I HATE APPLE

was charging my ipad once every 2-3 days, now it's once a day or it's dead

3G w/ data plan enabled

though tbf I mostly have been using it for reading pdfs & have only used 100 megs of 3G data (a fair of wifi too though)

will keep eye open for this though

has been fab to use on flights I gotta say, I've never been able to be productive on flights until I got this thing b/c it's such a hassle to crack out a laptop, esp. on regional jets, but with this thing I can type just fine & take care of little tasks that don't warrant real time but still need to be done.

was 100% fully charged this morning when I left the house, it's been mostly sitting on my desk for a couple of hours (apart from 15 minutes of flipboard use) and already down to 88%

lol down to 87% while typing that

liveblogging my battery meter

I don't have mine with me right now but I'll check it tonight

Mine's doing all right on 5.0.1, no perceptible change

hating iTunes Match right now - took me most of my xmas holidays to upload/match and then proceeded to slow down my devices to a crawl (plus, not hiding compilation artists in the ipod menu is kind of a deal-breaker to me). Had to turn it off

argh. Updated itunes to 10.5.2 and now I can't access the store.
What have we learned?
NEVER UPDATE ITUNES

You didn't learn that ages ago?

itunes 4 4 lyfe

feel like I'm returning to an abusive partner

(plus, not hiding compilation artists in the ipod menu is kind of a deal-breaker to me)

idg why this still happens. Navigating music through the Apple TV is sort of horrendous because of this.

how did music end up on your TV man?? it's supposed to go through your stereo

just tryina help

Apple TV is for music, iTunes is for iPad syncing, iPhones are for games

:D

MacBook Air does not fly

apple nerds: I need help!

I want to do this:

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/05/27/mac-automation-e-mail-songs-from-itunes/

(select song in itunes, open a new e-mail message with it as an attachment)

except it seems automator was changed and I can no longer save a process as an applescript plug-in. I can only save it as a workflow runnable from within automator.

ideally I want something accessible via the menu bar or dock. any tips??

if it's a workflow then put it in ~/library/services and then it should be accessible from the itunes->services menu

dude, there has GOT to be a doug's applescript for this purpose

ding ding ding

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=tracksasmailattach

thank you doug (and tracer)

surely launchbar can do this?

probably! this is for my mom's imac - want her to be able to do this all in one click instead of mucking around in finder etc

Lol I was just teaching my dad the "drag straight from iTunes to mail compose window" concept tonight. Can't your mum do the same?

I have taught her before but I think she forgot

I also resized her desktop to 1366 or some ishhhh (from native 1920) so screen space is limited

It amazes me how old people can tolerate that. Non-native screen resolutions drive me nuts.

well in the case of my own mom she tolerates it because she is basically blind and native resolution = no seeing

Isn't the ctrl-scroll zoom better? My mum's nuts for it.

oh yeah she uses that too

In my first two hours of my first day at that gate, I met workers who were 14 years old, 13 years old, 12. Do you really think Apple doesn’t know? In a company obsessed with the details, with the aluminum being milled just so, with the glass being fitted perfectly into the case, do you really think it’s credible they don’t know? Or are they just doing what we’re all doing? Do they just see what they want to see?

tbf when apple sends their 'inspection squads' the owners know well in advance and sweep all the bad stuff under the proverbial carpet

Not defending Apple by any stretch but I suspect all smartphones are built by infants.

yeah i'm starting to get a little fed up with the iPods, which I've previously defended pretty vigorously. iTunes seems to randomly fuck up the tags on certain albums (and I do mean randomly), which causes them to not play on the iPod (it treats each track as though it was 0:00 and cycles through them all). last time I plugged it in it said the iPod was corrupt and needed to be restored, only it would only sync 1000 or so songs and then just freeze up. now every time I plug it in I get a little nervous. this thing is only like 6 months old.

Get it replaced under warranty?

(it treats each track as though it was 0:00 and cycles through them all)
fucking hate this. Like 90% of the library on my iPad does this and about 10% on the iPhone. Is there a fix?

sadly I lost all the paperwork but if the thing busts again I'll do this (I wound up fixing it by rebooting everything and letting it sync overnight, and miraculously it got through everything)

my solution to the other problem is to highlight all the "busted" songs, right click, then hit "convert ID3 tags" and switch them to version 1.0 (or whatever). that tends to fix it. if it's really 90% of your library though it's probably something else...mine is just like maybe 1-2% of it

Ah so probably not a warranty thing. Maybe your itunes library is corrupt at some level? I've never had a problem like that with any device.

My library has been around since iTunes 1.0, so I guess there's a lotta cruft in there, but they should be expecting that. I'm not starting again from scratch now.

Sounds like dodgy mp3s to me

Happens even on aacs from the store, and it's not the same tracks -- syncing and re-syncing will change which ones play. I hadn't considered it being corrupted tags before, but that makes a lot of sense. On the iPad I think it's the Music app's DB that's snookered. Need to resync it when I have the time

My library has been around since iTunes 1.0, so I guess there's a lotta cruft in there, but they should be expecting that. I'm not starting again from scratch now.

Have you run Consolidate Library at anytime since the beginning?

www.spotify.com

I've only run into those issues with files with malformed metadata, or corrupted mp3s that iTunes would glitch on as well.

So the new weirdest issue I've had is that Safari on my iPhone will keep switching the "Accept Cookies" setting to "Never" at random intervals. Anyone ever had that?

I have a weird glitch where I lose all control of the iPod app on my iPhone - just shows a big pause button, can't browse, can't change anything w/o resetting the phone

I get that when I try to open a large (>3gb) playlist. Just locks and dies.

Should I use consolidate library? I assumed that just moved music files into place, and I've always had iTunes organise my files for me

^ditto. specifically the 'recently added' playlist that is on my ipod touch for no discernible reason.

Sounds like dodgy mp3s to me

its not that. the last one was "Einzelhaft" by Falco which I've had for like 8 years. no rhyme or reason to it

whats frustrating about it is that my very first iPod (which I bought 7 years ago!) had this problem and it still hasn't been fixed. also there's a volume glitch if you set a track to play at a high volume (when you skip to that track, the volume will adjust first, then a half second later the track changes, so a 'normal' volume track will murder your eardrums) that's been around forever. I mean it really does not seem that hard to fix.