{"id":137,"date":"2006-04-30T21:17:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T01:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-04-30T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T01:18:41","slug":"why-i-love-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/04\/30\/why-i-love-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I love iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of friends in the local developer community who are always griping about how widespread the iPod is and why they don&#8217;t like it or iTunes.  Having just gone through what could have been a PITA on another system, I thought I&#8217;d write a little about why it wasn&#8217;t.  I recently upgraded my old PATA hard drive to a SATA drive with a little more than double the space.  Unfortunately for me, this meant a &#8220;no vote&#8221; from that device <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=305356\">resulting in Windows needing to be reactivated<\/a>. (something common to users of XP)  Not a problem in-and-of itself, but this also had a side-effect of changing the GUID of my machine.  iTunes maintains a list of authorized machines and uses this GUID to identify them. Lucky for me, I thought.. I still have my old HDD!  However it was no problem.  I authorized my updated computer and everything worked again.  Not only that, I found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/tutorials\/itunes\/it3-5.html\">I wouldn&#8217;t have to remove the old GUID<\/a> until I hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=93035\">5 auth&#8217;d machines limit<\/a>. (at which point I could clear them all and re-add the ones I really want to keep)  My description probably sounds a little complex, but it couldn&#8217;t have been simpler.  With DRM I always expect the worst, and it seems every time I have to deal with it on Apple devices and software I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised at how little of a pain it is.  What a breath of fresh air!  Thanks to everyone at Apple who had a part in making this system as painless as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a couple of friends in the local developer community who are always griping about how widespread the iPod is and why they don&#8217;t like it or iTunes. Having just gone through what could have been a PITA on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/04\/30\/why-i-love-itunes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}