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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.
 
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...So pp and read the terms of service?
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That sucks man.
I had a semester's worth of recorded lectures on my iPhone and accidently synced on another computer. All my recordings, music, textbooks, etc were gone. Spent hours cursing Apple for ruining my life and then realised I could go back to my "main" iTunes and restore from backup.
Man was I lucky.
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Derpy derp, eeehhh, just re-add your music derp...
User was warned for this post
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There's a reason mechanics don't own Chryslers and IT people don't own Apple products....
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I don't even know what to do now, I'm just staring at my screen. It's like my life was erased and I have to start over from scratch.
Can I reboot my PC to a previous date, I don't remember how it's called but you do that when you get viruses sometimes, you know, anyone knows if I can do something like that ?
Help.
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I'm sorry, you really do have my sympathy.
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Oh its a good thing this didnt actually happen. You had me worried for a minute !
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4 Stars :D
You lose one for not carrying through with your plans!
Lol. Turn everything apple off. Itunes, startup services, startup programs, automatic syncing, and do it all yourself. Sync only when you need to. It's not like windows security where delaying a security update by two weeks makes the update useless.
And it's not like you never remember to sync. As long as you have your ipod and computer I find it easy to remember to do when I have free time.
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On April 22 2012 16:52 TuElite wrote:
I don't even know what to do now, I'm just staring at my screen. It's like my life was erased and I have to start over from scratch.
Can I reboot my PC to a previous date, I don't remember how it's called but you do that when you get viruses sometimes, you know, anyone knows if I can do something like that ?
Help.
What you are thinking about is probably System Restore, and that should only revert Operating System data. Unless you made a backup of your actual user data (normally not done automatically afaik), that's not gonna help.
Maybe itunes has some backup function, I don't know.
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Itunes does have backups for the ipod. Like if you delete things on your ipod you can restore it back, but if you delete your music library then I'm not sure.
Are you sure you deleted the songs and not just the library that itunes makes to index your collection?
Be careful not to wipe out the stuff on your ipod too.
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On April 22 2012 16:55 ohsea.toc wrote:
I'm sorry, you really do have my sympathy.
Thank you. Tough times, I tell you...
On April 22 2012 17:04 obesechicken13 wrote:
Turn everything apple off. Itunes, startup services, startup programs, automatic syncing, and do it all yourself. Sync only when you need to. It's not like windows security where delaying a security update by two weeks makes the update useless.
Yeah man that's what I've always done, this isn't even a sync related issue, I just opened the damn thing and boom, no more.
On April 22 2012 17:08 obesechicken13 wrote:
Are you sure you deleted the songs and not just the library that itunes makes to index your collection?
Yeah yeah, it's just the library, the music files are still there.
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omg i hav a windows comp and then i deleted everything dont buy technology its the devil
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hey Cycle I didn't delete anything ok, it did so by itself, randomly, JUST TO FUCK WITH ME. It is the devil.
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who plays music on itunes? i mean cmon
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On April 22 2012 16:50 Mr. Nefarious wrote:
There's a reason mechanics don't own Chryslers and IT people don't own Apple products....
lol 
OP: really sucks... but changing your music system wouldn't be an alternative as it is basically the same work to remake the playlists i assume?
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Wait you still have all your files? I actually had deleted everything and had to re-buy/re-import CDs at one point. Maybe I should make a blog to reminicse on that time.
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Forget the whole "I'm an apple just to be against windows" and vice versa...
Apple cost for most of its products are just absurd for what you're really getting. Really no point to buy them unless you're like a singer or artist and use an Imac for that... Just my opinion of course though.
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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.
Oh God do I know that pain all too well
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On April 22 2012 17:18 Cycle wrote:
Wait you still have all your files? I actually had deleted everything and had to re-buy/re-import CDs at one point. Maybe I should make a blog to reminicse on that time.
I still have all the files. I'm just really pissed at the thought of having to un-check or check everything as it will take weeks, months maybe...
I'm sorry for your loss, I can sympathize a little even tho yours must have been twice as horrible experience.
