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Comment by mrkrabo

9 years ago

>When the iPod came out, I never understood why I couldn't just drag the music files directly onto the device and I had to get iTunes and use iTune's tedious interface.

Because MTP is utter rubbish.

Really, people complain about iTunes? It's never failed me as slow as it is. Try using MTP...

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phs2501  9 years ago

The iPod mounted as a perfectly-functional Firewire disk, yet you still had to use iTunes to put music on it for it to be playable on the device. (It was filed away in obfuscated filenames...)

euyyn  9 years ago

USB sticks became popular more than a decade ago, and not once have I had one fail to copy or remove a file by dragging and dropping.

anc84  9 years ago

NO one said anything about MTP. Copying files > anything.

  • mrkrabo  9 years ago

    Copying files... how? Emulating a FAT32 disk? That sucks. exFAT? Patents. MTP? Sucks. So how?

    • TeMPOraL  9 years ago

      What's wrong with emulating a FAT32 disk?

      I mean, the expected workflow is: I hook up the device to the computer, it shows up as a storage medium in my system. I can move files between the device and my computer as if it was an external disk or USB drive.

      Anything on top of that is designed to be annoying.

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