the real irritation is that the metadata is in your phone backup, so if you try blanking/restoring and had manually managed music, you'd think you would get a blank library. but if it's a corrupted metadata database, you get that back.
I finally fixed my problem by not restoring and starting from scratch and it works like a charm now, so it might be that my iOS upgrading over the course of years was what fucked it up. I was kind of pleasantly surprised that restoring from iCloud backup now automatically downloads the purchased music that was on your device. I'd guess if I had iTunes in the cloud or w/e it'd restore all my music?
― mh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
the good thing is that metadata is stored in the individual files (except store-downloaded, non-embedded album art, i think - iTunes seems to bork that a lot) so it should be easily restorable
― Nhex, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
For sure. They only thing it was consistently botching was "what songs are in this library"
― mh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
my mid 2012 rMBP has gotten unbelievably slow and glitchy since installing yosemite ... anyone else having issues with this?
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Last year my iPhones music library database file was fucking everything up so badly I had to use one of those third party explorer apps to go in, find the database, and manually delete it
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
that sure sounds like another way to do it!
― mh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah i had to use a third party app to get rid of those greyed out songs - agree 5000% that managing music on the iphone is the pitts
― lagβn, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
The only music I've had on my phone since 2012 has been the mbv album, plus a John Hodgman audio book from the library that never went away. I don't listen to music in my phone - it's for talking, not music!
― Je55e, Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
now ical has stopped syncing right with google calendar
f*ck this yosemite garbage
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
my problem w/ itunes is this... once the library gets over a certain size (i haven't yet figured out if there is a magic number), functionality begins to get a little wonky. e.g. if you select a whole album and change, say, the year in the metadata, itunes will change the year in 10 of 12 tracks, not all of them. other times, i go to the menu bar to save something or perhaps quit the application and it's grayed out -- no options. i have to force quit itunes and reopened the program.
if my itunes library is more manageable -- say a few thousand tracks -- i don't have these problems.
i'm running 10.6.8 btw. this is on a macbook. i don't fuck with smartphones.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
I just hate LIBRARIES! I liked that on my Android I could just drag and drop songs like files. Fucking libraries - my tags were always a wreck, adding and managing tracks was too hard, and I finally just gave up on listening to music on a mobile device.
― Je55e, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Turning off the internet search results in Spotlight made it return to the old snappiness, I should've done that right away after installing Yosemite.
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 November 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
just bought my third replacement magsafe power adapter in two years
>:-(
― the late great, Sunday, 23 November 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Why? Where?
― Je55e, Sunday, 23 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
they keep fraying to bits
― the late great, Sunday, 23 November 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― ljubljana, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
the first one, i take responsibility for, i was wrapping the cord around the box too tightly when i was wrapping it up. the second one, ok, i was still wrapping it, but loosely this time. but this one that just frayed, i wasn't wrapping it at all.
― the late great, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
I've had three replacements for exactly the same reasons (with the same evolution of wrapping technique) - so far all under Apple Care, but after next year I fully expect to have to buy one at some point.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
wait, they told me these weren't covered under apple care!!!
― the late great, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
Really?! Mine is magsafe 2, with a mid-2012 Macbook Air. I'm in Canada, but I bought the Air and the Apple Care in the US.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 23 November 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah they really need to do something about those
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Anywhere to buy them cheaper than retail?
― Je55e, Monday, 24 November 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
This looks SOOOOOO dumb, gl apple:http://www.beatsmusic.com/features
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
*All of ILM gets jobs working for Beats*
― ιΎ, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if Stevie Wonder gets easily seasick on boats.
― pplains, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
I use beats music btw, ask me anything
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Does Stevie Wonder get seasick on boats?
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
how the fuck do I drag and drop MP3 files into this iPhone 6 my wife bought? No iPod interface, seemingly the only music you are allowed to put onto its internal storage are purchased MP3s from their store, wtf Apple
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
you're gonna need iTunes on a Mac or PC
― Nhex, Saturday, 29 November 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
have that, but it insists I turn on "Hone Sharing" and doesn't recognize the apple ID. I get the null bar/circle when I try to move the files from iTunes window to iPhone icon in Explorer
if there's no way to just drag and drop outside of iTunes, it isn't worth the hassle, she'll just use a separate PMP.
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
thanks btw
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201593
― the late great, Saturday, 29 November 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
can you login on the device w/the same apple ID as the PC?i think there is third party software you can use to manually manage the files but i haven't looked into it in a while
― Nhex, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
I use iFunbox to shift music and movies onto the kid's ipad, but I have jailbroken the device which I found a bit of a learning curve to say the least.
― xelab, Saturday, 29 November 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Man this is one of the many reasons my Android tablet is making me hate my iPhone
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 November 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
updating my iTunes on the Mac to 11.4 did the trick, thanks y'all, dragging and dropping from the hard drive as I type
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Should we googleproof this thread, or, direct this lovely person to Yahoo Answers?
― fields of salmon, Saturday, 6 December 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
fuck you, you racist piece of shit
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Sunday, 7 December 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
that escalated quickly
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Sunday, 7 December 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link
Oh Spotlight. What happened. All I wanted to do was open Chrome.
http://i.imgur.com/6qlH0Q5.png
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
i think we all know what you wanted
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
when you're lost out there and all you're alone, Spotlight will be waiting, to carry you home. Spotlight knows your inner desires.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
shibba-da-bop-a-doo-wow
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
i already said this upthread but spotlight sucks so bad now
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
just turn off the internet searching
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
yup http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 5 January 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
Kind of harsh.
― Jeff, Monday, 5 January 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
well sure os x was a mess for a long time, but it was improving in the sense that the long term stability/bug trend was in the right direction. that's no longer the case.
and everything they touch related to sync, cloud and itunes is a disaster.
also they still haven't fixed the finder.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 5 January 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
I feel like iTunes is messy but serving them well enough, but agree on sync and iCloud
switching to desktop linux is still the burning forest to spite a handful of trees approach
I have occasional work on linux as a desktop, use Windows mostly as a development platform, and honestly use iOS at home probably twice as much as anything else. I guess if particular things fit needs, then go with what fits your needs?
fwiw, "linux" as a desktop is still a grab bag of whatever you want, afaik, but prob ubuntu? windows in corp environments is mostly windows 7 to my knowledge, but might migrate toward 10. whatever windows server corresponds with win 8.1 is nice and powershell is kinda tight
caek I know you do mostly scientific work, do you do scientific crunching with some programming? I am tangentially involved with people running a lot of distributed python on clusters, these days
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 5 January 2015 04:07 (nine years ago) link
I've rarely had any sync issues with iCloud. I feel like it's just one of those things that once it is set up, it's fine. Maybe I'm just lucky.
― Jeff, Monday, 5 January 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link