Apples Are Not The Only Fruit...
A little techno-rant...
So I have a new iPhone 12... you know, from Apple - the company that's supposed to make things so easy, because they 'just work'... except they don't!!
I want to do something relatively simple - transfer all the music from my old, close-to-death iPod onto the new phone (which has 128gig of memory - same as the old iPod) & can I do that?? No... I can't
The trouble I had just getting the music off the old iPod & onto my iTunes was fun enough - the iPod has heaps of stuff on it that's not on my iTunes & I had to Google a way to go 'backwards' - from iPod to iTunes. I found a way, but it renamed all the tracks & grouped them into parcels. I then had to go through & enter the song & artist info, then once I put it into iTunes, go through ALL the songs on there to eliminate duplicates. There's roughly 70gig of music on there, which translates to THOUSANDS of songs, some of which iTunes called duplicates, but aren't, some of which iTunes thought weren't duplicates, but are
Then, once all that was done, it was time to download iTunes onto the new phone... except you can't any more. Okay, maybe Apple Music will work. It does have a lot of the songs I purchased through iTunes in there, but NONE of the countless CDs I've imported, let alone music from other sources, like all of the stuff I've played on, both for myself & others, that I only have wav. files of... So - let's see if I can get all of that onto Apple Music on the phone, from iTunes on the computer...
Nope, my PC doesn't recognise that there's an iPhone plugged into it & iTunes doesn't either. Re-starting, re-booting, then finally re-installing iTunes didn't fix anything, but it DID get rid of all my playlist information, which I'll now have to re-do... A quick Google reveals that it seems the iPhone 12 will only talk to other things via USB-C cable. My PC doesn't have any C ports &, according to Google, using a C to A adaptor doesn't necessarily work either
All of which leaves me... where??!!? This town's in lockdown, otherwise I'd march into the not-so-nearest Apple Store & loudly proclaim they'd better have a solution for me that doesn't involve replacing my PC with a newer one with USB-C ports on it & doesn't involve spending any more large sums of money
The death of Steve Jobs was obviously also the death of Apple as a user-friendly company
So I have a new iPhone 12... you know, from Apple - the company that's supposed to make things so easy, because they 'just work'... except they don't!!
I want to do something relatively simple - transfer all the music from my old, close-to-death iPod onto the new phone (which has 128gig of memory - same as the old iPod) & can I do that?? No... I can't
The trouble I had just getting the music off the old iPod & onto my iTunes was fun enough - the iPod has heaps of stuff on it that's not on my iTunes & I had to Google a way to go 'backwards' - from iPod to iTunes. I found a way, but it renamed all the tracks & grouped them into parcels. I then had to go through & enter the song & artist info, then once I put it into iTunes, go through ALL the songs on there to eliminate duplicates. There's roughly 70gig of music on there, which translates to THOUSANDS of songs, some of which iTunes called duplicates, but aren't, some of which iTunes thought weren't duplicates, but are
Then, once all that was done, it was time to download iTunes onto the new phone... except you can't any more. Okay, maybe Apple Music will work. It does have a lot of the songs I purchased through iTunes in there, but NONE of the countless CDs I've imported, let alone music from other sources, like all of the stuff I've played on, both for myself & others, that I only have wav. files of... So - let's see if I can get all of that onto Apple Music on the phone, from iTunes on the computer...
Nope, my PC doesn't recognise that there's an iPhone plugged into it & iTunes doesn't either. Re-starting, re-booting, then finally re-installing iTunes didn't fix anything, but it DID get rid of all my playlist information, which I'll now have to re-do... A quick Google reveals that it seems the iPhone 12 will only talk to other things via USB-C cable. My PC doesn't have any C ports &, according to Google, using a C to A adaptor doesn't necessarily work either
All of which leaves me... where??!!? This town's in lockdown, otherwise I'd march into the not-so-nearest Apple Store & loudly proclaim they'd better have a solution for me that doesn't involve replacing my PC with a newer one with USB-C ports on it & doesn't involve spending any more large sums of money
The death of Steve Jobs was obviously also the death of Apple as a user-friendly company