" that can be used to get in to reset the trusted devices.
And it's more inconsistent than people realize... I routinely place orders for food in the Delivery.com and the SeamlessWeb apps and because I have no credit card on file with either, I enter my credit card info for payment instead of using an iTunes account. So no 30% goes to Apple for my burrito, but DropBox leaves a link to their website in their SDK and suddenly all hell breaks loose. But Apple has a DropBox competitor and doesn't currently offer burritos I guess...
It's not that the rule is applied inconsistently, it's that you don't understand what the rule is. The rule is you pay apple 30% if the thing being sold can be used in the app. Doesn't matter if it's a subscription that you can ALSO use online elsewhere, if it's usable in the app, you pay 30%. A burrito can not be used in an app. Dropbox storage can. A subscription to Office365 can.
As a PC user, I absolutely hate iTunes. I stay away from Apple products specifically because of iTunes.
My kids have iPod touches, and I loath having to go into iTunes and update their software/apps.
Well, you don't have to do that any more. Remember the whole "PC Free" thing from a year or two ago? You can update the OS, apps, whatever, on the device itself, and use iCloud for backup. If you ever have to reset the device for some reason it will just redownload everything automatically once you put in your iCloud login. As long as your kids' iPods can run iOS 5 or later, you never need to connect to iTunes ever again.
You're probably correct. But if I buy a song on my phone, I was expecting sync to transfer it to my computer.
That's exactly how iTunes has always worked.
With iCloud you no longer have to sync. With iTunes 11, purchased-but-not-on-computer items show up in the library just like any other content, but with an iCloud logo.
Set your phone to "Manage manually" instead of Library sync. Then you can just drag and drop stuff onto it. No more syncing weirdness.
Syncing is for people with a small amount of music that will fit neatly on one device. If you buy new things on the phone or on the computer, it doesn't matter, they will always be exact mirrors of each other after syncing (and with iCloud, you don't even necessarily have to sync any more).
You're basically correct. PDF stands for *PAGE* description format. It is intended to specify exactly how big the page is, and where all the elements go on it. epub/mobi and similar e-reader formats are mainly HTML/CSS inside, so they can reflow just like any other web page.
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The recordings of it aren't.
You should try again. I use all the trackpad gestures. They're a huge boon to productivity. I can't even remember the last time I had a misfire.
I'm not disputing that this happened to this guy, but deleting local files is not the standard behavior. I am also an indie musician with dozens to hundreds of my own compositions in my iTunes library. I signed up for Apple Music and none of my local files were touched at all. Sounds like he got hit by an unfortunate bug. Sucks that it happened, for sure. Hopefully anyone who signs up for a streaming service in the future will think to make a backup first, but it stinks that you have to do that.
You can trigger Siri then hold the phone to your ear like you're making a normal phone call. She replies through the earpiece instead of the main speaker.
There is a workaround for this. Type until you get Alice COOPER then back up and delete the first cap O, replace with little o, and keep going. It's dumb but it works.
I'm sorry this is happening to you. Have you tried doing any troubleshooting? (I know, it's not your job, it should just work, but it would be interesting to know if there is a reproducible case. If you had one, you can report it to Apple. They do look at bug reports from users.) Also, you might want to try using "Manually manage music and videos". (Connect your device, select its icon from the row of icons at the top left, then look under Settings, Summary, Options. It's at the bottom.) Once you check that box, iTunes doesn't try to sync the host's library any more. You just drag whatever you want from iTunes to the device and it gets copied straight over. (Theoretically - would be interesting to know if that fixes things for you.)
If names are that important, perhaps you'd care to spell Louis C.K.'s properly.
I traded in an iPad 1 with Gazelle a few years ago and they paid me exactly what they said they would.
$fp = @fopen('/path/to/file', 'r'); if ($fp) { ... it worked
}
else { ... it didn't.
}
You need a better IDE. I use Netbeans and Sublime Text (mostly ST these days) and as soon as I start typing the function name, both editors give me a completion popup with placeholders for the parameters.
I've been using Reeder on my Mac + iPad, and it's pretty good. Feedly is also pretty good. Not sure which I'll end up with long-term, guess we'll see how I feel once Reader is finally dead and buried.
Ten years ago, when hard drives were small and NAS systems for home use didn't really exist, I could see the point of all this ripping and converting. But now, with multi-terabyte HDs and the proliferation of NAS appliances, there is a limited need for this or any other 'compressed' music file format.
