Had no choice. Could NOT import photos from family trip from MacBook Pro into iPad without updating iPad.
Lost all music. Now, it’s still on my MacBook. I just tried to import it. Since most of it is stuff I bought decades ago, and not THROUGH the fucking iTunes Store, I cannot see how to import it.
I fucking hate this company.
Import? Itunes is drag and drop. If that’s not working, you’ve got some serious problems that go beyond Apple being idiots.
I’ll have to wait until I get home to check the latest menu options, but importing music from your computer into itunes is easy.
Your failure doesn’t equate with them sucking.
Several years ago I made a New Year’s Resolution to excise iTunes from my life. So far, it’s gone swimmingly.
User error…pit fail.
iTunes is just a list of music, just like Windows Media Player and Winamp. You can have music anywhere on your computer and you can tell iTunes to “hey, make a list of the music on my computer in your program.” That’s called “importing” but really it’s just a list. Nothing exists “in” iTunes and it’s irrelevant whether you got music from the iTunes Store or Amazon or ripped CDs or whatever.
Then when you plug in your iPad or iPod or iPhone, you tell iTunes what music from the list of music you want to synch to your device. If you had no music in your iTunes list and you synched your iPad then there would be no more music on your iPad.
Get your music listed in iTunes, plug in you iPad, go to the Music tab in the synch section and tell it what music to synch to the iPad. It’s not rocket science.
People that seem to have the worst problems using iTunes are people who seem to be the most upset with it before they even go to use it.
Network error in layer 8, you think?
Total PEBKAC.
Sometimes iTunes just stops working properly. Never had any problem with iTunes until installing it on a new Windows 7 box. Haven’t been able to synch or update ever since.
User error. Pit fail.
Easy to prevent losing your music or photos. Actually you haven’t lost it at all, right? It’s still on your MacBook. You just can’t get it to sync to your iPad. Step away from the keyboard and relax. Make sure you have everything backed up somewhere. External hard drives are cheap and easy to burn photos and music to.
I get PO’ed with iTunes sometimes too, when I can’t get it to do exactly what I want it to, but it’s just software, it can’t help that I only halfway know what I’m doing.
Bolding mine.
Is it standard operating procedure for an iPad to lose all your music in an upgrade process? Because that seems pretty crappy. I’ve updated the OS on my Android tablet a bunch of times, and never lost any music, ebooks, or anything else.
It wouldn’t be the end of the world, because i have it all elsewhere, and could easily put it on the tablet again, but if a fully functional desktop operating system like Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu can go through a full upgrade process without losing a bunch of files, you’d think that an iPad could manage it as well.
No, it’s not.
IIRC I didn’t lose anything when updating the software on my iPhone. I wouldn’t think the iPad would be any different. I suspect another instance of user error.
I fucking hate iTunes. It’s a resource hog, takes FOREVER to boot up on every computer I’ve ever owned, is in a constant state of update ala Windows. It may work fine for folks who have a couple of GBs worth of music but I’ve got over 40k songs, something like 220GB of tunes. It takes forever to deal with them. This is most aggravating when it seems like 2 out of every 4-5 times I try to open iTunes it has to go through a “Verifying iTunes Library” or “Sending genius data” and any other number of shit.
Hate the thing.
Yes. At least in older versions of the software. iTunes is famous for this.
User has a laptop with 1,000 songs on it. User has a new iPod that has one song on it. User syncs iPod to laptop and iTunes helpfully deletes all 1,000 songs from laptop and syncs the one song to both devices.
I’m sure that a user has to slip up in some way for this to happen. But it does happen. A lot.
I don’t use iTunes, for obvious reasons. But I’ve known several people who have all had basically that scenario happen to them in one form or another.
I never lost music on one of their ‘upgrades’, but I lost a lot of enjoyment.
I have written many a nasty e-mail to them (like THAT would do any good) about how their upgrades are often a giant step backwards. I don’t care about videos or album covers of podcast …I just want to be able to store and manage my music library, create playlists, burn the occasional disc. ITunes used to be GREAT for this. But like many companies, they keep ‘improving’ it until it sucks ass. And then stop.
Happened to me when I went from iOS5 to iOS6 on my 4th gen iPod touch. To this day my music library is empty on the thing. It says " No content - You can download music from the iTunes Store".
Yes. Yes I could. But I won’t.
Oddly enough the music I had downloaded onto the iPod with the Rhapsody app survived the upgrade just fine. The upgrade only deleted the iTunes content.
Does iTunes still rename and reassign your music files when they move to a device like an iPod or iPad? I’ve been through more than one recovery nightmare of sorting through a slew of folders and files with helpful names like HG3F.mp3, or one artist scattered across half a dozen file folders.
My iPhone also had an annoying tendency to get stuck while syncing apps and playlists, and leaving it with tons of unrecoverable wasted space, over 20Gb worth, showing as “music and video” with nothing actually there.
It would also constantly lose cover art, or be unable to find easily available cover art.
I know, I’venowned ipods and ipads for years. Have my settings at Manual Sync. Mystery why all music is gone from my iPad.