On Apr 30, 2010, at 16:29 , Rob Studdert wrote:
Most likely because you or your son captured much of the artwork
using a
third party utility, or browsing Google and various bands websites.
When you
re-synched, iTunes, which only uses Apples own database, and
Amazon's (from
two years ago) went out and checked on all the artwork at those
sites, and
deleted the rest as being not recognized.
This is such a perfect example of just what has been being said by so
many in this thread. It's their way or nothing is the Apple paradigm.
How overjoyed was I to find that the great looking little iPod that we
had bought for a blind friend did not simply allow any combination of
audio files to be directly dragged and dropped (or batch copied) onto
a mounted drive as every other brand of portable music player had
allowed to date. In fact it was worse than that, of course I found out
that iTunes was required and then found that it wasn't supported for
that model iPod on the O/S that the intended owner was running.
Apple's solution, upgrade to an O/S to suite, you gotta be joking!
Don't put diesel in a petrol car.
A proprietary system designed to be "user friendly" must go to great
lengths to make sure it is not easily broken by users who have no
concept of what is behind the green curtain.
I have set up all sorts of specialist computer systems and networks
with complex automation and management systems which require
flexibility, PCs and the multitude of ways that they can be configured
and addressed has always offered the ultimate solution.
Good for you, Rob!
Macs can be configured to do most anything as well, but you can't get
the software from Apple to do it. Gotta drop into Terminal or the
Console and use Unix to make it jump through hoops and ring bells that
aren't made by Apple. Even I've been there a few times myself. But
only if someone else is telling what keys to press.
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
“ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
— Kevan Olesen
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