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Friday, August 23, 2013
Everything You Need to Know About The Music Business
There's a good book titled "Everything You Need to Know About The Music Business".
If I wrote that book, it would have only three words:
Give up now.
If I wrote that book, it would have only three words:
Give up now.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Apple should think differently
I recently tried to download some apps to my iPhone, but I'm out of memory because I have too many songs. So, I can just delete some songs from within the iPhone, right?
No. Apple requires that you connect your iPhone to a computer that has iTunes. Within iTunes, you select what you want on the iPhone, and then iTunes will completely overwrite your iPhone with your new selections. So, that's a bit awkward, but it should be easy, right?
No. A year ago, I spent a long weekend painfully loading 100+ music CDs into iTunes on my computer. A few weeks ago, that computer died, so I'm now using a new computer. I can't overwrite my iPhone with my music, because my new computer doesn't have that music. So, it's a bit convoluted, but ... I can copy music from my iPhone to iTunes, select what I want within iTunes, and then copy it back to the iPhone, right?
No. Apple intentionally prevents you from copying music from your iPhone to iTunes. I assume the record companies were scared bad people would steal music, and Apple put their interests ahead of mine. Within the computer industry, there's a technical term for my situation. That term is "screwed".
So, what are my options? Option 1 is to spend another long weekend copying music from my 100+ CDs into iTunes. Option 2 is to buy software that does what I need. When I say buy, I mean give my credit card info to a complete stranger on the internet. Option 3 is to hope that someone at my local Apple store can delete some songs from my iPhone.
UPDATE: I've learned that widely-used program "senuti" (iTunes backwards) can do what I want, but that only works on Apple computers. There's no free Windows equivalent that I can find.
No. Apple requires that you connect your iPhone to a computer that has iTunes. Within iTunes, you select what you want on the iPhone, and then iTunes will completely overwrite your iPhone with your new selections. So, that's a bit awkward, but it should be easy, right?
No. A year ago, I spent a long weekend painfully loading 100+ music CDs into iTunes on my computer. A few weeks ago, that computer died, so I'm now using a new computer. I can't overwrite my iPhone with my music, because my new computer doesn't have that music. So, it's a bit convoluted, but ... I can copy music from my iPhone to iTunes, select what I want within iTunes, and then copy it back to the iPhone, right?
No. Apple intentionally prevents you from copying music from your iPhone to iTunes. I assume the record companies were scared bad people would steal music, and Apple put their interests ahead of mine. Within the computer industry, there's a technical term for my situation. That term is "screwed".
So, what are my options? Option 1 is to spend another long weekend copying music from my 100+ CDs into iTunes. Option 2 is to buy software that does what I need. When I say buy, I mean give my credit card info to a complete stranger on the internet. Option 3 is to hope that someone at my local Apple store can delete some songs from my iPhone.
UPDATE: I've learned that widely-used program "senuti" (iTunes backwards) can do what I want, but that only works on Apple computers. There's no free Windows equivalent that I can find.
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