I-Tunes help for dummies

**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

Originally Posted by ZeroIndex

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

Originally Posted by Waylander

Worms are another matter though.

**Dave Lobster** · 17th July 2007, 07:28

Originally Posted by Waylander

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

Originally Posted by Devil

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

Originally Posted by Waylander

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

Originally Posted by Devil

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.

Originally Posted by WarlockNZ

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

Originally Posted by Mom

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.