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If I’m ever on a jury

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

… and someone is brought before me accused of cold-bloodedly murdering the developers of PC iTunes, and the prosecution presents high-definition video evidence of them in the act, and they’re arrested still carrying the brains-covered axe, and the victims have scrawled the full names, addresses and descriptions of their assailants in their own blood on the carpet with their dying breaths, I’ll still find them Not Guilty.

This evening, for reasons we needn’t go into here, I deleted 200 songs off my iPhone and immediately tried to reinstall them, only for iTunes to insist that it needed an extra 1.6GB of space to fit them into.

(Remember – they were ALREADY THERE just five minutes before, and nothing was added or altered in the intervening time.)

At the moment, iTunes tells me I have 3.4GB of space free on the device.

The iPhone itself claims to have 1.9GB available.

iTunes reports the total size of the songs I’m trying to sync as 0.46GB.

I’ve already deleted 0.7GB of apps off the iPhone.

And yet, iTunes still claims it needs an extra 0.8GB in order to fit onto the phone 0.7GB LESS stuff than it had on it two hours ago.

I’m not even joking. I’d let them off without so much as a second’s thought, and I’d sleep soundly afterwards.

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  1. Stephen Smith says:
    13 May, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Do you think it's part of a subtle plan to coerce people to move over to Macs, or is that a conspiracy theory too far?

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  2. Ross says:
    13 May, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    To suggest that the company is so incompetent that they can't get iTunes to work properly after all these years on a PC is simply beyond the realms of believability.

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  3. Dave says:
    13 May, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    @ Stephen

    It would be more believable if iTunes wasn't awful on the Mac as well.

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  4. MarzSyndrome says:
    13 May, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Dude, ditch iTunes.  Period.
     
    You can always try CopyTrans Manager to do transfers with.  Haven't tried it myself so far, as I'm waiting till my iPhone 4 arrives before I start testing it out.  Would've recommended SharePod, except it appears to still not support iPhone4/iOS 4.
     
    It's perfectly possible to use an iPhouch and not have to touch iTunes with a bargepole – i-FunBox was what I used for transfers back when I used the mother's iTouch 2G but I don't know how well it can transfer music/videos, if at all.

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  5. Eric Hayes says:
    13 May, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    Reminds me of how MS Office works on the mac…  as though they are trying to subtly kill the OSX platform…

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  6. romanista says:
    14 May, 2011 at 6:39 am

    office 08 and 11 are quite okay

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  7. Foozwah says:
    15 May, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Been using iTunes on PC for over six years now, synching to three different devices, with it installed on three different PC laptops in that period, and I have experienced zero hassle or weirdness in all that time. Go figure.

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