I'll give you one: metadata. WAV doesn't really support it in a standard way across applications. AIFF is a little better but it doesn't have a lot of traction on Windows. FLAC has a robust tagging scheme. Since converting to lossless is incredibly fast, and you typically save about 30% of the disk space, why not do it?
This is why you are not a product manager at Adobe.
I have no idea how this is even possible, but BT Sync kills my home Mac's network connection. It's so weird. I can ping out from my mac fine, but pinging TO the mac results in 90% packet loss. Needless to say, this makes the network quite useless. Quit the app, no more packet loss. Took me quite a while to track that down!
Which is kind of ironic considering their cloud vending came from their retail business. Amazon used to have tons of extra server power set aside which was just used keep the site running smoothly during the insane blitz of online shoppers during the holiday season. Of course that only lasted for a month or so out of the year so they began to lease out that extra server power during all the months it wasn't in use.
This is a myth. AWS founder addressed in in a Quora answer: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cloud-computing-business
Google apps is sold with a 99.9% uptime guarantee - that works out to a maximum of 526 minutes downtime per year.
In the last three years that we've been using Google apps, I've never had more than one hour of cumulative downtime in a calendar year. I also haven't spent a single second configuring or monitoring email servers, backing up email data, or with an executive breathing down my neck while I work on a server problem.
I'm pretty happy about that track record.
This. 1000x this. We've been using Google Apps (paid) for 5 years and I can't remember any significant downtime in that period. We've had more problems with our internet connection than Google problems.
get a raspberry pi and set up xbmc on it. i did. it has 5.1 out, hdmi cec (turns on tv + amp, sets to right inputs automatically), runs linux, can handle 1080p video. plus it's just so cute. also unlike an old xbox it is tiny, silent, and runs off a phone charger.
The person who finds it would still need to know your password. You can have multiple trusted devices (I set up my phone and iPad). There is also a special "recovery key" that can be used to get in to reset the trusted devices.
it's 256k mp3 (like all amazon purchased mp3 music). since you have the actual cd you can make a lossless copy. most people will be fine with 256k.
And it's more inconsistent than people realize... I routinely place orders for food in the Delivery.com and the SeamlessWeb apps and because I have no credit card on file with either, I enter my credit card info for payment instead of using an iTunes account. So no 30% goes to Apple for my burrito, but DropBox leaves a link to their website in their SDK and suddenly all hell breaks loose. But Apple has a DropBox competitor and doesn't currently offer burritos I guess...
It's not that the rule is applied inconsistently, it's that you don't understand what the rule is. The rule is you pay apple 30% if the thing being sold can be used in the app. Doesn't matter if it's a subscription that you can ALSO use online elsewhere, if it's usable in the app, you pay 30%. A burrito can not be used in an app. Dropbox storage can. A subscription to Office365 can.
As a PC user, I absolutely hate iTunes. I stay away from Apple products specifically because of iTunes.
My kids have iPod touches, and I loath having to go into iTunes and update their software/apps.
Well, you don't have to do that any more. Remember the whole "PC Free" thing from a year or two ago? You can update the OS, apps, whatever, on the device itself, and use iCloud for backup. If you ever have to reset the device for some reason it will just redownload everything automatically once you put in your iCloud login. As long as your kids' iPods can run iOS 5 or later, you never need to connect to iTunes ever again.
You're probably correct. But if I buy a song on my phone, I was expecting sync to transfer it to my computer.
That's exactly how iTunes has always worked. With iCloud you no longer have to sync. With iTunes 11, purchased-but-not-on-computer items show up in the library just like any other content, but with an iCloud logo.
Why are you syncing a visitor's phone with your iTunes library?
Set your phone to "Manage manually" instead of Library sync. Then you can just drag and drop stuff onto it. No more syncing weirdness. Syncing is for people with a small amount of music that will fit neatly on one device. If you buy new things on the phone or on the computer, it doesn't matter, they will always be exact mirrors of each other after syncing (and with iCloud, you don't even necessarily have to sync any more).
You're basically correct. PDF stands for *PAGE* description format. It is intended to specify exactly how big the page is, and where all the elements go on it. epub/mobi and similar e-reader formats are mainly HTML/CSS inside, so they can reflow just like any other web page.