Ten quid to get my own music back
26 Mar 2008 | 11:14 GMT
Rant Tone bites Apple
THIS IS crazy. My hard disk crashes and I want to restore all the music I lost from my music player to my PC. And it costs me £10.62. Why?
Because the music player in question is an Apple Ipod Nano. For reasons best know to His Royal Jobness, the Duke of Cupertino, Itunes doesn't have a restore function.
That's right. If you connect an Ipod to a new PC, all it can offer to do is wipe out any music you have installed already and force you to start again.
But I couldn't start again because I'd lost all my music files. The bizarre thing is that the Ipod can act as a remote disk but that still didn't help.
Looking for help on the Net, I made a significant discovery. This is such a common problem that a bunch of programmers have decided to write an app especially for this purpose.
Those guys are Ipod2computer Inc, although they're not the only ones. So in order to restore my precious music files I ordered the app and it cost me just over ten quid.
Apple is always being praised for its clever design but in this particular hack's opinion, this is nothing short of a design fault. I'm not very happy about it, either. µ
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