I started this a week ago (April 10, 2006), but don’t expect anything too exciting…<\/p>\n
We’ve finally done it and joined the iPod generation! I got a fairly substantial bonus last week (which has already been spent on kitchen updates), but I decided that the kids should get something for my hard work too…So, out of the blue I bought them both new, 30 GB, video iPods. Of couse, in reality, I wanted one and would settle for living vicariously through them…Heh heh. But I do have one beef in particular:<\/p>\n
iTunes is a pile of garbage! Utter crap. Or at least it’s usage in combination with 2 iPods and one global database of music sucks. Here’s how we are set up…I keep ALL our music on one network drive on my server, so all our music is available to each one of us. Well, iTunes makes it’s own index of the library for each person. Nothing wrong with that, but it also assumes that only IT will be changing the music in the repository…WRONG! I’ll add music, change the tags inside the files (artist, title, album, year…), or move files, and it befuddles iTunes. Can you “rebuild” the index? Nope! Delete it and start fresh.<\/p>\n
A couple other things annoy me:<\/p>\n
Only one copy of iTumes can be running on the PC at any time, so, if, say, Dylan left himself logged in with iTunes running, there is no way for Quinn to start it up; he doesn’t know Dylan’s password to log in and quit iTunes, and he doesn’t have the user rights to log Dylan out. So he can: a) Reboot the computer, possibly corrupting Dylan’s index, or b) Wait until Dylan’s home…Which do you think it’ll be? Reboot!<\/p>\n
Lastly, to charge an iPod, you need to plug it into the computer. This seems like a great idea, except that when you DO plug it in, it mounts the hard drive inside as a disk drive in Windows and warns you: “Do not disconnect!” So, in order to properly disconnect the iPod from the computer, you have to log in, stop the Windows disk drive service and THEN disconnect. PAIN IN THE BUTT.<\/p>\n
There are other things I hate about it, but those are the most annoying to me. <\/p>\n
The iPods themselves are fantastically cool little devices, though! I’ll have great fun playing with them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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