Yay! Old iTunes *still* available!
So, I finally got a new laptop. I was planning to wait awhile, but [a] the old one was getting very irritating and [b] when I checked around, it was apparent that if I didn't want to deal with Windows 11, I had only a shortish window before I wouldn't be able to find Win 10 anymore. As it was, there weren't a lot of models still available with Win 10. So here I am with 1 TB of storage (yay! room for more fic, pics, and music), only 2 USB ports, one of which is a '3', which none of my externals use (boo!), and a touchpad that's about 25% larger than the old one. That's something to get used to; the area where I'm used to resting my hands on the edge of the machine is now touchpad area, which interferes with commands when my skin touches it and I don't realize. But of the very, very good -- a fresh new battery lasts well past the three hours I spend with Cindy, so I don't need to unspool the extension cord to plug in, then put it away neatly when the visit is over.
But sometimes I feel grouchy-old-lady, wondering if the "improvements" in new tech are all that great. I thought my DW reading page was soothing shades of pastel yellow and pastel green. When I opened DW in the new laptop with its "enhanced, vibrant" colors, I actually flinched -- searing chartreuse green and eye-poking bright yellow! I managed to switch the colors and tone them down to pastel again, but no such luck at LJ; I no longer have a paid account there, and my layout was very old. I grabbed a layout that'll do for now, in shade of sandy beige, but I hate the side column. OTOH, I don't spend much time on the LJ side, so I can find something more to my taste later.
So I've spent the last 3 days moving fic-pics-music (I need a bigger external HD; it was a bit glitchy) and downloading the few apps I use. When it came to iTunes, I decided to go with the latest version; by now it's probably past the irritations I complained about in this ten-year-old post, right? Wrong! I tried downloading from three different sources; the all failed. I checked comments under the third source; all were irritated about the current iTunes' interface with Windows, and one was absolutely livid about how much time they'd spent trying to make it work and how impossible it was to sync up current iTunes with Windows.
Fine; word to the wise and I'm stubborn, not idiotic. So I went to that old post and clicked the link but, as I suspected, it was dead. Okay, what work-around can I use? I can play music with VLC media player, but how to select-arrange-burn to CD? I was just about to come here and ask for suggestions when it occurred to me... maybe I could find old iTunes versions if I searched? And I did! Now I just need to figure out how to import all the music from the saved folder.
And really, there's no point to this post -- except maybe to demonstrate that we may all be a tad more invested in technology than we should be.
But mostly I just wanted to let you know that, if anyone is still using iTunes (I know, I'm sadly out of date, but I have no interest in Spotify or other streaming services) and you don't like the new versions, the old ones are still available.
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