And this is Apple’s fault…how?
They aren’t giving me access to any of the stuff under the other email address I still do have either.
And I used to be able to access all of it regardless of the email change; the same credit card was used to buy all of it. They know it’s me. They just don’t want to bother fixing it.
We just subscribe to Apple Music. All those CD’s that I ripped decades ago are obsolete. My daughter subscribes to Spotify, as she likes their platform better.
Yeah, I get it… if I just changed with the times and wasn’t such a purist, I’d be a lot less stressed.
My kids can just cue up a playlist curated by someone else, and relax…
… But I NEED my physical copy of that obscure “Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Live at Buckingham Palace” on Laser Disk, dammit!
Recently I was trying to “clone” an iPod using iTunes on MS-Windows. Backup the original, restore to the clone.
The backup option was missing entirely from the device page. Plugged in different ones, same result. Reinstalled iTunes. No change. Searched the Net for reasons. This is an old known error with no fix.
One of many, many problems I’ve encountered over the years. It really is stupefyingly bad software.
Because of the “newness” (relatively speaking) of the iPods in question and Apple’s closed system mentality, none of the other media management software I have can do the job for these.
“Newness”? I love* iPods, but I haven’t used one in ten years. And that was one made in [looks it up] 2009. I don’t know anyone who’s using one that could be considered “New”.
*I really miss being able to scrub forward and backward with that cute little wheel, even when it’s in my coat pocket.
But then I was on a road trip with my kid, and watched her push a button and presto, we skipped 30 seconds backward to catch a word in an audiobook we were listening to.
How! Handy!
I decided I could catch up with the times, and just carry a phone and not a separate iPod.
Apple just got hit with a fine, as expected
But will things improve? Don’t hold your breath.