{"id":1153,"date":"2020-05-24T16:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2020-05-24T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T00:32:39","slug":"itunes-misbehavior-part-934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/24\/itunes-misbehavior-part-934\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Misbehavior (Part 934)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I still use iTunes sync my iPhone periodically to my computer (mainly so I can retrieve photos off the phone). Every time I do, I get to watch this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"882\" height=\"139\" src=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/itunes-stupidly-copying-unchanged.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/itunes-stupidly-copying-unchanged.jpg 882w, https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/itunes-stupidly-copying-unchanged-300x47.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/itunes-stupidly-copying-unchanged-768x121.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It copies several hundred unchanged songs back onto my phone. <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/7734768\">This is apparently a bug. A known bug, known for years, that Apple just won&#8217;t fix because it&#8217;s Apple being Apple.<\/a> Screw them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(This bug is perhaps unrelated to a separate problem \u00e2\u20ac\u201d honestly, a bug \u00e2\u20ac\u201d wherein someone decided it would be a good idea to change the file&#8217;s &#8220;modification&#8221; time every time a song was played. This is an idea so stupid I simply cannot imagine how anyone thought it was clever.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still use iTunes sync my iPhone periodically to my computer (mainly so I can retrieve photos off the phone). Every time I do, I get to watch this: It copies several hundred unchanged songs back onto my phone. This is apparently a bug. A known bug, known for years, that Apple just won&#8217;t fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[281,1078,1079,346],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-arrogance","tag-decline","tag-itunes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-iB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}