[DeTomaso] iPod Touch now loads music/HomePod feedback
audionut at hushmail.com
audionut at hushmail.com
Thu Nov 5 13:44:23 EST 2020
Yeah Markus-- the airPods survived my ruthless scrutiny! And the
cool little charging case also says "love, steve" which is very nice.
The sound ain't bad but it's pretty tough to beat "over ear"
headphones when it comes to noise-cancelling.
I switched back and forth btw active and transparent and struggled to
hear a difference. Ambient noise came through either way.
But this could be due to the way my ears are shaped. Even when using
store-bought earplugs for various purposes (motorcycle riding, power
tools, driving a Pantera) I find that it is difficult to get them to
seal up inside my ear unless I modify them in some way and then put
them in sideways or otherwise scrunch them up so they seal and stay
put.
Hey, there is a private deTomaso email list that is run by a Pantera
guy. All the top Pantera guys are in there pretty much every day,
Mike Drew, Jack DeRyke etc. Great bunch of guys and there is nothing
that they do not know about Panteras.
http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
You have to sign up and get a password. The excellent condition of
your Pantera is largely a direct result of me listening to these guys
and following their advice.
Oh yeah, last oil/filter change I did on the car was May 2020 so you
should be good for a year or so.
John
Sent using Hushmail
On 11/2/2020 at 8:13 PM, "tschelos" wrote:hey John that’s a
horrible experience and good feedback. I have had the same issues but
I switched everything off in settings: no Siri, no random
music..it’s all hidden in the home app. however lots of people
prefer to talk to their devices....I don‘t! ..and I don‘t know why
people like it. because if you are able to talk to a device, it is
able to listen to you. and when doesn‘t it listen? however we have a
real aggressive privacy policy that doesn‘t allow us to listen or
collect data (unlike Alexa).there’s a speaker by Logitech, battery
powered called UE boom, no Siri, you can’t talk to it. I take that
with me everywhere I go and it has good sound. on NOV 10th we’ll
announce something we haven‘t done before. if you‘d like one let
me know..or the new 5G mini iPhone (you can switch 5G off if you want
as well).how do you like your airPods? did they survive?
M
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 31, 2020, at 13:57, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:
_I sooooooooooooooooooooooo__in love with your car_
Ha! Awesome! That car is going to get under your skin the way it did
mine!
(Warning! this email got pretty long!)
Now then.....about that HomePod thing....what the heck is it really?
One of those creepy Alexa-type gizmos that is always online and
listening?
It asked me to talk to it. I absolutely refuse to talk to inanimate
objects. I talk to people, animals and plants but I just feel really
stupid speaking to something that is not a "who". Turns out the
HomePod is something that I don't even know what it really is or what
it is doing. Some of my friends use "talk to it" devices and when I
hear them talking to one I want to slap them and smash the device to
keep them from becoming too ridiculous for me to hang out with.
I don't want to connect an iPod speaker to the internet, sign in with
my Apple ID, control it with an app, fool around with a setup
procedure, blah blah blah (What room am I in? wtf?). I just want to
plug it into the wall, plug my iPod into it and start listening to
music.
I tried to hang in there with it Markus, I really did-- but after
about an hour of struggling with it to get the bluetooth to work, all
it did was play one song of mine for about 30 seconds and then it
quit.
I would unplug it, plug it back in, watch it connect up then disappear
from the bluetooth list and then reappear, of course again asking me
to sign in and all that crap. Can't I just use a wire? I looked
underneath for a line out. Nope. Nothing but clean and tidy Apple
simplicity that is impossible to get working.
The HomePod instructions said you could tap on the top of it to do
things so, while trying yet again, again waiting for Apple ID servers
to send me a verification code to my iPad, which didn't work, then
requesting it to send the verification code to my phone instead, blah
blah blah, I am getting real fed up by now so, in a state of
frustrated boredom I tapped randomly on the top of the HomePod while
it was plugged in and all of a sudden it started playing "Slide It In"
by Whitesnake!
You gotta be kidding me. I hate that stupid song! This silly thing,
first it doesn't play my iPod without running me around the block
twice, then it plays for 30 seconds and quits, now here it is singing
about how it wants fuck me!
