iTunes - does anyone else find it a buggy pile of poo?

Mr Spew · 22 May 2011 at 11:29

BunnyKillBot said:
Flac is the most irrelevant, esoteric lossless data compression technique. I am struggling to think of one single person in my social sphere who would even know what 'flac' was. Accept, move on, use a different (better) codec.

You can't make a lossless file better.

marc2003 · 22 May 2011 at 11:44

Mr Spew said:
You can't make a lossless file better.

of course you can. if you like itunes and have an ipod, converting flac to apple lossless makes it infinitely better - you can now listen to the file.

but there are lots of other factors. see here:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison#Comparison_Table

what many people will find more and more important these days is decoding speed. as more people start to use lossless on portable devices, the faster it decodes, less cpu power is required and that means longer battery life.

here are some real world figures from rockbox (a 3rd party firmware for various media players).

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPe...MS_AS3525v2_w_47_40MHz_PClK_40ARM926EJ_45S_41

check how flac stacks up against the other codecs.

BoredMatt · 23 May 2011 at 18:05

iTunes is fairly bloated, and it does annoy me sometimes (even as a Mac user), but I wouldn't use anything else. On the whole, it's good, but it could really do with an overhaul.

james.miller · 23 May 2011 at 18:37

There isnt a better lossless format than flac right now. I can't believe anybody would seriously suggest using .wav instead.

GTRacer · 23 May 2011 at 20:46

I only use iTunes to sync apps, all my music is handled by mediamonkey (I've unchecked 'sync music' in iTunes so the programs play nice with each other). Works rather well since MM has loads more conversion options when syncing to my iPhone 4.

e36Adz · 24 May 2011 at 08:08

Quite a lot of people praising iTunes, maybe someone can help me because I can't stand it. I have a recently formatted PC which I have just installed the latest version of iTunes on, so how would I sync my iPhone 4 to it? All my apps, mp3s, videos etc are all on my iPhone, it's exactly how I want it, how do I copy this over to iTunes? It should be as simple and easy as it sounds right?

Dewotter · 24 May 2011 at 13:41

e36Adz said:
Quite a lot of people praising iTunes, maybe someone can help me because I can't stand it. I have a recently formatted PC which I have just installed the latest version of iTunes on, so how would I sync my iPhone 4 to it? All my apps, mp3s, videos etc are all on my iPhone, it's exactly how I want it, how do I copy this over to iTunes? It should be as simple and easy as it sounds right?

Music and Video requires a third pary app Sharepod. For apps you need to go into the store menu in iTunes and choose Authroize Computer. Once logged in you can plug in your iPhone, right click it on the Devices pane and choose Transfer Purchases.

kristmace · 26 May 2011 at 12:04

I've fallen out of love with itunes too. Had to give Zune a try a few months back as i got WP7 and its far far better. I can't understand why MS continues with crappy Windows Media Player. I've only kept itunes for my ipod classic.

spudbynight · 26 May 2011 at 12:53

Lakeland said:
Don't like it and don't like the constant updates and especially don't like the way they try to get you to install their other software, often nearly catches me out when I'm not paying attention. Can imagine its fine on osx though

I have lost count of the times I have had to uninstall Safari, Quicktime and MobileMe.

4 PCs at home so sometimes I just click OK

Tummy · 26 May 2011 at 20:06

K1LLSW1TCH said:
It's been fine for me in Windows 7, I always used to get rid of the Apple auto updater, and I also never used to install Quicktime which was bundled with it, I thought it was fine for what I used it for, and in my opinion it was much simpler and much nicer to use than Windows Media Player.

It's absolutely brilliant in OSX though, I wouldn't use anything else, it does everything I want and it does it hassle free and quickly, I don't think it's ever slowed or crashed for me in Leopard or Snow Leopard.

This.

Always thought it was "quite good" on Windows, never had any serious problems with it.

It's a dream on OSX.

Rizo-UK · 26 May 2011 at 20:10

Never really had any annoyances with iTunes on OSX other than the "add everything to playlist i play" function, really pees me off