iPod shuffle - loading without iTunes

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Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and potentially
useful nugget of information and then all hell breaks loose as the
fanboys, netcops, pedants and nit-pickers rip him to shreds. What's not
to love ?
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Nuffin.'

Apart from WHY you'd want to do it. It just seems like someone coming up
with a complicated solution to a non-existent problem. Which is the IT
industry all over.
 
Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
library book, to the player?
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Music ALWAYS gets downloaded to the music library folder. Set its location
in the preferences (yes it can be a local or remote folder) and "always at
music when adding to library". Then you copy stuff to the ipod.
Is there a FAQ on this stuff?
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No. Look the software is free. Just download a copy of it and play. You're
obviously bright. Itunes will take you all of 30 seconds to work out. Then
if you don't like it, dump it.
 
Michelle Steiner said:
You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.
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If you want to go through hoops you probably can but it is a lot harder
than if you had an unprotected MP3.
I could play it on my car stereo but I would have to burn it to CD, then
rip it to mp3 and then play that, by which time it would have lost a lot
of quality.
Also I didn't say about which device I get to play it on, I said I don't
get the restrictions. If I buy a CD I can rip the tracks and put them on
my Mac, my PC, my powerbook and my tablet, my iPod, my wifes nano and
the iPod I use when playing the guitar. When I want to copy it from
there, I don't need to deauthorise it on one machine to copy it, I just
copy it.

If a track on a CD costs me about £1, then a track with restrictions
like from the iTunes store is worth (to me) about 35p, so they are
currently too expensive.
 
Woody said:
If you want to go through hoops you probably can but it is a lot harder
than if you had an unprotected MP3.
I could play it on my car stereo but I would have to burn it to CD, then
rip it to mp3 and then play that, by which time it would have lost a lot
of quality.
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That seems like a lot of steps. I have stuff I have downloaded from the
iTMS, using iTunes. To make a copy to play in the car (I don't have an
iPod) all I do is to create a compilation in iTunes and burn that
directly to CD. One step. It works fine and can be repeated ad
infinitum. Quality is perfectly okay for listening in the car.
 
Peter Ceresole said:
That seems like a lot of steps. I have stuff I have downloaded from the
iTMS, using iTunes. To make a copy to play in the car (I don't have an
iPod) all I do is to create a compilation in iTunes and burn that
directly to CD. One step. It works fine and can be repeated ad
infinitum. Quality is perfectly okay for listening in the car.
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You are just making a CD though with up to 20 (short) tracks - I am
talking about an mp3 cd with 100 or so.
 
Davoud said:
This is only a summary!? My sincerest sympathy if old age took your
dearly beloved wife while she was waiting to listen to her music. About
20 years ago Apple introduced a thing called "Drag and Drop" to
personal computers. Using that clever little innovation, it takes my
wife less than 60 seconds to load her 1GB Shuffle -- all by herself, no
less -- from iTunes!
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I have an iPod and iTunes, but I don't have a wife. So consequently, as
you might imagine, I feel a bit left out by all this. Is there some way
I can enjoy easy digital music file transfers without having a wife?

Thanks, and Happy New Year.

Daniele
 
D.M. Procida said:
I have an iPod and iTunes, but I don't have a wife. So consequently, as
you might imagine, I feel a bit left out by all this. Is there some way
I can enjoy easy digital music file transfers without having a wife?
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You need to wait a couple of weeks - Jobs is expected to announce iWife
'06 at the Expo.

Jim
 
Jim said:
You need to wait a couple of weeks - Jobs is expected to announce iWife
'06 at the Expo.
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I'm perfectly happy with my old copy of Girlfren (the 1993 version,
which I have used exclusively since then) and works perfectly well and
does everything I want. Except - er, ah, yeah... Anyway, I don't want to
replace it - I'm used to the package, it's pretty reliable and I know my
way round most of its minor flaws.

I can't believe I'm supposed to get a wife just because of iTunes.

Daniele
 
D.M. Procida said:
I'm perfectly happy with my old copy of Girlfren (the 1993 version,
which I have used exclusively since then)
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This is the 'Yasmine' build?
 
D.M. Procida said:
I'm perfectly happy with my old copy of Girlfren (the 1993 version,
which I have used exclusively since then) and works perfectly well and
does everything I want. Except - er, ah, yeah... Anyway, I don't want to
replace it - I'm used to the package, it's pretty reliable and I know my
way round most of its minor flaws.
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Well, yeah, but Girlfren 1993 was a Classic app. Won't work properly
under the new system. Probably a privs problem. It's a bit drastic but
you _could_ try giving World access to the Girlfren package.
I can't believe I'm supposed to get a wife just because of iTunes.
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That's Apple for you.

Jim
 
Bloody practical, though.
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Yes, I would really prefer to lug a CD player and boxes containing a
thousand CD's rather than carry my 60GB iPod around, the thing is just
too light and small to possibly be practical.
 
No. Look the software is free.
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And a bit overpriced, at that.
Just download a copy of it and play.
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Play very carefully, like you would with any badly behaved little poodle.
You're
obviously bright. Itunes will take you all of 30 seconds to work out. Then
if you don't like it, dump it.
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Then after you dump it, if you naively allowed it to do any of the things
it wanted to do while you were "playing" with it, you can spend the next
few days redoing the entire music filing system it has mucked up on your
computer.

That is, if you don't get convinced that "thinking outside the box"
whilst following along with the rest of the McSheeple and doing whatever
the mcfuck they are told is best for them is the way to go.

As you sound like you are "obviously bright" and do some of your own
thinking, I'm doubting this last part will happen but stranger things
have indeed happened...like when a whole slew of seemingly intelligent
people bought into a bunch of overhyped and overpriced crap from an
arrogant little company whose entire success is based on form and design
rather than function and whose market is gained by huge advertising
blitzes aimed at impressionable youth selling a "lifestyle" rather than a
product and protected and maintained by proprietary practices rather than
any sort of product superiority.
 
Peter Ceresole said:
That seems like a lot of steps. I have stuff I have downloaded from the
iTMS, using iTunes. To make a copy to play in the car (I don't have an
iPod) all I do is to create a compilation in iTunes and burn that
directly to CD. One step. It works fine and can be repeated ad
infinitum. Quality is perfectly okay for listening in the car.
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Too bad there's no easy way to burn the tracks to disk image, so you
don't have the nuisance of an actual CD.

I often buy individual tracks on impulse from ITMS, and last week I
bought a whole CD. I thought "that was easy - why don't I do that all
the time" - before I remembered that the reason is that I now have a
distinctly un-portable pile of protected files.

"Don't steal music". OK, but at least let me have what I bought.

G;
 
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