itunes is terrible!

I am guessing the only reason people hate iTunes is because it's made by Apple, and it's cool to hate Apple and put down everything they are involved in as style over substance and overpriced, shiny rubbish. iTunes has worked perfectly for me, for years on both a Windows based machine and in OS X. Also, Windows Media Player has worked fine for me too, just so people know that I'm not one of the ones who will automatically think something is crap purely on what brand it is.
 
Its useable... but it wouldn't take them 2 minutes to sort out the issues with it :(

Slooow starting/bloat
Adds a ton of startup tasks/background processes even if you don't need them and makes it a pain to remove them manually...
Better management of downloadable items... I have half a dozen freebies etc. i.e. extended feature vids that come with some movie purchases on my account that I DO NOT WANT TO DOWNLOAD but start going every time I check for purchases with no way to permanently disable them from the queue.
 
I've always hated itunes.

I plug my iphone 4 into my PC and my whole PC freezes while itunes starts up, and it takes a while. No other software I use does this, and yes - it is on Win 7.
 
Oh god, please dont get me started on Itunes, its the work of satan.

on the 12th of September an itunes update deleted 200 albums from my HDD, not lost them, not moved them, Deleted them. It then decided that the ipod that was called "phils ipod" was no longer my ipod that was tied to my account and found a new one called......."phils ipod" and proceeded to ask me to sync my "new" ipod with my now deleted music library and thus wanted to delete the contents of my touch.

Que much screaming and gnashing of teeth. Some recovery software later all the music was back so I figured I would recreate my itunes library, this was clearly a task to much for old apple and it decided that having albums arranged in actual folders by artists > album name was somehow a silly way of storing things and went about mixing up approximately 2000 tracks into varios locations that made little or no sence. Even itunes couldn't locate where it had put stuff and 90% of albums had at best one, at worst 50% of all tracks missing and listed in "unknown" folders.

To top it all it had also made huge amounts of copies of random tracks. I have spent, on and off since about the 20th of September manually sorting through 2000 mp3s and putting them back into their correct folders and deleting duplicates (there was nearly 100gig of duplicate tracks).

The end result is that my touch is now useless in so much as I cant add any more albums to it because I wont let itunes anywhere near my music folder ever again, its purely there not to manage getting istore bought stuff off the ipod and backing up apps until I can organise a replacement for the Ipos (thats not a spelling mistake). As soon as I have time to find a replacement then the ipod is going to undertake some hammer testing in the back garden.

Apple, why did I ever trust you again after the imac horror's of work. never again, ever.
 
I have iTunes on two Windows 7 machines and 3 OSX machines, these all sync just fine and manage libraries accross 2 iPhones, an IPad, 2 Shuffles and 2 iPod Classics.

I have never had (in 8 years of using iTunes) any of the problems outlined here. Maybe I'm just supremely lucky and should immediately buy a lottery ticket?
 
psd99 said:
use this thread to vent your anger at itunes.

I'm so fed up with it
it is a slow, useless and quite simply difficult to use with the iphone4

I'm getting a refund!
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Really ?

I love it !

You must be using it wrong :p


Morgoth said:
I love it when I'm putting music on my iPhone and it randomly decides to sync between 1-4 copies of the album onto the phone.
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Never ever had that issue, and thats having used 3 ipods and 2 iphones over the years.

Must be an issue with your music library.
 
The $6m Dan said:
We have to use it at work, but there's no way I'd use it at home.
Winamp allows music to be added/removed from an ipod/iphone so I'd use that.
Itunes takes far too long to open up, and it makes the rest of my PC crawl when it does so.

It's either sloppy programming on Apple's part, or worse they've deliberately hampered the PC version. There's no reason for it to be this bad.
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ah

theres half of your problem. "my pc"

It works flawlessly on OSX.

Those that say its amazing (like me) will probably be using a mac.


Feek said:
Smart Playlists in iTunes are a gift from the Gods.
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seconded. I love my genius playlists.
 
One reason why the OSX version is less annoying that its Windows counterpart is that all the crap it installs on Windows is already up and running on an OSX install - so you don't notice it.

That, and generally Apple have been bone idle with the Windows version. It's definitely shoddier.
 
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On OS X, I feel it's somewhat bloated and slow* but apart from that it doesn't cause me any grief.

* e.g plugging in an iPhone stalls video podcast playback for a moment.
 
I like it on my MacBook as I have my music compressed to MP3 on that, but I won't use iTunes on my PC, ever.

A) No FLAC support
B) It's **** on Windows compared to OS X

Concorde Rules said:
Granted it sucks balls on Windows tho, but so do most things on Windows so meh!
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Wow, sweeping statement alert. Windows 7 is a fantastic OS, I honestly don't see the big deal with OS X, it's nice, it works, it's quick...but Windows 7 is all of those things too.

OS X wins for being more user friendly though, I'll give it that one.
 
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Feel like I must voice my opinions about iTunes so this seems like a good place to do it.

I use it only for podcasts, with iTunes as others have said before its pretty slow to start but my biggest problem with it is the position of the quit (x) button on the top right. With every other piece of software I can just fling the mouse to the top right, click and the program is closed but with iTunes theres a gap and anytime there is another program or window behind this it closes it instead of iTunes!!! Its expanded to take up the screen but its not...why???


Also used it for an ipod shuffle and even though i've been using computers daily for the past 11 years or so, have a background in some basic programing, built computers, overclocked, edited bio's, ....basically i'm competent with most things computers yet i couldn't get songs to simply drag and drop transfer to it (which an avid mac using friend had to show me it was some settings that needed changing) even though mac products are meant to be completely simple and user friendly. Also I have no idea or success when I tried to make playlist of podcasts.
 
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