Angry I-Tunes is rubbish
I have the 30Gb video I-Pod, it has about 250 albums and about 8 movies on it, there's around 9Gb of hard disk space left.
As most of you know, your I-Pod will mirror what's saved on your hard drive on your computer in your I-Tunes saved data folder.
Also as most of you know, unless you don't mind having hundreds of disorganised files, you have to put all albums or compilations into 'Playlists'
Compiling playlists takes some considerable time, particularly if you want to put CD albums by various artists into a playlist, you have to search all through your music list in I-Tunes to drag and drop those files into a playlist.
When you connect your I-Pod to your computer, most of us choose to auto-update. However, if your playlists are lost on your computer, they will be lost on your I-Pod as well.
I recently done a fresh install of Win XP on my computer after swapping motherboard and case. This meant I lost all my I-Tunes playlists. I didn't actually lose all my m4a music files as I'd saved those on another hard disk.
I felt secure though, that I could restore my playlists cos I-Tunes backup said I could backup to DVD and that all music files and playlists would be saved and restored.
It took me four DVD's to backup my stuff, I installed latest version of I-Tunes onto my fresh install of Win XPand fed the first backup DVD into my DVD drive (and just by way of mentioning, I-Tunes won't recognise a SATA optical drive, only a PATA drive - more crap).
It took 40 minutes but all four DVD's loaded their m4a files into my designated I-Tunes storage folder.
But....... playlists were NOT restored
There's a folder showing on the left hand side of the I-Tunes screen saying 'Restored I-Tunes playlists', but clicking on it shows a blank screen, right clicking on it and selecting 'show' (or similar) also shows nothing.
It takes a helluva lotta time to create 220-odd playlists and it would appear that every time we decide to wipe our hard drive for whatever reason, if we use I-Tunes and an I-Pod, we have to do it again.
I am going to say right now that I-Tunes is completely and utterly the ****tiest piece of crap software I have ever ever used.
Why doesn't this software give an option to automatically create a playlist when you insert a CD?
Typical Apple crap.
Yes, I'm incensed, really, really annoyed.
And while we're at it, my I-pod does not:
1) Allow me to change the battery myself unless i search the web and invalidate the warranty opening the thing up.
2) Does not have radio as standard.
3) Does not have a voice recorder as standard
4) Scratches really easily
As good as the I-Pod sounds, as good as it looks, I've got the pox with it.
Mostly because of I-Tunes crap software.
I'm seriously considering selling this thing and maybe getting a Creative Zen or something.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! Yes, I'm annoyed
I bought the iPod to plug into my Pioneer receiver in my truck and after getting used to it I like it for that. But for listening to music...cutting grass, or when I ride my FATBOY, I would much rather use my iRiver. The controls are very easy to use without having to look at what your doing and that is helpful while running 100mph+ 
Linear Mode
