RAID Striping Problems and iTunes
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Wed 12 Dec 2007 		Posted By:
Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
Categories:life

RAID Striping Problems (Intel and Apple’s Fault!)
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As you may know, I bought a top of the line Sony Vaio in July 2007.
You may or may not know, however, is that I’ve had a lot of I/O issues with the RAID Controller and iTunes.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7588_102-0.html?forumID=70&threadID=236344&start=30

This forum I stumbled upon today, finally sheds light on the matter and has allowed me to fix my computer
without getting new hard drives and having to reinstall everything.
Nor was I forced to lose a lot of data… *phew*

Apple may very well suck… well at least iTunes does… and the iPod could use some improvements
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Also, if you hadn’t heard, I ended up buying an iPod before my trip to Korea in early October 2007.

The iPod classic is a decent product but it still has a lot of short comings and WOEfully inferior software.
I don’t understand how company can put so much money into their hardware based product design yet have
incredibly poor software. Sony and Apple in particular have been called to mind with this problem.

The bottomline, iTunes is a horrible piece of software that doesn’t work very well.
Of course, Apple DEMANDS that you use their POS software to use the ipod for anything but a portable hard drive.
It has caused A LOT of problems with my computers (the reason why I stayed away from iTunes as best i could before)
including numerous blue screens of death.

Apple should stop spending so much on marketing and concentrate on having better software….
We all saw how poor their itunes software was when podcasts were introduced.

On a further negative note on iTunes,
How is the supposed to work?! They don’t really support people who live in different countries…
or more importantly, people who live in a particular country but are not fluent in that country’s language.

Is there a way I can link iTunes Canada, USA, and Japan together?!
then… it might actually be useful (not withstanding the whole NBC debacle)

Another supposedly great feature Apple Zealots are pushing is the Cover Flow.
This is a useless feature that doesn’t work unless ALL your music was purchased from ONE iTunes store
and you ONLY listen to that music from that ONE country’s selection.

what can I say but… iTunes: utter crap. Cover flow: needs more work for the international market.
I don’t know about you but I don’t live in the United States of “Amerika”…
I live in the world.

Now, the iPod itself…

okay, it’s a decent machine aside from it’s lack of support for varying formats.
But what I would really like to see are improve to accessibility.
how about intelligently putting together title, album, artist information.
how about scrolling information if it’s too long to fit on the screen?
how about giving us ANY of the additional information found in ID3 tags.

For those of you who are early adopters of mp3 technology, you are likely to either have NO tags or only ID3v1 tags.
CD rippers way back when largely used the filename to hold information.
How about those of you who listen to non-english music. Obviously the iPod doesn’t even support character encoding.
Unicode UTF8 is a good thing… but it’s acceptance a lot newer than my mp3 collection.

How about iTunes using my folder hierarchy to let me intelligently tag my mp3s?

Again for the iPod… WHY on earth is there a volume limiter. That is rediculous!!
They should have a volume decibel limiter like any high product SHOULD have.
It shouldn’t be about how high you want your slider set… it should be about how loud the audio actually is.

For a so-called progressive intelligent company that understands it’s users needs, they sure are disappointing.

Finally, since iTunes sucks and crashes my computer, i listen to or watch NOTHING in iTunes.
I listen to or watch podcasts on the iPod itself.
However, iTunes comes along and disables podcast downloads because it things I haven’t been listening to them.
Are they mad?! Of course I’m listening to them. If the iPod and their POS software iTunes communicated better with
each other then they’d know that! Why the @#$% would they disable the podcast?!?!

Rediculous Apple… You’d Better Get your act together fast!