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Never Trust Itunes With A Disk In Your Drive. Ever.
Posted by
Mr. Creosote
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18 February 2012
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Isn't iTunes' auto-import feature handy? You can simply pop in your favourite CD, and within minutes your wonderful music will be in your library without a single click of the mouse. However, this feature can go wrong very easily.
So, today I decided to do some Speedruns of Lego Rock Raiders for PS1. So I put the CD in my drive, closed AutoPlay (because, let's face it, no-one uses it), started up my emulator and closed the annoying iTunes window wanting to import the tracks from the CD that were already imported. There we go. That's all fine and good. Let's run the game. I got to the menu, entered my password and suchlike, and went to play the mission 'Express Delivery'. All of a sudden, my DVD-Rom drive suddenly makes those weird 'seeking' noises, and the audio becomes choppy. My game freezed, but then recovered. I thought it was just some odd glitch that happens every now and then; after all, the disk is twelve years old, and there was probably a speck of dust from when I took it out of the case. Very well, let's continue. All of a sudden, the game became unstable and jumpy. It then froze again. At that point, I quit the emulator; I had screen capture up, and I didn't want my Speedrun to look horrible. I then spied something in my taskbar. iTunes was open. I then opened the window. It was importing the tracks that were ALREADY IN MY LIBRARY.
At that point, I realised why the game was so jumpy. It was trying to play tracks it was importing with another program, which I had already closed earlier. I then immediately stopped the import and ejected the disk from my drive. Needless to say, it was absolutely covered in horrific scratches all over. Why on earth would iTunes import stuff that was already in my library, and I had already closed it earlier? Why would it just re-open like that? Especially when another program had exclusive control over the disk. It doesn't make any sense. Hopefully I can get the disk repaired, and all will be well again.
I am going to complain to Apple about this incident. I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't closed the program first, before I ran the disk with the emulator, but when I HAD already closed the program, that's just ridiculous it re-opening like that.
Here is how the game was running before the iTunes incident: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=BGnYg1KGS68
Here is the game after: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=F5wwHkDrhvA
So, today I decided to do some Speedruns of Lego Rock Raiders for PS1. So I put the CD in my drive, closed AutoPlay (because, let's face it, no-one uses it), started up my emulator and closed the annoying iTunes window wanting to import the tracks from the CD that were already imported. There we go. That's all fine and good. Let's run the game. I got to the menu, entered my password and suchlike, and went to play the mission 'Express Delivery'. All of a sudden, my DVD-Rom drive suddenly makes those weird 'seeking' noises, and the audio becomes choppy. My game freezed, but then recovered. I thought it was just some odd glitch that happens every now and then; after all, the disk is twelve years old, and there was probably a speck of dust from when I took it out of the case. Very well, let's continue. All of a sudden, the game became unstable and jumpy. It then froze again. At that point, I quit the emulator; I had screen capture up, and I didn't want my Speedrun to look horrible. I then spied something in my taskbar. iTunes was open. I then opened the window. It was importing the tracks that were ALREADY IN MY LIBRARY.
At that point, I realised why the game was so jumpy. It was trying to play tracks it was importing with another program, which I had already closed earlier. I then immediately stopped the import and ejected the disk from my drive. Needless to say, it was absolutely covered in horrific scratches all over. Why on earth would iTunes import stuff that was already in my library, and I had already closed it earlier? Why would it just re-open like that? Especially when another program had exclusive control over the disk. It doesn't make any sense. Hopefully I can get the disk repaired, and all will be well again.
I am going to complain to Apple about this incident. I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't closed the program first, before I ran the disk with the emulator, but when I HAD already closed the program, that's just ridiculous it re-opening like that.
Here is how the game was running before the iTunes incident: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=BGnYg1KGS68
Here is the game after: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=F5wwHkDrhvA
