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No, I'm not complaining about the 64 GB, that's a good thing. What I meant is that the only way to put media on iPhone is iTunes on my Mac with 100% image of th

by ypcx 15y ago

No, I'm not complaining about the 64 GB, that's a good thing. What I meant is that the only way to put media on iPhone is iTunes on my Mac with 100% image of the media, which takes precious SSD space. I wasn't up to date with the iCloud, I'm still running 3GS with iOS 3 (jailbroken with probably more functionality than iOS 5), so that's good to know. Although I'm not sure I want Apple to know (and by definition, sell) the information about all my media, by storing it to iCloud. Btw. the problem is not to get media to iPhone, I can do that via SCP, the problem is getting them included in the iTunes library on the phone, so that they can be played "natively" using the iPod app. On Android, there's plenty of ways to do this, AFAIK.

protomyth 15y ago
I have a pretty big media collection and 512GB drive on my laptop, so I keep my iTunes library on a external drive. This allows me to have it on a RAID.
shinratdr 15y ago
This is a ridiculous complaint. Transferring 64GB of music to an iOS device and then regaining that space is quite simple, and about one or two steps more than the equivalent action with an Android device. Check the little box in iTunes that says "Manually manage music and videos". Drag your 64GB of music into iTunes. Drag the music from the iTunes library to your iOS device in the sidebar. Delete the entries from iTunes, delete the music from your SSD. Done and done. You seem to believe the media has to exist in perpetuity on the computer the iOS device is synced to. This is not the case, and has never been for either traditional iPods or iOS devices. iPods and iOS devices are built on the sync model and don't use regular mass storage, so you need to use iTunes to interact with them. This has upsides and downsides, but if you wish to simply drag music to the device and then delete it from the source you can definitely do that with an iOS device. On an Android device, you can download 64GB of music from the device and get it into the media player, but nobody is going to actually do that. Also, plenty of people carry Android devices and iPod touches as media players so I don't think this aspect is enough to make the Android media player a convincing sell over the iOS one. IMO the fact that Android uses a Linux filesystem and therefore forces me to use the Android File Transfer Utility on my Mac to copy anything to the device is 1000x more annoying than any issues I've encountered with iTunes.

by ypcx 15y ago

protomyth 15y ago

I have a pretty big media collection and 512GB drive on my laptop, so I keep my iTunes library on a external drive. This allows me to have it on a RAID.

shinratdr 15y ago

This is a ridiculous complaint. Transferring 64GB of music to an iOS device and then regaining that space is quite simple, and about one or two steps more than the equivalent action with an Android device. Check the little box in iTunes that says "Manually manage music and videos". Drag your 64GB of music into iTunes. Drag the music from the iTunes library to your iOS device in the sidebar. Delete the entries from iTunes, delete the music from your SSD. Done and done. You seem to believe the media has to exist in perpetuity on the computer the iOS device is synced to. This is not the case, and has never been for either traditional iPods or iOS devices. iPods and iOS devices are built on the sync model and don't use regular mass storage, so you need to use iTunes to interact with them. This has upsides and downsides, but if you wish to simply drag music to the device and then delete it from the source you can definitely do that with an iOS device. On an Android device, you can download 64GB of music from the device and get it into the media player, but nobody is going to actually do that. Also, plenty of people carry Android devices and iPod touches as media players so I don't think this aspect is enough to make the Android media player a convincing sell over the iOS one. IMO the fact that Android uses a Linux filesystem and therefore forces me to use the Android File Transfer Utility on my Mac to copy anything to the device is 1000x more annoying than any issues I've encountered with iTunes.