Linux, programming, computers and life

May 9, 2008

Filed under: life

Ipod shuffle is nice because:

  • it’s cute
  • it has good sound quality
  • it’s CUTE (according to my girlfriend)
  • opening experience is really great
And NOT nice because:

  • iTunes
  • one must do something besides copying the files to the device
  • iTunes (according to my girlfriend)
We both fought ITunes (and we both have degrees in computer science and both programmers), for me it was a second time, and we lost. Finally, when we understood what to do, in order to get our audio collection transferred to shuffle not randomly, we had to import the collection to iTunes. Which was taking ages… (nice touch - format conversion is asynchronous to other operations with iTunes).
So i uninstalled the damn thing, together with quicktime player (hehe). And using simple iPod Shuffle Without iTunes (which only takes several kilobytes and evel looks mac-like) we finally won.
Or, from other point of view, lost to iTunes ;) .

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