I the only one who hates I-tunes

Itunes is among the most useless pile of anus gravy that has ever been felched onto a computer.
My daughter uses it purely for her sodding iphone and the wife uses it purely for her ipod and of course that means that fatty muggins here has had to install it onto their computers.
I have recently been playing with aboth a real Mac and I have been toying with Hackintosh ( funny how my Hackintosh is vastly superior to the real mac ) and that means that until I find a way to kill itunes off totally, I am kind of stuck with it.

Wondershare Mobile Go so 2 versions of their app... one for Android and the newer one is for iphone. I have teh android version and I cannot do withotu it and I might give the iphone version a try but I myself dont use iphones or ipods.

As for Windows' Zune... Thats every bit as bad.

I tend to stay away from any device that forces you to use a specific program to access it... Stuff that... options sure, but not where you have no choice.
 
The only problem I've ever had is being too stupid to turn off 'let iTunes manage your music library' along with forgetting to turn on 'prevent auto syncing to devices'. When I'm not being a newb iTunes is great.

I recently lost every single file on my pc, everything important was backed up so it just deleted loads of crap I'd never use.
Whilst trying to recover my photos and music I found mac app called iMazing which is exactly that. It doesn't list hundreds of folders to search through, just gives you photos, music, messages and everything in a similar layout to iOS. You can drag and drop from the phone and probably to it, though I didn't try that yet. It's a paid app so beware of any crappy trial version. Wouldn't be without it now, so much faster than iTunes.
 
DannyDrama said:
The only problem I've ever had is being too stupid to turn off 'let iTunes manage your music library' along with forgetting to turn on 'prevent auto syncing to devices'. When I'm not being a newb iTunes is great.

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I still have issues with auto sync. Even though on all our devices I have unticked add new apps it still dumps every new one my mrs has on mine and vice versa. Like today I had been playing peggle and my son wanted it on his. So i just connected his pad and instead of a 2 second single app transfer it went through dumping and installing about 60 apps on his pad as it had been a while since it was synced. This was despite the box being unticked. 20 minutes later he could play.

A clunky festering pile of dung, completely the opposite of the devices to use.
 
I must admit, it's a bit crap at organising files. If you tag files in iTunes you can guarantee the ID3 information and album art won't be readable on any other audio player because it does some sort of retarded fiddling with the ID3 tags.
 
Not a fan, clunky and organising synching to phone/iPad is clumsy.

Was a breath of fresh air when I first subscribed to Spotify and find a clean way of organising music across devices with easy synching.
 
Never had a single problem with iTunes using it on different iPods (including my current Touch), iPhones and iPads, my music is all nicely organised with a selection of different playlists which I can just double click on my Windows laptop and they play.
 
I've just dumped my music in a folder until I find a way of properly and quickly adding tags and album art without messing it all up. I've always been too lazy to aggregate it again after iTunes put every artist in separate folders but since the data loss I had no choice. :o

If anyone has any tips or programs that will add these things for me please shout out. :)
 
It's fine really. OS X version is much better than it is on Windows. They could probably do with looking the concepts behind it from scratch in 2015. What started off as a music playback app and that managed the library on your portable devices scope crept into a do everything solution for iOS devices.

If you go with the way the app wants to work and don't fight it by manually trying to drag and drop files to the device it works well. Technically never had a problem with it until recently. Syncing to iOS 8 devices appears to be borked if you've got old iTunes store content in the library. It just stops syncing and never shows an error message.

james.miller - at least the OP didn't mention an I-touch. LOL. :D
 
Yep, it seems like it would be decent if you gave it free reign to manage all your music, make purchases through it etc. but if you just want it to sync things back and forth between a computer and an iDevice it's just a massive faff.
 
Tute said:
Yep, it seems like it would be decent if you gave it free reign to manage all your music, make purchases through it etc. but if you just want it to sync things back and forth between a computer and an iDevice it's just a massive faff.
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You have that the wrong way round, imo. If you let it do it's thing, every artist and album will end up in their own folders and subfolders. It also copies your music files. Guaranteed you will have some files it has no idea what to do with.

If you manage it yourself you will keep your own folder layout, have just one of every file and iTunes just creates a link to it. Anything that needs to go on or come off the device goes into one of the folders, it's too easy to **** up.

TL;DR: Bitter post about how iTunes ruins your music. :D
 
I find the current version on Windows to be good. Can't say I've ever had a problem with it and the addition of sending the audio to an Airplay device is very nice!

The previous versions felt like they were getting a bit bloated but it feels trimmed down slightly again now.

I also manage all my music myself using mp3tag and just use iTunes as a library and player. Genius playlists make a nice change too
 
I don't mind it, I don't use it for music anymore, as I've got Sonos around the house so all the iTunes library is used for is to sync music to my iDevices.

What I don't like is the constantly changing UI between versions; just when I get the hang of it, they move everything around.
 
I have the problem that for some reason when I plug my phone in it seems to delete songs from albums I've bought.

If I buy and album on my phone then sync it with the pc and choose transfer purchases apart from taking 45-50 minutes to transfer a couple of gig worth of apps and songs it then syncs the phone.

On unplugging and checking the albums I find that it's only kept 1-4 songs from certain albums.

Not really sure why or how this happens all help appreciated.

Example

Blur - Best of Disc 1 songs kept 2 3 6 10
Flight of the Conchords 4 10 12 15
Franz Ferdinand 2 3 5 9
 
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shiver said:
It's pretty straight forward to use.

Traditionally the software ran like **** on Windows but on Mac it's stable.
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Runs like **** on my rMBP. Saying that I don't have it installed on Windows anymore as since getting Sonos that takes care of my music and as above, iTunes is only used to sync to iDevices.
 
I absolutely detest iTunes. I use CopyTrans on my Windows PC and it works a charm. Nice clean and simple interface that gets the job done without any grief.
 
iTunes on windows doesn't even render fonts properly, so if you have any dpi scaling it looks fuzzy blurred.

It also doesn't bother properly id3 tagging files, it has its own tag database, so if you take the file somewhere else it doesn't contain your edited tags.

Like all things apple, it is done the apple way, and **** you if you dare try to do anything not the apple way.
 
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