I am in such a fucking bad mood.
My Ipod is borked, due to me spilling orange juice all over it probably. I can't use the scroll wheel to go back so I'm stuck on the same songs. So I thought I'd buy a shuffle to use whilest my old one is fixed. My laptop won't recognise the shuffle. I've done everything they say to fix it but no luck. So I thought I'd try it at work and loaded itunes onto my puter but everytime I go to the store to get the latest download and to arrange sending my old ipod back, my work computer crashes.

I spent three hours last night trying to get the sodding thing to work. Oh and I need the seriel number of my old ipod and without a fucking microscope I can't see it on the back of the bloody thing it's that small.

And this means no music while I run.

I......fucking.......hate........technology.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:00, 54 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

can't you listen to music/ the radio on your phone?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:02, Reply)

No I'm on pay as you go.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:03, Reply)

Pikey

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:03, Reply)

I'm old and don't need to have the fucking mobile stuck to my ear 24/7 like most people do.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:04, Reply)

You really are tetchy today!
PAYG would probably be cheaper for me, but I'ma dickhead and wanted an I-Phone
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:05, Reply)

I meant, doesn't your phone have the ability to play mp3s if you copy them on.
not stream them
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:03, Reply)

I have no idea and don't have the know how to find out.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:04, Reply)

what is the model of your phone?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:05, Reply)

A lump of clay

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

It's a Nokia something or other.
Just checked and it has a music app on it. I don't know how to download though.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

it'll tell you on the phone.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:06, Reply)

Nokia 6500c

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:13, Reply)

I have a 6500 slide
And am tied to the cunt until February :(
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:19, Reply)

there's a mp3 player on it but not a radio.
You can use that to listen to music if you've got headphones that fit in it.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:22, Reply)

How do I get the music on it?

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:22, Reply)

usb cable, bluetooth.
You should have got something to connect it with when you bought the phone.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I'll have it somewhere and try tonight.
Thanks!

I really need to get the shuffle working as well though.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Plug it into the computer, Windows Media Player will recongize it and let you write to it.
If you can take out the SD Card or MiniSD Card and read that, you can drag'n'drop MP3s onto there then use the music player to browse to the folder
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:48, Reply)

Thanks Gonz : )

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:49, Reply)

No worries =)
If you have the cable laying around, you should be able to plug it in and windows will recongize it as an external drive. You can eaither copy'n'paste the files in, or use Windows Media Player (or even better, Winamp, which is free) to do the same thing but a little bit faster.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:14, Reply)

if it's a Nokia
you'll need to install the software if you don't want to take the memory card out (or if it only has internal memory) - otherwise it won't work. at least mine didn't, but my computer seems to do whatever the fuck it wants
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:45, Reply)

No, you hate Apple
this is perfectly reasonable.

My I-Tunes deleted every other song out of every album I have.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:03, Reply)

See, if you were Monty, you'd have your servants carry a portable gramophone alongside you as you ran

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:05, Reply)

I'd probably be one of the servants.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:16, Reply)

Monty does not run.
He has his batman do it for him.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

It sounds to me
like you need chocolate and a magnifying glass (although a monocle would be cooler). What was it your tattoo was going to say - 'breathe'? Well remember to do just that. It's just stuff, it's not the end of the world.
(berk, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:16, Reply)

My boss has sorted it. Now I have the seriel number at least.
I'm just really fed up of relying on this stuff and not being able to fix it when I have a problem. It's exasperating.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:18, Reply)

Next time use
a ziploc bag and put some water in and create a rudimentary lense to magnify the letters.

McGuyver that shit.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:35, Reply)

Ooooo! that's neat.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)

and me
my lovely shiny sparkly new (pink) laptop is still in its box. i looked at it.

looked at the set up instructions.

put it back in its box.

contemplated killing myself for being so useless.

but really. why do they have to make these things so complicated?! AND electronic clocks. i swear to god every clock in my flat (microwave, oven, dvd player etc) shows a different time because they all have different ways of re-setting them and i get confused. why can't they have a standard control? why? instead i end up remembering to set my digital alarm clock 23 mins later than it shows on the screen, and having to add 8 mins onto the microwave and.... ugh!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Oh rachel I wish I knew.
I've learnt a bit of techie stuff through problems I've incurred but it's never enough.


