iTunes and OSX is not making me a happy man

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 17:55

I'm feed up with Osx and especially iTunes, I think safari looks rubbish compared to Vista/firefox IE7 and this is my own personal choice. But iTunes is sending me mental it is just carp, cant burn a CD from my iPod, cant copy my music from iPod to my hard drive. Just seems everything is hard work in iTunes.
Even went in and spoke to the guys at the Apple shop and he told me what to do with iTunes but its still not working. Dont get me wrong i love my Macbook pro but it looks like i'll be using vista and bootcamp from now on. Anyone else feel like this :mad:

LordSplodge · 2 Feb 2008 at 18:08

Willis said:
I'm feed up with Osx and especially iTunes, I think safari looks rubbish compared to Vista/firefox IE7 and this is my own personal choice. But iTunes is sending me mental it is just carp, cant burn a CD from my iPod, cant copy my music from iPod to my hard drive. Just seems everything is hard work in iTunes.
Even went in and spoke to the guys at the Apple shop and he told me what to do with iTunes but its still not working. Dont get me wrong i love my Macbook pro but it looks like i'll be using vista and bootcamp from now on. Anyone else feel like this

No. Safari is great but you can use Firefox on OS X if you wish. iTunes can be a git, but that doesn't matter if it is running on OS X or XP. I tried to run iTunes on Vista a couple of times but I lost the will to live.

Is syncing causing you problems? You cannot "copy" music to and from your iPod. You could always hard-reset your iPod and try a fresh sync.

Putting Vista on your MacBook is just dirty. Dirty in a bad way mind you.

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 18:15

LordSplodge said:
No. Safari is great but you can use Firefox on OS X if you wish. iTunes can be a git, but that doesn't matter if it is running on OS X or XP. I tried to run iTunes on Vista a couple of times but I lost the will to live.

Is syncing causing you problems? You cannot "copy" music to and from your iPod. You could always hard-reset your iPod and try a fresh sync.

Putting Vista on your MacBook is just dirty. Dirty in a bad way mind you.

I cant sync my ipod to my itunes because it says it will erase all the music on it and thats why I want to copy the music off it to my hard drive on my MBP but when i click on the ipod on my desk top (after enabling disk mode in itunes) i still cant see my music and just four folders calenders, contacts, notes and recordings. Oh yes and I also love dirty anyhow

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 18:17

Forgot to say all my music is on my main PC back at home and i'm at my GF's thats why i dont want to lose all the music on my ipod.

Mr_White · 2 Feb 2008 at 18:28

You can get programs that will copy music off of your iPod and into iTunes.

Senuti is one of them.

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 18:53

Mr_White said:
You can get programs that will copy music off of your iPod and into iTunes.

Senuti is one of them.

I want to copy it into a folder on my desktop, oh yeh forgot also say the mighty mouse is the biggest pile of poo going. I think I might go out side and smash it up :mad:

Doug · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:21

First, stop being a drama queen

Second, download iPodDisk (but install MacFUSE first). This will let you browse the contents of the iPod from a finder window.

If that doesn't work for you, there are loads of apps that do the same thing, just search for ipod on MacUpdate.

willems · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:27

i dont like itunes either but for what you need to do just 'Enable Disk Use' in itunes to treat the ipod as a HDD.

safari is decent much prefer it to IE7 but am currently using Opera myself

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 19:36

To late

I'm back in vista with boot camp and it looks and feels better, can see all the music files on my ipod now and copy them to my hard drive. I really did think OSX would have sold me but it hasent and i have been using it for a few weeks now. I so wanted to love OSX :mad:

Mr_White · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:14

Your loss

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:26

Mr_White said:
Your loss

I think I need a 24 hour cooling period

Then we will see

ichabod crane · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:30

Was your ipod formatted in windows? if so thats your problem it has to be reformatted to work with mac. Also i dont believe any itunes windows or mac will allow you to take music off the ipod so you will need a third party software to do that! But once you have formatted your ipod to mac itunes it will work in exactly the same way it does on windows.

J1234 · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:34

ichabod crane said:
Was your ipod formatted in windows? if so thats your problem it has to be reformatted to work with mac. Also i dont believe any itunes windows or mac will allow you to take music off the ipod so you will need a third party software to do that! But once you have formatted your ipod to mac itunes it will work in exactly the same way it does on windows.

Correct.

Not allowed to take music off the iPod because of copyright issues.

BEn_2600+ · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:47

Willis said:
To late I'm back in vista with boot camp and it looks and feels better, can see all the music files on my ipod now and copy them to my hard drive. I really did think OSX would have sold me but it hasent and i have been using it for a few weeks now. I so wanted to love OSX

Go and get a PC and send me your Mac, ive always wanted one

Willis · 2 Feb 2008 at 20:49

BEn_2600+ said:
Go and get a PC and send me your Mac, ive always wanted one

Have a Quad Core gaming beast so no you cant have my MBP

LordSplodge · 3 Feb 2008 at 00:05

Willis said:
To late I'm back in vista with boot camp and it looks and feels better, can see all the music files on my ipod now and copy them to my hard drive. I really did think OSX would have sold me but it hasent and i have been using it for a few weeks now. I so wanted to love OSX

Meh.

Two things. 1: Vista is a pile of crap. 2: Your Mac hates you for doing this and is plotting to kill you.

On a serious note, you need to give OS X more time. It's different if you have been used to a PC for a long time.

unknowndomain · 3 Feb 2008 at 00:55

If you wana explain clearly what the problem is we can help you fix it.

schoey · 3 Feb 2008 at 08:50

give osx more time,we have 2 macs and 3 windoze pcs in our house and everytime the kids tell me their pc is 'playin up' i just wanna throw em through the window!!!
seriously thinking about getting 3 more macs.I have used pcs for years and switched to mac a year ago and i'm never going back.

Mr_White · 3 Feb 2008 at 09:25

ichabod crane said:
Was your ipod formatted in windows? if so thats your problem it has to be reformatted to work with mac. Also i dont believe any itunes windows or mac will allow you to take music off the ipod so you will need a third party software to do that! But once you have formatted your ipod to mac itunes it will work in exactly the same way it does on windows.

Senuti will still work on a windows iPod, then he can copy all the music from iTunes onto a folder, which I don't really see the purpose of, if he wants to play music on his mac, it's going to be in iTunes.

But still, he can still do what he wants even with a windows formatted iPod, just not without third party software, like you said.

Willis · 3 Feb 2008 at 09:26

unknowndomain said:
If you wana explain clearly what the problem is we can help you fix it.

The first problem cannot be changed it just the way OSX is coded, just dont like the look of safri it looks blurred and poor. Now i know some people like it but I hate it and you may ask is this a big enough thing to change back to vista and i say yes.

Also I like vista and dont find it a problem like some people. The other problem is with my iPod and it seems it needs to be format in OSX which i'm not going to do because its linked to my main PC at home with all my music on, another big fail by apple :rolleyes:

, I will still use OSX from time to time as i like garage band for making tunes. I dont want people to think I dont like mac's, I love them but in a way i like using diffrent OS and diffrent hardware. So looks like i'm fanboy for both haha