Why iTunes sucks.
iTunes is a piece of crap. Yeah, it looks pretty. Yeah, it does podcasts and vidcasts and playlists and syncs with my iPod. But at the end of the day it fails to do one thing: what I want it to do.
Let me enumerate several critical shortcomings of iTunes:
- No plugin architecture. What was Apple thinking? There’s no good way for anyone to listen to songs in file formats other than AAC and MP3. This is completely idiotic and also indicative of Apple’s corporate spirit: you can do what we want you to do and that’s it. And while that may simplify some things sometimes, it cuts out a whole range of other options that would make iTunes more usable. How does Firefox do it? They ship a bare-bones browser that has a usable plugin (or extension) architecture, allowing Firefox to be used for anything anybody wants. And if they don’t want it, they don’t have to have it. If you want to use your browser to control your media player, your garage door, your stove, and your instant messanger, you can. That’s the beauty of it. iTunes, on the other hand, lets you do exactly what Apple wants you to do. That’s draconian.
- It’s HUGE. I don’t want your program to suck up all my RAM just to listen to music. I mean I understand VLC using 40mb of RAM to render video, but this is just ridiculous. If all that chrome is making the program chug like a Russian train, it’s time to do something different. At least give people the option to turn off “features” they don’t use. Or offer a lightweight version of iTunes for people who want it to just, you know, play music.
- For all the chrome polish Apple supposedly invested in, there are some glaring things wrong. For instance, if I hit the pause button when iTunes is behind another window, it doesn’t pause; it brings iTunes forward so I can press the pause button yet again. This is a stupid extra step that doesn’t conform with anyother windows program in existance. Listen up, Apple! This is not a Mac in front of me – don’t make it act like one!
- The iTunes XML library is simply idiotic. Why, let me ask you, should the XML file be corrupted when my computer bluescreens because my graphics driver is acting up? Is Apple not sophisticated enough a company to at least make an index file that isn’t made of china? I’m using Windows here, not a stable OS.
- No support for Linux, guys? Wow. Your entire OS is built from FreeBSD – how hard would it be port iTunes and set up a repository or make an RPM or something, anything at all? I don’t want to call Apple FOSS-stealing commie bastards, but yeah. They are.
There you have it. My little rant on iTunes. I don’t use it for anything except to sync to my iPod (which is suprisingly nice in comparison if you can compare iTunes to an iPod). And by the way – if there is any other way to transfer music to my iPod, I’d love to know about it. Really.
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July 29th, 2006 at 10:30 am
I would have to agree. Eats resources and causes issues on every processor and format I tested. Media box to laptop they all developed issues. Remove and use something else. The guys at Apple just dont get it.
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:02 am
itunes is RUBBISH
September 5th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
[...] Take iTunes out of the equation however and I’ll give in and age gracefully. [...]
September 14th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
and forcing me to download itunes 7 which is even more crappy than 6.
Videos start and stop repeatedly, the controls get completely screwed up and unreactive.
Unbelieveable how bad this is.
September 15th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
itunes is a big fat cow. Use you ipod w/earbuds or directly to speakers..and enjoy ..
November 20th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
yeah, wanna see a good music player? download a torrent of sonicstage!
November 27th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
my retort 2 ur idiotic beliefs
1) thats bullshit, i can use .wavs for starters w/out even having to do any research
2) How is it huge? It uses 16000K RAM to put that in perspective IE uses 45000K and Last.fm uses 10 000K.
3)Show me a program that you can have in the back and do shit on it, i want 2 c this! such features are there to protect you from editin stuff non intentionally, y dont you just use the toolbar version? or get a pause button on your mouse or keyboard?
4)If you cant make your computer run properly, then dont complain when a program in it don’t work either, maybe its not the programmers fault?
5)d00d, y Linux? ur just asking for trouble, its all about compatibility nowadays and u shot yourself inthe leg, if ur usin a Linux OS you deserve everything you get.
November 27th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Yes! I have my first genuine internet troll! I think this means I’ve finally hit the big time.
Here is my carefully thought out response:
1) You can’t be bothered to spell properly and use real English. That makes you an idiot. Seeing that you’re an idiot, I won’t bother responding to any of your asinine points, as my experience is that idiots are rarely capable of changing their minds without extensive lobotomizing.
d
November 29th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Wow. And I thought I was bad at pigeonholing people.
November 29th, 2006 at 9:19 am
I’m ruthless at it. But bad English is one of my pet peeves, pigeonholes or no pigeonholes.
d
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Look at the link below for alternatives if you want to transfer your music without itunes, sorry, not in the mood for formatting right now. ;-)
http://macs.about.com/od/ipod/a/copy_from_ipod.htm
December 4th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Why not change the firmware to Rockbox and download direct through USB Mass Storage? Plus you get lots of extras that Apple never will have.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:32 am
Including OGG Vorbis support. Why have I never heard of this before?
d
December 6th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I was going to write a rant about iTunes in my blog, but seeing that you did a good job I’ll just reference yours! Another moronic thing from Apple is the stupid music store: unless you have iTunes installed you can’t browse/buy music online!!! How imbecile do you get? I wanted to get some Mozart but I’d rather go to a local shop, buy a CD, rip it myself to ogg and transfer it using Rockbox from Slackware. I think His Steveness has really lost it now. Doesn’t Wozniak have any saying anymore? Shame on both.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Get ANAPOD or MEDIA MONKEY – transferring ANYTHING in iTunes takes forever — the main reason I won’t use it. Also, it doesn’t monitor folders and you can’t plug your friend’s ipod into your pc and let them tranfer songs from your library to their ipod (without erasing their ipod????). STUPID. Media Monkey works without any configuration and also tags artwork to the actual file–not a database, like iTunes. If I didn’t have to use it to update my ipod firmware, I would never install it.
December 26th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
No support for Linux, guys? Wow. Your entire OS is built from FreeBSD – how hard would it be port iTunes and set up a repository or make an RPM or something, anything at all? I don’t want to call Apple FOSS-stealing commie bastards, but yeah. They are.
You actually want that crap software on Linux? That’s why I use amarok! Not having iTunes is one of the best features of the non-Mac UNIX-like OS family.
d00d, y Linux? ur just asking for trouble, its all about compatibility nowadays and u shot yourself inthe leg, if ur usin a Linux OS you deserve everything you get.
What was your last distro? Slackware 1.0? And I would respond to your other comments, but I can’t read it.
December 27th, 2006 at 12:07 am
I don’t no. But there are going to be people who do. In any case, it would be nice to see the people that use BSD-licensed code contribute back the community meaningfully, something I’m not entirely certain Apple has done. (Of course I realise it’s not in their best interests to roll a Debian package or an RPM.)
As for Linux compatibility, I’m not even sure what he was talking about ;)
d
January 11th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Dude Itunes blows it wont even read that I have my ipod connected to the USB port. I know the port works cause it works with other devices just not my ipod anymore. I can’t update my ipod and it really sucks.Anyone know how to fix this?
January 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
- iTunes is poorly optimized from a programing perspective and is laboriously slow on operations such as scrolling the library list, adding artwork to music files (writing ID3 tag info) thereby consuming large portions of potentially busy users time in simply navigating it. This is in part due to the programming differences between Macintosh and Windows PCs, namely that Macintosh tend to be more naturally fast due to the RISC-based chip architechture which requires less programmer intervention to take advantage of (this is also a fundamental difference between the users of the 2 PC types : mac users are much more accepting of the OS deciding for them (follower mentality) where Windows users expect to do more for themselves (leader mentality) or rather that iTunes was written originally for the Mac and was ported (probably as an afterthought) to Windows without a code profiling and optimization step.[20][21]
- iTunes is a known memory and processor-hog typically drawing on 100MB and sometimes consuming over 200 MB of system memory for it’s operation.[22]
- iTunes store claims to sell “CD-Quality” music but this is an offense to audiophiles. iTunes store sells typically 128 kbs compressed (read as music data has been lost permanently) audio. True CD-Quality is 700 kbs *uncompressed*. If the iPod or iTunes is ever hooked up to a hifi sound system (one capable of producing sounds 20 Khz) or Shure or equivelent headphones a quality best described as “tinny-ness” is produced from the speakers due to the loss in quality from the original CD-quality recording. This is obviously an advertising error expecting people to lower standards while paying the same price for the product and is therefore and insult to all iTunes users.[23]
- iTunes can only automatically get artwork for *mainstream* music. If you listen to anything other than commonly popular music, you will have to add the artwork yourself which is a slow process (see above) necessitating many hours in front of it to correctly add all the artwork to the music. Moreover, iTunes is extremely inefficient in storing the artwork in the MP3 files needing to literally store the same image in *every* file in the album to have artwork appear on each song resulting in time lost in waiting for iTunes to write the data to the ID3 and size of the library due to data redundency. A much cleaner implementation would’ve been to expect a single (or even multiple are pssible using this technique) “artwork#.jpg” in each album’s folder during the adding to the library which would be picked up and added to the library and displayed *per album* rather than *per song*.[24] [25]
- If your library in iTunes is ever lost (due to a hardrive crash for instance) even if you have all the data on an external harddrive, you will be forced to recreate your library from scratch because the iPod itself can only be synced to a single iTunes library. There are various extraction tools to pull your media from the iPod although this should be unessesary as an extra 3 lines of programming code in the iPod sync function to copy the library to the iPod itself could’ve alleviated this glaring flaw in the iTunes software. From a business perspective the idea is to not allow iPod owners to carry their iPods around syncing to one library after another and thereby supporting music piracy via the iPod. Apple to wash thier hands of this possibility only allowed the iPod to sync with a single library though piracy is still possible via enabling disk use on the iPod settings, rendering the pain caused by this so-called prevention to nill and a major annoyance at best.[26]
February 10th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I hate Itunes, it is probably the worst music program ever, it has so many little qwerks that limit you in the way you organize and deal with music. It makes me angry just thinking about it. If Itunes was tangible. I would punch it.
May 11th, 2007 at 5:25 am
use winamp and be free of itunes forever
May 20th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I just loaded itunes on my PC for my gf’s shuffle. I hated the experience so much, i googled ipod rant and rave to find this! here was my experience:
1. My PC slowed down to a hault. loaded this on my sisters celeron PC, cuz no way i’m trusting my main machine with itunes OR quicktime! All my clicks are a second behind when imother*******tunes is open.
2. why can’t i just checkmark the songs i want and click a simple, “load to ipod” button to transfer the music i’ve checked. but NOOOOO! you must “drag and drop” or fine Ctrl+click the songs, and right-click > send to playlist “ipod-shuffle” (it’s not even a playlist?) fine, except it’s so slow, i accidently clicked away and all my selected songs are gone, do it all over again! grrrrrrr! what the hell are those check marks for!!!
3. convert wmv to aac or whatever. Fine! but wait. their volume level is at -100% so i now i have to click each song > get info > volume, slide it over to “none” okay. mother!@#$%!!
4. there’s this invisible que of songs you added that won’t go away and will attempt to put them selves on the ipod when there’s room. so i delete songs i want on the shuffle so that i empty my 40+ queue , then add the songs BACK ON…ONE BY ONE !!! you know what else, the queue doesn’t clear up if you unplug and plug back in.
5. why does it transfer mpg files to a shuffle. i have music and video in one directory, when i accidently send a video to the shuffle, it just copies over. take a whole lot of room. i’d be okay with this if the shuffle had a VGA output.
6. Why is there NO Next or Previous song button on the player there’s a fast forward and rewind button THAT DON”T even work! i click next while i’m playing a song to play the next or atleast fast forward, it PAUSES the player!!
7. more on the player, why must the shuffle status be were the player sider is. if i want to skip through the song with the slider i have to wait for the shuffle sync “do not disconnect” message to go away. or click the little tiny itsy bitsy button on it to display the slider, and if you do, sometimes the sync messages POP right back up before you even slide the player.
you said it best, if itunes was tangible, i’d punch the living &%^&%$&@#@ out of it!
sorry about mis^spellings and my english, i’m angry.
peace out, i’m gonna go find a rant and rave forum about the MAC vs PC commercials.
MAC itunes ipod SUCK!!!! die! i prefer microsoft’s monopoly over un-intiuitive horribly designed, incompetent software.