The next IT guy who shows some interest in me is going to be a lucky guy. I don't care if he looks like Shrek.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:41, Reply)

For God's sake
I despair, I really do. You even paid for the shop to set it up for you!

One of these days, I'm going to come round and do it all for you. The next day I bet it'll be broken again.
( Kroney, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:46, Reply)

How complicated could it be?
You can't plug anything in the wrong place, it won't fit.

For the first time, you just plug it in and keep on pressing 'next' on the menus until you're in wondows.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Use your phone as a timer for everything.
It should have some sort of alarm app on it, stopwatch, or countdown.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I use the countdown timer on my phone every time I cook something.
It's so much more reliable than checking the clock every three minutes.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:02, Reply)

Ditto

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:13, Reply)

This is why people like Apple and don't give a shit abouyt the whole open source thing
I have no interest in fiddling with anything on my gadgets hardware or software, I just want it to work straight out of the box without having to read the manual.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:55, Reply)

Ipods are gay, get a creative instead

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I have a Creative
They are brilliant and miles cheaper.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Anti-fangirlism, right there.
There is a reason that grannys go and buy "ipods" for their grandkids, reffering to any MP3 player.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)

I bought one because my youngest sister bought one and I figured if I had probs then she could help.
Then I replaced it with another because I tend to stick with what I know.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:57, Reply)

You're not a granny =P
the 'iPod' is like the 'Hoover', it's a brand name that people reffer to as a name of a product, which is something I really admire when a company pulls that off.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:06, Reply)

I call them Walkmans
And people laugh at me.
I wanted to get an actual Walkman brand mp3 player this time so that when they laughed I could say "Ah-haaa, but it IS a Walkman!" but they had none in the shop and I got a super-duper Creative instead.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:17, Reply)

If I didn't have to use iTunes I'd get one.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:19, Reply)

I use i-tunes with my Creative

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:27, Reply)

iTunes is the biggest piece of shit on Windows, but it's lovely on OSX.
I wonder if that was intentional.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:49, Reply)

What's an OSX?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Apple's operating system.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Oh, i have windows and I hate I-Tunes with every fibre of my being

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:56, Reply)

Inside Windows, iTunes is an awful piece of software.
It's just so bloated, a complete hog, one of the bigger points of music players is that they're unobtrusive, let you do whatever you normally do in the mean-time.

If you're only bothered by music, I recomend Winamp (free) and the iPod plug-in (free) to do the same job, but it won't do anything appart from music, if I remember correctly.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Eh, it's alright on Windows, but I use Media Monkey instead
iTunes is the best on OSX by a long way.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Why would it be different between platforms
I mean, I unbderstand that they are set up differently, but are they not fundamentally the same on some level?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Something gets lost in translation.
A bit like how the origional bible in ancient hebrew resembles nothing to like the modern thing you read in english.

Let's take the example of the processes of copying a song from your iTunes Libery to your iPod's Libery. In windows, it opens up a datastream into the root structure of the iPod, and then changes the XML file containing the libary so the media player inside the ipod knows where to look for the song (eg, "Will Smith - Getting Jiggy With It" is at c:\media\will smith\getting jiggy with it.mp3"*). It's the same weather you're in windows or OSX. However, the driver/libary (DLL/Class), which contains the code which does the phsyical act of what we want to do (known as a 'methord') is different in Windows and in OSX, because the two operating systems work differently. One is optimised one way, the other the other way.... and _that_ is where the bloat happens.

It's like how Windows Media Player works effortlessly in Windows, but would run like shit on OSX (should it be made for OSX in the same way iTunes is made for Windows)... the other way 'round is true too, except iTunes is avaialbe in Windows, and so, runs sluggish.

* it actually looks totally different, but for this example, it'll simplify things.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Hardware-wise
a PC and a Mac are pretty much identical. But Apple have ported a program designed to run under OS X to another operating system. Which doesn't always work.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:15, Reply)