On 6/27/2013 3:49 PM, John H wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:47:38 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:



"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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In retrospect, I view the iPad as an iPhone in a larger form factor. I
keep track of appointments, addresses, phone numbers and more on my
iPhone, and it works well when I want to dictate a short note.

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I've had an iPad for a couple of years but never got around to even
learning how or even what to use it for other than using it
occasionally for Pandora. Mrs.E. uses hers constantly for all kinds
of things including some video conferencing application that allows
her to see and talk to the grandkids in South Carolina and playing
Scrabble with about 5 people at the same time.

I finally decided to see how I might be able to use it and decided to
put backing tracks of music on it, plug it into a Fishman SoloAmp I
have at the house and play along with the songs on a guitar. Great
learning tool. I had some music files on it from when I originally
got the iPad and it worked great. All was fine until I plugged it into
my PC to transfer some new songs. iTunes opened, but said I had to
upgrade to iTunes 11. Ok. I did. It also upgraded the software in
the iPad that was connected to the PC. After that, nothing worked.
The iPad no longer appeared as a "device" in the PC file structure as
it had previously. Before the upgrade I would simply drag the music
file I wanted to transfer to the iPad listed device.

I must have spent 2 hours trying to figure out what happened. Tried
uninstalling iTunes and re-installing. Still no iPad device listed
anymore.
Gave up.

The next day I tried again. iTunes would open on the PC and I could
see the files I wanted to transfer, but there was no apparent way to
do it.
I googled up iTunes help and followed the instructions. They still
said to simply drag the file to the iPad device listed in the left
column on the PC, but there was no longer a iPad device listed.

I finally figured it out by accident. Beside the music file was a
little arrow that looked just like the "Play" icon found on various
media players.
Clicked on it and a window opened with a bunch of options one of which
was "send to". Clicked on it and one of the destinations was to the
iPad.
That worked, but it bugged me as to why no mention of this was in the
current instructions. So, I went back to read them again, thinking I
must have missed it. I didn't. They aren't there.

I've heard complaints from others that Apple is getting to be a pain
in the ass with all the regular updates and upgrades of their
software. It used to be Windows that had that reputation.

iTunes is the biggest PITA ever developed. I let my wife talk me into putting it on my machine. Wish
I'd never done it.

John (Gun Nut) H.


My simple MP3 player is much more versatile for the dollar....