>I am a windows user (3.11 to XP no point in Vista) and a microsoft hater,
>I now have a G4 ibook and a 30g ipod. Both good machines, but Apple has a
>mindset that I find difficult to embrace.
>
>For instance, why does the ipod come up with 'do not disconnect' as soon
>as it is connected? We windows users understand USB.
Every external that is connected to your computer is not supposed to be physically disconnected until after it's been dismounted. The iPod has the ability to warn you. That's all it's doing. Make sense? And since it can be mounted both with a music app and as an external drive you have to make sure it;s completely dismounted before disconnecting. Isn't it nice that it warns you?
>It took me 3 weeks of asking to find out how to add tunes to the ipod
>without the annoying 'sync'. Yep its very simple piece of drag and drop
>but where is that explained?
In the help menu? Basically it IS Apple's documentation. That little question mark? Click on it and ask your question or browse its pages to learn new tricks.
You may know too much and be trying to out think the design functions. I fought with iTunes over my existing mp3 library when iTunes first came out, well before iPods were introduced. I had my file system and iTunes had its. My songs kept moving around and I'd move them back. For weeks we fought. I didn't know of any forums to ask questions and learned slowly how iTunes had been well thought out and cooperating with it was a good thing. Happily, that was all settled before my first and only iPod--a 3G.
At least iTunes could still find all the music as I shuffled things around from the Finder. When iPhoto came out, my experience was much messier and mucking in the finder was a bit disastrous.
>Now I am trying to add selected photos without setting up a special
>folder to sync with. Can it be done.????? Tell me how please.
>If that can be done can I add pics from other computers or disks?
No not if you want to see them on the iPod. You can have many types of files on a computer that are not seen by one program or another unless you tell that program about them. It's the same with an iPod. iTunes does the heavy lifting to allow the tiny program on the iPod to efficiently present your music, photos and movies to you.
You will be happy if you choose or create a few albums of your favorite photos to sync with iTunes. It's the way to find and display photos. You choose to sync specific albums. Now you can choose what photos are in those albums in your photo app and iTunes makes sure those are the photos ready to share with friends or view on your own.
>An other useful thing I would like to do is to delete tune from the ipod.
>Anyone know how to do that?
>
>If I buy another player it will work with 'drag and drop' and wont need
>bloody itunes.
The iPod doubles as an external drive. You can even put a system on it and start up from it. The beauty of the iPod is its simplicity. I cooperates with a program the resides outside the unit. It doesn't have to be iTunes; there are other programs that will load your media.
>Its a good device but why is DRM and the desire to stop me moving my
>music around a greater priority than being the great portable successor
>to the walkman that it should be.
DRM is not Apples choice; it was included to get the music companies to partner in Apple's distribution innovations. It now looks like DRM may go away as other distributors enter the market without it.
>cheers Steve
>
I suspect that your experience will improve. Often the frustration will turn to appreciation same as in any good love story. The iPod hopes to make you happy. Your happiness will make us happy.
Cheers indeed, ~Edie
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