apple/itunes question WTF???????

[der affe]

I have stolen thousands of songs, purchased songs through itunes, and ripped my own cds into my itunes library. I have never had a single issue.

i had to upload version 8.0 in order to use it, does that have something new in it?

was i mislead that they install spyware to fuck up non itunes songs????

[der affe]

FUCK APPLE, FUCK STEVE JOBS!
so other software will work with and run the ipod?
i bought it at circuit city NEW open box for $100 (it was the floor demo and they didn't realize that they still had it)

do this mean i am going to have to loose the week and a half of ripping cd's now?

where do i go from here?
i still have 12 songs credit on the card, i might as well use it, i guess.
can i switch everything after i am done ripping the rest of the CD's and the downloads with out losing everything?

i am not at all knowledgeable with this shit any help is appreciated!!!!

[Edev]

I have stolen thousands of songs, purchased songs through itunes, and ripped my own cds into my itunes library. I have never had a single issue.

same here. i dont see how itunes is so difficult to use.

[Tavern Gnome]

I have stolen thousands of songs, purchased songs through itunes, and ripped my own cds into my itunes library. I have never had a single issue.

[dashboardmonkey]

Fuck i-tunes.

It is a pita to use, and with 120gigs of music on my machine it would take days to convert over to AAC format.

Andy

[george graves]

You can use something other than iturds - like winamp.

P.S. - Steve Jobs is laughing at you.

[Edev]

you have downloaded iTunes..right? seeing as you ripped songs onto your computer?

[der affe]

OK, so i bought a 120gig ipod for a smoking deal, then commensed to ripping my CD's into it (so far i am at 320 out of 1000) i also ripped 5 songs from rapid share into it.

for X-mas my brother gave me a $15 itunes card, super!
so i log on to itunes, and to be honest i really didn't find much misic that i want to buy, but in down loaded 2 songs no issues.

when i went to resync my ipod the 5 songs i had ripped from rapid share were gone from my ipod and i now had a message that the songs could no longer be found????? WTF?????

so i went into best buy today and asked a couple of people there if this is some vindictive shit that apple/itunes pulls since (i had the songs and had listened to them just the day before and now they were gone) i did not get the songs from them???

they both told me yes, apple installs spy-ware through i tunes that does that so you have to buy music only from itunes. fuck you, are you joking?????

i was told i would have to save all the songs to a memory stick/flashdrive, uninstall itunes and then reinstall the songs on the ipod.

is this true?????

if so what can i do so i don't have this BS happen again other than not use itunes (*which i won't)

do i need to have itunes software to run the ipod and rip cd's????