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Can anyone explain this?

Postby Fulvio » Tue 10 Jul, 2012 3:29 pm

Yesterday, I had opened iTunes, to download some music (personally, I have become disenchanted with iTunes, but I have been getting download cards from my sons). Soon, after I started, there was a rather long (10 minutes or longer) power outage. I have power backup, and I was able to shutdown my machine, in a proper way.
Today, I went back into iTunes, and I was able to complete the download, and burn the CD.
What happened after the CD burn has puzzled me. I wanted to print a CD cover. iTunes' are pretty neat, and the only way to print a cover. If anything goes wrong, there is no way to copy and paste. I selected to print the cover, and the printer dialog came up,...and nothing happened. I went to check the printing schedule, and, it said that I had one job, of an unbelievable 28.6 MB in size. I, never took a look at the size of an iTunes cover, but the one I was getting was huge. I tried to restart the printer, as suggested, with no success. I tried to delete the print job, and it would not do it. I tried to restart the computer, and it came up with a warning saying that some new software or hardware had to be removed for security's sake. Nothing new has been added for at least a week, so I must assume that something including the album cover and/or its printing must have been dangerous.
After this, and two hours of restart/shutdown attempts produced nothing. Even my antivirus froze up.
Finally, I was able to shut down the computer, and left it alone for a couple of hours.
Everything seems to be ok, at the present, and I was able to print the album cover from emusic, using a simple copy/paste, and no purchase. The size of the cover was less than 100 Kb.
Apparently, I was able to lose the iTunes monstrosity, but, has anyone have had a similar experience?
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Re: Can anyone explain this?

Postby Antony » Tue 10 Jul, 2012 9:01 pm

Not to defend iTunes, but it seems to me that your Windows somehow needs a good clean re-installation (when possible) and hope that can solve your many mysterious (and hard to explain) issues.
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Re: Can anyone explain this?

Postby Fulvio » Thu 19 Jul, 2012 4:47 pm

I don't see anything related to my issue, other than a problem with my Windows.
I went into great detail, probably too great a detail to explain what happens. And, in each case my problems were limited to iTunes. What kind of installation do I have which gives me crazy problems only with iTunes.
I think that I mentioned before that I have not been able to open any of the four books which I got from iTunes, nor got any reply from iTunes. In each case I got only the book cover in the book section. The books which I got are in the .epub format, which can be opened in Adobe Digital Editions. The latest book can be opened and read in Adobe Digital Editions, but not in iTunes. An earlier book, with a whopping 318 MB, opened with well over 300 blank pages in Adobe Digital Editions. The issue with the CD cover is new, and it may have been associated to the power outage, which I had mentioned.
It would make more sense to use up my credits in iTunes, and, then uninstall it, rather than bother with a Windows reinstallation.
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Re: Can anyone explain this?

Postby Ghostman 1 » Mon 20 Aug, 2012 12:29 pm

I have found that Apple software does not like running on Windows OS, It most of the time will slow down your pc, And if you don't have enough ram push everything in the first place then your computer will run slow..
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Re: Can anyone explain this?

Postby Fulvio » Tue 21 Aug, 2012 4:17 pm

I have found that Apple software does not like running on Windows OS
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I have no evidence of this kind. My issue is that with one album only, never before nor since, iTunes failed to deliver entire songs. Because of their length, they appeared samples only (although iTunes samples are longer than that). The worse part was that iTunes support recognized that something was amiss, but, instead of giving me the option to download the affected songs, it replaced the entire album, making an additional mess. But, at least, I got a refund.
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