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Mr. Luddite

On 11/21/2013 11:00 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:01:41 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 11/21/2013 8:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:18:42 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/21/13, 6:16 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:56:31 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Or get an Apple and . .

... not own a computer, just an appliance.

I enjoy having computers that are as reliably solid as my refrigerator.

That is fine if you are willing to let Apple decide what you want to
do with your appliance.

My Dutch neighbor and I had this discussion a few years ago and he was
telling me about how wonderful his Apple stuff was. Then he got
interested in drones and suddenly discovered how limiting the Apple
hardware and software was for anything Apple didn't invent. He has
Windows and Android machines now.

At some point in the past four years I install iTunes on my PC. Oh ...
it was when I got an iPad and wanted to transfer music files or
something to it. Never used it much however.

But I still occasionally get annoying popups when I first start my
computer from iTunes wanting to upgrade something. I thought I had
deleted it ... in fact I know I did, but the popups still show up from
time to time. It's like trying to get rid of Norton years ago. Even if
you uninstalled the main Norton program certain remnants remained that
kept trying to get you to reinstall it. I forget how it was done but a
computer geek friend of mine finally got rid of *all* the Norton related
files and the unwanted invitations stopped.

I never understood why I would ever want I tunes. It is a proprietary
music format with copy restrictions and music that is more expensive
than Amazon (assuming you actually pay anything at all). There is
plenty of free content on the web. If nothing else you can just clip
the audio off of YouTube but lots of artists have free content on
their sites.

As long as you have your ID3 tags set up right, handling the files is
easy. I usually just use create M3U files for my playlists and
virtually any player can use them.

That's not the issue. I don't buy music files from iTunes. iTunes is
required and used for more than just "getting" music files. You have to
have iTunes installed on a PC in order to transfer files from it to an iPad.