iTunes SUCKS

Posted June 18, 2008

I revived a bunch of mp3 onto my windows box. I want to get them onto my iPhone. Should be drop-dead simple.

I’ve spent 10 minutes with iTunes, pressed the “Sync” button a ridiculous number of times, and I’m no closer to getting the songs onto the iPhone.

I found an article that suggested creating a special playlist and sync’ing that with the iPhone. Fine. However, when I try to sync that it tells me my iPhone is already sync’d with another computer (the infamous mac) and that sync’ing would erase the existing songs on there.

Why on earth is this difficult? Did apple really assume you’d only ever want to transfer songs from a single computer?

I’m really puzzled and disgusted. I should be able to drag and drop my songs onto the iPhone and magic should happen. Bah.

2 Comments so far

  1. Avi Flax on June 19th, 2008

    my understanding is that apple tied every iPod to a single computer to mollify the record label’s fears that people would be able to use them to trade music. So yes, they’re deliberately crippled in this way, so Apple could get the labels to sign on to the iTunes Music Store. Sucky, but at least there is a reason. I think there might be some third party utilities which can do what you want.

  2. Parand on June 19th, 2008

    Thanks Avi. Looking into the third part options; looks like SongBird might do it for me, about to give it a try.

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