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Ya apple are shitheads, wouldn't list my itouch as stolen because i didn't register it with them apparently even though i asked amazon to help me out, and i bought some apps for my apple account. Stupid assholes don't give a flying fuck about their customers, their support is straight up crap. I am never EVER buying anything apple again...
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I have a PC and a mac. I love both my self-made desktop my Macbook Air. I don't use iTunes though. I guess the price for performance feature makes you a hater on all current "ultrabooks" (not really since they're not under 850 or whatever really low price intel's spec requires) regardless of OS, but I think my money was well spent on my Air. holy off topic batman
system restore / time machine didn't fix this?
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I think your playlists are still saved in the iTunes files, correct me if I'm wrong.
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Sorry for ya... but
how is that... a good gif.. you can clearly see a stalker, derpy kid recording Nicole.. and she's like wtf?.. then turns away.. then looks back with a nervous smile and tries to cover herself up...... not a kind of response you want from a girl.. LOL
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I'm installing iTunes right now for you bro, though it will probably just sit there until I run out of hard drive space.
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Isn't this a good time to take the songs out you can't stand. How can you get 2tb of music anyway.
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lol fuck i hate it when that happens... my itunes sometimes just cleans up the entire library for no reason, wtf -_-
and it's like over 9000 2000 songs :/
hasn't happened in the past year though, luckily
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some shit happened to me... but because 2 of my hdd died lol
alot broodwar vods and music/movies are gone
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On April 22 2012 18:27 RvB wrote:
Isn't this a good time to take the songs out you can't stand. How can you get 2tb of music anyway.
It's called "torrent".
Also... FWP.
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Regardless of what you think of other Apple stuff, it's universally true that iTunes is an abomination that should've never seen the light of day.
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I would suggest using foobar2000 for your new music player. Trust me.
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Adding those last 2 lines only makes it seem more probable that you're actually gonna do it buddy.
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I was gonna suggest foobar, but it already happened. darn.
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I actually like iTunes for playing music. Its simple, and syncs to my iphone.
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Did you buy all that music?
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that happened to me too, my song got all deleted.
I was like what the fudge apple?
So now, im using grooveshark from internet rather than just using itunes -_-
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Same thing happened to me not all that long ago.
My entire library, gone in a flash for seemingly no reason.
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On April 22 2012 19:39 Azera wrote:
I would suggest using foobar2000 for your new music player. Trust me.
Foobar is the best music player I have used in a long time. So much to customize!
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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.
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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.
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Aww raging at Apple because of your low APM. I would have multitasked the hell out of that situation and come out clean.
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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(
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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
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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 =/ ).
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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
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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"
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Foobar > iTunes Library anyday
Also, isn't there a file where you saved for your lists?
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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
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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.
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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.
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I had a similar experience except my entire library was actually deleted.
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On April 23 2012 00:33 sc14s wrote:Show nested quote +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
Could
Not
Stop
Laughing
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Well...on the bright side now you have an opportunity to make a new and improved playlist?
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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.
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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.
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Yeeeaaah. I learned my lesson a while back and switched to my Android phone and Foobar 2000. Best musical decision of my life!
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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
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This pretty much sums up my views on the issue: http://xkcd.com/488/
The world has absolutely gone backwards with respect to music distribution.
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Songbird has done the exact same thing to me three times.
Fuck you song bird, and fuck you apple.
Winamp has only screwed me over once... maybe I'll try foobar hmmm
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Never had any accidents like that, but I too find iTunes too cumbersome to deal with especially when you have hundreds or thousands of files.
What I dislike most about iTunes is that it copies and moves all your files around. I know you can turn that off but it shouldn't happen in the first place. I'm pretty IT savvy, but I don't fully understand iTunes...
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Could you try a system restore or something?
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5 stars, just because you're awesome. Oh, and I hate apple.
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I whole heartedly endorse the title of this blog, and will live by it for the rest of forever
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God, I hate itunes so much. Primary reason I would never get an Ipod.
I strongly recommend foobar2k or mediamonkey if you want set up an elaborate music library.
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iTunes has always been a PoS, nothing new :/
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Why would you use iTunes .