June 9th, 2007 at 1:01 am
I keep all my music on an external drive. It’s annoying enough that every time I download a new version (lesson learned–I won’t again), iTunes defaults to my C: drive instead of my external. Then, periodically and for no logical reason, it looks for music on the C: instead of the drive I took hours to import my music from. Why does it take hours? Because I have to manually drag and drop every folder, which can only be done at a rate of about 15 folders at a time without the program crashing. And Apple’s claiming in TV ads that they’re computers and programs don’t crash!?!? I never had anything but problems with Macs or their software, but can’t find a sound alternative to iTunes yet. Anyone know of a fix or a good alternative program?
June 11th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Not to mention when you run the APPLE SOFTWARE UPDATE, you have to reboot, it wont tell you that ,but you have to , unless you want serious fucking problems. and i mean serious fucking problems causeing critical and fatal system errors.
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:41 am
I am so over apple.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
how about that songs are econded in 128 kbps which is horrible audio quality.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I finally downloaded iTunes and, my god, it sucks. It sucks to a degree that software performance and interface design haven’t sucked since the ’90s. It’s outrageously slow, the store search function doesn’t work half the time, the GUI is clunky and unintuitive.
God, I’ve only had the thing for two days and I already feel compelled to google “iPod sucks,” just to make sure I’m not having a complete reality meltdown. I mean, WTF, Apple?! I hope you’re reading this blog. Remember, you guys are supposed to make stuff that works.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:39 am
I just tried to download led zepplin Kashmir—IT DOESNT HAVE THIS SONG what a piece or shit. I had to steal this song on Limewire. Although Led zepplin deserves they music to be stolen considering they stole almost everything they ever laid down it still pisses me off. Combine this technology with a decent catalouge and it would be amazing until then call me robert plant cause I still music.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:57 am
I was a little inbriated when I wrote this blog. While spelling and grammar may be lacking the point remains dead on.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:59 am
INEBRIATED
July 4th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
[...] And, as always, I’m excited as expletive about the release of Amarok 2 for Windows (do I have the version right?). Finally, finally something better than iTunes on Windows. Not that it could miss. [...]
July 14th, 2007 at 5:51 am
itunes sucks donkey ass i cant use anything on it at all i had it along time ago but now theres somthing that wont workl and if anyone sees this message plz contact me on my aim msn yahoo
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July 15th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I completely agree, iTunes is completely useless. It seems like every time I download and install a piece of proprietary software, I end up uninstalling it a day or so later. ITunes was no different. I’m really disappointed with the shoddy work these corporate companies do when designing and programming their software.
The problem is that a lot of the corporate software out there is all form and no function. ITunes is, for lack of a better term, “sitware”. It’s software…that just sits there. Sure it looks nice– but you’re not going to frame it and put it on the wall. The bottom line is that it should do much more than it does.
Now don’t get me wrong, iTunes does have a lot of nice features. The problem is that too much time was spent on the graphics, and not enough on the programming and design. I used iTunes for just 3 days. In that time, I encountered many, many problems with the usability and programming.
Here are some issues I have with iTunes:
* Quicktime – It’s set to run on startup, in the background, and it immediately tries to take over as default media player. It uses up more resources than other competing programs, whether running on startup or in the background. (I consider it a virus.)
* ITunes is set to download everything under the sun, by default. As soon as you subscribe to a podcast it starts hogging your bandwidth downloading things you didn’t necessarily ask for. (I have satellite internet, so it didn’t only hog bandwidth, it ended up putting me on FAP restrictions twice in three days.)
* Errors everywhere, but no error reporter in sight. It seems like when they were programming iTunes for Windows, they wanted it to fit in with the rest of Windows. They went above and beyond– I got more error messages from iTunes in the three days I used it than I did in the last 3 months of using Windows regularly (that’s really sad). (Yes it was properly configured, yes the internet was on and working for all other programs, no the firewall wasn’t blocking iTunes.)
* By default, iTunes will try to assimilate…I mean “associate” all media files with iTunes. I didn’t want iTunes to be the default media player for every extension known to man. After going out of my way to ensure that, iTunes decided to do the exact opposite. (No I didn’t accidentally check the box marked “associate with all supported media”.)
* A lot of dead air on the streaming radio stations. Either silence is a new genre of music or this is another iTunes “iSuck” moment. (Yes the internet was on and working fine for every other program, no my firewall wasn’t blocking it, and yes iTunes was properly configured.
* You can’t schedule download times.
* The user interface is so minimalistic that chances are, if you’re looking for a button, they hid it somewhere to make the GUI cleaner. It makes me think that their design motto must have been something along the lines of “…but it looks nice…”
* The only function of a button is to be clicked on– iTunes doesn’t even do that right. I can’t tell you how many times I had to click on some of the buttons in iTunes before they decided to work. (Yes this was the only program on my entire computer that had this problem, yes I restarted the computer just to make sure.)
* The controls for downloading podcasts, etc. are slow to respond or unresponsive. Generally, they’re a bit more “out of the way” to get to or use than most other programs.
All in all, a pathetic, useless piece of software.
I don’t own an iPod, but I’ve heard of quite a few different programs that are better than iTunes for managing music, etc. Check out Download.com, Sourceforge.net, and Wikipedia.org. I’m sure you can find something on Download.com, if you search for “iPod” or “iTunes”, it should be in the same category. Sourceforge.net has some great programs, I’m not sure if it has what you’re looking for, but it’s worth a try. If you look up “iPod” or “music management software” or something to that effect, you should find some good stuff. Wikipedia has a lot of lists of software, and sometimes it has links to software pages at the bottom of related articles. I have found it very helpful in the past. I hope you find what you need. :)
July 29th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Guys, stop fucking with iTunes. Get Rockbox and some decent theme for it (without a theme Rockbox looks really very very ugly) and just copy your music to the root of your iPod with any file manager. That’s it. Then you just browse to any directory with your album and listen to it. Really very simple, almost like in WinAmp. Forget about iTunes.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:27 pm
WARNING: Long!
I am an unfortunate victim who got an iPod as a gift from my mother. After telling her many times to never get an iPod, because they are the worst PMP out there, she bought me one because “it was on sale”.
Of course, the worst part of the iPod is iTunes. The most minimalistic program I ever used in my life. Apple tried to design iTunes so that it was possible to put music in your iPod (which it is), but forgot to make it easy.
After getting installation errors, and having to restart my computer, I installed it. Apparently, in order to listen to music, I have to give them all my personal information…. Nice job, Apple. Like I can trust you with my address.
