i hate itunes

[CompuDude]

Originally Posted by FishFood

Honestly, nothing to troubleshoot. What Doug is saying (and I agree with) is that it is just a plain piece of junk program. Ive used it for years and "never had a problem". However, Ive never used it once and thought "Man, this is a great program, I love Apple".

Really, just the fact that Apple made sure I couldnt just open it up in "My Computer" and drag and drop files into it (as I did with my MP3 players before) pisses me off.

That's funny, I've had quite the opposite impression. I'm nearly always happy with what Apple has done with it. Is it as lean and mean as WinAmp was? No. Does it do a heck of a lot more? Yup.

The lack of a drag and drop option is what kept the RIAA off Apple's back and lead to the current availability of legal downloads. Say what you will, but Apple created an industry, here.

[kancho]

I hate the itunes spam. I have asked many times to unsubscribe me but it never gets done.. i just gave up and it goes to my spam box..

[Doug B]

Originally Posted by FishFood

Honestly, nothing to troubleshoot. What Doug is saying (and I agree with) is that it is just a plain piece of junk program. Ive used it for years and "never had a problem". However, Ive never used it once and thought "Man, this is a great program, I love Apple".

Really, just the fact that Apple made sure I couldnt just open it up in "My Computer" and drag and drop files into it (as I did with my MP3 players before) pisses me off.

Yeah, exactly.

The program doesn't crash or anything (at least now that I've disabled it from talking to the Apple)... it's just not very intuitive. All I want to do is setup three "accounts" for each of the three IPODs, and then drag and drop songs into each "account" for upload to the Ipods.

... it's just that the software isn't intuitive at all... at least IMHO, and I'm not really sure how to setup the accounts, so, I just start clicking around until I get the thing to sync. It's very frustrating though.

[Shortyman801]

Your going to want to plug in one Ipod. Then click the name of the Ipod. Then scroll down and there will be a "Manually manage music" or something like that. Then, you can look at the music that is on your Ipod, and manipulate it without messing with the library on your computer. Or you can edit your music that is on the computer by looking at the music in your library, and then drag and drop it onto your Ipod. Reapeat this process for different Ipods, and youll be fine.

[Lone Frogman]

I tried using Itunes and it loaded every sound file on my computer. I used Realplayer to remove all the junk. Then I removed Itunes. Now I only use Realplayer.

[MSilvia]

Unless I'm just playing music, it creates a ridiculous number of hardware interrupts when I use it on Win2000 pro, which makes it often seem like it's caused the machine to freeze until it gets done with whatever process (usually synching) it's doing at the time. So long as I don't try to do anything else while I'm using it, no problem... it just seems to have been coded on the assumption that nothing else you might want to do could possibly be as high a priority as using iTunes. Unfortunately, my HP printer/scanner/fax and my Canon A40 both have software that makes the same assumptions. It makes me want to go do some programmer smacking.

[plot]

get "yamipod", it's a 100% free very easy to use program for putting songs on your ipod. doesn't download or catagorize your music or anything like that clunky itunes does, it's sole goal in life is to put music onto your ipod... and it works very well.


Yet another iPod manager - Downloads

Click the windows link under "Binaries"

[FishFood]

Originally Posted by plot

get "yamipod", it's a 100% free very easy to use program for putting songs on your ipod. doesn't download or catagorize your music or anything like that clunky itunes does, it's sole goal in life is to put music onto your ipod... and it works very well.


Yet another iPod manager - Downloads

Click the windows link under "Binaries"

Downloadin now. Thanks

[torrey]

Originally Posted by plot

get "yamipod", it's a 100% free very easy to use program for putting songs on your ipod. doesn't download or catagorize your music or anything like that clunky itunes does, it's sole goal in life is to put music onto your ipod... and it works very well.


Yet another iPod manager - Downloads

Click the windows link under "Binaries"

Does it manage your music using the actual folders you have the files placed in? That's what ticked me off most about itunes when my wife got an ipod for Christmas last year. I keep all of my music organized how I want, and then it goes and re-categorizes everything, the bastard. Another question, will it convert mp3's to ipod format (m4a I believe), or will I have to convert them myself first (and then have 2 different file types of the same song taking up space)?

[CompuDude]

Originally Posted by torrey

Does it manage your music using the actual folders you have the files placed in? That's what ticked me off most about itunes when my wife got an ipod for Christmas last year. I keep all of my music organized how I want, and then it goes and re-categorizes everything, the bastard. Another question, will it convert mp3's to ipod format (m4a I believe), or will I have to convert them myself first (and then have 2 different file types of the same song taking up space)?

That's an optional setting within iTunes that can be disabled, btw. I had an issue with iTunes re that at first as well, but it's internal organization scheme is actually so close to mine, I eventually caved and let it organize things. Frankly it does a better job than I did, and properly tags all files internally as well.

iPods play MP3s (and a bunch of other formats). Nothing gets converted to anything unless you have your settings wrong. Actually, nothing gets converted unless you want to. One of the first things I always do when installing iTunes, however, is to change the default import settings (for ripping CDs) from AAC to MP3. The only thing you have to stick with AAC (aka m4a) is purchased music, which has DRM embedded. (Just like anything legitimately purchased)