[Hank]

You guys, don't you know how dangerous life is messing with trolls?

here are the other types
http://www.smosh.com...internet-trolls

[Jimmy]

 Sangman, on 26 February 2012 - 03:55 PM, said:

So how many people do you know personally who use Apple products? Because the people I know personally who use Apple products are not at all dumb. Maybe you're just seeing the bad examples on the internets.

Every rich idiot I know has a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Though my point was more about what Ripemanewone was getting at, although he was much more eloquent than I.

I wasn't really trolling, that is my opinion in a nutshell. I had an Mp3 player at one, it was a Sansa Fuze, which was pretty rad. Then I accidentally broke it (stupid stupid stupid.) So my brother gave me an old iPod, and I find it so annoying and unintuitive for someone who actually knows how to use a computer. The iPod basically says "I'm gonna give you a hell of a time unless you just use our product the way we want you to. USE ITUNES!!!" And that is my intrinsic issue with Apple products, its their way or the highway.

iTunes blows. What the hell is up with the iPod's filesystem? It's like someone got a retard to write an encryption system for directories.

[Hank]

 Captain Awesome, on 26 February 2012 - 09:14 PM, said:

iTunes blows. What the hell is up with the iPod's filesystem? It's like someone got a retard to write an encryption system for directories.

I use iTunes to collect my music on a normal PC. I don't have an iPod. The filing system is as I have set it up, alphabetically, by artist with sub folders for the CDs. Songs I get through iTunes get loaded in a normal file system. Now I am curious how iPod sorts the songs.

[Jimmy]

How can you use that bloated piece of shit? It updates every fucking time I open it.

Basically, at least on older iPods, it just randomly renames your MP3's, then drops them into a randomly named folder. It's so stupid.

[Ronin]

I don't use ipods or any of those devices, two reasons 1: I was hit by a car while cycling and listening to headphones because I couldnt hear the fool breaking the light as a result I don't like not being able to hear my surroundings (the car survived), 2: My car is from 1998 and won't use any of that fancy shit and thats where I listen to most of my music (on 2000 watt teeth shattering speakers) apart from my pc.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

 Captain Awesome, on 26 February 2012 - 09:14 PM, said:

I had an Mp3 player at one, it was a Sansa Fuze, which was pretty rad.

I hated the Sansa Fuze. Hated, hated, HATED it. Most annoying interface ever, and it broke not because of any fault of my own, but because of some stupid software glitch. Since then, I've used the Sony Walkman with absolutely no problem.

[Jeff]

I only use my iPod for making appointments. And I don't have many appointments to make.

[Hendricks266]

Fuck iPods. They don't play FLAC and I have to go through the bloated piece of shit known as iTunes. They may be alright for your average teenager buying heavily compressed AAC "music" from their store for cheap or ripping songs from YouTube and slapping it onto their device, but for an enthusiast it is nothing more than a continuous set of obstacles.

I was planning on buying a Sansa Fuze v2 because Rockbox was already supported, but as I was mulling it the week changed and that was the very week the item was discontinued and its price doubled on Amazon.

I own a Sansa Fuze+ 8GB with an 8GB class 4 microSDHC (got a great deal on the card). It's slow as hell to start up, I encounter USB connection problems (may be my PC's fault), it has annoying touch-capacitive controls, it's even slower (hours!) to re-index the contents, album art is not supported for FLAC ("Add it in Windows Media Player's Library instead!"), and Rockbox support is only just now starting to look viable, but it plays FLAC and OGG, it has a kickass FM radio tuner and recorder, it uses plain old folders on its media which I can utilize just fine using the scripts and organizing program for my music that I authored myself, and it supports fully working .m3u playlists generated by tags and categorizations of said program. It works great.

[ReaperMan]

 Hendricks266, on 27 February 2012 - 01:01 AM, said:

Fuck iPods.

Now Steve Jobs is going to haunt you.

[Lunick]

Use ALAC then for iTunes?

[Hank]

 Captain Awesome, on 26 February 2012 - 10:03 PM, said:

How can you use that bloated piece of shit? It updates every fucking time I open it.

Basically, at least on older iPods, it just randomly renames your MP3's, then drops them into a randomly named folder. It's so stupid.

Have you used something like this http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html to edit the tags of your songs, before putting it in the iPod?

[Master Fibbles]

The Daytona 500 is preempting House (and Alcatraz) in the US, at least on the East Coast and Midwest...Fox sucks. I get the feeling that I'm going to have to pirate the episodes that are on tonight to be able to watch them before the next episodes of Alcatraz are on. House is the winter finale, so that I can wait for (maybe, MAYBE) but if they are going to be showing new episodes of Alcatraz next week skipping the one on tonight, I'm going to be pissed.

[Yatta]

I've been using 9gag recently in order to cope with the pressures of law school.

FML.

[Jeff]

 Yatta, on 27 February 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

I've been using 9gag recently in order to cope with the pressures of law school.

FML.

Simpsons quote:

Jimbo: I don't believe it nothin' no more. I'm going to law school!
Homer: Noooooo!