Upon opening it, it asks me if I want to let iTunes scan “My Music Folder” for music to put on the library. It seems pretty cool I guess, so I hit yes. What Apple didn’t tell me was that it was gonna scan My Music, My Documents, My Videos, Shared, other random folders, and hidden folders for music on all profiles. Yeah… just guess what type of videos iTunes stole from the hidden folders without telling me.
iTunes is still the slowest program on my computer. It is noticably slow, and everytime I run it, my entire computer goes slower, which never happens, unless iTunes is running.
iTunes gives me doubles of all my songs. Sometimes even triples. All my songs that I have doubled are because of errors that iTunes gets from nowhere. My iPod library is getting smaller due to these errors that they don’t even bother notifying you about. I wanted to listen to some Thrice the other day, but I realized that i’m missing 3 albums from them. I go to iTunes to find out why, and then I see that they all got errors, and they deleted them from my iPod. Nice going Apple.
I’ve been hearing problems about DRM lately. I never use Apple’s store (thank god), but from what they told me, it seems like Apple is ripping everyone off. Buying music means that it is your property. Why does Apple restrict you to using it only with iPods, and not to other mp3 players? Why don’t they tell you this anyways? iTunes never tells me anything. I never get no error messages, which to some might be a good thing, but it’s a bad thing for me because I never even know my library is flawed.
And also… What type of music player can’t play all types of music? All i’m restricted to is AAC and MP3, and the occasional WAV. But what ever happened to WMA? Quicktime can’t even play videos! All it can play is the dead file type MOV! Anything else and I have to spent an eternity converting, which won’t work, because iTUNES’S CONVERTER CAN’T CONVERT FILES! They didn’t even tell me that, again, until I learned the hard way, after waiting the eternity of conversion to pop in my iPod and get errors.
What is worse than iTunes, is the iPod. Everytime I have an iPod Video vs. (Creative Zen Vision M + W, Archos, and/or Cowan) conversation, it usually ends up like this. (I’ll use the Zen Vision W for example)
n00b: But the iPod can play music!
Me: The Zen Vision M can not only play music, but can RECORD MUSIC via mic or radio.
n00b: But the iPod can play videos!
Me: The Zen Vision can RECORD videos from your TV in DVD quality, and not only that, but it can recognize most file types known to man.
n00b: At least we got iTunes! :)
Me: I don’t need a program for the Zen Vision. Sure I can use one, but it isn’t nessesary. I can have my files put in as if it were an External Hard Drive, and I can also steal from other computers!
And as a last ditch effort.
n00b: But the iPod has a better design!
Me: The iPod screen is too small! In order to actually watch a video properly, the iPod has to be made horizontal, and an inch bigger. Second, the battery has to be removable, and last, a button that small can’t be in the middle of a touch-sensitive click wheel.
n00b: Your just saying that because you hate Apple!
Me: You catch on quick….
Of course, the iPod is missing tons of features out of the box, such as background pictures, internal speakers, USB host feature, proper TV-Out options, lay-out customization, a wall charger, an actual case (not to be confused with the cheap sleeve they come with that barely fits the iPod), decent instructions (not the toilet paper with over-simplistic instructions), gapless transition, Video cables, and lack of support as an external hard drive. What they do offer you are restrictions, such as DRM, iPods being stuck to one playlist, and iTUNES!
Now may be a bad time to ask, but does anyone want to buy my iPod?
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 am
hey guys, here’s why i think itunes sucks. I only started recently buying albums from itunes. I bought three and when i went to burn to cd ( to rip to windows media player, which i have no problems with) literally half of the songs were missing! I couldn’t back up as itunes couldn’t find original file even though to all intents and purposes it downloaded and i got charged for it of course!. I searched everywhere even in the recycle bin and the songs are not on my computer. For the last four days i’ve been trying to register a complaint but it tells me to try again later. GGGGRRRRR!! needless to say i’m done with itunes as i have never in my life bought a faulty product (as those albums were) and had no comeback whatsoever. is that not illegal?
September 1st, 2007 at 6:42 am
You nailed it. iTunes sucks…locks in your iPod to a specific computer, makes you erase everything on your iPod if you want to manually sync, iTunes loses track of where its files are often, forces you to connect with the store every time…Apple is just like every other profit company. Despite the bull-slop that they are user friendly, they are just as prone to flaws as anybody. And forcing you to erase your iPod all the time….hilarious. You’re right. iTunes sucks.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Dude, you are right on…
ITUNES IS A HUGE PIECE OF CRAP. AND A STINKING ONE.
takes for ever to load, takes forever to unload, does the things you don’t want it to do. and doesn’t do what you want it to do (usually).
i hate it with a passion.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
OOOOOOOMMMMMMMGGGGGGGG I TUNES I AM SO F’IN MAD WE BOUGHT WILD HOGS MOVIE AND IT SAID IT WOULD TAKE 68 HRS TO DOWNLOAD SO WE STARTED IT. AND 12 HOURS LATER ONLY 3 HOURS WAS DOWNLOADED. WE HAVE A FAMILY HERE AND I HAVE DIAL UP.(YA I AM A DINOSAUR.) SO I PAUSED THE DOWNLOAD SO WE COULD USE THE PHONE AND NOW WE LOST THE CONNECTION AND THE $15.00 FOR THE MOVIE. IT SAID I COULD PAUSE AND COME BACK!WTF! NOW MY ITUNES GIFTCARD SAYS IT HAS BEEN USED! WE DONT HAVE THE MOVIE!WHERE DID THE 15.00 GO? HELLO SEND IT!!!!! R U GUYS ASSHOLES? OR WHAT?IT IS A RIP OFF. COME ON.STEP UP.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
[...] a single file format. All I want to do is play MPEG-4 files, I really have no desire at all to use iTunes or any of the other resource hogging software they will try to force you to install if you’re not [...]
October 14th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Wow. Just wow. I’m not sure what this is, but I’m pretty sure it belongs in a concrete re-enforced barrel somewhere in a Nevada mountain complex.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Any of you windows users should do yourselves a favor and get MediaMonkey right now; It’s everything that iTunes is not! I had been searching for like a year before i found MediaMonkey, and probably tried just about every media manager out there. MM has plugins for USB mass storage based players, ipod/iphone support, as well as some others. It has all kinds of features–really blows iTunes out of the water, though no support for podcasting in this version.
