I tunes- what is peoples beef with it?

[Zai]

I don't use itunes because i want control over my files. I already know where my files are and they are properly tagged and i don't need a 100mb application to show them on screen and play them.

Also the way it works is just wrong for me. I don't have to be dependant on itunes to add and remove stuff and keep a parallel tag/artwork library other than the files (I don't know how things changed since the last time i checked).

Foobar on Windows and Mpc/Mpd on *nix systems are clear winners for me. They will do the job without messing all the concept adding bloat and barriers while providing all the features you'll ever imagine.

 

[3X0]

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Originally Posted by roebeet /img/forum/go_quote.gif - Uses higher resources than a media player should. Granted, not as much of an issue on newer hardware. But a issue on a netbook, for example.

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Originally Posted by IDK /img/forum/go_quote.gif its garbage on windows

X2

 

[david1978jp]

Back to Itune 6, my friend's Mac suddenly refused to syn his Ipod. Apple store exchanged him a new Ipod, it did not work. He mailed Mac to service center, almost three months later, Apple sent him another Mac. He came to my house syn his music once a week before he got the replacement Mac.
He still use Itune today.

 

[roadwarrior]

How funny

I started this thread after reading loads of negative threads about itunes/ipod and the response has been 80% positive.

I think people just like to slag off success!

itunes is free, you dont have to buy anything. you can rip in Ogg Vogon if you wish. you can upload and buy from elsware and it will automaticaly transfer to your Ipod. what is to not like?

 

[logwed]

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Originally Posted by roadwarrior /img/forum/go_quote.gif itunes is free, you dont have to buy anything. you can rip in Ogg Vogon if you wish. you can upload and buy from elsware and it will automaticaly transfer to your Ipod. what is to not like?

Slow and laggy, eats up the processor on slower computers.

 

[deltaspirit]

You cannot get songs off of your ipod using itunes and you have to synch. Also, itunes brings my overclocked c2d to it's knee's.

 

[roadwarrior]

deltaspirit. Why would I want to get songs off my Ipod? I already have them on Itunes or on the CD I ripped them from? Or might they not be my songs or my Ipod?

 

[iriverdude]

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itunes is free, you dont have to buy anything. you can rip in Ogg Vogon if you wish. you can upload and buy from elsware and it will automaticaly transfer to your Ipod. what is to not like?

So is foobar and winamp.

 

[Cankin]

I use mostly foobar, but from time to time I use iTune. I don't have any major problems or complain with it and I can see myself using iTune only if I switch to Mac later.

 

[leveller1642]

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Originally Posted by iriverdude /img/forum/go_quote.gif Because I don't want to use any sync software. If the next DAP doesn't support Rockbox, I'd do without.

ITunes does not force you to sync. You have to enable the manual option. I drag and drop to get music on my DAP.

 

[dallan]

It's okay, i use it with Amarra now and I think that helped the sound. Wish it would play flac files, everything I download online I have to go through a two step reconversion. I don't like the way it moves files around or will redirect them when I have multiple external hard drives with music....i then have to re-search for them. It will ask to delete songs and sometimes just removes them from itunes other times leaves them cluttering up a hard drive, actually usually have to go and manually redelete from external hard drives. It has taken me endless hours to redirect it to files to get it to conform to the way I need it.

Funny, i started off trying to say I like it except...... and now that I look at it, it is kind of a pain. A real lot of work to keep things organized. With the Amarra it sounds good though.

 

[iriverdude]

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Originally Posted by leveller1642 /img/forum/go_quote.gif ITunes does not force you to sync. You have to enable the manual option. I drag and drop to get music on my DAP.

The term "Drag and Drop" is used for when you use file browser and copy to it like any other hard drive, not in itunes, WMP, Mediamonkey, etc.

I don't have to rely on any computer OS at all, as long as it reads FAT32 and sees it as a hard drive. I can even connect my DAP to Buffalo or Qnap NAS and use their own backup web system to copy to it. Can you do that on a non rockboxable ipod?

Much quicker as transfer is internal, not over LAN (say if music is stored on a NAS)

I will refuse to buy a DAP if you need to use WMP, Itunes, Napster or any other propietary software to copy, build DAP database, or sync to it. Rockbox saved one of my DAP's going in the bin.

 

[rhythmdevils]

I think ya'll just coming up with excuses so you can use something less popular

 

[dallan]

Itunes is heaven compared to my experiences with WMP.

 

[iriverdude]

I couldn't care if it's more popular, I don't buy a DAP to be hip, I buy one that offers great sound quality, multi codec support, connectivity, and features. I wouldn't consider buying any non-Rockboxable Ipod. Ipods haven't even come close to what I want in a DAP. Show me a ipod with LCD remote control, optical in & out, line in & out, record from line or optical, radio, internal or external mic, dictaphone feature, speech, multi-codec of Rockbox, replaygain

You're just so locked in you don't even know it.