{"id":21,"date":"2008-03-10T00:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/post.aspx?id=d6352471-8ae9-4aa5-9e4c-6180d70ec790"},"modified":"2008-03-10T00:36:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T06:36:36","slug":"itunes-by-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/21","title":{"rendered":"iTunes, by dummies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I downloaded a few videos over the weekend about the new iPhone SDK via iTunes. My iPod Classic isn’t set up to synchronize movies, so I need to adjust the settings so that the movies would be available on the iPod.<\/p>\n

Here’s the warning dialog that was displayed when I clicked "Sync Movies":<\/p>\n

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All existing songs, movies and TV shows will be removed and replaced with movies from my iTunes library? What happens to the songs and TV shows? Huh?<\/p>\n

I use Media Monkey<\/a> to manage my iPod’s music collection as iTunes is TERRIBLE on Windows for managing music, playing music, searching music … pretty much everything it does is sub-par and odd<\/em>. But, this?!<\/p>\n

Does Apple secretly have a guidebook internally, "Apple Inhumane Interface Guideline for Developing Mediocre Windows Applications: A Simple Guide to Getting People to Hating Microsoft Windows More."<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Media Monkey isn’t able to manage movie\/video files. <\/p>\n

I’m not willing to click "Sync Movies" if it should wipe out all of the songs I have. It takes hours to copy them all back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I downloaded a few videos over the weekend about the new iPhone SDK via iTunes. My iPod Classic isn’t set up to synchronize movies, so I need to adjust the settings so that the movies would be available on the iPod. Here’s the warning dialog that was displayed when I clicked "Sync Movies": All existing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1773,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1773","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"AV Club \/ Our home setup 2012","date":"December 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve done a lot of reworking of our computers and network recently and thought I\u2019d post some details about the various physical and digital parts that make our humble WiredPrairie home work. 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