[Web4lib] Re: ]Web4lib] Public Computers and iTunes

[Andrew Hankinson]

For the CD with a bad tracks, you can enable Preferences->Advanced- 
 >Importing->Use Error Correction in iTunes.  This may get around  
some borderline bad CDs.

Andrew

On 21-Apr-07, at 2:11 PM, Sharon Foster wrote:

> All but one of our public computers are Mac minis and have iTunes.
> We've had one or two patrons who were dismayed to see that synching
> their iPod with the public Mac had the effect of wiping out anything
> they had loaded the iPod with from another computer. But that's not a
> disaster. Most of them understand how to use it better than I do. As
> long as they understand that it's a public computer, and that what
> they load on it today won't be there tomorrow, there are no surprises.
>
> They can rip CDs. The biggest problem there is that occasionally
> they'll bring in a CD with a bad track, and iTunes gets stuck trying
> to read it and never gives up. The only way to get out is a Force
> Quit. (Seems like a bug that Apple might want to fix one of these
> days.)
>
>
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>> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:34:08 -0600
>> From: "Jane Frasier" <jfrasier at jefferson.lib.co.us>
>> Subject: [Web4lib] Public Computers and iTunes
>> To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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>> We are having increasing numbers of requests from patrons to offer
>> iTunes for downloading music and synching with iPods. The library  
>> staff
>> is asking that this be made easily available and usable.
>>
>> In working with an iPod it seems to me like a nightmare because  
>> iTunes
>> and iPods aren't really geared to a shared environment. Does your
>> library offer this? Is it on your desktop or main menu? What about
>> Windows Media player and MP3 players and ripping CDs and synching  
>> music?
>>
>> Are you blocking Peer-to-peer websites? What about Skype and Limewire
>> and similar Internet technologies? This has become so complex to  
>> keep up
>> with demand.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jane Frasier
>> Software Support Specialist
>> Jefferson County (CO) Public Library
>>
>>
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> Sharon M. Foster
> Technical Support
> Cheshire Public Library
> 104 Main Street
> Cheshire, CT  06410
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