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Mom
16th July 2007, 19:48
Hi guys

I dont have an I-pod, have no idea how they operate....but I have kids, we have i-tunes, they use it.....all good so far, no viral threats that i can find, computer is fine, but....is all that stuff they download ( not all of it is shit to be fair) stored on my poor PC?........I seem to have a HUGE lack of storage space, which I guess is slowing this little baby (the PC for you grubby friends) up some?
I really need to get up to speed, literally and figuratively. Thanks for your advice/assistance

Mom
Dave Lobster
16th July 2007, 19:54
Get a little external hard drive. Put all the children's sh1t on that.
Big Dave
16th July 2007, 20:51
Itunes has an autobackup that writes purchased music to removable media.

Back the lil darlin's stuff up and dump it.
Sam I Am
16th July 2007, 23:20
yep it is posable to put itunes on a seprate usb2 external drive and there about
$150 for 250GB and thats huge............. so when you finally get them a computer they can just take the drive with them.....
the kids will have to google how to move the "itunes library" so itunes the program can find it. not sure on a pc but on a mac you can have multable librays and swap between them....
ZeroIndex
16th July 2007, 23:27
don't really have to worry about viral threats from itunes itself, considering it's programmed by apple, not microsoft or microsoft partnered companies
Waylander
16th July 2007, 23:32
don't really have to worry about viral threats from itunes itself, considering it's programmed by apple, not microsoft or microsoft partnered companies
Worms are another matter though.
ZeroIndex
16th July 2007, 23:49
Worms are another matter though.
:killingme
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Dave Lobster
17th July 2007, 07:28
Worms are another matter though.

You can get tablets for that. They go down easier wrapped in a piece of bacon..
Devil
17th July 2007, 08:11
iTunes is not even slightly friendly. If you can avoid it, do so.

It's one of the many things that'll stop me from buying an iPod again. (Yeah yeah, i load my mp3's with winamp anyway).
Big Dave
17th July 2007, 10:06
iTunes is not even slightly friendly. If you can avoid it, do so.

It's one of the many things that'll stop me from buying an iPod again. (Yeah yeah, i load my mp3's with winamp anyway).


I've got three of them and find iTunes and Ipods some of the best software - and are probably the favourite gadgets I have EVER used.
Great system, love it. The only problem I have with it is going crazy at the itunes store.
WarlockNZ
17th July 2007, 12:17
Grab yourself a copy of winamp. .. http://www.winamp.com.

Winamp has builtin ipod support and you can not only chuck away the piece of shit software that itunes is .. but you can get rid of the DRM as well.
Waylander
17th July 2007, 17:35
Go WinAmp!!
Mom
17th July 2007, 17:43
Worms are another matter though.

I see someone beat to the punch line, I was going to suggest pills for that, mind you I used to give my kids "worm chocolate" not bacon wrapped pills.....LOL


iTunes is not even slightly friendly. If you can avoid it, do so.

It's one of the many things that'll stop me from buying an iPod again. (Yeah yeah, i load my mp3's with winamp anyway).

See I used to use winamp all the time to source and play music, never saved it to external devices though, my worry is the amount of space that has been taken up with music downloads. I will look at getting another storage area and move all the music to that.


Grab yourself a copy of winamp. .. http://www.winamp.com.

Winamp has builtin ipod support and you can not only chuck away the piece of shit software that itunes is .. but you can get rid of the DRM as well.


DRM???? you are dealing with dummy here remember......LOL

My kids are grown, 2 dont even live here anymore, they just come home to recharge their i-pods.......LOL. The younger one about had a heart attack last night when I said I was going to bin all the crap music on here.......LOL. There must be a better way!

Thanks for all your feed back guys, I appreciate it!
Waylander
17th July 2007, 17:50
I see someone beat to the punch line, I was going to suggest pills for that, mind you I used to give my kids "worm chocolate" not bacon wrapped pills.....LOL


Apples can eat pills?

Don't tell me Index was the only one to get my joke.
Mom
17th July 2007, 17:52
Apples can eat pills?

Don't tell me Index was the only one to get my joke.

Yeah yeah, those worms come from the coddling moth tho sweets.......LOL, they need a bit of a pheremone trap to catch all the randy male moths in :dodge:
Toaster
17th July 2007, 17:55
What the heck is an Ipod really anyway. I have no idea how they get songs on them or how to work one. Where is my ol' record player?
Mom
17th July 2007, 17:58
What the heck is an Ipod really anyway. I have no idea how they get songs on them or how to work one. Where is my ol' record player?

*sigh* vinyl........:bye:
Waylander
17th July 2007, 17:59
What the heck is an Ipod really anyway. I have no idea how they get songs on them or how to work one. Where is my ol' record player?
I don't think it would fit on a bike man, even one as big as yours.
Big Dave
17th July 2007, 18:42
You're not using itunes on a mac are ya?

It's just so seamless on my systems. I've bought a heap of videos, and I get my favourite radio from back home as a podcasts. Downloads it all automatically and sticks it on my exercise unit. It's frozen twice in thousands and thousands of hours - it runs in my office 18hrs a day.

One of my early ipods had a shit battery, but apart from that I've ridden tens thousands of k's in them, walked hundreds of k's, played hundreds of games of basketball in them - including slam dunking them into the pavement on a number of occasions and haven't been able to kill them.

Love its guts.
Gremlin
18th July 2007, 00:53
itunes is fine for anyone not IT literate... as soon as you start to try and do something out of sync with it, it rapes you harder than a pretty female in a park at night.

I was stupid enough to get raped twice :mellow: It created duplicates and everything. I like to do things my way... and itunes doesn't like that at all.

I love winamp.. it just needs to be able to get song info... thats the only thing missing for me :love:
Big Dave
18th July 2007, 01:08
itunes is fine for anyone not IT literate...

I forgot! - I'm a complete schmuck :rofl:
Gremlin
18th July 2007, 01:23
I forgot! - I'm a complete schmuck :rofl:
I didn't have to say it... :rockon:

you are also using a mac... are there any alternative music players for macs? :dodge:
Big Dave
18th July 2007, 02:00
I didn't have to say it... :rockon:

you are also using a mac... are there any alternative music players for macs? :dodge:

Yeah - I've got a winamp patch somewhere.