So... what's so bad about iTunes anyway?

[MSIC]

There seems to be a certain ... animosity towards Apple's music management software.
For me, and based purely on my own experience, I dont mind it. Moreover, for managing my 30,000 + songs, the vast majority of which are imports from self-ripped CD's over at least 10 years, it seems to manage my collection fairly well. The 'genius' feature in particular, once i disable all the recommendations & links to the iTunes store, i really like, as i find that it re-introduces me to tunes i had long-since forgotten.

What is so wrong about iTunes?

[LWA]

From my experience it causes far more problems when you run it on Windows rather than Mac OS. On Windows I've seen problems with song database corruption, slow log in & boot up times and several more issues. (That's not to say it doesn't go wrong on Mac OSX - megah0 I'm looking at you!)

Many people have issues because it is a (unnecessarily) large piece of software where a smaller piece of software could do it better. Couple that with the fact that it is made by Apple seems to upset certain people!

For me, it works (on a Macbook, I don't run it on Windows).

[unreal]

When I used Windows and Itunes it does indeed seem like an unneccesarily big set of kit for track management. I guess it comes with a lot of functionality (and often extras that you really don't want, like Quicktime) but on OSX it runs really nice.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

First of all i cant manually edit a playlist via the ipod touch or iphone. YOU MUST do this using itunes

Itunes is ok for most things but i think my issue is more down to the products that rely on itunes more than itunes itself.

Itunes doesnt always play nicely when you use it for more than one ipood/iphone device as it sometimes deletes your whole content attempting a sync

[Funkstar]

For me it does a really bad job at library management. I don't want to have 40 copies of an album listed under all the different artists on a compilation, I just want it under a single Various Artists banner.

Why are numbers sorted after letters?

And then there is the supposedly easy to use interface of the iPod, which is actually a complete pain to use, not at all user friendly and something I find pretty counter intuitive.

If there was anything else that gave me a proper interface on my car stereo over USB, then I would use that instead, but it's iPod all the way unfortunately (and even then it is horribly slow)

[dangel]

Problem be simple: Apple can't/won't write decent Windows apps. It's the lotus notes of music management.

[finlay666]

Bloated, laggy, the 'get media info' is shockingly bad

if I wasnt forced to use it with my iPod touch (issues between touch/classic dlls) I would go back to using MediaMonkey

[Terbinator]

Because its sodding clumsy to use. Any of you tried the Zune player software (?) - that's what apple should be aiming for: looks good, isn't clumsy and 'just works' although you would need a Zune to get the most out of it ofc. The major downside to both of these though is the formats they support or don't as the case may be.

[Lee H]

What I dispise is the fact that you have to have several processes open once this is installed for various updaters within itunes such as AppleMobileDeviceService, ituneshelper, ipodservices to name just 3. Why can't it all be done within 1 simple process is beyond me and why these have to be open all the time drinking and draining precious cycles?

It's also responds dead, dead slow when used with over 1.8 Tb of mp3 files, something that WMP11 does not even break out in a sweat when scanning through and checking folders.

It's synching with my iprawn is laughable at times. Sometimes it decides to wipe my entire mp3 collection on the phone for no reason. It's a good job all my music I want on the phone is rated as 5 stars so it's easy to synch up again.

[Funkstar]

Running on my Netbook was pretty much impossible. Scanning the library over my network would have taken hours and anything else was impossible at the same time, so I abandoned that and used my desktop instead. I didn't really want all the Apple guff on there, but I guess that was the only option.

[MSIC]

with over 1.8 Tb of mp3 files, something that WMP11 does not even break out in a sweat when scanning through and checking folders.

Erm....




Wow. And i thought that i had a collection!

[Hicks12]

I dont like the resources it uses and for me it is just a waste of space, especially since you need to install like 3 programs with it and they CONSTANTLY RUN IN THE BACKGROUND.

I use AIMP2 and it uses so little resources, basic but feature rich program with only like 5mb ram used when playing my albums . It also lets you assign hotkeys to do specific jobs (if you have no media keys you could use anything on the keyboard).

[Terbinator]

Bonjour ?

[dangel]

I use AIMP2 and it uses so little resources, basic but feature rich program with only like 5mb ram used when playing my albums . It also lets you assign hotkeys to do specific jobs (if you have no media keys you could use anything on the keyboard).

I'm a big fan of that too - it's like Winamp without all the suckage they added in the past 5 years

[Lee H]

Wow. And i thought that i had a collection!

Funny thing is none of it is 'albums'.

I've been a horder of live DJ sets and mixes since the good old audiogalaxy and napster days and things have progressed from there really since I found themixingbowl to feed my mix session needs.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Erm....




Wow. And i thought that i had a collection!

He must store every single Music ever created since the dawn of time