If Apple was SOOOO concerned about the media giants, then gee, they should have done the noble thing and not produced the iPod. But where there is profit in the offing, there is no morality. That is true everywhere and always. "Oh, they could have made the iPod, but Apple threw itself on the fire in the name of recording interests' profitability and refrained from creating the most whacked out file mgt. software in history! Oh the poor things! Now look at them, they're destitute!"
Apple made the deal they had to make in order to sell music. Plain and simple. The music store, since you don't appear to know, didn't start at the same time as the first Ipod was introduced. It came along a couple years later.
More from the tinfoil hat ledger....I discovered recently also that my iTunes 7.5 had been somehow stealth-updated to 8.0. I didn't do that. "Somehow", that gone done. Well also recently I plugged it in to my laptop and iTunes launched automatically and tried to sync the unit. I had turned that "feature" off, previously. And after unplugging the iPod fast to keep iTunes from wrecking it, I found that the option to keep this from happening somehow had disappeared from the iTunes prefs, too. Hmmm.. curiouser and curioser.
Wrong. Totally, completely wrong. You updated it accidentally or selected something to let it automatically update, but it didn't do it by itself. I've never even heard of this happening and I've been around these forums, Ilounge, etc. for over 5 years. It doesn't just happen like magic.
My search continued and praise all goodness, I stumbled across Media Monkey at mediamonkey.com. It's free, and it does not destroy your iPod if *gasp* you happen to have a diffrent set of files available on your machine v. the unit. And how about this... it allows you to move files FROM the iPod TO your PC! HOLYFREAKINGSHITE! And.... and... it allows you to make new Playlists too... using files on the iPod, not on your PC!!!! HOLY COW!
Do what you want. MediaMonkey is great software, no doubt about it. I used it for a long time when I was chained to a PC, but not to manage my Ipods, just to rip CDs and manage artwork.
Well, not as good as being able actually to do this on your iPod but this is progress. At least one need not keep 2.7 GB of .mp3 files on one's PC just so he can manage his own files on his own iPod.
Again, do what you want, but keeping all of your music solely on a portable player is not just IMO but in MOST people's "O" just asking for it. Bad things happen at random and all it takes is one of those things to lose it all - forever. There's more than one reason why Apple wants you to keep your music on your PC. It's not just to keep you from giving it to friends. It's a "safe harbor." Your PC stays in one place, your player goes with you and endures the risky stuff. If something catastrophic happens, you always have it at home. And,
seriously, you're concerned about 2.7gb of music? I have 220gb of music on my Macbook. You can't afford a measly 2.7gb of space?
There are a lot of dumb complaints about how Itunes works with Ipods, but this was one of the dumber ones, for sure. It's very sensible software, for the most part, and many people here explained it very sensibly, many times, and still you went on the attack over and over. Personally, I really wish people like you would just not buy Apple products. You think everything's greener everywhere, so please, check out the other side and let us know what you think after a while. My guess is you'll want to come back pretty quickly (but some don't, and you may be among them, and that's fine.) If you just learn the logic of Itunes, you'll understand it, but you're more interested in fighting it and trying to do things the old Microsoft way, which is "freedom to do anything, including screw it all up." More power to you.
