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p2pnet news | Music:- “This is crazy,” rants Tony Dennis in a The Inquirer rant.
He’s an iTunes user which means he’s paying through the nose for Apple downloads —- and everything else Apple, of course.
So is that why he’s upset?
Nope.
It was a bit like Mission Impossible, except it was Restoration Impossible.
Dennis’ hard disk crashed and he needed to restore the tunes he lost from his iPod nano to his PC.
He managed. Eventually. But only after forking out £10.62 (more than $20) for a non-Apple app.
How come?
Because, “For reasons best know to His Royal Jobness, the Duke of Cupertino, Itunes doesn’t have a restore function,” says Dennis, going on >>>
If you connect an Ipod to a new PC, all it can offer to do is wipe out any music you have installed already and force you to start again.
But I couldn’t start again because I’d lost all my music files. The bizarre thing is that the Ipod can act as a remote disk but that still didn’t help.
Looking for help on the Net, I made a significant discovery. This is such a common problem that a bunch of programmers have decided to write an app especially for this purpose.
Those guys are Ipod2computer Inc, although they’re not the only ones. So in order to restore my precious music files I ordered the app and it cost me just over ten quid.
Apple is always being praised for its clever design but in this particular hack’s opinion, this is nothing short of a design fault.
I’m not very happy about it, either.
Well, he wouldn’t be.
But that’s Apple for you.
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The Inquirer - Ten quid to get my own music back, March 26, 2008
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March 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
” Apple is always being praised for its clever design but in this particular hack’s opinion, this is nothing short of a design fault. ”
It’s not a design fault. It’s deliberate.
They don’t want any possibility of friends sharing tunes
with each other, using a Nano as a ‘distribution device’.
This is similar to the crippling of the Zune’s wireless transfer
feature. They don’t want you to do it, they do their best to insure
you can’t.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Senuti (iTunes spelled backwards) will do that for free. Stop whining.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
goooo CRapple!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Podplayer will do the trick on a PC, Senuti is for the Mac
March 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I am sorry, but this has been a problem with iTunes, from it’s inception.
That is why there are so many “freeware” that allow you to restore the files from you iPOD.
He should have done a simple search for iPOD tools, before paying such a high price.
Just my two cents
March 26th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Haha that guy is a dipship.
March 27th, 2008 at 5:20 am
How can you have any time for the comments of a so-called tech journalist who can’t even manage to keep an up-to-date backup of his HDD?
March 27th, 2008 at 9:38 am
GtkPod doesn’t have this problem. I use it on linux, and it can restore your music library without any problems. I believe winamp has the same functionality on windoze.