MM has a scripting language based on VBA, so you can write plugins pretty simply. I had a little usability itch, and threw together a little script to add a context menu to provide quick weblinks to allmusic, amazon, torrent sites, etc. They’re not as streamlined as firefox (plugins are found in the forum and on 3rd party sites) but the support is there. Check out the MagicNodes plugin if you decide to try MM; it allows you to create Nodes in the tree based on SQL queries against a MS access DB. In effect, you can display the data any damn way you please, alphabetically by the third letter in the artist name, if you so please! :) Another cute trick allowed me to open the access db and ODBC link the tables from my laptop back to a mysql server or my pc’s DB file directly, giving me an automatically synchronized media library. google mediamonkey. do it now.
‘The Godfather’ is a much better option for library cleanup (though MM’s drag and drop tagging is very nice), it has a scripting language based on delphi and a semi-active forum. You can auto tag from the internet/cddb, physically restructure/rename files based on any of the tags, automatically pull album art off the internet. Google the godfather mp3.
You also forgot some other reasons why itunes sucks:
6. Background processes that run randomly, taking forever, and doing horrible things like embedding copies of album.
7. Inability to use the album art already stored as .jpg files in the directory.
8. Playing an artist from the top level “Music” node then browsing using the three panel view stops the music when the end of the current song is reached. This is not the case if i am playing a from a playlist node. The real problem is that there is no “active playlist” view; i guess when you’re not explicitly playing a playlist it assumes you dont actually intend to LISTEN to whatever you played, you just want to browse around and sample music?
9. Am i to make a manually playlist for to tame my library? The whole point of media managment is that iTunes is making a database of the music; let me browse it however i want out of the box, damn it!
10. No apparent way to organize those playlists, should i devide to invest the time to make them. No folders?–you’re just gonna throw them into a giant list? Really? iTunesU seems to be able to make folders in my playlist node, why cant i?
…seems like i’m forgetting some. Itunes is the biggest piece of shit i’ve ever used. You really hit the nail on the head with “…you can do what we want you to do and that’s it.” That’s the #1 reason why i stay away from apple everything. A friend of mine put it really well: “Microsoft is a software company; that’s their bread and butter. Apple is a hardware company; they write the software ultimately to support their hardware.” That’s looks like a conflict of interest to me… even though it causes some problems, I’d like a little separation between hardware and software please.
Good luck! contact me at idols.cheek@spamgourmet.com and let me know how it goes for you if anyone decides to try it out :)
December 10th, 2007 at 1:09 am
I was simply looking through google with the phrase “iTunes sucks” because I have so recently begun to believe this. I was always reluctant to use iTunes until I got an iPod and felt the need to use it. iTunes sucks Memory down, its library function is irritating, whenever I “upgrade” a) I’m always stuck with lousy Quicktime, and b) I always need to uninstall and reinstall it because it won’t reopen itself. Also, whenever I try to convert an avi file to m4v with the new iTunes on my system, it fails the process.
iTunes not only sucks, it blows.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I recently got an iPod Touch. Great interface, brilliant design. But… needs iTunes, which is a truly rotten piece of software, for reasons which I could go into but will not – it has been covered elsewhere in detail. And I can’t even use iTunes on my VMWare Windows installation because VMWare has a USB bug that makes iTunes unusable with the iPod Touch. I haven’t looked to see if it has been fixed in the past 2 weeks, though. Maybe I am in luck… but I would rather use a Linux substitute. Problem is I can’t find one that seems to work well with the Touch. Using Ubuntu 64-bit 7.10. Suggestions?
December 17th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Here are some instructions I found:
http://fredemmott.co.uk/blog_121
They seem pretty dicey, though. A lot of doing this and doing that, so if you’re not afraid to wipe your iPod, you may want to give that a shot.
Virtualisation is a wonder, though, and I have a program designed by idiots (it’s called “Notion”, and might as well be a command line interface, that’s how non-intuitive it is) that uses a USB hardlock. I’ve used VMWare in the past, but VirtualBox works pretty well for me on Ubuntu 7.10. You may want to give it a try… but still… virtualization to load songs onto an iPod? Having to tool around with firmware and jailbreaking? That’s not the stuff that a good content delivery platform is made out of.
When my Nano dies, I’m going to do about five minutes of research and buy a non-Apple player. I like their designs, I despise their philosophy.
December 25th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
check out rockbox.org if you are looking for an alternative ipod firmware.
advantage: no more itunes needed
disadvantage: only for older ipods available.
best regards
fidel
January 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
iTUNES SUCKS!!!!!!!!!! FUCK APPLE!
January 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
comment on :
5)d00d, y Linux? ur just asking for trouble, its all about compatibility nowadays and u shot yourself inthe leg, if ur usin a Linux OS you deserve everything you get.
ur full of shit mate.
January 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Another real live internet troll writing in substandard “English”! That my blog should be so blessed.
Just one note: If everything is about compatibility, I should be fine, right? Or maybe you’re confused about what that word means.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
fuck all that. here’s what it doesn’t do-allow the ipod to ACTUALLY be a storage device. it only allows for one-way transport of files, to the ipod. it was made this way on purpose to make it difficult to move music and video from ipod to computer, which oddly enough are the only two formats it easily allows a workaround for. photos from the ipod to computer? forget it! no workaround that i’m aware of.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:05 am
I’m extremely NOT technologically ept. That’s being honest.
But, at least I can set up an acct. and surf Rhapsody and Zune,
without trying again and again (to no avail) for a f’n hour and a half! Nothing. Still can’t get to their freakin’ cd listening/dwnlding page. It has tutorial videos that do NOT pertain to any reality. What it shows does NOT happen in reality. It states how this or that will pop up. It doesn’t! I heard their cds are pricier than any competitor out there.
After this, when seeing ANYTHING w/the Apple logo…I will run for the freakin’ hills. They’ve the most user UNfriendly site I’ve ever encountered. No purchasing from this guy!! That company can kiss my ass!
