Gulp!

I got a Mini-Ipod for my niece this Christmas and never even gave a thought to her being able to use it.

She probably traded it for Alf Pogs or whatever kids are into these days.

Carl 06 Jan 2005

I've never messed with iTunes for Windows, but I have heard that it is, in fact, a steaming pile of poop.

andrew 06 Jan 2005

Consider this revenge for Microcrap Word.

mollusk 06 Jan 2005

Maybe it's just Jobs' way of fucking with the PC community...

"Hey Gates! You wanna use iPod?! Buy a Mac, sucka!"

QTip 06 Jan 2005

MP3s suck. The future belongs to the analog loyalists.

Gomez 06 Jan 2005

gomez, i have this enormous turntable backpack that i wear to the gym, and i pull a wagon full of vinyl with me wherever i go. it's very convenient.

jpeg 06 Jan 2005

I have itunes here at work on a PC and its okay. Its pretty comparable to iTunes on a Mac in regards to functionality and appearence.

Vinyl records and a turntable-what is that? (just kidding)

nora 06 Jan 2005

man, jpeg and gomez... you two have my mind running at 78 rpm! I'm going home and rigging my 1200 so I can go to the gym with my records.

Wait, I don't need to go to the gym cuz those damn records are so f*ckin' heavy... never mind.

if I had a dime for each record I had to move from house to house through the years, I'd have no mortgage.

pazen 06 Jan 2005

I've installed iTunes on a PC a bunch of time without any problem. John, can you say user error?

gil 06 Jan 2005

A couple of solutions: Use that turntable device from Tone Loc's Wild Thing video or, perhaps, stop wasting your money on a gym. Stay at home doing chin-ups on a rusty ceiling pipe in your basement, taxi-driver style with a crackly AM transistor radio playing banda music.

Also, tape is an analog medium, and a sturdy walkman doesn't cost $300. More like $8. Budget rock forever.

If your mind is running at 78 RPM you will need to get a 78 needle. For that and more audiophile extravagance go to Jerry Raskin's Needle Doctor. Amazing turntable designs that make an iPod look like a first-year 3-D design project (minus the foam core).

Gomez 06 Jan 2005

Gil, shouldn't you be lighting candles in your Stephen Jobs shrine right about now (or is that how the fire started)? I'm sure something I'm doing is causing all the iTune controls to respond after minute-long delays. Oh well I guess I'm lucky that it didn't crash my OS. (http://janicek.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=490)

Gomez, I'm totally on board with crappy transistor radios. I listen to one down here. It's a full-on retro thing I'm introducing to make all you analog geeks look trendy.

jpeg 06 Jan 2005

OK, so I went to that link that JPeg provided, and I actually laughed out loud.

>>From the Windows 2000 Advanced Options menu, choose Last Known Good Configuration.

Last known Good Configuration! They actually have a menu choice for it in their OS!

I wonder if the problem isn't Apple or iPod but that they have to try to gin up a program that consistently works in Bill Gate's craptastic world?

QTip 07 Jan 2005