Anyone have suggestions for a decent PC client that’s not a complete resource pig on the PC? I need something on PC that will actually download podcasts somewhat automatically (I end up transferring them to a host of devices for different listening cases – in the car, doing yardwork, exercising, etc.)
I mostly buy CDs now… just in case. I imported a couple into iTunes. Now i have two copies of course. Three in the highlighted case! Which of course is missing. WTF iTunes.
well I do like her version of Ring Them Bells
The latest version of iTunes for Windows pretty much crashes every time I launch it under Windows 7 x64. The only way I can get it not to do so is to “repair” it under the Programs and Features control panel. Windows reports that it’s a .dll problem.
Use Media Monkey instead.
I only use iTunes to backup/restore my iOS device and to install custom ringtones. For managing MP3’s, MM is a much better solution.
How well does Media Monkey handle migration from an existing iTunes install?
My MP3 library consists mainly of CDs ripped to different versions of iTunes over the last ten years on three different machines, and consequently the file system is at least somewhat borked. I was able—with some effort—to make version 11.1.3.8 find everything, but haven’t updated iTunes since.
STOP TRANSFERRING APPS TO FING IPHONE WHEN I CLICK REMOVE APP IN ITUNES
How do you remove apps from the iPhone again anyway? Because apparently iTunes decides what is or is not going on the phone. I guess the solution is “never sync it with your computer”.
Also music purchases made on iPhone aren’t showing up in iTunes. It knows that i made them, but it won’t let me download them.
And also, it keeps a record of EVERY APP i’ve ever sync’d with iTunes, so i have to go through a list from like 2007 of useless unwanted apps and click them one at a time to prevent them from being synced. And then it syncs them anyway.
What it’s trying to do, apparently, is make the iPhone and the iPad a mirror image of one another.
AND NOW MY MUSIC IS DISAPPEARING
Those songs i just linked up above by Sarah Jarosz? Half of them have disappeared from iTunes.
This is literally why i buy CDs.
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… and then when it finds some of them, i get multiple copies in iTunes. I DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT MANAGING MY STUPID MUSIC. Just work g’dam it.
Not to be that guy, but I haven’t used or installed iTunes for almost a year. I used MediaMonkey and still use it for certain issues. But my new laptop has no Apple bloatcrap on it. And I don’t miss it. In my opinion it’s just such a bad kludge but Apple owners don’t honestly understand computers so it’s there. Sort of like an STD.
I have an iPhone, and a Mac, and an iPad… and they work well enough apart. It’s iTunes that is the weak link.
I would definitely turn off syncing. This will cause other problems, since there’s a bunch of incredibly moronic “features” that assume you’re syncing because why would anyone not want their 160 GB iPod classic exactly mirrored on their C: drive, right? But they should be easier to deal with.
It really is maddening. What the hell is “syncing” anyway?
I want to copy these specific files from device A to device B. Now I would like to copy these specific files from device B to device A please.
I don’t want to fucking “sync”.
I’d be happy if Apple wrote a small utility to provide iOS backup/restore/update. That’s all I pretty much use iTunes for these days.
iCloud backup doesn’t require connectivity to your desktop at all, AFAIK. I think it’s been a year or two since I synced any of my devices to a desktop of any sort and the backups are clicking along just fine.
I had a bad experience backing up to iCloud (it wasn’t backing up due to an error and I didn’t realize it for months), so I shy away from it. I’ve turned iCloud Backup back on in iOS 8 and so far so good, but I’m still going to make local backups.
The whole reason i was even trying to sync was because 1) the last time i did so there were pages of greyed out apps on the phone that weren’t finished downloading, but that i couldn’t delete (or even select) from the phone, and 2) the purchases i made on my work computer’s iTunes were showing up on my phone but not in iTunes at home, so i was trying to transfer purchases.
But with the reduced cost of iCloud it does seem to be the future.
With my 1000s of apps, and even if I’m syncing “only 100-200” it will stall out and not sync at “waiting for items to copy/sync to start…” and other bullshit.
EVEN THOUGH itunes sync is turned OFF on my iPad, I deleted some podcasts from my iPad, which i never wanted to download in the first place, to save space. Of course, it also deletes them from my computers at home and work.
This is why we will have the Butlerian Jihad. Synchronized worlds my ass!
Oh, the Podcasts app on iOS is truly truly dire, even worse than iTunes.