iTunes Blues

[rostasi]

My current iTunes software is over 6 years old.
I haven't updated my OS for a long time too,
but when I do, I always know what I'm
"actually going to get [from] them"
(This one is rather minor, so not much is said for this one):

 

Edited September 23, 2016 by rostasi

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, I dunno - never seen anything like that.

MG

[Scott Dolan]

Good lord, MG! Now "constant updating" is a major complaint?! iTunes updates FAR less than a lot of common programs do, and if you don't want to update, then don't.

I mean, it's cool if you don't care to use it, but the reasons why are...well, kinda silly. 

[rostasi]

software updating can be adjusted too:

Daily/Weekly/Monthly - or even...never. 

[Scott Dolan]

Rod has officially won the Internet! 

[JSngry]

Forced updates, i.e. - job-enforced - mandate you to adapt. I just got Office 2013 at work today, had heard massive weepings about how "I can't FIND anything anymore", especially in Outlook, but....if you've worked with Microsoft apps before, you should know that there's a hood to get under, right? So I was able to customize it back to as much as it was before as possible.

One the one hand, it's a drag that the net result of this is that I had to go through all of this to keep doing everything I was already doing, only to have it "look" a little different. I like the way it looked before, but I was used to that. I'll get used to this.

Upside, the new Office does seem to offer greater functionality for true power users (one of which I am not), and it will no doubt work smoother with 10 (if/when we ever get there, right now on 7, and nooooo complaints there for me about that).

What strikes me, though, is that so many people get wigged out by change, their first and often only reaction is to cry about it. Well, hell, learn how the shit works, Google it, Click the ?, hell, ask a teammate who's NOT crying, right? There are no mysteries to this stuff, at least not at the basic end-user level. Know your software, own your outcome, right?

[rostasi]

 

[JSngry]

Does that get filed under "representative sampling"? 

[Scott Dolan]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

What strikes me, though, is that so many people get wigged out by change, their first and often only reaction is to cry about it. Well, hell, learn how the shit works, Google it, Click the ?, hell, ask a teammate who's NOT crying, right? There are no mysteries to this stuff, at least not at the basic end-user level. Know your software, own your outcome, right?

An amen of the unrepresentative sampling type. 

But, in fairness it is human nature to oppose change. You know that as well as I do. 

Comfort is as comfort does, that's what Forrest said...

[JSngry]

Don't know if opposing change is hardwired as much as is resisting even a momentary removal of comfort.

[rostasi]

Opposing change, for me, is when it appears to go backwards.
Even sideways is OK.

[Scott Dolan]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Don't know if opposing change is hardwired as much as is resisting even a momentary removal of comfort.

You'll have to outline the difference. 

[JSngry]

An elephant is sitting with its ass on my face. I eagerly welcome a change from that.

[Scott Dolan]

Ah, you're talking about loss of physical comfort. 

I thought this was more about psychological comfort. 

[JSngry]

Well, some people dig being sat on by an elephant and it's ass. They'd probably encourage others to feed the elephant so it didn't have to get up.

I'm not one of those people, but hey, no judgment here.

[Scott Dolan]

Irrelevant to the conversation, but OK...

[rostasi]

Irrelephant?

[JSngry]

Elephino!

[fasstrack]

Ouch. And.....ouch...

[Scott Dolan]

Elephantissimo! 

[JSngry]

Representative sampling.

 

 

[A Lark Ascending]

I read somewhere recently that Apple are likely to pull downloading in the near future. Would explain why they've shown no interest in pursuing FLAC and the like. 

[Scott Dolan]

What do you mean by "pull downloading"? 

And why would they pursue FLAC? They already have their proprietary ALAC. 

[psu_13]

4 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:

What do you mean by "pull downloading"? 

Presumably this means getting rid of the iTunes store (buy and download) in favor of Apple Music (flat fee and streaming ... but with downloading also available). A move like this would make me sad. I'm not sure I see it happening though. The marginal cost of maintaining the buy workflow in addition to the streaming flow is not that high.

 

[A Lark Ascending]

I can't remember where I read it - possibly a Guardian article in the last week or two. I got the impression it was suggesting Apple might stick to plain streaming. After all, if it ditches the headphone socket from its phones despite protests I'm sure it won't worry about some annoyed downloaders. It must have done the maths and decided that downloading is not worth continuing. I could be totally wrong. I am very old. 

No idea about FLAC/ALAC/any other acronym - I'm not techky-astute.