{"id":20474,"date":"2011-03-10T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=20474"},"modified":"2011-03-10T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:41:09","slug":"dodge-retort-the-itunes-hairball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/dodge-retort-the-itunes-hairball\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Retort: The iTunes Hairball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/johnwp.jpg\" alt=\"john\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By John Dodge<\/p>\n<p>Among Sun Microsystems (now <a href=\"http:\/\/landingpad.oracle.com\/webapps\/dialogue\/ns\/dlgwelcome.jsp?p_ext=Y&amp;p_dlg_id=8845878&amp;src=7058226&amp;Act=4&amp;sckw=WWSN10055308MPP001.GCM.9103\">Oracle something<\/a> or other) founder <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_McNealy#Positions_at_Sun\">Scott NcNealy&#8217;s<\/a> favorite potshots at Microsoft was calling Windows a &#8220;hairball.&#8221; Know what? iTunes is a bigger hairball.<\/p>\n<p>That a company hasn&#8217;t come along and blown the iTunes music jail out of the water is mind blowing.<\/p>\n<p>iTunes is highly restrictive and unintuitive. 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It turned out not to be so bad. I authorized the new desktop as one of my five allowed iTunes repositories and bingo, all my purchased music magically showed up.<\/p>\n<p>That provided a new home base for all my tunes for downloading to iPad, iPod and iPhone. All the music CDs I had transferred from CDs were gone, but I could, over time, download it again.<\/p>\n<p>Just as magically, all that music vanished about a month later. It wasn&#8217;t in a folders on my PC. It simply vanished. Poof. Gone.<\/p>\n<p>I was perplexed. Where was it? Was changing my e-mail login responsible for my loss? How did this happen? Who could I call? I have no idea. 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