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iTunes iTunes iTunes

Monday, September 15, 2008

Fed up of dupes in playlists and actual files I read the Apple KB page. I then:
Remove all files in Users/mark/Music/iTunes
Allow iTunes to organise the music
Allow iTunes to copy the music
And I point it at a folder on the other drive and I Add to Library.
If you google ‘remove duplicates’ you find results going back [...]

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iTunes8 and Windows

Friday, September 12, 2008

If you run Windows you really should not update to iTunes8. It could be an extremely bad thing to do and Apple are certainly playing in the filthy end of the pool by installing stuff you didn’t agree to. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=536.
It’s like they are trying to make people hate Windows for being unstable so they move [...]

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iTunes8

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Ignoring the severe and critical security updates that Apple slides into it’s “Hey look! Nice new features” updates iTunes8 is, well, crap. I have all the AC/DC albums up to and including Highway to Hell. But because AC/DC have not yet drank the Apple poison then their music and all alike it does not exist.
It [...]

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Replacing the music machine

Friday, September 5, 2008

The ipod touch crashed again earlier. I thought I’d take a few minutes away from the monitor to try and beat my daughter’s score of 100 on the Dactyl game. Press Home, touch the screen and that was that. It froze and nothing I did could budge it from the Apple logo. This was just [...]

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Crashing ipod touch

Sunday, August 31, 2008

On September 4 the new Apple store opens in Leicester. I’ll be there. I’ll be holding an ipod touch and expecting to see a “genius” who can explain to me just why it is crashing (I bet he asks if it’s been jailbroken and regardless of what I say he’ll try to make me a [...]

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