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Why Do People Hate iTunes so Much?
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I love iTunes, it runs perfectly fine on my Mac and it allows me to play music, watch music videos/movies/tv shows quickly (As "advertisely" that sounded).
It does what I want, and I don't listen to my music in FLAC. 256kbps AAC is perfectly fine for me.
I use it on Windows XP as well and yes, it is slower definitely but still runs at a steady pace (Only thing I hate is that it takes 2 minutes to load but after that it's fine).
I also have a Windows Vista computer, but it is really s*** for any program (When that computer was on XP, it ran iTunes fine though).
It does what I want, and I don't listen to my music in FLAC. 256kbps AAC is perfectly fine for me.
I use it on Windows XP as well and yes, it is slower definitely but still runs at a steady pace (Only thing I hate is that it takes 2 minutes to load but after that it's fine).
I also have a Windows Vista computer, but it is really s*** for any program (When that computer was on XP, it ran iTunes fine though).
Its a shadow of its former self in terms of performance. Its become a fat, slow pig and it keeps on being fed by Apple. The things is over 160MB...windows users have it worse too. Its codec support is also miniscule.
Hopefully Apple takes a step back and does a complete overhaul when its migrated to Cocoa 64-bit.
Hopefully Apple takes a step back and does a complete overhaul when its migrated to Cocoa 64-bit.
I have seen that while there are some legitimate issues on Windows (hence most hatred is from that set), people rag on iTunes simply because they want to. They are the same subspecies that use the word "fanboy" profusely and constantly bombard you with how Linux is awesome instead of a cluster-f.
They have no point to existence, and can be safely ignored.
Amen. I'm all for adding features but you also have to make sure performance enhancements follow accordingly or at least give users the option to skip out on these additions.
Couldn't agree more. After Version 6 is started to get stupid. It's slow and bloated. It was once a brilliant app. now it's just a cash cow for Sjobs.
I never used 1.0 but 2.0 was great, but thats also around the time I got my 1st Gen iPod when it was only available for mac. Loved the iTunes Music Store when it first came out in 4.0. Back the I remember the only thing to complain about was they changed the note in the Icon to green lol. When 5.0 came out it was even good eve though we only got to play with it for what, like 2 months lol? I remember seeing iTunes 6 being released and being like wtf? LoL.
Since you use lossless, you rip your own CDs, right? Why bother using a format not recognized by iTunes and not compatible with iPods then?
Or - are you downloading songs illegally on torrents?
I don't like how back covers and liner notes are handled. Importing Asian characters can be tricky (probably not iTunes fault... there needs to be a bi- or multi-lingual tagging system).
The store is one obnoxious billboard to me. It seems intentionally hard to navigate away from whatever pop-culture crap they want to sell me.
If someone spent a day at it, they could write javascript that plays and organizes your music from a web browser. Adding art, movies, etc. would be easy. Converting formats would be more complicated, but not difficult.
The store is one obnoxious billboard to me. It seems intentionally hard to navigate away from whatever pop-culture crap they want to sell me.
If someone spent a day at it, they could write javascript that plays and organizes your music from a web browser. Adding art, movies, etc. would be easy. Converting formats would be more complicated, but not difficult.
Are you kidding? iTunes didnt even have gapless playback until version 7! There are whole albums that sound weird to me now because versions previous put little gaps in between tracks and now I expect them!
For that reason alone I consider iTunes 7 the first REAL version of iTunes that let you listen to music (in album form) how it was supposed to be heard.
I have never been that concerned with gapless playback. If there is a quick break in-between tracks oh well. More of a hassle IMO to find a way to fix it then just enjoy the music. However even back then I am pretty sure you could do gapless playback, it just wasn't automatically done as it is now. It was how you encoded it. If gapless playback was such a big deal making changes to the encoding shouldn't have been a deal breaker. I for one have always just put in the CD and clicked import, easy to use and worked for me. Not saying they shouldn't have implemented. Anytime a new feature some actually uses is great.
If you wanted gapless back then you had to rip an entire CD as a single audio file, which would then play through with virtual tracks listed in iTunes. Sub-par, to say the least. Or you could use the cross-fader, which is even worse.
AAC and MP3 are both incapable of true gapless without player support because they have fixed frame lengths. If an audio file doesnt end on a frame boundary, that frame is padded with zeroes (silence).
I listen to full albums most of the time, so having TRUE gapless support was a godsend.
