Fed up with iTunes, can any body offer salvation for my iPod Classic 6th Gen? - Page 3

Well disregard my previous grievances, I found the "Send to" and all is good. For whatever reason, most likely I just missed it when going through the context menus, I didn't see it.

I bought an ipod in August 09' and havent looked back since making the switch to using itunes since then!

I came from an iriver h120 which although a great sounding player was slightly "difficult" when it came to playlists and things - winamp I found messy and awkward to be honest although it did function with the h120 nicely...

I found itunes a revelation, clean sharp easy to understand U.I and playlists are so easy to create and edit, I like the fact that my collection is accessible on both the pc and ipod, when i connect it does everything automatically. I couldnt ask for more!

The only issue I had was with my music collection - the folder layout and content was messy to say the least, I used to get lost files and issues because of that, then one day i decided to let itunes manage the whole thing, i re imported my collection allowing itunes to keep my folders organized and havent had a single issue since, everything works brilliantly.

As for itunes being a front to sell music - that just goes to show how some see things doesnt it, from the other side of the coin you could argue how excellent it is to have a shop function built into an already great program that allows quick and easy access to a huge range of music at a fair price. My only criticism of the itunes store is that you should be able to select the download bit rate, 256kbps is simply not good enough when the bulk of your collection is all lossless.

Apple / itunes is so huge it is always going to attract those who are cynical and wont like it just for what it is / how big it is, one thing I know though is that I listen to more music since having my ipod and crucially a decent computer U.I to operate and organise it all from.

So what happened to iTunes to make it so horrible? I don't like it, but I don't see how it is a bad piece of software. It does what it does. Of course, compared to FooBar, it is slow, but then Foobar isn't a manager as much as it is an encoding/decoding platform.

are Mediamonkey and Winamp "related" i.e., part of the same company??  I noticed when I went on theMediaMonkey site, it would often link you to Winamp for certain applications, like they were both part of the same company.

For a simple syncing app, it's probably fine. But for media management, MediaMonkey does all sorts of things that my gf's iTunes never even begins to. Superb tag management, re-organizing tools, global search & replace (with third party plugin), finding lyrics (another plugin; MM is incredibly extensible with an open API), etc. And I'm only using roughly 35% of its total functionality.
 

Ah, you use Windows, I see. Global stuff iTunes does very well and with scripts set up, it is incredibly helpful. But then, running scripts in Windows may not be possible as there is no native script engine. You don't need a third-party plug in for it.

 

BUT, I realise that for music listening, it is slow. For that, I would use anything but (if I'm in a hurry), but the thing is, I just wait another 15 seconds and suddenly, iTunes is faster than anything. If I was a Windows user, I'd understand though, as Windows just doesn't have what it takes to make iTunes work right. 

 

I'd prefer that allow users to disable a lot of features to make iTunes faster, but that won't happen.

This is the single dumbest thing I've heard all day. Are you suggesting that hundreds of other companies are able to compile their product so it is identical across both platforms, but potentially one of the least resource intensive tasks mysteriously can't be coded by apple to run on windows?
 

I really need to test that!