I’m educated, or at least my ignorance has been battled. I am a dual platform user, which is to say I have a PC and a MAC on my real-life desk top. I run iTunes on my PC, for historical reasons, and have always hated it. It’s nice to see that I have not been totally irrational.
The question I’d pose, since I work in electronics retail, is what would anyone recommend in lieu of iTunes for an iPod, since that’s all we sell? Ideas?
I haven’t used iTunes in quite a while and wanted to delete my account … but that seems to be impossible.
Sure, I can delete my credit card information, so that no one can misuse my account but I want it gone completely.
So, how do I do that? 
Unfortunately for you, my **major **was in English Lit, so I also have a very low tolerance for analogies that blow harder than your mother when the rent is due.
Perhaps your computer was doing the file-organization equivalent of sweeping dust under the rug–if you can’t see the horrible music, you’re less likely to listen to it.
I almost got an unlocked, jailbroken, iphone instead of a G1, but even then it appears it would have been quite locked down.
Dodged a bullet there!
Just noticed this.
I have moved music, in organized folders, through 4 to 5 computers, and now a phone, and countless different operating system installs and I have never lost ID3 track information. I have 5 year old mp3s witch still have valid ID3s.
Might I ask what software you use, and suggest different, more competent software?
Did you notice the first sentence of the paragraph you quoted (which you deleted)?
Yes, Tao’s Revenge, it was probably a case of not having any ID3 tags at all.
I was poking around on my iPod last night and discovered that iTunes has created two new playlists for me that I didn’t request. One is empty, and the other contains a dozen songs by some guy I’ve never heard of. Thanks, iTunes!
Stop syncing your ipod. Because I gurandamntee you that someone created those playlists in itunes at some point, and that’s how they got on there.
I’ve never once synced my iPod as long as I’ve owned it. All my file management has been manual.
Huh. Any chance they were created via a “quick playlist”? I’ve never got the hang of those, and have had them appear from time to time - each time I did remember trying to put together a quicklist.
I’m a little new here. Can someone clue me in if I did something really egregious, or this person just has some issue? Thanks.
FTFY.
If you look up at the top of the page, you’ll see that this thread is in the Pit. That means that instead of being polite, it’s okay for me to call your mom a whore after you call me a moron.
OK. Fuck you then.
Get used to it. He is quite the salty one.
I’m experiencing some gender confusion. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
While I’m not bothered by it personally (I laughed), I should give you a fair heads-up that it’s against the Pit rules (for some bizarre reason) to say fuck you, fuck off, get fucked, or any variation thereon.
Don’t mind twilly–I refused to give into her (his?) begging for gold in the WoW thread, and apparently s/he’s taken it quite personally.
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For the low, low price of $49.95, I could send you some photos that would clear that confusion right up.
I checked just to be sure, but you didn’t mention any software. It doesn’t really matter whether you use ID3 tags to store song information or some directory structure. (although ID3 tags are part of the file so work a lot better, and are a lot more rugged and permanent then a file directory)
Thing of it is neither Windows Explorer, Nautilus, Dolphin, nor Finder (ew) randomly rename files and move them around. And they certainly don’t blank out perfectly good id3 tags. I have neither seen Winamp, Jetaudio, Windows Media player nor Amarok do that either. Although they do support editing ID3 information.
This says to me you’re either moving/renaming them yourself and/or blanking the id3 tags yourself, or some third party app you use is. Since you’d remember doing it yourself, I hope, that leaves a 3rd party app you use as the offender.
Even if I’m a long-haired hippie who fucks in the mud? Where’s my protest sign kit. Thanks for the heads up.