I feel you, anything that makes something you need easier is always good. At 7.0 however they had already started adding in Movies and such. I wish they would have kept iTunes for pure music. I was one who thought that iMovie should have a built in movie store at the time. It just made no sense for iTunes to be handling everything. Syncing movies and such to the iPod sure although back then I remember saying whats iSync for now? But it should have never begun to catalogue anything other than music. It should have pulled from other apps when syncing only. One of the features I miss more than anything was music sharing when 4.0 first came out. I never hacked it to download music from anyone but that was a huge deal at that time. When they switched to having to be on the same network i was bummed pretty bad. Oh and the free Pepsi iTunes give away!!! That was awesome. I wish they would do something like that again. I fought the law - Greenday still plays through my head thinking of that. lol.
Itunes used to be the place wherebyour music was kept and i loved it. Now its all your media.
Starting with the music part of it i love it, easy to make playlist, auto downloads cover art, easy to rip CD's and i love coverflow. The downside is lack of flac format.
Next is movies. I hate itunes for that. No way to import movies without using handbrake. For blurays you have to use make mkv then handbake. If apple took .mkvs it would I could just use make mkvs then import directly into itunes but no apple is greedy. Then if i want metadata like music i have to use meta-x. I stop using itunes for movies and now use plex. Its just to much work. But to watch movies for my ipad/iphone i will convert them and add them to itunes.
Next is tv shows- everything wrong with movies goes here too
I like podcast. Nice and pretty easy to get thru itunes store
Ibooks. I wish i could open books from itunes and read thru osx with loading them onto an idevic
Apps- nice place to see evrything i have on my idevices
Apple only cares that itunes makes them money instead of making the end user happy.
The only thing i buy thru itunes store is apps. I love to to buy cd/dvd/blurays. I can see how many would buy media thru itunes store if you dont mind the drm stuff.
Starting with the music part of it i love it, easy to make playlist, auto downloads cover art, easy to rip CD's and i love coverflow. The downside is lack of flac format.
Next is movies. I hate itunes for that. No way to import movies without using handbrake. For blurays you have to use make mkv then handbake. If apple took .mkvs it would I could just use make mkvs then import directly into itunes but no apple is greedy. Then if i want metadata like music i have to use meta-x. I stop using itunes for movies and now use plex. Its just to much work. But to watch movies for my ipad/iphone i will convert them and add them to itunes.
Next is tv shows- everything wrong with movies goes here too
I like podcast. Nice and pretty easy to get thru itunes store
Ibooks. I wish i could open books from itunes and read thru osx with loading them onto an idevic
Apps- nice place to see evrything i have on my idevices
Apple only cares that itunes makes them money instead of making the end user happy.
The only thing i buy thru itunes store is apps. I love to to buy cd/dvd/blurays. I can see how many would buy media thru itunes store if you dont mind the drm stuff.
I understand it was hard for them to move away from iTunes because of brand recognition. Even before iTMS windows users new about iTunes. If iTunes had kept strictly to audio content it would be great. I don't want one app personally to manage all my media. I want multiple apps that excel at managing my media. I don't think iBooks should be viewed through itunes. Audiobooks, yeah. They could have incorporated ibooks into preview and allowed that team to focus on that app. Using iTunes to sync however still makes sense. If you have multiple apps for organizing chances are they will come up with features quicker since they don't have to worry making this work in this.
only the movies and the apps are drmed now. the music is higher quality(256k) and is also drm free.
it has never crashed my window box but it is bloated for what it is. Think anout it this way. itunes should be a set of six pack abs but right now, it has a giant beer belly.
1. Very Clumsy and huge interface
2. Too many useless functions that are not necessary.
3. No support for FLAC
4. Cant manage anything else exept for iPod
5. No way to play SHOUTCAST Radio ( in built radio stations suck)
6. Very resource consuming
I used to love Winamp on windows, specially versions below 3.0, after that it became clumsy but that could be justified but all the good features it provided.
Apple should make iTunes simple, as they say "LESS IS MORE"
2. Too many useless functions that are not necessary.
3. No support for FLAC
4. Cant manage anything else exept for iPod
5. No way to play SHOUTCAST Radio ( in built radio stations suck)
6. Very resource consuming
I used to love Winamp on windows, specially versions below 3.0, after that it became clumsy but that could be justified but all the good features it provided.
Apple should make iTunes simple, as they say "LESS IS MORE"