{"id":4687,"date":"2014-06-02T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:29:03","slug":"itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/06\/02\/itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"^&*%@&^% iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a love – hate relationship with iTunes, the application running on my computer, not the store.<\/p>\n

Mostly I think it\u2019s a hate relationship but I\u2019m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n

When iTunes works I\u2019m happy with it although I\u2019ll admit in the most recent iterations I\u2019ve become very distrustful of the application and am more likely to listen to music from my iPad or iPhone.<\/p>\n

Distrustful? Why you ask?<\/p>\n

I fully expect iTunes to crash at least once, if not two or three times a day depending on what I\u2019m doing. Three times if I\u2019m downloading a video from the cloud.<\/p>\n

If it were just the application crashing I\u2019d probably be ok with it. But it has a very nasty habit of taking my entire system down. \u00a0First iTunes becomes unresponsive, but if you\u2019re listening to music you might not notice because it\u2019s continuing to play.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find out though when you try to save a file in another application, or try to open a webpage, or another application or file. Then and only then will you realize just how well and truly fucked you are.<\/p>\n

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In my case, to regain control, I have to disconnect the USB, and External monitor. Then I have to pull the laptop from it\u2019s cradle, then I have to press and hold the power button.<\/p>\n

I shouldn’t have to do all this but by the time you notice symptoms, the OS is so corrupt and the CPUs are so busy that they\u2019re no longer processing any user input.<\/p>\n

Then the computer informs me that I shut it down because of a crash and asks do I want to reopen the applications that were running? UHHH NO! Since that\u2019s how we came to be in this situation in the first place.<\/p>\n

After the reboot things are usually pretty normal and it\u2019s only very rarely that I have lingering issues.<\/p>\n

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Sunday is a case in point.<\/p>\n

iTunes was up, I\u2019d been syncing my iPad and iPhone then I was chatting with a friend on the phone, and at some point asked my computer to do something.<\/p>\n

Locked up! Zero response.<\/p>\n

Aww shit! How much of what I was working on got saved? Doesn\u2019t matter\u2026 The reboot is inevitable, might as well press the button.<\/p>\n

When the system came back, it still wasn\u2019t right, Four reboots, a permissions repair, and a trip through recovery disk, and safe boot later. My computer came back mostly normal.<\/p>\n

But then again, maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a love – hate relationship with iTunes, the application running on my computer, not the store. Mostly I think it\u2019s a hate relationship but I\u2019m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. When iTunes works I\u2019m happy with it although I\u2019ll admit in the most recent iterations I\u2019ve become very distrustful … <\/p>\n

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