Don't buy Apple products for different reasons.
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This is starting to get to me. I think I'm going insane. These playlists took me years to make.
Always Smile Always Smile Always Smile Always Smile Always Smile Always Smile Always Smile Always Smile
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Strange, I've never had that happen to me before.
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foobar2000 can be CUSTOMIZED? WOAH.
WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING OUT GUYS, GUYS YOU GUYS, TELL ME
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Im sorry bro, but now that you learned from a terrible mistake.. come over to the dark side. Get Foobar2000, the best player.
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On April 23 2012 19:32 Azera wrote:
foobar2000 can be CUSTOMIZED? WOAH.
WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING OUT GUYS, GUYS YOU GUYS, TELL ME
You've heard about S'mores Pop-Tarts right? Probably the only major inovation of the past ten years that's worth a damn really.
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Curious how foobar stacks vs vlc :p
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You shouldn't be using iTunes in the first place for many, many reasons even though it comes with their product. Don't use it for managing your music. -_-
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On April 22 2012 17:20 Nizzy wrote:Forget the whole "I'm an apple just to be against windows" and vice versa... Apple cost for most of its products are just absurd for what you're really getting. Really no point to buy them unless you're like a singer or artist and use an Imac for that... Just my opinion of course though.
Apple excels at three things...
1 - The ability to make products that, from a technical standpoint are lacklustre and charge triple what they should cost... And actually sell.
2 - A product that excels in video editing. End of story, Apple wins here.
3 - To be silly beyond belief, they need to learn to share their toys and let people look at them.
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On April 24 2012 06:58 DeceiverSC2 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 22 2012 17:20 Nizzy wrote:Forget the whole "I'm an apple just to be against windows" and vice versa... Apple cost for most of its products are just absurd for what you're really getting. Really no point to buy them unless you're like a singer or artist and use an Imac for that... Just my opinion of course though. Apple excels at three things... 1 - The ability to make products that, from a technical standpoint are lacklustre and charge triple what they should cost... And actually sell. 2 - A product that excels in video editing. End of story, Apple wins here. 3 - To be silly beyond belief, they need to learn to share their toys and let people look at them.
What's the mac equivalent of Sony Vegas? Or is it more intuitive than Sony Vegas but more powerful than moviemaker?
I doubt anything is as powerful as Sony Vegas. Thing is like a nuclear power plant in terms of all the buttons you have. I don't even know if it's the most powerful video editing software.
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Yes, Apple is quite good for those who are into film/music producing but how could you leave out their customer support?
I've owned several Apple products in my day (relax, they were all just gifts) and have had several issues with their technology, but everytime I had to deal with the company they would send me a box and I'd mail it out only for them to return the latest gadget with very few questions asked.
In the end I think my parents got more than their money's worth from buying me those Christmas gifts because Apple would always replace them. Five times.
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On April 24 2012 07:12 obesechicken13 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:58 DeceiverSC2 wrote:On April 22 2012 17:20 Nizzy wrote:Forget the whole "I'm an apple just to be against windows" and vice versa... Apple cost for most of its products are just absurd for what you're really getting. Really no point to buy them unless you're like a singer or artist and use an Imac for that... Just my opinion of course though. Apple excels at three things... 1 - The ability to make products that, from a technical standpoint are lacklustre and charge triple what they should cost... And actually sell. 2 - A product that excels in video editing. End of story, Apple wins here. 3 - To be silly beyond belief, they need to learn to share their toys and let people look at them. What's the mac equivalent of Sony Vegas? Or is it more intuitive than Sony Vegas but more powerful than moviemaker? I doubt anything is as powerful as Sony Vegas. Thing is like a nuclear power plant in terms of all the buttons you have. I don't even know if it's the most powerful video editing software.
risk pulling facts from my arse here, but i doubt that sony vegas is even remotelly close to being the most powerful video editing tool for a PC computer.
