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Why does listening to music have to be this difficult?

Posted by BadKitty on Jan 19, 2007 at 03:30 PM

I waited with much anticipation for the arrival of my very own box of sheer wonderful, the iPod. I have listened to idiot after idiot go on about how getting their iPod was a life changing experience. I dreamed of the day when I too could experience this sheer bliss. Oh how I looked forward to the days of spontaneous dance recitals, and my heart would leap with joy, and Gap would be calling me up to be in their commercials. I would be so cool that it would want to dress like a homeless person, and when I dance, oh baby, glowing lights will shoot out of my ass.

Well let me tell you, this didn't feel nothing like bliss. In fact, the only thing it felt like was a pain in the ass. I am a relatively intelligent person, in fact, let me be a real bitch. I have a little more upstairs than most. I pride myself on my ability to help others that are too stupid to do things just like this. It is a good thing this PIECE OF CRAP was something I won as a freebie, because I wouldn't have paid for this sort of irritation. I digress...

I open the box, put the disk in the computer, open the book and read the directions. (Logically this what you do, right?) Well, I should have stopped right here. I should have thrown the directions away along with the disk because they were both useless. (Along with these gigantic apple stickers...what am I supposed to do with these? They won't fit on the device. OH, I get it, I stick your greasy advertising all over my car and my notebooks and anything else visible to others so we can spread the word that I am an idiot!) After running the disk, it told me that the version of iTunes was too old to use with my iPod, please upgrade to a newer version of iTunes.

Well now that I have what i think is the right version of iTunes, I format my iPod. Or so I thought. Well the disk I have comes with the iPod software and updater. Hm. It says that my software on my iPod is out of date, use updater. Ok. I click on updater. Updater doesn't support MY iPod. (tHeN wHy tHE hELL IS it IN tHe BOX!!!!!!) Nice.

Go back to website. Read. Tap foot. Read. Attempt to move music to iPod. I think I have it. Cross fingers. So, I plug in the headphones. And are sunshine and rainbows flying out of this thing? Hell no! Get pissed off. Take more adderall.

Go back to website. Read more. Start all over. Uninstall everything. Wipe out iPod. Install iTunes from website. Throw disk and manual in garbage. Plug in iPod. Use iTunes to update iPod. Spend hour and a half trying to figure out how to move music to iPod.

I wasted 7 hours of my life when a cheap ass little mp3 player that my friend has does it better. And I think he only paid $20 for it.
Step 1- Plug in to USB
Step 2 -Drag and Drop MP3
Step 3- Press PLAY!!!

Would any of you Apple heads care to explain it to me like I am a friggin idiot? I don't understand it. Why make something hard for no apparent reason? What is so great? Why is it so wonderful? Why all the talk and the hype? Why the F#%K is everyone always talking about this crap ALL the time. My phone does the same thing. Once I figure out how to plug the phone into the car, I will throw this little-happy-white-wonderful-lovely-hunk-of-nothing-but-hype just where I put it's useless little disk and pointless manual. File 13.

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ChePibe spoke on Jan 20, 2007 at 06:01 AM

Huh. I don't know what caused that problem. I've had 2 iPods, and both worked just fine - plug n' play. My latest Nano took all of 5 minutes to set up.

Anonymous Coward spoke on Jan 20, 2007 at 06:40 AM

Hrm. I'll take it, BK. :)

-Ender

RickySilk spoke on Jan 20, 2007 at 11:00 AM

I got one of those cheap little one's like your friend has. An RCA Lyra I got off woot for $30. It has 256megs onboard ram and it takes external SD ram. It shows up as mass storage on my Mac at work, wifes windows machine and my linux machine at home. I just drag and drop mp3's onto it put it on shuffle and head out. No fuss no muss. It takes one AAA. I keep two rechargables in rotation.

RickySilk spoke on Jan 20, 2007 at 11:01 AM

This one is slightly nicer than mine... has 512 internal memory. Went for $30. [link]

Anonymous Coward spoke on Jan 21, 2007 at 12:24 AM

Hey BadKitty, you think THAT's frustrating, well... try working on computers for a living. Nice article, and a cool picture too.

- dick

P.S. Wasup kungfoo... Ricky, nice job on the new site.

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squee spoke on Jan 22, 2007 at 01:50 AM

My theory, is that it came from a batch of lemons =( and that somebody knew it, and this is why it was a freebie for contests.

carpanza spoke on Jan 22, 2007 at 11:13 AM

You'd never make it in the tech support field BadKitty.... try working on a piece of crap that doesn't work while being hounded by bosses and customers. :)

On another note... I never did like the way iTunes does their media library, and it's annoying how it is wanting to update every two days. I eventually uninstalled it and put winamp back on my machine.

voodooeskimo spoke on Jan 22, 2007 at 03:50 PM

Can you not use Windows Media Player to sync with the iPod? I'm actually looking into buying one now, and now I gots concerns.

