Getting content onto an iPhone without iTunes?

[pianoguyy]

After reading that, i will summarize it with what I've already said:

apple controls what you can do with the product you buy in order to prevent human error from messing it up, which also prevents you from making it great. Every one is the same.

Google gives you the freedom to make your own experience. Freedom to screw it up. Freedom to make it great.
They even allow manufacturers the freedom to do the same. Sometimes that manufacturer disallows those freedoms. They have the freedom to do so, and you have the freedom to choose it or a different one.

Much like in life. Your experience is what you make of it.
Keep government control out of my life so I can flourish, but its also my fault when i fail.

[artonsafari]

I'd hazzard a guess that a lot of the iOS reliability is that "user error" is kept to a minimum.

[rjohnstone]

I'd hazzard a guess that a lot of the iOS reliability is that "user error" is kept to a minimum.

The trick is iOS hides the error from the user.
Where on an Android device you might see a force close warning, Apple phones simply quit the app without warning.
The error rate (crash rate) on iOS is similar to Android.
Jailbreak an iPhone and turn on crash reporting and you will see just how often those "reliable phones" crash.

The issue with Android is not the OS, but crap hardware many vendors choose to use and the damn customizations.

My S4 is a GPE device. No TouchWiz crap anywhere on this phone.
Yes, it does crash from time to time. Why? Because I'm a programmer and like to fuck with my phones.
I treat it like a portable playground for coding. I had a few kernel tweaks that allowed the phone to go for nearly 3 days without recharging
The issue was it came at a sacrifice to performance. So I'm always experimenting with ways to find the right balance of performance and battery life.
But to be honest, GPE right out of the box is solid. I'm just a nerd and have to fuck with shit. "If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it", never applied to me.

I can make an iPhone crash in less than 60 seconds without a jailbreak, not difficult at all. Give it a real workload and watch the little bitch trip all over itself.
Want to see a phone that can take a workload and keep on ticking... grab a Nokia Lumia, or just about any Windows Phone 8 device.
As fugly as the OS is, it's solid and extremely stable.

I have 3 iPhones (3GS, 4 and 4S), 4 Android phones (Galaxy S2, S3, S4 and a Motorola Atrix) and two Windows Phones (Samsung Focus and a Nokia Lumia 920).
Yes... I have phone GAS problems as well as guitar GAS.

[Newc]

Well, I've managed to copy my ripped (and bought, thank you) CDs from my desktop to my shiny new ASUS gaming laptop, which also serves as the iTunes portal to my iPhail. I click "scan for media" and it found everything.

Then I copied my own stuff over into the same folder. iTunes did not add them. I cannot right-click a folder and select "add to iTunes library", nor can I right-click an individual or group of mp3s and select "add to library". I can right-click one track and select "play in iTunes", and then that one track gets added to the library, with the "artist" name (their determination, not mine ), and album name (assuming I remembered to put that in the data field, which I did not on several songs).

So, had I copied my originals before having iTunes scan, they may have been in the library. However, unless I'm missing it, I'm not seeing "rescan for new shit" as an option. WTF'nF? Haven't tried copying anything to the phone itself yet. Still in the process of getting both the phone and the new laptop set up to do what I want them to do, and it was time to go to werk by the time I got my songs added to the library.
Might attempt it before I go to bed, but then I hate going to bed angry because my definition of "simple" is 30 years ahead of any programmer's concept of "simple"


As I said before, my HTC Hero was old when I got it - maybe 3 or 4 years. I had it for 3 years. It had no problems. Every app I put on it had to be Forced Closed at one point or another, but being a Windows user since 1996, I'm used to that. I understand the basic concepts of trying to make a poorly-designed program run in a poorly-designed highly unstable program built on a questionable foundation that is, in essence, "what we theorize Apple did to make it run like that".
Only time I had to reboot my HTC was when a system update required it.
Only time I removed the battery was during meetings at werk (which would have required a shutdown anyway, and it was faster to remove the battery than press-n-hold then click "No Shit" when it told me the phone was shutting down). Took as long to reboot with either option.

However, I didn't dick with my phone like others have suggested. I loaded a custom ringtone or two, some pics for my home/lock screens, that's it.


I'm definitely not cool with the iPhoney's lack of a card slot. However, IIRC, the HTC OS did not allow you to install apps to the card, but demanded you install to the system itself. Adobe Acrobat Reader took up 16MB, which was about all the space it had. The card was 2GB.
IMO, adding a card should give you the option to assign it as a main memory expansion OR a storage device. For any smartphone. I know Apple charges more for the higher-memory models, and it's considerably more than a $20 64GB SD card. I really don't care what they want or expect. It's nice to see that much reciprocated, at least.

But then again, there I go with that "30-years-ahead-of-everyone-else" again. What can I say? I'm a visionary genius.

[VitaminG]

Well, I've managed to copy my ripped (and bought, thank you) CDs from my desktop to my shiny new ASUS gaming laptop, which also serves as the iTunes portal to my iPhail. I click "scan for media" and it found everything.

Then I copied my own stuff over into the same folder. iTunes did not add them. I cannot right-click a folder and select "add to iTunes library", nor can I right-click an individual or group of mp3s and select "add to library". I can right-click one track and select "play in iTunes", and then that one track gets added to the library, with the "artist" name (their determination, not mine ), and album name (assuming I remembered to put that in the data field, which I did not on several songs).

So, had I copied my originals before having iTunes scan, they may have been in the library. However, unless I'm missing it, I'm not seeing "rescan for new shit" as an option. WTF'nF? Haven't tried copying anything to the phone itself yet. Still in the process of getting both the phone and the new laptop set up to do what I want them to do, and it was time to go to werk by the time I got my songs added to the library.
Might attempt it before I go to bed, but then I hate going to bed angry because my definition of "simple" is 30 years ahead of any programmer's concept of "simple"

just drag'n'drop your shit directly into iTunes (the program). Simple

[Hellbat]

In iTunes if you have new digital media (mp3,mp4,etc.) to add, you can click CTRL-o ( the letter o, not the number 0 ) and then just select the folders/files to add them to your library.

This is a good article to read now, to save yourself future pain. It deals with the methods of making it easier to move your itunes library to another PC. To do it right it's best to set it up before your library gets too large.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/