It's not. And it's not slow, unless you have something wrong with your setup.
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Name 1 thing you DON'T LIKE about iTunes.
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This comes about from upgrading from iTunes 9 to 10 (I think). It was some version update that changed how iTunes manages media files. A new install of iTunes 10 will have a Media folder and break it out corresponding pretty closely to the sections of content in the iTunes app.
You can update your library to the new format in the File->Library menu. Check this out: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847
Looks like it was iTunes 9!! Wow.
Downside to this? Time Machine backs up your entire iTunes libary all over again because it just changed its file path. That could be quite a lot of data.
Cheers.
I love iTunes, I live in it, sure it doesn't play alot of video formats and some music formats but why would I FLAC when I can ALAC and the new logo is great we didn't need a CD icon anymore.
One thing I'd love to have would be the ability to color code songs etc, like what we can do in Finder, extremely handy.
One thing I'd love to have would be the ability to color code songs etc, like what we can do in Finder, extremely handy.
1) My biggest complaint is the lack of support for FLAC files.
2) Another is (and this may be the way I add music) but whenever I download new music I will keep it in a separate folder until I can go thru the id tags and make all the necessary changes I need and then put it in my music folder.
I keep all of my music in a folder called "MY MUSIC" separate from iTunes folder. Inside the my music folder I have a folder for each letter of the alphabet, then artist's names, and then the artist's albums.
I don't understand why after I've just changed the id tags to my liking, iTunes doesn't just recognize that I've made a change or added new music and reflect it within iTunes. I have to go to the library, add to library, then select the new music that I've recently added. To me, iTunes should do this automatically. I use a another program to edit my id tags (not iTunes) and iTunes doesn't reflect the changes unless I manually add them to the library.
I've been using Mac's for several years now and I remember how Windows Media Player would automatically reflect any changes I made "outside" of WMP and reflect those changes because I would use another program to make changes to my id tags. I'm not saying that WMP is better but it seemed to be a better way of managing the "music" folder because it would monitor the specified folder looking for changes.
2) Another is (and this may be the way I add music) but whenever I download new music I will keep it in a separate folder until I can go thru the id tags and make all the necessary changes I need and then put it in my music folder.
I keep all of my music in a folder called "MY MUSIC" separate from iTunes folder. Inside the my music folder I have a folder for each letter of the alphabet, then artist's names, and then the artist's albums.
I don't understand why after I've just changed the id tags to my liking, iTunes doesn't just recognize that I've made a change or added new music and reflect it within iTunes. I have to go to the library, add to library, then select the new music that I've recently added. To me, iTunes should do this automatically. I use a another program to edit my id tags (not iTunes) and iTunes doesn't reflect the changes unless I manually add them to the library.
I've been using Mac's for several years now and I remember how Windows Media Player would automatically reflect any changes I made "outside" of WMP and reflect those changes because I would use another program to make changes to my id tags. I'm not saying that WMP is better but it seemed to be a better way of managing the "music" folder because it would monitor the specified folder looking for changes.
Yeah, lack of native FLAC support blows. But considering ALAC...I just don't want to mess with dumping my huge FLAC collection to ALAC. I prefer open non-proprietary file formats.
Overall iTunes is still - by far - the best music manager. I've been using it since the earliest days and it still rocks. It could use some general improvements, especially on Windows, but on Mac iTunes is pretty solid.
Overall iTunes is still - by far - the best music manager. I've been using it since the earliest days and it still rocks. It could use some general improvements, especially on Windows, but on Mac iTunes is pretty solid.
What with Apple announcing Beatles (finally) in iTunes Store, I still unable to turn on genius for my Beatles song (properly tagged).
In general I like iTunes, I like that it automatically copy my song to organized folder, I like the smart playlist, genius, and it feels pretty snappy (maybe because I have a pretty small music library).
In general I like iTunes, I like that it automatically copy my song to organized folder, I like the smart playlist, genius, and it feels pretty snappy (maybe because I have a pretty small music library).
I find iTunes is just fine with large libraries. I've got a few Windows boxes with well over 75,000 tracks per library (and these are old, slow single-core machines!). On the Mac it runs even better. I've never seen any performance issues that weren't the result of something wrong elsewhere. Just my 2 cents.
