I seriously cannot understand all the complaints about iTunes.
If somebody could quickly summarize what they don't like about it, I'd greatly appreciate it. I hope the next app is, well largely the same... because I cannot find anything so wrong about it that it desperately needs a replacement and all the hate it gets. I just hope Apple doesn't dumb it down and messes up our neatly crafted music libraries.
(and yes, I'm running the latest version of iTunes, so it's not some old but great version of it which people can't let go)
It does NOT work perfectly for music.
Every single time I fire up iTunes and go to music, I end up spending an hour or so replacing album covers. iTunes looks to the Apple store for that, and if an album has been pulled from the store, there goes your album covers and metadata - because they don't keep the metadata there, even if they did sell it in the past. We aren't talking obscure albums, we are talking million selling albums, or in the case of
Rumors by Fleetwood Mac (20+ million in the US alone). One day, I got to replace all of my Fleetwood Mac album covers, another day I had to go and replace the Kiss covers, and on and on (and on)....
It also seems to have issues with the size of the album covers and whether or not it is a jpg or a png.
And there is yet another issue when the album covers won't show up. They are there if you go into the info, but they don't show up in the app, until you go to song view, and then switch back to album view.
And Cthulhu forbid that you have music that isn't sold in the US. At one point, I had to spoof a UK iTunes account to grab album covers off the UK version of the iTunes store.
The less said about how iTunes handles Classical Music, the better.
Oh, and then there is the charming bug that deletes what it thinks is duplicate movies that aren't duplicates - they are remakes, and there is no way short of hand-jamming the information into iTunes to keep that from happening.
If they would just fix the #!&^## bugs, it would be fine.
I have a 6+TB iTunes library (50,000+ songs, 1,700 movies, and 1,000+ tv shows) and I dread moving to something else.
Oh, and to head off the inevitable questions.....
Yes - I need all of it. P.T. Barnum sold Apple users in the 10.2 era to
Make your computer the hub of your digital lifestyle. Some of us went all in on that because at the time, iTunes was the best thing going.
No - I am not putting anything on the cloud - the cloud is a solution in search of a problem. I don't have to worry about any content disappearing because a studio pulled a movie from Apple. And the less said about internet access in JebbusLand, the better.
Re: Deleted duplicate movies (or, there is nothing new under the sun...) - A significant portion of movies made today are remakes of earlier movies. Why have both? Watch
The Crown Thomas Affair with Steve McQueen and Fay Dunaway and then the remake with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Or that
The Hustle is a remake of
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was a remake of
School for Scoundrels?
