I HATE APPLE

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i dont want to, but anyway this no results thing is clearly some sort of awful bug maybe i will restart chrome

lag∞n, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link

good luck lag∞n

, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link

Search for 'show me my bills' for extra fun

Whoa.... so if you search "Show me Jesse's bills"......

Je55e, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/Cb7bsfk.png

i am a sick person

lag∞n, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link

lappys fan went on reloading all those suckers

lag∞n, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link

seems to have fixed it

lag∞n, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link

heh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0u9leKIgAAwLXJ.jpg

lag∞n, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link

I love those clever Pangu people, they have now swiftly jailbroken iOs 8.1 and now I can install ipa files with AppCake.

xelab, Monday, 3 November 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link

it has taken most of this evening to get it right, but now i am in command of this fucker.

xelab, Monday, 3 November 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link

the iPhone music library metadata code is starting to get unmanageably complex and bad, as far as I can tell

evidence:
1.I had an iPhone with a music library that would not wipe. It became glitched at some point and wasn't properly letting me add (manually managed) music to it, so I tried removing *everything* from the phone and switching on/off manually library management. It'd look blank on the computer, blank on the phone, plug the phone back in and it thought it had a few partially-synced songs again, none of which it'd actually try to sync. I'd assume it was trying to do non-destructive wiping, by clearing out the metadata database instead of blanking/reinitializing it but it was sooo broken
2. I just downloaded the rest of an album I'd preordered on my phone and it went from saying "1 song, 3 minutes" to "1 song, 40 minutes" when it's a 15 song album

I think the use cases between purchased music/synced by playlist/manually managed via computer/deleted manually on device are just so cluttered and they need to recode the logic tree from scratch

mh, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link

yeah I can't get itunes to sync my library right regularly, even when plugging the phone in. tracks just show up in itunes on the phone with an empty gray circle, and they're not really on the phone.

droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link

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

lag∞n, 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*

, 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

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

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


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