Post by Boomzilla on Nov 17, 2012 17:03:07 GMT -5
Apple has promised a new version of iTunes in November. Unfortunately for us who have been suckered (or forced) into using iTunes as a music manager, the promised version (iTunes 11) is purported to be an interface update only.
God knows that iTunes NEEDS an interface update, but the interface isn't the core of what's wrong with iTunes. My iTunes has lost music, misplaced its library files (repeatedly), forgotten where it placed my music files (repeatedly), and egregiously reorganized my folder structure without my knowledge or permission (repeatedly).
The iTunes "add ons" are even worse. The last one I used decided to "remove duplicates," and reduced my music library size by more than half. To this day, I've been unable to recover that lost music!
iTunes has moved my music files from "iTunes Media" to "Music" to who-knows-where. Now I have thousands of titles that DON'T have exclamation points on them, but which iTunes won't play because it doesn't know where it put them. I know the files are there because when I look with "Finder," I can see the files exactly where they're supposed to be, but iTunes just says "An unexpected error has occurred."
I've spent at least a hundred hours over the time that I've been an iTunes user just trying to get iTunes to work. Not work well or properly, mind you, but just work at all. If I billed Apple my time at my normal rate, they'd owe me tens of thousands of dollars.
I know that there must better programs for music management (for Mac, thank you, not PC), but my music is in AIFF format and I'm loathe to spend the week of file conversion time that it would take to change them to any other format. I'm also reluctant to use ANY lossy format since sound quality is extremely important to me.
The local "Genius Bar" children are able (sometimes) to get things working, but I get less than a month (sometimes less than a week) of use before iTunes goes awry again.
I'm just about FED UP with both Apple and iTunes. If they can't create a robust and corruption-resistant database for iTunes, then they should be ashamed. If they can't just leave the media folder location ALONE (or even better, allow the user to specify where their own music, movies, books, etc. are to be stored), then they ought to be busted big time.
Am I alone in being utterly disgusted with iTunes?
Cordially - Boomzilla
God knows that iTunes NEEDS an interface update, but the interface isn't the core of what's wrong with iTunes. My iTunes has lost music, misplaced its library files (repeatedly), forgotten where it placed my music files (repeatedly), and egregiously reorganized my folder structure without my knowledge or permission (repeatedly).
The iTunes "add ons" are even worse. The last one I used decided to "remove duplicates," and reduced my music library size by more than half. To this day, I've been unable to recover that lost music!
iTunes has moved my music files from "iTunes Media" to "Music" to who-knows-where. Now I have thousands of titles that DON'T have exclamation points on them, but which iTunes won't play because it doesn't know where it put them. I know the files are there because when I look with "Finder," I can see the files exactly where they're supposed to be, but iTunes just says "An unexpected error has occurred."
I've spent at least a hundred hours over the time that I've been an iTunes user just trying to get iTunes to work. Not work well or properly, mind you, but just work at all. If I billed Apple my time at my normal rate, they'd owe me tens of thousands of dollars.
I know that there must better programs for music management (for Mac, thank you, not PC), but my music is in AIFF format and I'm loathe to spend the week of file conversion time that it would take to change them to any other format. I'm also reluctant to use ANY lossy format since sound quality is extremely important to me.
The local "Genius Bar" children are able (sometimes) to get things working, but I get less than a month (sometimes less than a week) of use before iTunes goes awry again.
I'm just about FED UP with both Apple and iTunes. If they can't create a robust and corruption-resistant database for iTunes, then they should be ashamed. If they can't just leave the media folder location ALONE (or even better, allow the user to specify where their own music, movies, books, etc. are to be stored), then they ought to be busted big time.
Am I alone in being utterly disgusted with iTunes?
Cordially - Boomzilla
