I don't see why everybody needs to "sync" their music. Drag and drop is very easy.
I used to have an iPhone 3gs and I now have an iPad and it has never taken me more than 5 minutes to sync except for the first time right after I bought them. Sync takes around 30 seconds, and backing up takes about 5 minutes max. Maybe your computer isn't recognizing the usb 2 connection. Apple backs up only changes you made since the last backup, so unless you wiped out your whole phone, there's no reason it should take that long. I had the16 GNARLED version, so maybe that made a difference.I must be old because i also dont understand the love affair with "sync". One of the best things about breaking free from the iphone was never having to use itunes again. It would take forever to load and ran everything so slowly. I hated having to put music on my phone. It took forever. It is so easy to just open the device and drag and drop. A new album is added to my phone in seconds. Unplug it and go. Non of that bullcrap itunes would do with syncing my apps, picture, ect. I hated that. And heaven forbid you had to cancel the sync in the middle of the 45minute ordeal. It would wipe everything from your phone.
I dont get it i guess. I hate itunes. For me its as bad as installing AOL on a computer. It slows it down and tries to install a bunch of crap like safari ect to your computer. Then tries to launch by itself all the time. Just terrible. I always thought apple designed a bad slow itunes package for windows pc's just to get back at microsoft for eating their lunch for the last 20 years.
I think that maybe some users like to pick up playlists as well as a default organization of tunes - and maybe to not have to worry about the manual management of things.
Speaking for myself, anything I can do wirelessly, I do. (I've downloaded and installed TuneSync, haven't used it yet - install required a re-login and that wasn't convenient until today.)
That said - I still drag and drop as I use my Evo for a player only infrequently - maybe that matters, I don't really know, either. So far, I've taken to Bluetooth for wireless xfers.
I dont get it i guess. I hate itunes. For me its as bad as installing AOL on a computer. It slows it down and tries to install a bunch of crap like safari ect to your computer. Then tries to launch by itself all the time. Just terrible. I always thought apple designed a bad slow itunes package for windows pc's just to get back at microsoft for eating their lunch for the last 20 years.
Click the link in my sig for WinAmp sync
Dragging and dropping doesn't work in a way I have found, but if someone knows of a way to transfer the playlists and have a player like Mixzing recognize them, great!
Here's what I do:
- Create a folder under /sdcard/Music with the same name as my playlist.
- Go to that playlist in iTunes.
- Select all songs.
- Drag to target folder.
- Playing with Meridian, under its Prefs, I tell it to Organize by Albums.
- Meridian then thinks I have an album by my playlist name.
Yeah. I know. Arcane.
I must be old because i also dont understand the love affair with "sync". One of the best things about breaking free from the iphone was never having to use itunes again. It would take forever to load and ran everything so slowly. I hated having to put music on my phone. It took forever. It is so easy to just open the device and drag and drop. A new album is added to my phone in seconds. Unplug it and go. Non of that bullcrap itunes would do with syncing my apps, picture, ect. I hated that. And heaven forbid you had to cancel the sync in the middle of the 45minute ordeal. It would wipe everything from your phone.
I dont get it i guess. I hate itunes. For me its as bad as installing AOL on a computer. It slows it down and tries to install a bunch of crap like safari ect to your computer. Then tries to launch by itself all the time. Just terrible. I always thought apple designed a bad slow itunes package for windows pc's just to get back at microsoft for eating their lunch for the last 20 years.
I just use Winamp
Hey - I use Songbird for some of my other stuff, never noticed the new rev has sync capabilities - some of you may be interested:
Songbird - Welcome
Good for Mac and Win, very flexible it seems.
I'm more of an album guy, so playlists don't really concern me.
Still waiting for a foobar2000 plugin that allows for auto transcoding of unsupported formats(FLAC).
foo_dop for ipod is awesome, if only it could be made to work for the evo
Wow...I didn't know you guys still existed.
Meridian Media Player supports FLAC and others.
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