![]() ![]() ![]() This is exactly the type of crap that everybody hates Microsoft for: programs that force the user to take a certain path towards their goal. So why am I now forced to create and manage an iTunes playlist in order to update my Nano? Why won’t iTunes 7 play nice with Windows Explorer? It might seem overly complicated - as a matter of fact, it is overly complicated - but this is what works for me. Each playback device has a different configuration of songs, suiting the purposes to which I put it. So, what I like to do is to put all of my songs into a file system, and then direct those songs to my various playback devices. Different places, different purposes, different playback devices. Here’s the thing: I have a lot of songs, and I listen to a different subset of songs at home, at work, while jogging and in my car. This is double work, and not my preferred method of managing my music. In order to get music it would actually recognize as music, I had to create a playlist in iTunes, add the songs to that playlist, and then subsequently add the songs from that playlist to my Nano. It seems that - for whatever reason - iTunes 7 will not allow me to add songs from my file system directly to the Nano. Oh sure, it took space, but wasn’t seeable as a song. After determining that it was all clear, I did what I’ve always done: used Windows Explorer to drag a file directly to the iPod window in iTunes, only, unlike every single other time in the last year I’ve owned the Nano, it didn’t show up. So I said frack that, and restored the iPod, figuring that I would just start from scratch. This, BTW, is exactly one of my fears about the already infamous Zune “three days / three plays” issue: the music stays on your hard drive, but is forever inaccessible. ![]() I had 3.72GB of something taking up space on my, it’s just that neither iTunes nor my Nano could find it. Gone like Kahoutek.Įxcept of course, it wasn’t: according to the space indicator, it was all still there, taking up room on the Nano’s hard drive. ![]() 4GB - 700 songs (that 1000 songs is a 128k joke) - had simply vanished. It was there in iTunes 6, but not so much anymore. The older, GPL version of this software is still available online.So I downloaded and installed iTunes 7 last week, plugged in my iPod Nano, and I saw the strangest thing: all of my music had disappeared. The code following the 0.50.2 release was changed to payware in February 2009, although publications such as Wired still referred to the product as Open Source code as late as April 2009. Senuti was originally released as GNU GPL software. Senuti is now sold by a software company called FadingRed, of which Young is co-founder and lead developer. He leveraged the developers in the open-source community to help him write the code. Upon realizing that a good solution did not exist, Whitney wrote one. Senuti was developed by Whitney Young, who started as a high school senior searching for a way to transfer music from his iPod onto a Mac computer. The unlimited version is available for around US$20. It can be downloaded as a free demo, which allows the user to transfer 1,000 songs from an iPod. It is a Mac OS X-exclusive application no version of Senuti has been released for Microsoft Windows. Senuti is an application for transferring files, such as songs and videos, from an iPod or iPhone back to a Macintosh computer. According to FadingRed, the company that sells and distributes Senuti, it has been downloaded over 2 million times. It was released on April 19, 2006, for copying songs from an iPod to a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Senuti ( iTunes spelled backward) is a Mac OS X computer application written by Whitney Young. ![]()
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