{"id":1552,"date":"2008-07-11T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T17:00:55","slug":"you-know-what-i-hate-about-ipods-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/you-know-what-i-hate-about-ipods-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You know what I hate about iPods\/iTunes&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMfV5R3DK5I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAlthough Rock Town Hall has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/09\/27\/ilose_an_update_on_apple_s_digital_weigh\">partnered with the <strong>Apple Empire<\/strong> and <strong>iTunes<\/strong><\/a> and values them greatly, there are days when we suddenly find ourselves simply hating something about our iPod\/iTunes experience. For me, that one of those days was Monday night, when I was burning CDs that my young son sequenced and wanted to give his friends at his 7th birthday party. <\/p>\n<p>I might have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/04\/29\/oh-very-young\">told a few of you about my boys&#8217; getting into <strong>ELO<\/strong><\/a> over recent months and my realization that I owned exactly 0 ELO albums. To rectify that situation and acquire 15 ELO tracks I thought would be healthy for my boys to enjoy, I went on iTunes and legally bought the band&#8217;s best material &#8211; what <em>I<\/em> consider their best material, because lord knows they&#8217;ve got a spotty run of Greatest Hits albums in their catalog. The boys have been digging this hand-picked <em>Best of ELO<\/em> CD ever since. <\/p>\n<p>So Monday night I&#8217;m working on my boy&#8217;s ELO-heavy compilation CD for the 8 friends he&#8217;s invited to his birthday party. iTunes has burned the first 7 CDs efficiently. <em>What a marvel of modern technology!<\/em>, I thought to myself. Then, when I pop in the 8th CD I get a message to the effect of, &#8220;You are only licensed to make 7 copies of music purchased from iTunes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>BASTARDS!<\/em> Apple&#8217;s put a digital fence around the 15 ELO tracks I purchased from them. I&#8217;m sure this was all spelled out in the User Agreement that I insincerely clicked Yes to when asked if I&#8217;d read it, but come on! This was supposed to by my sons&#8217; ELO, as selected with care by their rock snob father. <strong>At that moment I cursed the Apple Empire.<\/strong> A couple of days later and I&#8217;m still reluctant to use any of the Apple software on my Mac. I&#8217;ll get over it and return to singing the praises of iPods and iTunes, I&#8217;m sure, but today I&#8217;m still feeling the hate. <\/p>\n<p><em>How about you? Please complete the phrase in the title of this post. Tell us what you hate about iPods or iTunes. In those rare times when you&#8217;re feeling the hate, that is.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Rock Town Hall has partnered with the Apple Empire and iTunes and values them greatly, there are days when we suddenly find ourselves simply hating something about our iPod\/iTunes experience. For me, that one of those days was Monday night, when I was burning CDs that my young son sequenced and wanted to give <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/you-know-what-i-hate-about-ipods-itunes\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}