iTunes

[Shocker]

Jesus, I just have to vent on this fuggin iTunes shet app.  Why is iTunes so fuggin terrible.   Horrible.  It won't recognize my ipad pro no matter wtf I do.  I could smash my laptop everytime I have to use iTunes.  What a fuggin joke it is.  Fug!

[d-dave]

iTunes is why my wife ditched iPhones.  She's so much happier and on her second Samsung Galaxy (S6 and now S8).

I couldn't stand how closed off Apple makes their products.  It makes them such a nightmare to deal with.  I hate it when my folks come to me with iPhone issues.

[Anybodyhome]

Gotta be honest, guys. I still use an iPod at the gym (much smaller and easier to put in the pocket of your gym shorts). And no chance of an unwanted call or text or alert in the middle of a workout. Seriously, I know it's old school and all that, but it's really smaller than a credit card and I use if for an hour or so at a time... and when I'm riding the mower around the lawn. 

I have a Samsung and the wife has an iPhone. Every time she asks me how to do something on her phone, my standard answer is, "Go out to my shop, put it in the vise, tighten it down real good and I'll go fix it later."

[cookinwithgas]

iPhones are all our family has ever had since they replaced Blackberries and to be honest they are great to me because I would have to do all our tech support. They tend to work well because they are closed off hardware wise as well as with how software is developed and checked. 

And yes all my music is in iTunes and the idea of having to redo it makes the possibility of me getting a Samsung kind of remote. And yes I think iTunes sucks as well and I am a career IT person who can't figure out how to delete crap my kid bought under my account. It keeps coming back. I fuging hate Miley Cyrus and Black Veil Brides.

[d-dave]

On 7/16/2018 at 9:32 PM, cookinwithgas said:

iPhones are all our family has ever had since they replaced Blackberries and to be honest they are great to me because I would have to do all our tech support. They tend to work well because they are closed off hardware wise as well as with how software is developed and checked. 

And yes all my music is in iTunes and the idea of having to redo it makes the possibility of me getting a Samsung kind of remote. And yes I think iTunes sucks as well and I am a career IT person who can't figure out how to delete crap my kid bought under my account. It keeps coming back. I fuging hate Miley Cyrus and Black Veil Brides.

Do you really keep that much music on your phone?  I am only curious.  I don't know too many people who still keep music on their phones.  Nearly everyone I know is streaming stuff.

[cookinwithgas]

I'm doing more streaming but I spent a crapton of time and effort in the 00s pirating and cataloging a pretty big collection of what's old peoples music now LOL. A big part of the collection are the songs I've gotten off of iTunes to replace bad copies of Napster type downloads or to complete albums, etc. At this point I could let it all go and be all right I guess but man that was a lot of work

[Anybodyhome]

I have no music on my phone, but I'll stream off Slacker or my Pandora account on occasion. And I've had Sirius/XM since before their merge when XM was available in GM vehicles. But they even jacked their rates if you wanted it available on your mobile or home devices, which is fugging stupid. 

But somewhere buried deep in a few boxes are a couple thou CDs I'd like to upload to a Brennan or something similar. I'm like CWG... had that poo for years and don't want to give it up.

Might look into selling all of them on decluttr, Eaglesaver or Book Monster once I get them uploaded.

[cookinwithgas]

I just gotta vent that I was born 20 years too early; I didn't own a TV my entire time in the Navy but I had a pretty good audio system. I was a sonar tech so being an audiophile is part of the deal I guess. I would go to sea in a missile sub and be underwater for two months at a time. My music collection, mostly consisting of Maxell II cassettes that I record an album to and put the album away, filled up the drop down storage above my head. I could only dream of having 10x more music or whatever taking up no space whatsoever. I still have all those albums, and most of them have been played just once LOL. I also still have most of the cassettes, but don't own a player anymore.

I think that digital music has made music a lot less socially relevant and a lot more just background noise you wear on your head to block out all the other background noise. We'd have listening parties for new records, spending a Saturday morning at a friends house picking out 45s to play was a blast. Singles were around a buck apiece at the record store (in 1978 or so, this makes even legal digital music a steal, doesn't it?), and there was a last weeks singles chart taped to the current singles bin. OK now I'm gonna play a real record since my wife got me a record player for the stereo upstairs.

 

[Anybodyhome]

I still have a pair of Kenwood speakers about 24" tall, 12" deep and 14" across and weigh about 25lbs each. Bought 'em in Japan in 1975 on the way back from SE Asia. They still sound pretty damn good, too, although it's been several years since I've used them. I've got a bunch of old components in boxes in the attic. Wife wants a yard sale in September...

So, yeah, I used to buy TDK blank cassettes at $14 a case (10 ea), record albums and then bought a dual-well cassette deck to record tape-to-tape. Had to back then because you could buy new release tapes in Taiwan for like $2 (land of no copyright laws), but they were good for one use because of shitty tape quality. So the first play was to record them onto another decent quality tape. I actually found a couple boxes of cassettes up in the attic a few weeks ago.

I don't know if digital music changed everything, but I do know it really fugged up the music business. There was something very cool and fun about wandering up & down the aisles at the local Tower Records while the music played from the overhead speakers. Behind the registers there was a turntable and the album being played was prominently displayed- the people who worked there got to pick what to play. Hanging out with friends and going to Tower Records across from the San Diego Sports Arena on a Friday night was just fun. After we all bought a couple records each, we'd head over to one of our places, drink some beer, little weed and listen to music all night. You're right, there was a social context to music listening back then- people gathered to listen and talk about it and have a good time around it.    

[lightsout]

Google has the best music streaming service out (part of that being youtube so anything NOT found on Play Music can be found and streamed via youtube with the screen off in just the same way), it's just not as prominent as Spotify or Pandora because like a lot of Google's stuff, they don't really promote or advertise. I literally stumbled across it on my phone one day a year or two ago and realized that it just functions better than Spotify or Pandora or any other service.

[fitty76]

Apple has completely given up on iTunes.  It is the biggest pile of junk right now.  

[Shocker]

Yep, but don't even get me started on my worst hated shet ever...captcha.  I fuggin want suicide every time I see one of those fuggin "find the pictures with cars" garbage shet things.