I wouldn't put up with this. Having to manually enter album and track info? Not a chance! That's a MASSIVE waste of time. Something is badly broken about your Sat. connection if it's blocking this traffic. Don't just accept this situation :-) And like I said - get an iTMS account and get free album art :-) Regards, Jamie Kahn Genet On 22/12/2007, Becca Price <becca_price at yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- Jeff Carruthers <jeff at carruthers.com> wrote: > > > > Becca: our satellite provider does the same thing -- they call > > it > > their fair use policy, but what it means to me is that they > > have too > > many subscribers and they can't keep up with the demand during > > busy > > times. Ironically, they're giving their subscribers a strong > > reason > > to go somewhere else, once an alternative is available. Not a > > good > > business model, in my view. > > we live way out in the country, so we really have no > alternative. *sigh* I have dreams of winning the lottery and > getting a T-1 line in... > > I'll try your idea of downloading the podcasts at night, but > isn't it a matter of how much the download slug is as opposed to > when you do it? > > My dh downloads my audible books onto a memory stick at his > office, and then we transfer them over to my computer - it's the > only way I can get them without tying us up to dial up speeds > for days afterwards. > > -becca > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > _______________________________________________ > iTunes mailing list > iTunes at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/itunes > -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate