So iTunes sucks...Follow

.... with what can I replace it. I don't know what prompted Apple to totally **** up iTunes, but they've managed to do it. Its now pretty much useless. What software is out there that I can use to manage my iPod music and video files?

I call user error.

Anybody interested in my "Spring-Break 1994 Mix" on cassette?

It's really good and it's labeled "Bust-a-Move!".

iTunes is complete shiat. Here is a tip, never update the goddamn thing. I still have version 4 I think. The higher the upgrade the more "smart" it tries to be and sync with your PC for easy transfers for j00z the userz lol hipster!1!

I use Anapod Explorer from Red Chair Software Link it costs ~$16 for the downloadable program but worth it IMHO.

I have something even easier. My Computer -> MP3 Player -> Music then Copy & Paste from my hard drive's music folder.

Of course, I either rip stuff off my own CDs or else use Limewire.

I'm not too worried then.

Edited, Jan 8th 2007 9:17am by Jophiel

pfft, they can sue me. I'll give them my pack of Mr. Noodles. I don't own much :).
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its true, most people have nothing to worrie about. unless you have downloaded enough material to make coming after you worth while money wise, AND you have assets that can be taken, no worries.

but it wont be long before limewire is gone, or converted to yet another pay for play site.

and nobby, i have no problems with the capabilities of itunes. its a good program. but i am not going to limit myself to loading or unloading my player to only the one computer that one player is regestered too that has that one program on.

the wonder of windows media player is, you can load or unload your player from any windows computer. you can even store the replay program on your mp3 player and take it with you so you can use it where ever you want.

try that with itunes.

itunes is a comprehensive program designed to protect copyrighted material. it pretty much limits the copyrighted material to the uniit you had to register so you cant distribute the song to another computer or another player unless its also regestered and have the itunes program on the computer your using it with.

bleh. too much restriction.

i want an mp3 player that will play whatever i put on it without having to make sure the licences are up to date, and that the player is registered. a stand alone devise. thats why i bought a Zen, and why i use windows media player instead of the Zen softwear that came with it, and why i would never own an ipod.

no chains. coperate america can go suck their monthly subscriptions from someone else.

the ipod and itunes was a brilliant bussiness concept. not just the player itself, but launching a ton of accesories and add ons for the devise at launch instead of waiting for other private bussiness to pick up the slack. then tie it into a program that pretty much forces you to use a pay for play service they also provide, then tie in the devise itself to a windows like registration process that limits its function if you try to use it outside of their little pod world. pod world, im gona claim that slogan. hehehehe

pod people in a pod world. ill live on the fringes thank you. the mp3 device was the right product at the right time. the freedom to take music, video, data, whatever, where ever you wanted. ipod is the corperate attempt to regulate your little mp3 player and skim a monthly subscription from it.

get a Zen, or other mp3 player that doesnt have to be registered. and use programs that dont tie you down to a particular web site or particular program, or a particular computer.

freedom. dont let them box you in and bleed you dry. ipods are for the obediant masses who live to serve.......

I'll stick to my old fashioned CDs. Thank you very much.

That's why Limewire came into existence in the first place. Let's see the RIAA make the same mistake of suing little kids and their grandmothers again. It's total BS that downloading anything which is freely available on the internet is "illegal". Uploading that "copyrighted" content might be illegal, but all it will take is a bad ruling or two on the "downloading" side to set back the RIAA again. Then all the servers can move to China or some Carribean Island, along with all the downloading IP addresses.

Let them bring on the assault. It's a money losing proposition. They'll lose far more in legal fees for every dollar they actually collect from suing an individual downloader, maybe on the order of $100:1 or even $1,000:1. The downloading market will refragment yet again to even more Napsters and Limewires.

It's a war and the RIAA is losing, bigtime. How many people stopped downloading because of the Napster lawsuits, 0.001%? Traditional music sales continue to tank.

Copyright law is an offensive privacy invading, private property tresspassing, witch hunt. Combine it with Patent protection killing Africans with AIDS, and it's just a matter of time until a Constitutional Amendment banning all copyright and patent protection comes about. At any rate that's a key barrier to be overcome in the 21st century (and is the primary reason were currently technologically at the 21st century level and not at the 25th century level). Make it a mission of yours too. If you don't want someone to copy you, you can STFU and remain silent; you have no right to violently coercively silence others.

So fight the good fight, and F"CK the RIAA and friends. Technology has swamped and overwhelmed them. At best they're dodo middlebirds about to be almost completely undercut out of the trade from artist to consumer. There's more content competition than ever before, and getting ahold of it is like finishing serfing teh internets. Not gonna happen. But if they wan't to hasten their stock price declines toward 0, they can follow the SCO Group legal drain business model.

i would have told him I'd take care of it, and Unistalled it and removed his local rights.

Some of the problems I've been having with iTunes:

Backups of music I've bought and downloaded (with iTunes), and burnt to a CD (with iTunes) are no longer readable. Mind you, since I burnt the CD, they've NEVER been touched. But when my hard drive with all my music on it died, I had to start reloading all my CD's onto my hard drive. Tons of music that I bought and backed up is no longer readable. Virtually all the music I've bought from iTunes is thus gone.

Songs from commercial CD's that I've imported using iTunes are not playable by iTunes. It marks the songs with a small exclamation point in the library view and says it cannot find the original files of the song. This despite re-importing the CD several times.

I always keep iTunes in manual mode as far as synching my iPods goes. Despite this the last time I connected my iPod to my computer, about 75% of the music on my iPod vanished. I double checked to make sure iTunes was not automatically synching my iPod. It wasn't; it was still in manual mode. Mind you, most of the songs that vanished from my iPod were still in my music library in iTunes, so even if it had been in auto-synch mode, it shouldn't have wiped 75% of the music from my iPod.

Those are the problems I've been having. Other than that it works just super!


Edited in memory of Will Strunk

Edited, Jan 9th 2007 11:11am by Deathwysh