Well it’s been nearly 2 weeks since I became an owner of iPod. So I thought of sharing my experience with iPod and its (evil?) cousin iTunes.
If you want me to describe an iPod in just a single word then the answer is “WOW!”. I am not here to keep on dragging about my iPod but one thing is sure Steve Jobs has done really a great job.
Organizing my collection by adding the appropriate tag took me close to 10 days since the collection itself was huge and also for the reason that I have put it in the most unorganized state before. I was Googling for the every song name to find the album (film) and the artist and luckily the index from Raaga helped me a lot for lookup.
iTunes
The more I use iTunes the more I dislike it. That’s why I said that iTunes is an evil cousin of iPod. I some how feel that Apple could do iPod a big favor if they could break the relation ship.
The thing which I dislike most about it is its error handling. At times it is just a silent failure (Even Jeremy has noted about it before) or a wired and totally misguiding error message. For instance there were some video files in my library which were in a .mov format (means they cannot be played in iPod) and guess what was the error message that I received when I connected my iPod. It was something like this “iTunes was not able to write to your iPod” which totally rocked me. I then realized that it was caused because there was a file in an up supported file format. How Good??
The next wired thing that I found out was that, if you change the ID3 tags of your mp3 file then it will not reflect back in your iTunes until you play that song, not even if you restart iTunes. I thought that a simple refresh button would have saved me lot of time instead of me selecting every file that I have changed and then clicking the play button.
Added to all these is the fact that it is soo sluggish and consumes nearly every bit of my 512 MB Ram.
I am going to try some podcasts now and let me hope that it handles them at least well.
Ditto. I loved the Ipod the moment I looked at it. I tried iTunes quite some time ago[4.x], and recently[6.x] as well, and It’s pretty stupid so as to say. Said it won’t start up because I disabled the iPod listener Service Even though I don’t have any iPod. And, takes up almost as much RAM as VS.NET, even When Not Playing!. Seriously, Apple has to make iPod compatible with others[WMP/Winamp] pretty soon….
Yuvi,
Let’s hope that Apple does something for iTunes atleast in the next version.
BTW how did u do ur exams?
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