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On April 24 2012 07:39 Starparty wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 07:12 obesechicken13 wrote:On April 24 2012 06:58 DeceiverSC2 wrote:On April 22 2012 17:20 Nizzy wrote:Forget the whole "I'm an apple just to be against windows" and vice versa... Apple cost for most of its products are just absurd for what you're really getting. Really no point to buy them unless you're like a singer or artist and use an Imac for that... Just my opinion of course though. Apple excels at three things... 1 - The ability to make products that, from a technical standpoint are lacklustre and charge triple what they should cost... And actually sell. 2 - A product that excels in video editing. End of story, Apple wins here. 3 - To be silly beyond belief, they need to learn to share their toys and let people look at them. What's the mac equivalent of Sony Vegas? Or is it more intuitive than Sony Vegas but more powerful than moviemaker? I doubt anything is as powerful as Sony Vegas. Thing is like a nuclear power plant in terms of all the buttons you have. I don't even know if it's the most powerful video editing software. risk pulling facts from my arse here, but i doubt that sony vegas is even remotelly close to being the most powerful video editing tool for a PC computer.
Most professional video producers use Apple's Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premier. What the specific differences are, I do not know.
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On April 24 2012 07:13 StarStruck wrote:
Yes, Apple is quite good for those who are into film/music producing but how could you leave out their customer support?
I've owned several Apple products in my day (relax, they were all just gifts) and have had several issues with their technology, but everytime I had to deal with the company they would send me a box and I'd mail it out only for them to return the latest gadget with very few questions asked.
In the end I think my parents got more than their money's worth from buying me those Christmas gifts because Apple would always replace them. Five times.
My dad dropped his IPad a couple of days after getting it and it smashed into pieces. They sent him a new one no questions asked.
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To everyone saying not to use iTunes: a quick question
If you have an iTouch, can any other software be used with it? Like can I sync music through winamp or something? Because that is the only reason I use iTunes - my parents got me an iTouch a while back and so now I'm stuck with iTunes
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I restarted my music library recently. Still have my old itunes library on my laptop with 2500+ songs but it has a bunch of crap I never listen to and I had been using pandora and spotify anyway. Bought a hard drive for my desktop and downloaded foobar2000- started fresh with music I actually listen to in good quality bitrates
Feels good man. I'd just take this opportunity to start over and add music as you want to listen to it. Also, don't reuse itunes and deal with all the extra bullshit they make you install and all the random popups that make you delete your library =)
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Apple's iTunes fails.
Like Activision/Blizzard,
Their interests... lack.
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On April 24 2012 08:21 deathly rat wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 07:13 StarStruck wrote:
Yes, Apple is quite good for those who are into film/music producing but how could you leave out their customer support?
I've owned several Apple products in my day (relax, they were all just gifts) and have had several issues with their technology, but everytime I had to deal with the company they would send me a box and I'd mail it out only for them to return the latest gadget with very few questions asked.
In the end I think my parents got more than their money's worth from buying me those Christmas gifts because Apple would always replace them. Five times. My dad dropped his IPad a couple of days after getting it and it smashed into pieces. They sent him a new one no questions asked.
That's pretty cool. Wish I still had a receipt so I could break my ipod.
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On April 24 2012 07:12 obesechicken13 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 24 2012 06:58 DeceiverSC2 wrote:On April 22 2012 17:20 Nizzy wrote:Forget the whole "I'm an apple just to be against windows" and vice versa... Apple cost for most of its products are just absurd for what you're really getting. Really no point to buy them unless you're like a singer or artist and use an Imac for that... Just my opinion of course though. Apple excels at three things... 1 - The ability to make products that, from a technical standpoint are lacklustre and charge triple what they should cost... And actually sell. 2 - A product that excels in video editing. End of story, Apple wins here. 3 - To be silly beyond belief, they need to learn to share their toys and let people look at them. What's the mac equivalent of Sony Vegas? Or is it more intuitive than Sony Vegas but more powerful than moviemaker? I doubt anything is as powerful as Sony Vegas. Thing is like a nuclear power plant in terms of all the buttons you have. I don't even know if it's the most powerful video editing software.
The Mac equivalent?
Sony Vegas is not first in the realm of video production.
Final Cut Pro is the best editing program in the world. Period.
As far as effects go Adobe After Effects is far superior compared to Vegas.
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