That was enough for me. This thing I thought was a pretty little
speaker made by Apple, a company I love, is not a speaker at all! It
is something else entirely, I have no idea what. It only looks like
a speaker and acts like one only under very specific and apparently
impossible (for me, anyway) circumstances. Rather than let it fuck me
(regardless of how much it wanted to), I unplugged it, carried it by
the power cord outside and whipped onto my cement driveway. (very
sturdy design, by the way-- it took a few whacks to bust it open,
nice little subwoofer underneath, maybe I can find a use for that much
of it.)
Sorry Markus, but I had to destroy the evil thing! The more I messed
with it, the more I hated it. Don't get me wrong, I certainly
appreciate your generosity in giving me one. I also appreciate the
hard work that many people at Apple have done to create such a thing,
but they obviously created it for tech-oriented folks like themselves
and not for simple human beings like me who enjoy being simple human
beings and desire to remain that way.
You had no way of knowing that I am not one of those people who
blindly and eagerly embraces every new app and gadget modern tech
folks dream up. I tend to like using my brain and body and so do not
hold in high regard every little new convenience that supposedly
improves our lives by doing our thinking and moving for us.
My experience has been that the deeper we allow high-tech gizmos and
high-tech culture into our lives, the more we farm-out the work our
brains and bodies do to technology, the stupider and less human we
become. I am not against technology across the board, but to me,
there is a limit to how far I am willingto invite it into my world.
Rather than just indiscriminately accept anything and everything that
comes down the silicon pike, I feel there is definitely a "sweet spot"
where natural human needs and tech-provided convenience work together
best without turning us into idiots.
For me, the HomePod crossed that line, and in a very sneaky way.
Disguised as a speaker, it slithered into my bedroom and started
singing about how it wanted to fuck me! You can see how destroying it
gave me great pleasure.... ; ^ ]
Maybe Apple makes a simple speaker that I can plug my iPod into and
listen to music, right there and then? You know, maybe take it
camping, to a hotel, etc.(But now of course, even if Apple did make
one of those, you wouldn't want to give me one after hearing my
HomePod story, which I imagine you found appalling!)
Oh well, perhaps that was not the kind of feedback one hopes for at
Apple, but the truth is the truth, that's what happened and there you
have it. You gave a HomePod to someone who
is......well........perhaps more than a little "different".
.......................
Glad you are enjoying the Pantera! That car is a simple machine that
was designed by hand using pen and paper and clay models. It was then
hand-built by simple men using simple tools in a much simpler time.
As such, a simple little creature like me came to have an intimate
relationship with that car getting well-acquainted with it's every
little nook and cranny along the way.
I can guarantee you will never feel like grabbing it by the tailpipe
and thrashing it onto your driveway! It may give you a bit of trouble
now and then, like a pretty lady gives you trouble, but like a pretty
lady, whatever trouble she gives you should be easy enough for a man
like you to handle.
(Heck, now that she is gone and I am looking at an empty mat on the
floor of my barn, I realize that she just may have been the love of my
life.)
; ^ ]
Allright then. Send me a photo when you get her out on a fun road.
And I hope to see you again one day, Markus!
John
Sent using Hushmail
On 10/30/2020 at 10:42 PM, "tschelos" wrote:good to hear.hey John..I
soooooooooooooooooooooooin love with your car M
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2020, at 21:38, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:
Problem solved Markus--
After I emailed you I decided to download the latest iOS. Once it
was installed I plugged in the iPod and there it was.
(I am one of those people who is annoyed by updates and avoids them
unless things quit working as expected.)
Sorry to bug you with all that!
John
Sent using Hushmail
On 10/30/2020 at 4:49 PM, "tschelos" wrote:you might run an old
iTunes version on your Mac that doesn‘t recognize the new iOS 12.8
of the iPod Touch. upgrading your old iTunes would be one solution but
I need to double check with Techsupport on TUE. don‘t want you to
loose any music M
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2020, at 14:48, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:
Hey Markus--
The iPod touch will not recognize my iTunes 10.9
I plugged it straight into my 2013 MacBook Pro and nothing at all
happened. I was eventually able to copy/paste one song from my laptop
into the iPod using AirPod but the iPod touch won't let me put the
music file into iTunes.
It just puts it into a folder that only plays it individually outside
iTunes.
The new iPod touch is apparently new tech that won't work with older
Macs?
All my music is on my MacBook Pro and also my iMac which may even be
older.
I tried Apple Help online but there was nothing that worked. Maybe
you know another way?