I disagree. I think on a modest size library a jukebox application should start as fast as text edit, after all it's just loading a database. On larger libraries I can forgive it for taking a bounce or two, but as it is iTunes is slow because it's a bloated, dated, unoptimized piece of garbage.
"taking a bounce or two"... are you talking about the time it takes to launch iTunes? And what do you consider a "larger library"?
"A bounce or two," refers to how many times the dock icon bounces before the program becomes useable. And although this number is arbitrary, I consider anything above a month's worth of music to be a large library. Or somewhere around 10,000 songs.
Ping should be use to share criticism of iTunes between iTunes users and Apple and not be about music.
You said 6 seconds before - which is longer than two bounces.
What computer setup do you have (as a matter of interest).
I know it took 6 seconds back in January, but I just tested it and it was open after the 2nd bounce. I don't know why it's faster now, but I'd be happy with 6 seconds, considering the size of my library. Besides, I don't frequently start iTunes, as I usually have the app open, even if I'm not playing any music, so start up times are pretty irrelevant and not a useful test of iTunes performance. I'm on 10.5.8 with the most current version of iTunes.
Not software... what hardware are you running that on?
I'm getting 6 seconds / 4 bounces (until the screen comes up) on a MacPro 2008 / Raptor. (about 37000 items / 800GB).
What bugs me most isn't the start up speed (it's usually running in the background) but its sluggishness in context switching within the app - especially while downloading a lot of different files.
Edit: you edited while I was typing. I agree, startup speed isn't a good measure of performance.
iTunes store. Everything is too tiny. IT's slow too. I Like the clean look compared to Amazon's website.
But I feel like I can navigate through Amazon's site faster because of its speed and because the icons are bigger and because its in the browser where I usually am when I want to buy music.
Also Apple could do something about the way they display albums of an artist in the store. You look for an artist with some history and there's alot of garbage albums and they don't seem to in any order.
Maybe I've just never used it enough but it has bugged me.
I like iTunes though. It had its quarks, but they've improved it quite a bit. Synching with ipod used to really suck and now it does everything you need it to do for the most part. And now I guess I have learned its language more to.
It could use a queue up a song feature, but a quick playlist creation is a workaround that's almost as fast.
And Apple needs to work on letting your computer sleep and lettings the ATV wake it up to play music.
And really we might need the music to be stored in a central location or on a cheap server that can easily be backed up ala Time Machine.
Support it on the AEBS and let us back it up to Time Machine.
But I feel like I can navigate through Amazon's site faster because of its speed and because the icons are bigger and because its in the browser where I usually am when I want to buy music.
Also Apple could do something about the way they display albums of an artist in the store. You look for an artist with some history and there's alot of garbage albums and they don't seem to in any order.
Maybe I've just never used it enough but it has bugged me.
I like iTunes though. It had its quarks, but they've improved it quite a bit. Synching with ipod used to really suck and now it does everything you need it to do for the most part. And now I guess I have learned its language more to.
It could use a queue up a song feature, but a quick playlist creation is a workaround that's almost as fast.
And Apple needs to work on letting your computer sleep and lettings the ATV wake it up to play music.
And really we might need the music to be stored in a central location or on a cheap server that can easily be backed up ala Time Machine.
Support it on the AEBS and let us back it up to Time Machine.
I'm having a hard time believing that to be true. I just quit iTunes and restarted it (warm restart), it took six bounces and a long pause before a window appeared. What hardware are you running. I'm on the stock top tier 15 inch Macbook Pro from the summer before last.
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All I can do is report what happened. I just did it again, with a warm restart, and it took 2 bounces.
I just answered that in my last post.
Each update makes iTunes slower and slower. The icon doesn't make any sense on the Mac. Previous Graphic artist took the time to make detailed icons like the compass of safari. All iTunes icon is is a circle with a music note in it.
Without a doubt, that iTunes decides on it's own to stop updating podcasts with no way to turn this off. I've been waiting 5 years for the ability to opt out of this "feature," but I guess it is never happening.