iPhone Pains

Man, at this point I wish I had gone with an Android phone instead of an iPhone. But I have too much time and money burned (NOT INVESTED) on the iPhone to make it worthwhile. My laptop died last month (I think Taiwan's summer destroyed its ability to stay cool.) I used that laptop to sync with my iPhone and because of the way the iPhone is designed, I needed to resync with iTunes on a new computer, which would delete all my music and playlists. Luckily, the hard drive from my busted laptop was still good so I could get my music. Otherwise, I would need to spend A LOT of time looking for safe, trustworthy programs to get my music off my iPhone. I've heard they exist, I just don't want to spend the time figuring out what they are and how to use them safely.

So I needed to copy all the music from the laptop onto a new computer. I ended up using an old Mac Mini I had lying around, (might as well find a use for that expensive lesson on how I do not enjoy developing iPhone software in my freetime.) I needed to figure out how to copy all my playlists (hint: figure out where your iTune's library.xml file is and import it. Use some text editing software and do a "replace all" on your music directories from your old computer to where they live on the new computer.)

I spent an entire evening doing all of this, which was really annoying. I really, really wish I didn't have to jump through all these hoops to add new music or to sync other items with my iPhone. While the iPhone is pretty, using it requires so much awkward hoop jumping that one day, I know I'm just going to give up on it.