Thanks--
John
Sent using Hushmail
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Yeah Markus-- the airPods survived my ruthless scrutiny! And the cool
little charging case also says "love, steve" which is very nice.
The sound ain't bad but it's pretty tough to beat "over ear" headphones
when it comes to noise-cancelling.
I switched back and forth btw active and transparent and struggled to
hear a difference. Ambient noise came through either way.
But this could be due to the way my ears are shaped. Even when using
store-bought earplugs for various purposes (motorcycle riding, power
tools, driving a Pantera) I find that it is difficult to get them to
seal up inside my ear unless I modify them in some way and then put
them in sideways or otherwise scrunch them up so they seal and stay
put.
Hey, there is a private deTomaso email list that is run by a Pantera
guy. All the top Pantera guys are in there pretty much every day, Mike
Drew, Jack DeRyke etc. Great bunch of guys and there is nothing that
they do not know about Panteras.
[1]http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso
You have to sign up and get a password. The excellent condition of
your Pantera is largely a direct result of me listening to these guys
and following their advice.
Oh yeah, last oil/filter change I did on the car was May 2020 so you
should be good for a year or so.
John
Sent using Hushmail
On 11/2/2020 at 8:13 PM, "tschelos" <tschelos at yahoo.com> wrote:
hey John thatas a horrible experience and good feedback. I have had the
same issues but I switched everything off in settings: no Siri, no
random music..itas all hidden in the home app. however lots of people
prefer to talk to their devices....I donat! ..and I donat know why
people like it. because if you are able to talk to a device, it is able
to listen to you. and when doesnat it listen? however we have a real
aggressive privacy policy that doesnat allow us to listen or collect
data (unlike Alexa).
thereas a speaker by Logitech, battery powered called UE boom, no Siri,
you canat talk to it. I take that with me everywhere I go and it has
good sound.
on NOV 10th weall announce something we havenat done before. if youad
like one let me know..or the new 5G mini iPhone (you can switch 5G off
if you want as well).
how do you like your airPods? did they survive?
M
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 31, 2020, at 13:57, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:
i>>?
I sooooooooooooooooooooooo
in love with your car
Ha! Awesome! That car is going to get under your skin the way it did
mine!
(Warning! this email got pretty long!)
Now then.....about that HomePod thing....what the heck is it really?
One of those creepy Alexa-type gizmos that is always online and
listening?
It asked me to talk to it. I absolutely refuse to talk to inanimate
objects. I talk to people, animals and plants but I just feel really
stupid speaking to something that is not a "who". Turns out the
HomePod is something that I don't even know what it really is or what
it is doing. Some of my friends use "talk to it" devices and when I
hear them talking to one I want to slap them and smash the device to
keep them from becoming too ridiculous for me to hang out with.
I don't want to connect an iPod speaker to the internet, sign in with
my Apple ID, control it with an app, fool around with a setup
procedure, blah blah blah (What room am I in? wtf?). I just want to
plug it into the wall, plug my iPod into it and start listening to
music.
I tried to hang in there with it Markus, I really did-- but after
about an hour of struggling with it to get the bluetooth to work, all
it did was play one song of mine for about 30 seconds and then it
quit.
I would unplug it, plug it back in, watch it connect up then disappear
from the bluetooth list and then reappear, of course again asking me to
sign in and all that crap. Can't I just use a wire? I looked
underneath for a line out. Nope. Nothing but clean and tidy Apple
simplicity that is impossible to get working.
The HomePod instructions said you could tap on the top of it to do
things so, while trying yet again, again waiting for Apple ID servers
to send me a verification code to my iPad, which didn't work, then
requesting it to send the verification code to my phone instead, blah
blah blah, I am getting real fed up by now so, in a state of frustrated
boredom I tapped randomly on the top of the HomePod while it was
plugged in and all of a sudden it started playing "Slide It In" by
Whitesnake!
You gotta be kidding me. I hate that stupid song! This silly thing,
first it doesn't play my iPod without running me around the block
twice, then it plays for 30 seconds and quits, now here it is singing
about how it wants fuck me!
That was enough for me. This thing I thought was a pretty little
speaker made by Apple, a company I love, is not a speaker at all! It
is something else entirely, I have no idea what. It only looks like a
speaker and acts like one only under very specific and apparently
impossible (for me, anyway) circumstances.
