{"id":4714,"date":"2012-09-01T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2012-08-30T21:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:23:51","slug":"life-without-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/life-without-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Without iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since doing a clean install of Windows 8 I did reinstall a lot of the software that I had under Windows 7 including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Office, Notepad++, Spotify and VLC just to name a few. However, I decided to draw the line when it came to iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Since getting on board with Spotify I have had little need for iTunes to manage my music collection which left it to handle podcast management and backing up my iPad. The podcasts to which I normally listen are available for streaming online negating the need for me to copy them on my iPad and I have little use for them after listening\/watching them so keeping them on my computer would simply take up space (not that I am running low by any means). As for now not backing up my iPad that is a risk I am willing to take as I have no critical data stored only on my iPad as it is generally on the network or in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>OS upgrades will not be an issue either as those can now be done straight from the device on a Wi-Fi network.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, I&#8217;ve not run into any problems so far but will report back later on down the track to see how I am going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since doing a clean install of Windows 8 I did reinstall a lot of the software that I had under Windows 7 including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Office, Notepad++, Spotify and VLC just to name a few. However, I decided to draw the line when it came to iTunes. Since getting on board with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/life-without-itunes\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,616,18],"tags":[10,6,364],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-technology","category-itunes-apple-technology-technology","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-itunes","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/iTunes-Logo.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}