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Name 1 thing you DON'T LIKE about iTunes.
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slow boot???
on my macbook it really fast and the ram usage is also ok. what are you talking about?
What am I talking about? I'm talking about what I think is wrong with iTunes, which is the whole point of this thread. What are you talking about?
Okay okay. What i dont like about itunes is that they don't distribute a linux version. I use my mac as my primary computer but it would be nice to be able tu use my linux machine also.
You know you can Option + Click the iTunes logo from your dock (when it isn't running) and you can select separate Libraries right?
Performance. It takes ages to load in Windows, it takes ages to add a large library of files on both platforms.
Of course, after that comes limited format support and the awful way they've crammed everything but the kitchen sink into what started as a simple music player. They should really just combine the Mac App Store with the iOS App Store and iTunes Store into a separate app.
Of course, after that comes limited format support and the awful way they've crammed everything but the kitchen sink into what started as a simple music player. They should really just combine the Mac App Store with the iOS App Store and iTunes Store into a separate app.
You can't just dump things in your music folder and have them automatically appear in your iTunes library. That's one of my favorite features of the much lighter and superior Foobar...
No issues with load time as I use a SSD and xslimmer.
No issues with load time as I use a SSD and xslimmer.
Not saying that your point is invalid, but you can quite easily just dump thinks into the iTunes window and it will be copied to your itunes folder.
iTunes needs to be 64-bit, and the Windows version needs to be completely rewritten, so we don't have hear the bellyaching of the Windows Users. Coverflow needs to DIAF. The store needs to be optimized, as it is currently slow, even on a fast computer with a fast connection.
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Yes, that should be much better. And only compress until all the music fits, starting with lossless files. And use all cores for compression. And don't delete everything when compression starts.
Since you can't hear, see, feel or smell 64 bitness, what is it that you _actually_ want?
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How the iP?d is tied to one sole iTunes installation at a time.
When I'm at a friend's house, he can't "just" put a tune on my iOS device. (We have a fair use law in my country, so this would be perfectly legal.) Heck, I can do it with a $9.99 MP3 player from Wal Fart.
When I'm at a friend's house, he can't "just" put a tune on my iOS device. (We have a fair use law in my country, so this would be perfectly legal.) Heck, I can do it with a $9.99 MP3 player from Wal Fart.
The language and API it's developed in is relatively trivial. Being coded in an object oriented programming language doesn't make it magically faster. iTunes is bloatware, it offers a million features, none of which implemented particularly well. It started life 13 years ago as this, a simple audio player and has since become some kind of swiss army knife built on sand.
If iTunes is to be good it needs to be gutted completely and built from scratch with the core features of the program in mind. It's called iTunes yet it offers tv, films, podcasts, Genius, and not to mention a fricking social network.. Even if that doesn't affect performance it will certainly affect usability. Take a leaf out of Spotify's book, you search for music, you play music, you can add it to a playlist, that's it. And it has a kick ass UI (hey Apple, if you're going to randomly change the iTunes UI so it's inconsistent with the rest of OS X at least make it look good).
But Carbon or Cocoa, or 32 bit or 64 bit, is the most trivial aspect of why iTunes is terrible.
iTunes 10 speed on a brand new computer compared to the speed of iTunes 7 on a 5-year-old computer that did the same things.
Annoying windowing persistence while paying videos. If I minimize a window, I expect it to stay in the Dock until I call for it again.
Ping.
Wishlist popup boxes. Yes, I really want to add this item to my Wishlist in the iTunes Store. That's why I keep selecting Add to Wishlist!
iTunes Store bloat.
Removal of video size options for playback.
What kind of idiot sets the no-notice default for Import to copy all the files in the input directory into a user's Home directory? I was wondering why my hard drive suddenly filled up when I tried to link my iTunes library to the iTunes database. Something like this, among all the other annoying pop-up messages, would have helped: "This operation will copy 100 GB of data from /iTunesFiles to your Home directory. Do you really want to do this, or do you want to link iTunes to the selected directory?"
Annoying windowing persistence while paying videos. If I minimize a window, I expect it to stay in the Dock until I call for it again.
Ping.
Wishlist popup boxes. Yes, I really want to add this item to my Wishlist in the iTunes Store. That's why I keep selecting Add to Wishlist!
iTunes Store bloat.
Removal of video size options for playback.
What kind of idiot sets the no-notice default for Import to copy all the files in the input directory into a user's Home directory? I was wondering why my hard drive suddenly filled up when I tried to link my iTunes library to the iTunes database. Something like this, among all the other annoying pop-up messages, would have helped: "This operation will copy 100 GB of data from /iTunesFiles to your Home directory. Do you really want to do this, or do you want to link iTunes to the selected directory?"
Lack of icon colors (nostalgic about Tiger icon days), miss the simple(r) UI of days past.
Also don't like that TV Shows and Movies can't just get along under the same tab as "video"...
Also don't like that - for some reason - all of my video files appear in the iTunes music folder... yet my movies folder is barren.
Also don't like that TV Shows and Movies can't just get along under the same tab as "video"...
Also don't like that - for some reason - all of my video files appear in the iTunes music folder... yet my movies folder is barren.
Searching for apps by keywords gives some strange results. I've seen apps pop up in the list that don't seem related to my key words. In other cases, sketchy apps appear at the top of the lists; either they have terrible review or that haven't been updated for ages. The search algorithm needs an upgrade.
In my opinion a visual eye sore is the fat volume control bar.
That combined with the oddly placed traffic lights (seriously why make the design inconsistent with the rest of the aqua UI?) and the fact that they've drained all the colour from the program.
For those visual reasons only (and in the interest of 'If it's not broken don't try and fix it') I've held myself back on version 9. Although this will be a problem when I have to reinstall the OS onto my new SSD and I don't have a dmg of version 9 anymore.
That combined with the oddly placed traffic lights (seriously why make the design inconsistent with the rest of the aqua UI?) and the fact that they've drained all the colour from the program.
For those visual reasons only (and in the interest of 'If it's not broken don't try and fix it') I've held myself back on version 9. Although this will be a problem when I have to reinstall the OS onto my new SSD and I don't have a dmg of version 9 anymore.
Here's the link to Mac iTunes 9.2.1: http://appldnld.apple.com/iTunes9/061-8725.20100722.Bhnyt/iTunes9.2.1.dmg