January 28th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Yeah itunes does suck. I only used it to set up my ipod then used floola for everything else. So much better and lets you listen to music from your plugged in ipod and drag in videos and music. Works miracles.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
the item that really sucks is the actual quality of the music,being compressed to the point of losing so much sound,I am more than happy to go to the store
January 30th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
the item that really sucks is the actual quality of the music,being compressed to the point of losing so much sound,I am more than happy to go to the store in my car.I can easily find any music I like,buy it ,come home and play it without dealing with all of apple/itunes bullshit. I think it exemplifies what happens when someone knows the path but can’t walk the path i.e. stick to making products and leave the music to someone else
February 1st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
*lol*
Did a search for *Itunes sucks* and landed here.
It did not get any better, even on Mac.
15% CPU to play an mp3 and sucking 250MB of RAM doing so.
Worst:
It messed up my whole files, created various empty or duplicate entries and the beach ball of death can be seen at any second mouse click.
The most overbloated and lame piece of sh*t ever seen on a mac.
Wait !
I forgot iPhoto !!!
February 18th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I was already swearing about iTunes everytime I opened it, but I think the worst thing happened to me last december. I just bought a new graphic card, a NVIDIA GeForce 86OOGT superclocked. The kind of graphic card that runs everything with no lag. Except that piece of shit that is iTunes. I turned on the CoverFlow feature accidentally, and discovered how apple is an incompetent company. Their useless coverflow does NOT (just look for this problem on the internet) work with nvidia graphic cards. Why? Because those idiots don’t include nvidia cards in their SO-BETTER-THAN-PC’S macs, and by the way don’t even test their products on nvidia products… see the scenario? So I hit coverflow, and the first time I get a black screen for 5 seconds, followed by a warning that my video driver just crashed and was rescued by windows. After this, the album art is visible in coverflow. But, I click on a song in my library. So, the coverflow moves, and then another black screen. But this time, I get a little text explaining me that windows was closed because of an anormal activity. Weeeee, nice shit! so that was the fastest shutdown of my computer, I got to admit it, one point to iTunes. Also another point for the first program to ever completely crash Windows Vista since I use it (you may tell Vista is bad, but it never crash with other programs…).
In short : iTunes is A SHIT!!! By comparison I learned to love WMP…
March 1st, 2008 at 2:28 am
I own a Zune 80 and did not buy an iPod for three main reasons, particularly for its lack of screen size, lack of format compatibility, and iTunes.
Love or hate Microsoft, at least they got their Zune Media Player right, for it can play media without a hitch, both videos and music. I try to play a video in iTunes and it lags, I don’t even dare try HD files in iTunes. I try many of these same videos in Windows Media Player and the Zune software and they work flawlessly yet iTunes can’t decode them properly, pathetic. I use iTunes both in XP and Vista, I thought it was bad in XP, I think in Vista, Apple just didn’t try at all. Badly designed and extremely sluggish at everything it does.
In addition, I found out some peculiarities about iTunes that I did not even know about, particularly with syncing to the iPod. I did not know that I could only sync one way but not from the iPod back to my PC right through iTunes, even Zune can do this, come on Apple, you brag so much, at least integrate that simple little feature. And some others mentioned that you could not sync an entire library to your friend’s iPod if he plugged his iPod into your PC, even Zune can do this properly, geez Apple.
iTunes is a Mac application first and foremost. On PC, it’s a piece of trash of an excuse of software. Slow and buggy and rather difficult to use. Most people I speak to only use iTunes because they own an iPod, once I show them either the Zune Software or Windows Media Player 11, they always remark how iTunes should be like that. But alas, Apple has to be Apple and that means slow and buggy on Windows.
I even got iTunes to crash just trying to play an Audio CD, that’s just sad. I do not own an iPod but I manage a cybercafe so I have to install iTunes for my customers, since many of them do own iPods and need to sync from time to time. The one major gripe, apart from the sluggish performance I have is the upgrades to iTunes. Do I really have to download the entire installer just for an incremental upgrade that may just add a small feature, such as movie rentals? I hate having to upgrade iTunes almost every month, come on, at least add useful features and make the software less bloated rather than making it even slower than it already is.
iTunes is bloatware and crapware. Absolutely sluggish and pathetic software, it is. Even Real Player seems better than this…OK, maybe that’s going a bit too far but iTunes is really bad, at least on Windows. Rather than implementing their own technologies rather poorly in Windows, Apple should take existing Windows technologies and base iTunes off of those, perhaps DirectShow based video decoding. But Apple is too proud to ever even think of abandoning their own technologies. You ever wonder why Steve Jobs never does an iTunes demo on a PC? Sure, it could be argued because he’s promoting Mac OS X , but I’m sure he doesn’t want the embarassment of iTunes becoming extremely sluggish.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
iTunes sucks because Apple wants it to suck. Pretty simple.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
iTunes probably doesn’t suck if you own 15 CDs which include artists such as Celine Dion, Sugababes or U2, and if you got an iPod because they are a stylish fashion accessory (you will walk around the streets with your toy held out in front of you constantly to show it off). To you, it’s great, because each disc took only a few minutes to rip, the artwork is on your iPod, you can download all the music your mates listen to at the iTunes Store really easily, and because the music you’ve got sounds SO GOOD through the white earphones that Apple kindly gave you for free, as well as on the 17W hi-fidelity sound system you also bought at the Apple Store. Music for you has become much simpler since you got an iPod.
(This applies to a large proportion of people who buy iPods, literally, millions of people.)
On the other hand, if you don’t fit this caricature and want a decent media player and organiser that fits your needs, don’t get an iPod and don’t use iTunes. On PC, you’re lucky enough to have foobar http://www.foobar2000.org/ , which is without doubt the best thing I’ve ever used. You can even do basic iPod stuff on it! It’s pretty deep and there is a learning curve, but it’s so worth it in the end.
Mac users (me included) aren’t so lucky, but there is Play for OSX http://sbooth.org/Play/ which plays all the normal formats that you’d expect it to, with no bloat and some nice features.
I only own an iPod because someone gave it to me (he’d bought another one!) for free, and I’m proud to say that I’ve NEVER used iTunes to sync it. I only took the iPod once I’d verified that I could use foobar to get transfer music on and off.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I deliberately will not buy an Ipod, apart from the rediculous over-rated faddy media hype and overpricing targeted at sheep, I cannot see the point in Itunes at all.
Is it not far easier to just drag your files across to your Mp3 player in Explorer or whatever your o/s has???? Why the extra faffing?
