The new Zen Touch: 24 hours battery life...

[Q Classic]

no mp3 backups. he did have a lot of the cds, and much of his music on other people's computers over the dorm LAN, but nobody had his blues collection.

the question still remains in my mind, though: would the zen do that?

[Atahualpa]

Creative
Apple
Asher

[Kuciwalker]

Atahualpa

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Most users already made a concious choice to delete that file by erasing it from their iTunes playlist. Why would it be intelligent to make them confirm it again during what is supposed to be a quick and hassle-free autosync?

So make it an option -- "do not ask me again".

And why? Because it doesn't even send the files to the trash can, it DELETES them. What if you hook your iPod up to your friends computer to transfer a song to it? What if your harddrive is reformatted and you connect your iPod to it?

The thing may be quick and hassle-free, but a simple confirmation dialog is trivial and can save a LOT of trouble. It's a simple, fundamental design decision.

If you're not going to ask, at least put the deleted files into the Trash so they can be recovered.

The simple answer to 'why is it intelligent to ask' is because not-asking results in unexpected behavior and the irrecoverable loss of data. Hell, if these were purchased songs, they'd lose their licenses, too...

Atahualpa: Lick my geek balls.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Kucinich
Atahualpa

[Asher]

Most users already made a concious choice to delete that file by erasing it from their iTunes playlist.

By the way, deleting a file from a playlist in iTunes deletes the song? That makes no sense whatsoever.

[Drake Tungsten]

That makes no sense whatsoever.

Yes it does. Jesus, how can you criticize something when you don't even have a basic idea of how it works?

[Imran Siddiqui]

The thing may be quick and hassle-free, but a simple confirmation dialog is trivial and can save a LOT of trouble. It's a simple, fundamental design decision.

No confomation box is a HUGE design flaw.

[Adagio]

DP

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Yes it does. Jesus, how can you criticize something when you don't even have a basic idea of how it works?

A playlist is a list of things to be played. Deleting it from the list should not delete the file.

A playlist is akin to what a DJ might have for a radio station, a list of songs he wants to play. When he removes one from the list, it doesn't mean he goes into the back room and snaps the CD in two...

If it behaves differently than this, it should not be called a playlist. Call it the media library or something.

[Adagio]

I'm going to agree with Asher here... that makes no sense...
This would be the same as if you deletes a song from the WinAmp playlist, and it automaticly deletes the song from the computer

[Drake Tungsten]

A playlist is a list of things to be played. Deleting it from the list should not delete the file.

A playlist is akin to what a DJ might have for a radio station, a list of songs he wants to play. When he removes one from the list, it doesn't mean he goes into the back room and snaps the CD in two...

If it behaves differently than this, it should not be called a playlist. Call it the media library or something.

Ah, semantics, the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I guess this is my cue to go to bed...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Ah, semantics, the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I guess this is my cue to go to bed...

It's not semantics.

You said the user makes a "concious" choice to delete the file when he deletes it from the playlist. Clearly this is not the case, with the vast majority of people here saying that is not the expected behavior.

That's not a semantic argument, it's a valid argument, and one that completely shut you down.

[Drake Tungsten]

Always good for a laugh.

[Asher]

It is, isn't it.