why itunes sucks today
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I just upgraded my little clippy shuffle to the new 4th gen version. As it was new I needed to initialise it with itunes. The version on my computer 6,7,8 or 9 would not recognise it so I had to download the brand spanking new version 10 on my vista machine. Everything went fine with no problems at all and once it was initiallised I was able to copy music across from Personal Music Player just fine. Now everytime I reboot the machine I get a lovely little dialog saying one of apples services can't start because it can't find the correct dll version. Thanks apple. I shall take great pleasure in uninstalling your bloated rubbish piece of junk.
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By the way, you can load the shuffle using WinAmp (and probably other music library managers). WinAmp is way better than iTunes.
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pseudonym67 wrote:
on my vista machine
Well there is your problem! :laugh:
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:laugh: Vista does suck, Win7 is a lot better... I guess that sets up Win8 for failure before it even gets launched.
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I just upgraded my little clippy shuffle to the new 4th gen version. As it was new I needed to initialise it with itunes. The version on my computer 6,7,8 or 9 would not recognise it so I had to download the brand spanking new version 10 on my vista machine. Everything went fine with no problems at all and once it was initiallised I was able to copy music across from Personal Music Player just fine. Now everytime I reboot the machine I get a lovely little dialog saying one of apples services can't start because it can't find the correct dll version. Thanks apple. I shall take great pleasure in uninstalling your bloated rubbish piece of junk.
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iTunes? Vista?! Are you from one of these sects which members have to lash themselves once in a while and you are currently out of whips?
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I just upgraded my little clippy shuffle to the new 4th gen version. As it was new I needed to initialise it with itunes. The version on my computer 6,7,8 or 9 would not recognise it so I had to download the brand spanking new version 10 on my vista machine. Everything went fine with no problems at all and once it was initiallised I was able to copy music across from Personal Music Player just fine. Now everytime I reboot the machine I get a lovely little dialog saying one of apples services can't start because it can't find the correct dll version. Thanks apple. I shall take great pleasure in uninstalling your bloated rubbish piece of junk.
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I can't help but smile - you're running a turd of a Microsoft operating system but complain about the Apple media app when the issue you're having is restricted to Microsoft Windows. Nice. :rolleyes: <donning flame retardant suit> iTunes runs spectacularly on OS X. Fast (64 bit) and smooth. Never a hiccup. </donning flame retardant suit>
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I just upgraded my little clippy shuffle to the new 4th gen version. As it was new I needed to initialise it with itunes. The version on my computer 6,7,8 or 9 would not recognise it so I had to download the brand spanking new version 10 on my vista machine. Everything went fine with no problems at all and once it was initiallised I was able to copy music across from Personal Music Player just fine. Now everytime I reboot the machine I get a lovely little dialog saying one of apples services can't start because it can't find the correct dll version. Thanks apple. I shall take great pleasure in uninstalling your bloated rubbish piece of junk.
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pseudonym67 wrote:
my little clippy shuffle
Clippy on a Windows machine with an Apple product. Now there's something you don't hear about too often ...
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I can't help but smile - you're running a turd of a Microsoft operating system but complain about the Apple media app when the issue you're having is restricted to Microsoft Windows. Nice. :rolleyes: <donning flame retardant suit> iTunes runs spectacularly on OS X. Fast (64 bit) and smooth. Never a hiccup. </donning flame retardant suit>
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Yet plenty of other programs run just fine on Windows, therefore it is the fault of iTunes, not Windows. If you can't make your program work on an operating system it's not the operating system's fault.
Relax! I never said iTunes was perfect (especially on Windows).
lewax00 wrote:
If you can't make your program work on an operating system it's not the operating system's fault.
Sometimes a really shitty OS design (can you say DLL hell) makes application development harder than it needs to be.
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Relax! I never said iTunes was perfect (especially on Windows).
lewax00 wrote:
If you can't make your program work on an operating system it's not the operating system's fault.
Sometimes a really shitty OS design (can you say DLL hell) makes application development harder than it needs to be.
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Sometimes a really sh***y OS design (can you say DLL hell) makes application development harder than it needs to be.
True, but I'm just saying in this case it's iTunes' fault if it can't find the right version of its own DLL, which I wouldn't imagine is shared with any other programs. But then again I wonder if it isn't partially intentional, to try and get people to switch to Apple computers (make it work enough to be passable, but no more, and hope people will blame Windows).
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I just upgraded my little clippy shuffle to the new 4th gen version. As it was new I needed to initialise it with itunes. The version on my computer 6,7,8 or 9 would not recognise it so I had to download the brand spanking new version 10 on my vista machine. Everything went fine with no problems at all and once it was initiallised I was able to copy music across from Personal Music Player just fine. Now everytime I reboot the machine I get a lovely little dialog saying one of apples services can't start because it can't find the correct dll version. Thanks apple. I shall take great pleasure in uninstalling your bloated rubbish piece of junk.
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I had a similar issue after attempting to debug some issues with my CD drive. Some complaint about the settings being wrong for burning CDs with iTunes. Which I might care about if a) I burned CDs or b) I actually had a CD drive attached to the computer (I removed it soon afterwards, and haven't put on back in...). I reinstalled Windows recently and still haven't set iTunes back up...unfortunately there's no alternative I'm aware of that works with the iPod Touch.
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I had a similar issue after attempting to debug some issues with my CD drive. Some complaint about the settings being wrong for burning CDs with iTunes. Which I might care about if a) I burned CDs or b) I actually had a CD drive attached to the computer (I removed it soon afterwards, and haven't put on back in...). I reinstalled Windows recently and still haven't set iTunes back up...unfortunately there's no alternative I'm aware of that works with the iPod Touch.
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http://www.ipod-pc.com/ipod-manager.php[^] No idea if it really works but it looks promising.
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If you think of it - let me know how it works out. I use a Mac with iTunes but have plenty of friends who use PCs that might want an alternative to iTunes.