I get the impression that Itunes is designed for morons who need some naff application to do the work for them for some reason.
Not only is this a pointless extra step, but it means that I cannot use the device as a flash drive (for non-media files). Nor can I connect it to other PC’s without first installing Itunes?!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Alright, so i bought 3 new albums. I wanted to listen to them today. Simple, right? It has now been an hour and I am still f*cking with the worst computer program I have ever used. 4 restarts and counting, with new error messages for each version and each restart. Are you serious, Apple? You have the biggest monopoly on the audio industry and you can’t get your ONLY software to work without completely disabling a computer? WTF???
“iTunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration, and will now close.”
-error message upon program start
“iTunes GEAR software must be updated upon reboot. Please reboot and try again.”
-this is 2008, why am I rebooting again?
“iTunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration, and will now close.”
-and again, and again
F*CK YOU ITUNES, F*CK YOU AND THE PROGRAM ENGINEERS THAT CREATED YOU
April 5th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I was a little inbriated when I wrote this blog. While spelling and grammar may be lacking the point remains dead on.
April 12th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Don’t get sucked into media monkey. It’s as big a piece of shit as itunes. I tried it hoping to free myself from itunes but it’s just as bad.
I was ripping a CD into the library when the computer completely froze. I couldn’t even get the task manager on the screen to shut it down. When I rebooted I got an error message in MM that my “database was malformed”. 20,000 plus tracks messed up with their so-called great software. Guess I’m not the only one having problems because their support page is unavailable. Crashed. Gone.
I am sick and tired of wasting time on “free” music management programs that either take over my computer or restrict what I can do with the music I own. I don’t know what the answer is but don’t waste your time with media monkey.
April 19th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
It’s my job to sift through badly written software. iTunes isn’t the worst piece of software I have seen but I really am surprised that something this bad would be considered release candidate material by Apple’s programming team / release manager. I, like many of you, encountered hundreds of defects in the first week of using it. Did Apple’s test team not pick these up? The most annoying thing is that the JIT keeps firing off exception warnings every hour or so if I’m working in Visual Studio while I’ve got iTunes on in the background. This application (v. 6.2.9) simply does not work with Windows XP SP2. That’s it. It does NOT work. It’s an embarrassment to developers everywhere. I think that the iPod hardware itself is good enough. Apple, if you’re reading this, here’s an idea: Employ some decent developers with a PROVEN track record in writing stable windows applications for your next release of iTunes for Windows and make them rewrite it from scratch. AND ANOTHER THING: WOULD IT ABSOLUTELY KILL YOU TO WRITE SOMETHING MEANINGFUL TO THE APPLICATION EVENTLOG????? At least give guys like me a chance to write some tools to tidy up after whatever godforsaken mishap causes iTunes to bomb out for no reason in the middle of a 140 GB library import. Some of us have serious music collections you know!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:58 am
number 2 has been the argument i’ve used against my classmates. I’m glad someone agrees :-) -
June 18th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
iTunes sucks big time. The worst experience ive had of it was when i found my old CD collection. I spent the time to put them all in a folder, put all the albums in seperate folders, and the singles all together within the music folder i created. I then decided, just incase my computer malfunctioned, and i lost all my “ripped” music from my CD’s to put a copy on my external hard drive. BIG MISTAKE, iTunes deleted all of my Albums and many of my Singles. How can they release something this BAD? No, bad doesnt go far enough, id call it dire, awful, wretched, undescribabley infuriating.
Apple needs to go back to the drawing board. In fact, i wouldnt put it past them to purposely put these god damned flaws in it for Windows so they can pull more of Microsoft’s users away from, in comparison a BRILLIANT operating system.
haha, never thought id say that about Windows.
Loved your post, loved reading the comments. iTunes sucks!
-Aaron
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 am
I just sent an email to piece of shit Apple tech support…very simple and I quote “JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST your god-damn itunes sucks big time fucking piece of shit software fix the fucking thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I feel better now, but still am FORCED to use this fucking piece of horse-shit program.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Don’t use anything Apple whether being their software (itunes) or their products (ipod). There is so many alternatives that are better and are not portentous garbage.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:52 am
JRiver Media Center has excellent iPod and iPhone support, and it’s pretty good at a alot of other stuff too. I warml recommend it.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
today itunes stop being able to create cds i wasted 5 fucking cd’s but I have to use it because songbird can’t make cd’s yet
August 31st, 2008 at 10:58 pm
iTunes iSucks.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Lol.. you have to be a fucking idiot to download a 1GB movie using dial-up.. haha.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am
Of course, the iPod is missing tons of features out of the box, such as background pictures, internal speakers, USB host feature, proper TV-Out options, lay-out customization, a wall charger, an actual case (not to be confused with the cheap sleeve they come with that barely fits the iPod), decent instructions (not the toilet paper with over-simplistic instructions),
November 10th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
[...] here, and it absolutely sucks that Apple obviously doesn’t care what people are saying, with similar issues existing in 2006. At this point I hate iTunes so much, I’d pay money for a programme that would solve these [...]
December 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am
First let me say, I don’t mean to offend any gay people by comparing them with Mac.
Why iTunes Sucks
Try searching for a song in the iTunes store, maybe their crappy search function will work, maybe it won’t. I find myself spending 10 minutes to find a particular song because you have to keep repeatedly entering keywords. Also, would it be so freaking hard to remember my searches? Every other program has that functionality.
Regarding the updater, why bother asking me to not to “remind me again” if you’re going to keep asking me that every time I open the stupid program?
They also deserve to get sued for antitrust for making all of their music in the M4P format so it couldn’t run on any competitors cheaper/better/replaceable battery players.
I should have known better than to purchase anything by Apple, their software is designed by morons for morons. I really really really hate Mac.
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December 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I recently purchased an Apple iPod Touch, and in fact, it is currently being shipped to me. I have never owned an iPod before, and after my experiences with Quicktime, I was very apprehensive about using the proprietary software known as “iTunes”. I made the decision to determine the ability to use 3rd party media managers with iPod devices before even making my purchase.
The information provided here has been informative, and I have already lined up a few candidates to use for loading media to my new device. I plan to never use iTunes, and also plan to jailbreak my iPod Touch as soon as it becomes possible.
