iTunes 8, An iPod Nano, And Windows XP or Vista

One more ipod died on me soon after supplying me firm even though working for a prolonged time. Sweat, rain, warmth, shocks - I guess it was also considerably for the very poor minor ipod Shuffle. This time I made a decision to get an ipod Nano rather of a Shuffle. The ipod Shuffle is fantastic in regards to excess weight and sturdiness, nevertheless it is restricted in regards to playlists and performance. The ipod Nano just a notch far more hefty in fat in contrast to the Shuffle and small larger in general dimension, but twice as skinny as the Shuffle.

Following buying the Nano at the nearby Apple Shop I had to set up iTunes on my laptop computer to put my audio on this new gadget. I did not have to use iTunes to plan my Shuffle because of as I was utilizing a minor software (downloadable from SourceForge) that permitted to re-method the database each and every time when including or getting rid of music from the Apple ipod Shuffle (duplicate and paste). Even so, this software does not work with the Nano and so I set up iTunes eight - not understanding what type of catastrophe would flip out to be. I sta rted iTunes and allow it index my database which took permanently, but when I lastly had it all in put I hooked up the new Nano ipod.

I began making playlists and kind my new music library, but iTunes was very sluggish. I figured it may possibly even now be indexing new music and things in the history, but it did not get greater. So, I started off a Google Lookup for the slowness with iTunes and apparently this began in summertime of 2008 when Apple up-to-date iTunes to model eight. I was shocked to examine that now, specific 1 12 months later on the identical difficulty nonetheless persist for end users of iTunes eight on a Windows centered pc. Some Apple Personal computer customers noted the exact same issue, but they ended up in the minority. All the men and women who noted this dilemma had been employing Windows XP or Windows Vista - just like myself. iTunes acted really sluggish and rendered the unit ineffective in a lot of situations.

Much more Lookup nevertheless showed that third celebration application permits to bypass the issue and nevertheless get the very same features out of the ipod. I attempted a couple of equipment and discovered that an software known as "Songbird" mixed with the ipod plug-in is the greatest way to handle playlists and music on an ipod. Now I extremely adore my new ipod Nano because of to the reality that I do not have to use the bloat ware that Apple iTunes has turn out to be.

Conclusion: If you are thinking about the buy of an Apple ipod and want to use iTunes eight on your Windows OS primarily based pc to load audio to the gadget you may join the ranks of numerous annoyed consumers who are encountering this incredibly difficulty. Apple has not supplied a answer because September 2008 from what I can inform which is not a great way to market goods.