Rather than let it fuck me (regardless of how much it wanted to), I
unplugged it, carried it by the power cord outside and whipped onto my
cement driveway. (very sturdy design, by the way-- it took a few
whacks to bust it open, nice little subwoofer underneath, maybe I can
find a use for that much of it.)
Sorry Markus, but I had to destroy the evil thing! The more I messed
with it, the more I hated it. Don't get me wrong, I certainly
appreciate your generosity in giving me one. I also appreciate the hard
work that many people at Apple have done to create such a thing, but
they obviously created it for tech-oriented folks like themselves and
not for simple human beings like me who enjoy being simple human beings
and desire to remain that way.
You had no way of knowing that I am not one of those people who blindly
and eagerly embraces every new app and gadget modern tech folks dream
up. I tend to like using my brain and body and so do not hold in high
regard every little new convenience that supposedly improves our lives
by doing our thinking and moving for us.
My experience has been that the deeper we allow high-tech gizmos and
high-tech culture into our lives, the more we farm-out the work our
brains and bodies do to technology, the stupider and less human we
become. I am not against technology across the board, but to me, there
is a limit to how far I am willing
to invite it into my world. Rather than just indiscriminately accept
anything and everything that comes down the silicon pike, I feel there
is definitely a "sweet spot" where natural human needs and
tech-provided convenience work together best without turning us into
idiots.
For me, the HomePod crossed that line, and in a very sneaky way.
Disguised as a speaker, it slithered into my bedroom and started
singing about how it wanted to fuck me! You can see how destroying it
gave me great pleasure.... ; ^ ]
Maybe Apple makes a simple speaker that I can plug my iPod into and
listen to music, right there and then? You know, maybe take it
camping, to a hotel, etc.
(But now of course, even if Apple did make one of those, you wouldn't
want to give me one after hearing my HomePod story, which I imagine you
found appalling!)
Oh well, perhaps that was not the kind of feedback one hopes for at
Apple, but the truth is the truth, that's what happened and there you
have it. You gave a HomePod to someone who is......well........perhaps
more than a little "different".
.......................
Glad you are enjoying the Pantera! That car is a simple machine that
was designed by hand using pen and paper and clay models. It was then
hand-built by simple men using simple tools in a much simpler time. As
such, a simple little creature like me came to have an intimate
relationship with that car getting well-acquainted with it's every
little nook and cranny along the way.
I can guarantee you will never feel like grabbing it by the tailpipe
and thrashing it onto your driveway! It may give you a bit of trouble
now and then, like a pretty lady gives you trouble, but like a pretty
lady, whatever trouble she gives you should be easy enough for a man
like you to handle.
(Heck, now that she is gone and I am looking at an empty mat on the
floor of my barn, I realize that she just may have been the love of my
life.)
; ^ ]
Allright then. Send me a photo when you get her out on a fun road.
And I hope to see you again one day, Markus!
John
Sent using Hushmail
On 10/30/2020 at 10:42 PM, "tschelos" <tschelos at yahoo.com> wrote:
good to hear.
hey John..I sooooooooooooooooooooooo
in love with your car
M
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2020, at 21:38, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:
i>>?Problem solved Markus--
After I emailed you I decided to download the latest iOS. Once it was
installed I plugged in the iPod and there it was.
(I am one of those people who is annoyed by updates and avoids them
unless things quit working as expected.)
Sorry to bug you with all that!
John
Sent using Hushmail
On 10/30/2020 at 4:49 PM, "tschelos" <tschelos at yahoo.com> wrote:
you might run an old iTunes version on your Mac that doesnat recognize
the new iOS 12.8 of the iPod Touch. upgrading your old iTunes would be
one solution but I need to double check with Techsupport on TUE. donat
want you to loose any music
M
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2020, at 14:48, audionut at hushmail.com wrote:
i>>?Hey Markus--
The iPod touch will not recognize my iTunes 10.9
I plugged it straight into my 2013 MacBook Pro and nothing at all
happened. I was eventually able to copy/paste one song from my laptop
into the iPod using AirPod but the iPod touch won't let me put the
music file into iTunes.
It just puts it into a folder that only plays it individually outside
iTunes.
The new iPod touch is apparently new tech that won't work with older
Macs?
All my music is on my MacBook Pro and also my iMac which may even be
older.
I tried Apple Help online but there was nothing that worked. Maybe you
know another way?
Thanks--
John
Sent using Hushmail
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