[Sangman]

For the iPod complainers - why you guys aren't using Rockbox is beyond me (well, apart from warranty issues )

http://www.rockbox.org/

Plays FLAC, doesn't force you to use iTunes, etc

Personally I bought a Zen Xfi2 last year, the sound is great but the speed of the interface (and the interface itself) is pretty meh. When there's a list of albums, all with their own album covers, scrolling is slow. Volume control is with a small supersensitive slider on the touchscreen, where 12 is the volume you want, 11 is too low, 13 is too much. Oh boy. Also the locking mechanism (or rather the unlocking mechanism) happens via the touchscreen.

What that is concerned, I wish it was more like my old iPod. Yeah it's true that the iPod has flaws but you can't argue that the interface for it (by which I mean the clickwheel) is fantastic. Well, you could try to argue that the clickwheel sucks, but you'd be wrong.

[Jeff]

Picked up some new shoes. Current ones were looking kind of worn.

[Hank]

 Yatta, on 27 February 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

I've been using 9gag recently in order to cope with the pressures of law school.

FML.

Why is it, every time you post I need to duckduckgo?

[Sangman]

 Hank, on 27 February 2012 - 05:33 AM, said:

Have you used something like this http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html to edit the tags of your songs, before putting it in the iPod?

That will not help, what Wolfe meant is that when you put music in your iPod it gets saved with a random name on the filesystem. The ID3 tags remain intact though so if you ever need to get your music back, you can mostly just copy the files and use a program to give them proper names again.

I'm not sure if this post still holds true though, maybe the workings of the iPod have changed now

[Hank]

^ I don't know if this is true or not, but my girl told me that you need to hold the iPod horizontally and press sort albums or something like taht, I'm still laughing my head off, but if this is true, ehmm then I say, Captain Awesome has a point.

[Jimmy]

 Ripemanewone, on 26 February 2012 - 10:26 PM, said:

I don't use ipods or any of those devices, two reasons 1: I was hit by a car while cycling and listening to headphones because I couldnt hear the fool breaking the light as a result I don't like not being able to hear my surroundings (the car survived), 2: My car is from 1998 and won't use any of that fancy shit and thats where I listen to most of my music (on 2000 watt teeth shattering speakers) apart from my pc.

I usually listen to my iPod with headphones if I'm in bed or something, or use a cassette adapter to play it through a stereo or car stereo. I'm with ya on not being able to hear though, a lot of times I'll just put one earbud in.

 The Mighty Bison, on 26 February 2012 - 10:44 PM, said:

I hated the Sansa Fuze. Hated, hated, HATED it. Most annoying interface ever, and it broke not because of any fault of my own, but because of some stupid software glitch. Since then, I've used the Sony Walkman with absolutely no problem.

My sisterr had an issue like that with her Fuze, but she didn't update the firmware and stuff like I did. Sansa promptly replaced it though.

 Hank, on 27 February 2012 - 05:33 AM, said:

Have you used something like this http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html to edit the tags of your songs, before putting it in the iPod?

MP3Tag is a great program, but yeah, Sang is right. My tags are immaculate. I don't know if it does this on newer iPods, but my experience it does it on all of them up to the touch screens. Mine is a second gen. It has all the same basic mechanics of the newest non-touch models, just without fancy fluff. (Which Apple just loves they have the fluffiest products.)

And I actually don't like the click-wheel really. I'd rather have up-down-left-right buttons, but I'm a luddite.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

 Captain Awesome, on 28 February 2012 - 07:08 PM, said:

My sisterr had an issue like that with her Fuze, but she didn't update the firmware and stuff like I did. Sansa promptly replaced it though.

Perhaps it's just the reckless consumer in me, but I feel that if I should have to get a product replaced less than a year after ownership to make it work again, that product isn't worth owning. My Walkman has lasted me a good two years, and I plan to keep it for as long as I can.

[Jimmy]

I agree. Mine broke from being lightly stepped on. It bent the casing of the headphone jack. I hate shoddy products. Our grandparents wouldn't have built this flimsy shit we just deal with.

[Master Fibbles]

"Their can do and know how make up for our won't try and don't care" -Homer Simpson.

[Yatta]

 Hank, on 28 February 2012 - 03:41 PM, said:

Why is it, every time you post I need to duckduckgo?

???

[Hank]

 Yatta, on 29 February 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:

???

click here

[Kathy]

Hank is continuing his duck crusade.

Actually, thanks. I'm duckduckgoing for a week now thanks to you. Oh, and you should have provided a proper address - https://duckduckgo.com.

[Hank]

^ I forgot the s and cheers.

Also, I switched tonight permanently to TOR with DNT+ . The heaviest trackers so far tonight are Microsoft and Google - both blocked.

[Kathy]

Nah, I'm using Tor from time to time but it's far slow to me. Plus no java or flash... I'm not that paranoid, yet.

Also installed a plugin which blocks tracking.

[Jeff]

For all you Trek fans out there, they should have TNG remastered by 2015. All 7 seasons.

[Yatta]

 Hank, on 29 February 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:

click here

So you have to use that website to look up my posts or something?