A Frustrating Journey
iTunes 11 was released recently. I had hope that it would address some of my frustration with iTunes. It didn't. All the old frustration remains and a couple new bugs arrived. My thoughts on iTunes and my plans for music moving forward. Read the rest »
The cloud is all the rage. I've been looking at cloud music players and storage. This is my impressions of iTunes Match. I'm already an iTunes/iPhone user for music so I'll probably like what I see. Read the rest »
It's been two months since the last Trail Log since things have been slow, but their picking up. Topics include two steps closer to being iTunes free along with some minor software upgrades.And then there was a new iPad. Read the rest »
I long loved iTunes as a music player. But everything else makes it bloatware in my opinion and that bloat causes problems to come and go. They came in the form of iTunes freezes the last couple of days. Read the rest »
I run a mixed Windows/Mac home and all my data resides on my Windows Home Server no matter whether it's Windows or Mac. This means my iPhoto library, iTunes library, Aperture library are all on my Windows Home Server. I recently noticed that these libraries were saving deleted files forever. Here's why. Read the rest »
There's a hack for getting rid of that Ping button on iTunes tracks. Read the rest »
I updated my post about my video sync problems with iTunes 9. I have a work-around for my video sync issues. Read the rest »
I held off installing iTunes 9 since I figured it would bring problems. There were major changes to the UI, but even more of a potential problem is the switch (or at least greater use of) from Cocoa to Webkit which has been reported by some people. But with my new iPod Touch on its way I’d need to be upgrading to iTunes 9. I decided to do it now in case it took awhile. It hasn’t been pleasant. Here’s what I’ve encountered. It’s a very long process to convert [...] Read the rest »
iTunes 8.0.1 has been released. Among the documented fixes is one undocumented fix I’m happy to see. Now the “Keep Movie Player On Top Of All Other Windows” does in fact do what it claims. Read the rest »
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last trail log so I figured I’d take this time to update some recent posts. My Windows Home Server fiasco is over. I did lose a couple of old movie files. They were old files that I had originally done for testing and pre-dated my backup regimen so they probably vanished long ago. The Windows Home Server is running fine with the external USB enclosure for two of it’s drives. I’ll have to send the eSATA enclosure back soon but I’m actually [...] Read the rest »