Topic: Need help with iTunes on Win 7/64 Puh-LEEZE! ;-)

[Caruthers612]

    Despite the adroit applications of my legendary cleverness, as of now, even the most recent release of the version of iTunes advertized on its site as being designed for Win 7/64 will only play what is on the connected iPod--it will not play nice and sync. Previously, the program would open a window with a message telling me that this was so owing to iTunes having been installed incorrectly (trust me when I say that ain't not were the problem; the perhaps more recent version I just installed does not alert me in this way, though it too won't sync.
    Does anyone know anything about this? Is this a hot issue talked about on the techie forums and geek dungeons? Or am I missing something. All's I know is, I'd suffer the indignity of Taylor Swift smothering me with kisses to get this thing working right.

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[Michael Vandeven]

itunes is awful.  apple has never written good software for windows.  surprise, surprise.

[Caruthers612]

itunes is awful.  apple has never written good software for windows.  surprise, surprise.

      Don't I know it. Funny thing is, and a very little known fact, at least a couple of years before ever there was an iPod, I owned a device physically and functionally virtually identical made by iRiver, except that its design was infinitely superior. It could be used an MP3 player, yes, which I did, but with its simple Windows-Explorer-esque interface, it was also simply a portable hard drive, with no hardware or software restrictions, functioning like any external hard drive when connected to a PC. You could store or use and type of file, create folders and directories in the familiar manner, and the unit didn't care what the source of the data you placed on it was. Music, video, documents, whatever. It was wonderful. Glorious. Ahead of its time.
     Then the iPod appeared.
     With its predictably highly restrictive functionality and immoveable placement within the depressingly familiar, myopic, proprietary Jobsverse, it swept from the marketplace all rivals, leaving one with the prospect of an adequate MP3 player whose distant, shadowy Dark Lord forced one to use said device in only those ways He mandated, and to obtain music solely from His personal cauldron.
     Had iRiver realized the opportunity they had at that moment, seen that by simply promoting their existing product to the point that consumers were made aware of its existence and vast superiority over iPod, iTunes, and Steve Jobs' two-inch penis, they would likely have dominated the scene, iRiver brushing Apple aside to become the dominant force in the world of palm-size multimedia file players.
      Instead, the brains of iRivers' executives were apparently, at that very moment, abducted by ETs, leaving them to stumble into walls, the same units attached to their now empty skulls that Spock was forced to don when his own venerable brain was absconded--i.e., they discontinued that wonderful unit of mine, and became producing iPod-lite, prettily colored palm turds. Oh, the humanity...
      Moral: Fuck Apple, Fuck Steve Jobs, Fuck his mother and the horse he rode in on. And, oh, please god let someone produce a piece of software that lets my iPod work with Win 7/64.

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[Michael Vandeven]

the two biggest things i hate about the ipod are:
1) as you mentioned, the inability to simply connect it to my pc and browse the file structure through explorer as an external drive and
2) that FUCKING GOD AWFUL PIECE OF HYENA SHIT CONTROL WHEEL!!!!!  FUCK IT IN ITS ASS!!  holy shit does that thing piss me off.  it's utterly USELESS for anyone with a finger larger than a pencil eraser.  apple has ALWAYS favored "elegance" over functionality, and the ipod is a tangible example of this dumb philosophy from which i am able to extract less pleasure than that afforded by a terd in my martini.  if you want to get away from the monstrosity that is apple's media devices, i recommend you take a look at creative's players.  they're modern, they do more, they allow browsing in explorer as an external drive, and they are ABLE TO BE CONTROLLED EASILY!!!  holy shit, what a radical concept:  being able to control a device you spent hundreds of dollars on.  amazing notion.

[Caruthers612]

            OK, then, after reading the responses to my other thread requesting help with iTunes on Win 7/64, since it ain't not work, I am starting to consider possibly changing hardware platforms. I did check out Creative's offerings, as was suggested, but didn't see a model with nearly the storage capacity I need--which is perhaps a good place to start, in terms of describing what I'm looking for.
             First, I know philosophies vary on this, but I am of the "massive drive on which I store everything, and am thus able to access anything in my collection wherever I am at any time" school. Hence, I have always bought the largest storage capacity iPods. Since this is a must for me, I have been willing to pay more and stick with yesterday's technology--micro-mini hard drives--instead of solid state, superior of course, but not to be at the huge storage capacity and affordable price stage for a couple of years yet.
             Second, a big part of the reason for abandoning Apple in the first place, I want no restrictions! ;-) Ideally, I want something the old iRiver unit I described in a post in the other thread, the one which was no more than a user friendly, simple palm-sized hard drive, able to interface with Explorer like any external hard drive and with no restrictions as to the type of file one could use or its source.
             Today, of course, that might mean a high-fallutin' multimedia device with a multitude of functions and connectivity, though all I wanted was an MP3 player. It may be unavoidable. This might not be bad, though, in theory. A couple of years back, I did have an Archos 7 which, while it worked, solved all these problems and was a fantastic video unit as well. Tragically it died and despite very good customer support from Archos, I learned to be wary of their products, as even after sending it in for repair, which they did to the Nth degree, it worked for five minutes and died again. But if such a unit existed and was reliable, that'd be groovy.
             And finally would be the question of how to transfer everything currently sitting on both my iPods to this new unit. I do have MediaWidget, and this will allow me to dump the iPod contents onto my PC's hard drive, but whether some other company's unit will then inhale these and accept them as legitimate and playable files is another matter.
             Anyone? Anyone? Gandhi?

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[Michael Vandeven]

the two threads are merged here.  just wanted to provide clarification for any confused souls.

[Michael Vandeven]

what about this?
http://www.amazon.com/Zune-120-Video-Player-Black/dp/B001EQ0HAW