BadKitty spoke on Jan 22, 2007 at 03:59 PM

@ Carpanza: I don't know if you have any idea what I do for a living, but I would love to know what you call "tech support". I don't think you could handle my day all day, every day. I deal with the public, and not all smart people. Mostly I deal with idiots. I have to teach them how to do everything from how to power on a telephone (can you believe people still can't figure out that?!!?) to how to set up 3 email accounts into their PDA and use their phone as a modem. All the while I am hounded by 3 phone lines with dumbass after dumbass wanting me to buy stupid shit from their company that I don't want, (like life insurance) and countless customers calling wanting to know how much a pager costs, when their bill is due, what new phones are out. Oh yeah, and all the while I am handling the six people in front of me all asking me questions, at the same time I have to make sure no one steals anything and that everyone is happy, no one feels like I am neglecting them and walks out. I have to know everything about paging, wireless service, including everything about every device and every accessory to go with every device, and every nuance of setting up home phone service. Also I have to know how to fix every problem that occurs with each one of these things. No my boss doesn't breathe down my neck, because he isn't an ass and I know my shit. If I were a fuck up, I guess he would be hounding me. And that isn't even my regular work, that is just my "extra work", I also have beaucoup paperwork and billing stuff I do as well. No, guess I can't handle tech support. NO WAY. BTW, been there done that. Job Title "tech support"- I think that was job #32 on my list of 40. Got the t-shirt, bored me to pieces.

As you can see I haven't got time to waste on stupid shit like iTunes.

ChePibe spoke on Jan 22, 2007 at 09:20 PM

Dang, Bad Kitty... what model iPod is this? I've heard of the new iTunes not running so well under Windows... strange. Can't say I fully understand, as a mac guy and all, but I've never had that kind of a problem.

BadKitty spoke on Jan 23, 2007 at 11:04 AM

You know, this isn't my first experience with iTunes. When I bought my new computer last year, it came with it and it was being a big hog and kept trying to do shit with my music that I didn't like. I ended up uninstalling it. I was going to give it another chance, however, when I got my iStupid. My opinion hasn't changed. It isn't user friendly, and it takes too much time to figure out. And maybe that is the problem...I am not a "Mac Guy". I had a mac laptop years ago I tried like hell to make it work for me. It pissed me off and I gave it away. It's so funny, my first computer was an apple that I used as editor of my literary magazine in high school in 1988. I wonder how I got lured away from apple, I loved that piece of crap! (Damn, I am old!)

carpanza spoke on Jan 24, 2007 at 02:58 PM

Maybe 'tech support' isn't the right term. Brings up images of some slack-jawed idiot answering the phone at AOL, asking 'Have you rebooted'. Maybe doing IT would be a better way of putting it.

One of my friends was trying to get his digital camera to work with his laptop. He was pretty frustrated, and had spent hours looking at it. He asked me to take a look at the laptop. After about twenty minutes, I got it working. Then he said to me, "I'd rather run into burning buildings than have to deal with that crap again. You just keep doing what you do, and I'll do my job."

That guy is a firefighter, and I honestly believe that he would really would prefer to run into a flaming inferno of death than have to deal with that camera one more time.

I'll have to agree with you. It is shitty when they package hardware with software that doesn't work with the product, and a useless manual.

BadKitty spoke on Jan 24, 2007 at 07:50 PM

My point is that it can be done better, for much less money, with no whoring advertising and minimal time wasting. I work with crap like this all the time, and i get it, software has dumb shit, i know. that doesnt bother me. But when it works poorly and people defend it and keep trying to convince me i am a retard for not having one yet, I have to wonder. When I ask why ipod is better i get "electrolytes- it's what plants crave" Never a real answer.

Anonymous Coward spoke on Jan 25, 2007 at 12:36 AM

Idiocracy.... hee

RickySilk spoke on Jan 25, 2007 at 06:38 AM

Only suckas buy ipods.... Chepibe is no sucka though, he is just blinded by the glow Steve Jobs emits. :)

I work on a mac at work so I am no Apple hater.... just an ipod hater.

daydreamtime spoke on Apr 08, 2007 at 01:21 AM

I have the 30gig ipod video and I love it. Never had a problem with it. Of course mine is personalized with the quote, "People Are Stupid" on the back. maybe it's a good luck thing.

BadKitty spoke on Jun 28, 2007 at 09:05 PM

Just a note about the apple bullshit machine. The iphone is an overpriced hype machine. Dont get me wrong, the way it moves and the display is hella cool. But it isnt even 3g and for the price that is ridiculous. That way all the appleheads can go out and pay full price for the 3g version...if they even do it. And it isnt doing anything new. my phone does all the same shit, just not as flashy and at a much faster speed and 400 bucks cheaper. oh yeah and i didnt have to sit outside for 3 days in the burning sun to get it at "select" stores.

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