Quote:
Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
No, no, no, no no!! iTunes is the most counter-intuitive, user-unfriendly piece of software I have ever come across. Every single O/S comes with an absolutely fine way of transferring files to and from devices - iTunes is entirely redundant (and if it weren't for the hordes of Apple brainwashing victims would never be tolerated - it really is evidence that I could sell my turds if I could just find a way of embossing the Apple logo on them).
|
Agreed - iTunes is a total pain to use.
For my iRiver player I just plug it in via USB (standard connector) and it appears as a hard drive. Then it's just a simple matter of copying songs across
using any OS.
With my iPhone I've had no end of hassle using iTunes and the restrictions about moving content to/from the device from multiple machines are beyond annoying. Getting any video into the format that iTunes requires in order that the iPhone will play it is so annoying that I've just given up on using it as a video player despite the fact that it has really good playback.
I really like the iPhone generally but if anything is going to move me to another platform it's being able to do away with iTunes when it comes to moving media files on and off the device.
I just don't get why some here seem to think that being able to use a simple file copy to move files on and off the device (which would work in any OS) is such a bad idea vs a having to use a proprietary and IMO bloated piece of software with many arbitrary restrictions. The Cult of Apple is strong it would seem, strong enough to override common sense ...
Actually, one bad thing about the Sony Readers seems to be that they need dedicated USB device handlers. Although once you have the drivers they do show up as a mass storage device, if drivers aren't available it means you can't easily transfer files (unless you use the SD/MS card if the Reader model has one).