WARNING #1: Thinking about Apple , iTunes and iPods can send me into a rage of profanity....
It's been two years of a love/hate relationship with iPods - you may vaguely remember my experience with the little white portable music device right when we got it. Well, our computer decided to take a big greasy dump on Tuesday so I have been burning the midnight oil, not to mention my rods and cones, to get our computer back up and running to full capacity. The last thing on my list to do is figure out the least painful way of getting our music back onto the computer.
WARNING #2: For those of you who are/ were naive like me and thought that music is on the iPod, it should just transfer somehow back on to the computer after it crashes just fine, we are wrong. If you haven't backed up your music files recently I suggest you do so....now!......seriously...stop reading this blog...back up your music.....but hurry up so I can finish my story
OK you're back....what a pain in the ass that was, which is why we never backed up our music, until now.
So I've spent the entire morning reading the troubleshooting guides and message boards to try and find solutions to recover our music and podcasts - I have close to 800 songs on my iPod and Nate has about 300 - can you imagine us sitting and manually plugging in cds, not to mention all of the songs we've purchased from iTunes.
I finally came across some downloads and hoped they worked. I settled on Media Widget to try out their free trial to see if the program even worked. I install everything only to find out it will get you 10 songs off the iPod anything else I want I'm going to have to purchase the program. Is this a scam or wha? 10 songs??? Does anyone have just 10 songs on their iPod? That may get me around the block but not a road trip to Montana.
Three hours and $35.78 later we have iTunes restoration. The program worked! I can't believe Apple doesn't offer some sort of free program that does this for you. It just fries my ass! The crappy thing is we are completely helpless and let these corporate bastards give it to us in the ass without lube while they smoke their Cubans and laugh like the devil. Well, I hope they get banished to the 9th level of hell and I can have the last laugh high above them on my perch with my three headed monster friend and living the good life in the 3rd level of hell.
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No need to hold back for us, Molly. Tell us how you REALLY feel!
I understand the frustration. I keep thinking 'we really should back up the photo and video files in case something happens', especially since our computer has been acting a little dicey lately. I'd better get on that. I'll back up the music, too, while I'm at it. I have almost 4.000 songs on iTunes and it would be a PITA to replace them all. Good advice!
I'm sorry you had such a crazy time. Aren't computers supposed to make our lives easier? I don't ever remember having to worry about my vinyl malfunctioning and going away forever. Yeesh!
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