I have been grossly deceived. For all the hype and buzz and glamor surrounding it, I figured the iPod and its accompanying iTunes software must be the bees' knees. (All of their knees collectively, I suppose.)
Well, imagine my surprise upon discovering that iTunes actually doesn't do what I wanted it to do, and it's slow, and it's crummy! Imagine it. Seriously. Picture me, sitting there looking at my iPod as nothing happens. My movie playlist is empty. Quite the striking mental image, hey?
That image is copyrighted to me, so you owe me $2.00 for imagining it.
But that's not the point of this entry. I really, legitimately just wanted to share with the world my shock at discovering that iTunes is no better than any other music or media management program I've used. Windows Media Player, even!
I spent a long time bringing all my files into my library in iTunes. Once I finally got them all imported, I synchronized iTunes with my iPod. Twenty minutes or so. The songs went over, the movies did not.
The helpful messages telling me why the movies didn't move over? Nonexistent.
The intelligent, automatic reformatting of my movies to move them over? Nonexistent.
Apple's support for avi and quicktime and mpg? Nonexistent.
My jaw-dropped delight at having an iPod? Meh. Not nonexistent, but also not nearly as strong as I realize now I had subconsciously expected it to be.
So that's Word One on the new iPod. Words two and beyond as events and blocks of free time warrant.