iTunes and Visual Studio don’t get on
The last few weeks have been incredibly hectic for me in terms of personal and professional developments. As such I haven’t bought any new music is weeks and thus haven’t needed to update my iPod’s library.
Yesterday however I got the new Nine Inch Nails album entitled “Ghosts”. Its an amazing 36 track instrumental album and its awesome! So I tried to fire up iTunes and got an unhandled win32 exception and then iTunes promptly closes itself before its even really started.
After many hours of un-installing and re-installing many different applications without success I finally realized when the last time was that I opened up iTunes successfully. It was *before* I installed Visual Studio and the .Net 3.5 framework. Now I realise that Apple and Microsoft don’t exactly have the best working relationship but seriously guys, this just sucks.
I have made sure I have the newest and most up to date Quicktime and iTunes installations. So now I need to format my entire machine just to get iTunes working again, so I can get the NiN album onto my iPod. Hopefully once I install Visual Studio again iTunes won’t break :-/
Switch to WinAmp-and no I’m not kidding. It has far better portable support and a query system that the geek in you will love and the non-geek will enjoy the wicked auto-playlists you generate with it
Flint, can Winamp also transfer songs to and from my iPod?! Wish I had’ve known that! I would never have installed iTunes in the first place then.
/heads off to the winamp site
It seems so: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/07/how-to-use-winamp-to-manage-your-ipod/