Re: MP3/Itouch/Itunes stupidity

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:26:20 +0100, "Andrej Kluge" <kluge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>This sort of hassle and my distaste for using one bloated and funcionally
>limited program led me to using Poddox as my tool for filling/managing
MP3s
>on my iPod:
>
>www.poddox.com

I tracked down a similar program called SharePod:

http://www.getsharepod.com/

Unfortunately, with my Itouch (version 2.1 software), you can download
stuff from the Ipod but not upload. There are hints this will be fixed
in a future release.

I agree totally with you about Itunes being bloatware. I can barely
run anything else on my computer when it is in use.

Yesterday I downloaded some stuff from the Itunes store (for the first
time, which gives you an idea how technologically backward I am "":-).
This went well, but when I tried to take these files and create a disc
of MP3 files to listen to in my car, DUH!! Instead I had to burn CDs
(fortunately I just bought some CD-RWs), then reverse rip them to
convert them to MP3s.

The speed at which Itunes creates the CDs is unbelievably slow.
Normally my CD burners make noise when they are doing something, but
there was no noise at all (maybe it was burning at 1X speed or
something, I dunno).

This thing I downloaded, by the way, was the Ormandy Original Jacket
Collection which I tried to get from amazon.com, but because I am in
Canada, it wouldn't let me, which is idiotic. Itunes was happy to take
my $9.99 instead.