I am having problems clearly determining if various 3rd party management softwares will work with a 2nd Gen iPod Touch. I am wondering specifically if there is a manager out there that will allow me to use my 2nd Gen iPod Touch with the Windows OS, as if it were a generic storage device, allowing files to be read and written as such.
This entire “one-way syncing” concept turns my stomach.
January 7th, 2009 at 11:57 am
2009. iTunes still sucks.
I got a 1GB shuffle for x-mas, thank gods it was a freebie. It still cost me a lot of time and nerves.
I will not go into it; you all know what happens when one installs and tries to use iTunes. Lagging, stuff no one wants, other simple, obvious stuff missing, takes incredibly long to add songs to the pod (hey, I I only got 1GB, and it takes AGES! How low can you go?!?), and then the next day iTunes deleted all the music on the pod, coz I had dared to unplug my external harddrive, where the music came from. Instead of going through all the BS again I threw the pod against the wall, got rid of all Apple software and searched for an alternative. I found a plug in for my trusty old Winamp. A sleek, functional, polite program. I am happy.
And I will never ever buy anything from Apple.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
i used itunes foe about 5 hours total it sucks… wont copy wma wont convert wma’s WTF Apple… My gf got the classic which is cool but ITUNES FUCKING SUCKS! It uses too much resorces as well
March 12th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I just downloaded it because it has a TV show that is NOT put out on DVD for whatever reason. I thought great. I’ve downloaded the first show and it’s jerky!!!! My God!!! I know full well that the show when on TV is NOT jerky. I almost don’t even want to watch the show because of this. How can you watch something when every 2 or 3 seconds it jerks? It’s not smooth like watching a show on TV. I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s garbage!
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
i want to know where my fucking tv show I purchased is. FUCK YOU ITUNES. Take my fuicking money but don’t give me the show? You don’t even have a support place where I can email you about this fucking shitty ass problem. Where is the fucking episode suppose to show up? It said it would immediatley download but do i have the tv show in my purchased are? FUCK NO. Do I have it in the Library under TV shows…..FUCK NO. I want my fucking episode of LOST that I fucking paid for. FUCK YOU Itunes you suck my fucking cock…that I don’t have. Hey if anyone knows what might have happened to my show…please respond back with any insight.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Number 1- iTunes can read pretty much any format anyone would want to use including lossless.
Number 2 ram doesn’t matter these days especially when most ppl have 2 to 4 gigs. iTunes only uses about 72k and im hovering around 1 gig of total memory usage with most programs ill ever have running.
Number 3 isn’t even correct if i hit pause (a key on my keyboard) it pauses without any problems, and if you hit space of course you have to be on iTunes cause space isn’t pause for computers. ive never had the xml aka.
Number 4 problem since i started using it back when i got the black and white iPod. Number 5 hardly anyone uses Linux compared to mac and windows and plus im guessing most ppl using Linux have a pc with windows or osx
June 11th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Just use Winamp, or mediamonkey to play your music, or to sync with your mp3 player, duh
August 6th, 2009 at 1:48 am
I have never had any problems with mine or my husband’s iPods until recently. I received a pop-up on iTunes telling me to download the latest version (8.2). I selected to do the upgrade and have regretted it ever since. When I plugged my husband’s iPod into my computer, it would no longer recognize it. We restarted the computer and tried again. It said the iPod was corrupt and needed to be restored. My husband hit the button to restore it and everything on his iPod was erased. We called support and they told him that it was not iTunes but that his iPod was broken. Knowing this was not the case as it worked fine before we downloaded the 8.2 version of iTunes, we tried to connect mine. My iPod did the same thing saying it could not recognize the iPod and that it was corrupt. I highly doubt both of our iPods broke over night. His is less than a year old and mine is a couple years old. I have used the same computer since we have gotten the iPods and we never had issues. Ever since we downloaded the 8.2 version we have had nothing but. Now my husband and I have worthless iPods and the only thing customer service can tell us is to purchase new ones… this will NOT be happening.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Has anyone noticed how bull shit the genre pigeonholing is!? Apparently every gotdamn song in my catalog is Alternative & Punk!!! Including fucking James Brown!!! WTF!!!
October 8th, 2009 at 9:49 am
I have an iPod…….I am going to find out what a .308 round does to it. iPods, iTunes, Quicktime and Apple all suck.
October 16th, 2009 at 6:14 am
The fucking thing is bloated. I wish somebody could swap my iPod with a Creative Zen.
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:41 am
First of, yeah, I agree, Itunes is absolute GARBAGE, and I use macs, pcs, and linux boxes. They all have uses for me. Itunes, however, does not. It is a bloated memory hog, and when I want to play a song, I don’t want a huge program loading up, storing the song “in itunes”, and I don’t want anything more than to, well, play the song. This is the beauty of winamp, and why I love it so much. When I click an MP3, it just play, and plays quickly. When I close winamp, it’s all closed, and my song isn’t kept in some stupid list. Look, I’m a big mac fan, and I love apple, but itunes is the worst thing apple has ever done, period. It totally sucks. I pray for the day when a mac version of winamp comes out.
By they way, just to be a pain in the ass, starting a sentence with “But” is bad grammar, so you are violating your own pet peeve, and the guy you called a troll for disagreeing was just making counter-points. You should try not to get so offended by disagreement.
January 14th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
I found this thread after searching “iTunes sucks” I am a long-time user of the Windows Media Player, and I would have never dealt with iTunes had I not been recently granted an iTunes gift card for Christmas. I’ve wasted so much time wrangling with this worthless program in a fruitless effort to cash in this gift card. I’m convinced that this $15 card is actually a curse in disguise. Apple owes me several hours of my life back.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I have iTunes on my puter, mainly because they have TV shows I was hoping to purchase and then convert & burn to a DVD format compatible with DVD players. But is this possible? NO. iTunes can’t be bothered to offer this. Instead I end up wasting loads of money on programs that promise to convert but fail to do so. I hate the fact the iTunes has their own stupid audio and video formats. I REFUSE to buy an iPod since I already have a portable Mp3 player, as well as portable DVD player. I feel like I’m being treated like a criminal who stole the files. I bought them and I should be able to convert them to a more usable format. Apparently that’s asking for too much. Thanx a lot iTunes and F you.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Oh and did I mention that every time I run iTunes, 50% of the time I have to update it to their latest version to get it to work right? Golly gee I just love iTunes. NOT.