Not content with breaking the music library, Apple have surpassed themselves by removing the "genius" playlist feature of iOS 8.4.
Yes, it often failed
Yes, It couldn't identify lots of my songs
But, when it worked it was quite good
And now it is gone.
Apple - FAIL !
Tuesday 7 July 2015
Sunday 5 July 2015
iOS 8.4 and the vanishing music library "I went back to the iPod and my music was gone"
I like my iPod touch. I liked it enough to buy an iPhone once and I may again but in the meanwhile I have a reasonably new 32GB iPod touch with a fair amount of music on it.
Perhaps foolishly I upgraded to iOS 8.4.
The music icon had changed appearance. When I selected it, to misquote The Pretenders, my music was gone. All was left was the handful of iTunes purchases.
The 700 other songs, either downloads from amazon or CD rips and their associated covers were all gone.
Google was my friend, a re-sync with my macbook with the music library on it did the job of restoring my music again fine.
Fortunately even the iTunes 11.4 I have on my ageing MacBook was good enough. I had a nasty feeling I might need a newer version.
Perhaps foolishly I upgraded to iOS 8.4.
The music icon had changed appearance. When I selected it, to misquote The Pretenders, my music was gone. All was left was the handful of iTunes purchases.
The 700 other songs, either downloads from amazon or CD rips and their associated covers were all gone.
Google was my friend, a re-sync with my macbook with the music library on it did the job of restoring my music again fine.
Fortunately even the iTunes 11.4 I have on my ageing MacBook was good enough. I had a nasty feeling I might need a newer version.
The EE Power Bar (part 2)
Yesterday I go a chance to go to my local EE shop shortly after they opened.
It was a Saturday morning about half an hour after they opened.
After a minor faff (due to me not knowing my T-Mobile SIM phone number and not giving call ID to numbers not in my address book [fantastic feature]) I got my power bar.
The man in the shop said I topped up by £10 a month (well actually it is £40 a year for 2 x 6 Month web deals but I had topped up by £10 in May to get some free calls in June) and I think that was supposed to lead into an "upgrade" to a contract discussion.
He was fairly sharp as he worked out that a contract for the new version of the phone I had (probably he would have offered a Lumia 930 or 830) would have been much more than £10 a month and saved his effort for a better cause !
I walked out with my power bar in a nice little tube and with an attaching lead.
OK for 35p and 2 visits to a phone shop.
It was a Saturday morning about half an hour after they opened.
After a minor faff (due to me not knowing my T-Mobile SIM phone number and not giving call ID to numbers not in my address book [fantastic feature]) I got my power bar.
The man in the shop said I topped up by £10 a month (well actually it is £40 a year for 2 x 6 Month web deals but I had topped up by £10 in May to get some free calls in June) and I think that was supposed to lead into an "upgrade" to a contract discussion.
He was fairly sharp as he worked out that a contract for the new version of the phone I had (probably he would have offered a Lumia 930 or 830) would have been much more than £10 a month and saved his effort for a better cause !
I walked out with my power bar in a nice little tube and with an attaching lead.
OK for 35p and 2 visits to a phone shop.
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