It's an MP3 player!

Awhile ago a friend gave me an i-pod, mostly because he couldn't figure out how the damn thing worked. At the time I didn't understand what he meant, I mean, it's an MP3 player! How hard can it be?


* Plug in i-pod
* Put music on i-pod
* Remove i-pod
* Listen to music


See? How hard can it be?


Aparently it's not that easy, because its an i-pod! I followed the steps above, as I have done with my old MP3 player. Only the forth step didnt work. Even though I was 100% sure that I actually put music on my i-pod, it was nowhere to be found when I looked for it. I figured I must have missed something, so I plugged it back in.


Behold! There it was! All the music I had put on my i-pod was right there, where I left it less than 5 minutes ago. So again I remove the i-pod, browse it through the menus, and still no music. I'm starting to see why he gave it to me for free, it's obviously broken.


After a little bit of research I found out that you have to download i-tunes. Without this program you can put as much music as you want on your i-pod and still not be able to listen to it. Whats up with that? It would have made atleast some sense if you had to pay for i-tunes, but no, it's free. They force me to install and use a program I dont like and dont want to use, in order to listen to MY music on MY i-pod. What the hell?


So I download the program and install it, against my will mind you. Plug in my i-pod, go through all the steps. I-tunes is a confusing program. After awhile I unplug my i-pod, and going to see if my music is there now. It is, not only the songs I wanted though. Every damned audio file on my computer had magically been moved to this i-pod. Everything! I just wanted maybe 20-30 songs, not every single beep and pling from my computer.


I plug the i-pod back in, this time to remove stuff and try to put the stuff I want only. Lets see, "mark everything" and delete. Then I get a message warning me that not only will the selected files be deleted from my i-pod, but also from my computer. Hell no you wont! I might not like the beeps and plings from my computer on my i-pod to listen to, but I'm sure they are useful for something on my computer. Unsure what to do now, I found a button saying "Restore to factory". That sounds good, if it is indeed broken maybe this will fix it. "Warning everything on the i-pod will be lost", "Proceed?". Yes! take it away! remove it!


Alright. Finally trying again from the beginning, using babysteps this time. It turns out that the default settings on i-tunes is pretty much that every sound that has ever been on your computer will be copied to your i-pod. Searching around for a bit I finally found what I was looking for, an option that let me chose which folder I want to copy to the i-pod! yay! 


Aparently women arent the only ones in the world that makes things more complicated than nessesary. Unless there's a woman in charge on Apple, that would actually make sense.


I like things easy, the easier the better. I dont like beeing told I cant listen to my own music on my own MP3 player, unless I install a software that I don't want to use. I will find a way to transfer my music without i-tunes! If it'll be the last thing I ever do.