Comments on: Nine things I hate about iTunes

By: iPod Tossers

iPod Tossers — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:25:21 +0000

“You may not like it, but the other choices are worse… be honest.”

Hilarious. The “other choices” being – your MP3 player appears as an external hard drive, and you simply drag and drop your files onto it… and can ’sync’ your music using any of the many free file sync programs available (which you should already have for backing up and checking your non-music files on your PC…)
iTunes is a joke, it’s bloatware, it’s for idiots who can’t even work out how to copy an MP3 file, it’s for idiots who don’t even like music, but PRETEND to, “because everybody else does”. Guess what – MOST other people don’t like music either! They can’t sing any of the songs they CLAIM to ‘like’, they just PRETEND because they see other people ‘having a good time’ while listening to music, and think they’ll look like idiots if they don’t get on the bandwagon. Which is why every time you go to a concert, more than half of the people there talk, whoop and holler all the way through songs. What are they there for? To PRETEND that they ‘like’ music, that’s what they’re there for.
I have an Archos XS200, 20GB, cost next to nothing second hand, no iTunes needed, just plug it into my USB cable, and I can drag and drop ANY files onto it – so I can use it to back up documents too. No need for iTunes to ’sort’ my music folders into a bloody mess by ‘genre’, etc. Who the hell listens to music like that? Who thinks “I know – I fancy a bit of ‘Rock’ today, where’s my iPod?” – I’ll tell you who – the douchebags who PRETEND to like music, that’s who. The idiots who put Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus at the top of the charts – THOSE idiots…

By: HHA

HHA — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:38:50 +0000

Why can’t i just drop my own files( MP3 foto’s etc) on the device.

By: without wax

without wax — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:21:05 +0000

media monkey and winamp both work great, i like and use both for different reasons, with a combo of tag editing software (still looking for a integrated version of shazam) anyway i could list loads more about itunes but just say it craps out if given more than 50 gigs, i have over 100 in music alone, it dosent support the format of some of my pics, movies. and worst of all its like virus. we put it on a brand new PC and suddenly YOU CANT RUN A SINGLE PROGRAM, all the shortcuts have the itunes image, and open itunes (while saying the name of the normal application) this happens when you try to launch anything from anywhere… grrrr i could keep venting on that 1 thing alone for a long time. also it messes up how it organizes music compared to the rest of the world, and now i cant consolidate my library. never had problems with media monkey, and a slight one with winamp after a patch, but that was a 3 min fix. rant rant rant

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:46 +0000

I have to agree, this software is a useless bloated piece of steaming dung, and those are the good things I have to say about it. Seems Apple programmers don’t get feedback from anyone except Mac fanboys who have nothing better to do than lie about how “intuitive” everything Apple is, when in fact it isn’t at all, hence “The Missing Manual”. The only thing living large at Apple is Gross Incompetence. They have almost cornered the market on it.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:11:57 +0000

I have really disliked having to live with Itunes because…

Its 80mb to download being an hour on my connection
Updates keep trying to force software I don’t want upon me and they are huge
It runs in the background even when I kill it
It sorts my music via id3 tags where my music has file names as titles
It converts lots of my music into itune files so I end up with duplicates eating space
It does funny things when you try to use the same ipod on different PC’s
It hogs system resources and crashes when uploading tracks to the ipod
It requires SP2 or 3 on XP which makes my PC hang

So much so, I am selling the ipod to get a usb car stereo after two years of putting up with its frustration. It was a (quite pricey) gift to my girlfriend but it has caused so much inconvenience it has to go.

I hope someone who drives the iTunes project would steer it into a more efficient and future proof product. A power adapter and an installation CD would be a good start!

I used Apple macs back in the 90’s, but after this experience I have lost all faith in the brand.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:40:42 +0000

I agree with your comments.
I once again had all my music deleted from my
iPod this morning while trying to simply “sync” a video I downloaded from TED.com.
iTunes said it “synced” it, but the truth was much more evil – it not only NOT copied
the video to iPod but also cleaned out the music collection from the device.
I guess I haven’t mastered all those sync-control check boxes scattered all over
multiple tabs. Heck, what do I know; I only write software for a living.

By: Malinda

Malinda — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:07:27 +0000

Oh as for the person that said that you can do a manual sync, well that only works for your videos and music. This will not prevent the STUPID program from deleting your apps. As was the case just now when I plugged it in and it automatically started syncing and I noticed that it was deleting my apps before I could click File, move apps to library manually. Luckily I noticed before it removed too many from my iTouch. STUPID iTunes. There, I feel slightly better. Thanks for listening everyone.

By: Malinda

Malinda — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:03:06 +0000

I completely agree. As yet agin, I sit here having to rebuild my Freakin library. With over two days worth of music on my computer, and just spending the better part of Easter weekend going through my library deleting duplicates and building FINALLY a favorites playlist, the damn thing is gone again!!! This has happened more times than I can count and I’ve only owned my damn ITouch for a little more than a month. Not only is the damn program deleting my library, it’s deleting my applications (over 6 pages (60 apps)). I HATE THIS FREAKING PROGRAM! And if I didn’t love my iTouch so much, i never would have installed this damn program. Sorry for the rant, I’m just completely sick of iTunes!!!

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By: Jamison

Jamison — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:18:11 +0000

I have a folder on my desktop called “I hate itunes” it consists of all the MP3s i had to create the long way by burning, ripping, standing on one foot, holding my tounge out, and all the other insane things to have to do to get an MP3.