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Itunes is a complete resource hog and a totally unresponsive program. It takes a ridiculous amount of time to boot it up in windows. Itunes keeps bothing with does annoying updates. Do you want to update your ipod? Do you want to update to itunes version 8.x. No, I dont want that because it will take a ridiculous amount of time since the program is already hogging all my memory of my computer. Even clicking on anything in itunes has a few moments of lag.
Itunes is extremely confusing and annoying to use even after 3 years of experience. This is coming from a guy who used sonic stage for years to burn music on minidiscs. Manually syncing your ipod is not ideal since itunes is unresponsive but doing it automaticly is even worse. Plug your into another computer and it syncs with the ipod with that library and all your songsare gone! Remove any of your songs from the harddisc and itunes will keep annoying you that it cannot find this file while syncing. Format your hdd and itunes will give you huge problems. You cannot rip music from your ipod to your hdd either. Itunes uses proprietary codecs. I cannot import flac files. I have to convert them to wav first using foobar2000 then convert them to ALAC and manually adjust the id3 tags. And it took me a while to figure out how to convert them to ALAC too! |
funny that it runs like a dream on my mac I wonder what the problem could be??hmmm could it be the crap memory handling of windows?? or your windows in particular; because thats just not right ive used itunes on many Pc's and never had anythng like the problems you mention. I find itunes to be exceedingly easy to use (my grandmother can use itunes
); its almost transparent to me. and about the no flac support; can you play alac in media player ??? I dont think so.
apples proprietary nature is annoying sometimes and yes there business practices are sometimes suspect, but to say they are worse than microsoft!!! pleeeeeasse be real. unfortunately its apples proprietary nature of doing things that makes the computers themselves so stable; i'm happy not being able to use some minor and not so necessary to me software if it means that I havent had a mac virus EVER in over 20yrs of use and the fact that my computer has been on now constantly for over 3 months without the need for a to restart or a crash of any kind. and I play pretty close to the edge of my 4gb of memory regularly.
oh and at least mac os asks if you want to update your software
windows just does it whether you want to or not, I know what id prefer.
apple's products are by no mean perfect, but as far as support is concerned you will find a whole heap of smaller DAPs that wont even work with macos let alone well; Hell most of the big companies dont support macos how does it feel guys??. its the whole package that makes it worthwhile for me; although i've changed almost everything about it. firmware, output stage, battery, storage but thats the thing, its so open to customization, it may be proprietary, but its very easy to change it in the way that you like it, because the market is so huuuge that there are so many products to use with it.
oh and to the OP AFAIK the 4G nano is a CL chip. I think its only the iphone and touch that are wolfston now.
oh and zeph I never said the iphone 3G was the best HP out; i said it was the best of the apple line didn't I?? at least thats what I normally say, I may have omitted that this time. if so thats what I meant.
all this is my opinion and experience. yours may be different. I dont go around bashing other brands; even though there are clearly faults with them. why even participate in a thread that doesn't interest you I say. anyway on with my day.