I HATE APPLE

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.

tbh take your shit to the genius bar, they will probably shrug and give you a replacement or something

it's not a hardware problem tho -- it has happened for me w/multiple iPods, iPhones and an iPad. It's definitely software, and geniuses going to be no use w/that.

try zapping the PRAM

there's a program out there called beaTunes that is apparently just a "re-do" of iTunes, does anyone have experience with that?

apparently just a "re-do" of iTunes

what does this even mean

made primarily to sync with the iPod, uses the same structures, tags, etc., but better?

try zapping the PRAM

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:12 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

you can do this on the iphone?

need a new Mac... mine is almost ten years old! the big question is whether it will recognize all of my flac files that were encoded on a PowerPC Mac. if there's no problems, I'm gonna put the money down on a 2008 MacBook this afternoon.

There should be no problems, considering flac files are platform-independent. The only time I've ever heard of audio files worrying about platform is non-lossy archaic stuff like aiff files, where data could be stored big-endian or little-endian depending on processor architecture.

Think about it this way: all data will be fine, as long as you have programs that read that format. Applications, no.

try zapping the PRAM

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:12 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

you can do this on the iphone?

― bob loblaw people (dayo), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:52 AM (40 minutes ago)

probably not but it might be worth trying!

its not that. the last one was "Einzelhaft" by Falco which I've had for like 8 years. no rhyme or reason to it
― frogbs, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:12 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is it FLAC or MP3? reason I ask is FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. what this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. it's probably eroded completely over time

my god. is there any service or product that I can buy to prevent this decay? HELP!

Same happens with jpeg btw. When i look at the pictures I downloaded from the ~world wide web~ in 1995 there is only abt 32k left in them these days

ha, all my mp3s are on a SSD = i am safe. that terabyte of SSD is the best purchase i've ever made... and only $3000

Good luck with that $3000 pile of crap, it ain't gonna save you. You need one of the new $14,000 models specifically designed to counteract the effects of the rotational velocidensity. I'm not sure I completely understand the mechanics behind it, but basically it rotates the files in a reverse loop system to fight the degradation. Works great so far, but I've only had it for two years. I've only seen a degradation of about 2kbps MAX on all of the files I've spot checked, some of which do go back to 2001.

Yeah, but even then, it's still a SSD and they haven't figured out how to turn off the inertial compensation now that they mostly lack moving parts. I installed a SSD in a laptop that used to have a drive that required inertial compensation, and three months later? Dead SSD.

I've heard most manufacturers aren't even using a variation of their motherboards that lack IC (or have it turned off) and that is why the SSD failure rate is so high.

Well, yeah, I guess I've been fortunate so far, but I do dread the day I can't turn mine on.

is it FLAC or MP3? reason I ask is FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. what this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. it's probably eroded completely over time

I've been thinking about this and I realized something - this always happens to pop music, but it's never happened to anything simple or ambient. I think it's because albums like Music for Airports have more 0's in the bitfile than 1's (because there is a lot of empty space and only a few notes), and the 0's, being rounded, tend to not be effected so much by the rotational velocidensity. So I think I'm going to start replacing my MP3s, starting with Yes and King Crimson, then stuff like Devo and Gary Numan, and so on in that order. Thanks for the help

That's just nonsense.

this thread has taken an awesome turn.

Afroman Fixed Point Theorem: all mp3s erode but converge to "Because I Got High"

Good luck with that $3000 pile of crap, it ain't gonna save you. You need one of the new $14,000 models specifically designed to counteract the effects of the rotational velocidensity.

What crap. All you need is to draw a green texta line around the outside of your computer. That will stop the bits seeping out.

That reverse loop system is fine, but it won't do shit if you take your drive south of the equator or cross the International Date Line from east to west. Just ask those F-22 pilots

Anyone listen to this week's This American Life about the place where they make Apple products in Shenzhen? Sobering to say the least.

non-lossy archaic stuff like aiff files, where data could be stored big-endian or little-endian depending on processor architecture.

this is exactly what my wave editor uses :(

had to postpone until tomorrow, will report back.

aiff isn't archaic!!

Yeah, not really. I was being somewhat backhanded on that. The thing to remember is that most apps will open files regardless, since locking to a single platform is completely ridiculius.

*ridiculous

Can we bitch about how Lion won't Bind to an active directory domain unless the moon is full and you sprinkle the blood of a virgin unicorn on your keyboard?

I don't believe that's true

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/video-pros-apple-needs-to-acknowledge-the-pro-industry-and-fast.ars

Holy shit, I'm surprised Apple's being so blowoffy about something so huge and crucial

i know very little about video editing but not being able to create or read an EDL seems..... utterly bonkers?

is it really that huge and crucial to Apple? The income from FCP must be like two days of iPad sales.

agree this is a total shitshow tho