apple is shit. one time i saw that someone had bought a bunch of free apps on my account that were in chinese, and then one was $20 (was getting free apps because i never keep CC's on my acct, but i think i had a giftcard) and i never found out about it until like 6 months later.

so i look on the internet and it seems that multiple times they've been hacked and people's accounts have been assessed, and i've NEVER been keylogged or hacked or anything!

so i call them up and tell them what happened, but guess what? they said "no one has ever hacked our customers accounts" when i was READING MULTIPLE ARTICLES ABOUT IT! they didn't give me back my $20, fuck them.

Charlatan

Australia27 Posts

April 22 2012 14:32 GMT

#42

I can empathise. About two years ago, both my laptop's and MP3 player's hard drives failed within a few days of each other, and I lost about 5,000 songs.

As a few people have said now, foobar2000 is a significantly better media player for your computer. And there are alternatives to iTunes as far as transferring to your iPod goes, as well (or you could replace the iPod with something else :D). iTunes really is an evil hell-spawn of a program.

NonY

8748 Posts

April 22 2012 14:47 GMT

#43

Aww raging at Apple because of your low APM. I would have multitasked the hell out of that situation and come out clean.

sc14s

United States5052 Posts

April 22 2012 15:31 GMT

#44

On April 22 2012 16:43 TuElite wrote:
I intend to blow up their headquarters very soon.

I opened iTunes while playing a game of Starcraft today. Something came up about the terms of service, I quickly alt+tab because I had to make SCVs... And the terms of services thing popped up over SC2 so I quickly hit the decline button.

I make my supplies and my SCVs, alt+tab to my desktop, open iTunes again and this time I click agree and that do I see ?

My entire library erased.

WHAT. IN. THE. FUCK.

Not a single song on there. Not a single of my 5 carefully arranged and perfectly crafted playlists containing 5k+ songs each.

Now I know what you're going to say... Derpy derp, eeehhh, just re-add your music derp...

NO. NOOOOOOOOO. I have like 2TBs of music, there was some life changing music in there, some songs that maintained me alive, while some I don't like anymore and some I can only stand sometimes, when in the right mood. My iPod only can hold 32GB of music. DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH boxes I will have to un-check or check ???!!!

Solution: I'm going to fill up my car with explosives and blow up their HQs.

Don't buy Apple stocks.

Disclaimer for the authorities: I like to write stories of sometimes poor taste, everything posted on my blog should be interpreted as fiction.

i hear ya man, i have 18 TBs of music on my HD and the reason i will never convert off of winamp is its all organized with it x(

sc14s

United States5052 Posts

April 22 2012 15:33 GMT

#45

On April 22 2012 23:47 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Aww raging at Apple because of your low APM. I would have multitasked the hell out of that situation and come out clean.

and still drop out of a tournament in the first round. zing

Hulavuta

United States1252 Posts

April 22 2012 15:34 GMT

#46

lol u mad?

ClysmiC

United States2192 Posts

April 22 2012 15:35 GMT

#47

At least all of the files are still there. Not ideal I know, but it could be worse.

I only have one apple product (a first-gen nano)... I've never had the desire to get an iTouch or iPhone. The only apple product I would maybe buy is a new iPod with more memory (4gb on nano =/ ).

TheToast

United States4808 Posts

April 22 2012 15:44 GMT

#48

Goodness, apple users. I'm sure all along you've had friends who've told you to stay away from Apple products, and explained at great length why they suck. You, being naive, responded with the typical "but dood, it's so ez you just plug it in and it works!!!". At which point your friend explained in depth about how Apple's closed platform development style and authoritarian control over their products in fact held the platform back and held you at their mercy. Though, you probably didn't hear any of this as during that time you were staring intently at your iPod getting all hot and bothered because it was so pretty and hipster. Though, noting your friend had stopped talking you realized you needed to respond in some way, so you gave the regular "but dewd, my apple can't get viruses and stuff, and it's soo ez I just plug it in and it werks dewd!!!". At which point your friend decided you had either become a total hipster-wannabe, or perhaps you had contracted some form of temporary insanity; either way he was resolved to leave you to your fate, and is probably laughing his butt off right now.

Btw, can you imagine if Steam regularly asked for to accept new terms of service and if you declined, it just wiped out all your games? lol

HoMM

Estonia635 Posts

April 22 2012 15:55 GMT

#49

Try recovering your data.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva is a really good one, I'm not sure if your on Mac or Windows but im 100% sure they you can recover majority of your deleted files if you haven't overwritten the files with anything else yet.

This will save you, and msg me if you need any more help.

edit: nvm you still have the files, misread, assumed this from "entire library was erased"

ThePurist

Canada686 Posts

April 22 2012 16:02 GMT

#50

Foobar > iTunes Library anyday
Also, isn't there a file where you saved for your lists?

CyDe

United States1010 Posts

April 22 2012 16:07 GMT

#51

God I absolutely hate Apple. I have stayed away from their products for about three years now, and I have never looked back. Absolutely wonderful being free from their fucking TOS and their attempts to control all of YOUR use over THEIR products. I am deeply sorry that that happened to you, and I recommend that you take this opportunity to switch to something like MediaMonkey or Foobar. Much more open source and you can ever have addons, so sick

deathly rat

United Kingdom911 Posts

April 22 2012 16:18 GMT

#52

It's so strange how extreme people's opinion on Apple is. There are a lot better things to get worked up about in life than your favorite brand of computer/music player/shoes.

Spikeke

Canada106 Posts

April 22 2012 16:25 GMT

#53

Waaah, so you got to keep your music after all. You know what sucks? Actually losing your shit. Has happened to me in the past, now I always make backups. You should learn a lesson here.

zOula...

United States898 Posts

April 22 2012 16:34 GMT

#54

I had a similar experience except my entire library was actually deleted.

metbull

United States404 Posts

April 22 2012 16:53 GMT

#55

On April 23 2012 00:33 sc14s wrote:

Show nested quote +

and still drop out of a tournament in the first round. zing

Could

Not

Stop

Laughing

radscorpion9

Canada2252 Posts

April 22 2012 17:07 GMT

#56

Well...on the bright side now you have an opportunity to make a new and improved playlist?

ymir233

United States8275 Posts

April 22 2012 17:49 GMT

#57

On April 22 2012 23:47 Liquid`NonY wrote:
Aww raging at Apple because of your low APM. I would have multitasked the hell out of that situation and come out clean.

300+ APM vs. simple "accept or decline"

What the fuck kind of imbalance is that

nerf Apple plz

But anyways...foobar it up.

BearStorm

United States795 Posts

April 22 2012 17:54 GMT

#58

Man that is horrible! I hate it when programs try to force you to give them attention when there is nothing urgent. Like how Windows has a default autoupdater that forces a reboot if you don't change the settings.

UmiNotsuki

United States633 Posts

April 22 2012 18:21 GMT

#59

Yeeeaaah. I learned my lesson a while back and switched to my Android phone and Foobar 2000. Best musical decision of my life!

Juliette

United States6003 Posts

April 22 2012 18:25 GMT

#60

gg lol

did it delete the iTunes Library file too?

music -> itunes

usually my itunes derps out and tells me to find its library file, and i click that and get it all back