iTunes WTF?

holnrew

Maybe it wasn't tested on XP, which isn't unreasonale.

Phil_aka_Pip

holnrew said:

Maybe it wasn't tested on XP, which isn't unreasonale.

Most properly-written programs will refuse to install into systems they're not designed to work on.

beed84

It's not shite.  It's only shite when it doesn't work.  Was it shite before it stopped working?

beed84

Bucket said:

iTunes is fucking wank and I hope everyone responsible for it wakes up tomorrow with swarms of poisonous insects in their beds.

Bucket said:

Can you tell that my painstakingly-constructed, millimetre-perfect library of 5000 songs recently decided to arbitrarily disappear?

CUNTS.

Seriously, the hostility you bear towards Apple is sort of worrying.  Really, you don't have to use it.  Ever.

bingefeller

guitargeek62 said:

I don't getthe hate, but I've never had an issue with it in the 10ish years I've used it, and on multiple platforms and OS'.

Same here man.  Never ever had a problem with it.  

bingefeller

@Phil_aka_Pip what version of iTunes are you now using?  

Bucket

beed84 said:

Seriously, the hostility you bear towards Apple is sort of worrying.  Really, you don't have to use it.  Ever.

They seem to bear some hostility towards me being able to access all my music from one place... I don't spend every day and night thinking about how much I hate them, but when the opportunity comes up to have a verbal pop at them I will do so, and with glee.

Phil_aka_Pip

bingefeller said:

@Phil_aka_Pip what version of iTunes are you now using?  

none. Windoze Media Player can play digitised audio just as well

Phil_aka_Pip

beed84 said:

It's not shite.  It's only shite when it doesn't work.  Was it shite before it stopped working?

That version never worked, Ergo, it was shite

Jalapeno

People who report that they've never had an issue don't really get it (and could themselves be on borrowed time and not realise)  - loosing the entire music library happens to far too many people and with alarming regularity.

bingefeller

beed84 said:

Bucket said:

iTunes is fucking wank and I hope everyone responsible for it wakes up tomorrow with swarms of poisonous insects in their beds.

Bucket said:

Can you tell that my painstakingly-constructed, millimetre-perfect library of 5000 songs recently decided to arbitrarily disappear?

CUNTS.

Seriously, the hostility you bear towards Apple is sort of worrying.  Really, you don't have to use it.  Ever.

The nature of some of those comments are frankly bizarre.  

Phil_aka_Pip

I'm not aware that any files are missing. The program just didn't work, and prevented other programs from reproducing sound. Getting rid, without changing any setup/config of the soundcard, has restored sound to everything else. 

bingefeller

Jalapeno said:

People who report that they've never had an issue don't really get it (and could themselves be on borrowed time and not realise)  - loosing the entire music library happens to far too many people and with alarming regularity.

It's still there though, on your hard drive.  There will be a reason why it's gone missing and it should be solvable.  

ICBM

Jalapeno said:

People who report that they've never had an issue don't really get it (and could themselves be on borrowed time and not realise)  - loosing the entire music library happens to far too many people and with alarming regularity.

It may well do - and I have had something similar although it was my fault - but the important thing is to back up. If you have done, you can easily restore everything. If you haven't, it's not really Apple's fault. Any hard drive in any brand of computer can stop working at any time, and if you're not backed up then you can lose the lot. If you don't have a proper backup routine then you're on borrowed time whatever OS and music app you use.

Jalapeno

bingefeller said:

Jalapeno said:

People who report that they've never had an issue don't really get it (and could themselves be on borrowed time and not realise)  - loosing the entire music library happens to far too many people and with alarming regularity.

It's still there though, on your hard drive.  There will be a reason why it's gone missing and it should be solvable.  

You don't get it do you ?  Sometimes, yes, iTunes forgets where the files are - other times it deletes the lot.

Jalapeno

ICBM said:

It's not really Apple's fault.

Oh it bloody is !

Not having backups is not their fault, but the POS that is iTunes certainly is.

ICBM

Jalapeno said:

Sometimes, yes, iTunes forgets where the files are - other times it deletes the lot. 

So restore them from your backup…

Mildly annoying to have to, I agree. But at least they're not lost.

Jalapeno said:

Not having backups is not their fault, but the POS that is iTunes certainly is.

I don't find it a POS. Maybe it's because I'm using it on a Mac, I don't know.

On the other hand just about everyone I know who uses a PC seems to have endless trouble with it, so perhaps the problem is the type of computer you're running it on.

bingefeller

Jalapeno said:

bingefeller said:

Jalapeno said:

People who report that they've never had an issue don't really get it (and could themselves be on borrowed time and not realise)  - loosing the entire music library happens to far too many people and with alarming regularity.

It's still there though, on your hard drive.  There will be a reason why it's gone missing and it should be solvable.  

You don't get it do you ?  Sometimes, yes, iTunes forgets where the files are - other times it deletes the lot.

I do get it.  There's bound to be a reason why it's forgetting where the files are and / or why it's deleting songs.

Having said that I use it on a Mac.  I did use it on a Windows machine too and never had problems but most of my experience with it comes with a Mac.  

Headphones

Bought a beautful, elegant iPod a few years ago, therefore tried iTunes.

After multiple uncommanded deletions - and a truely hateful experience where it prevented me accessing my own recordings (all written and recorded by my own fair hand);nothing Apple will ever go near my equipment again.

Ever.

There are more than a few programmes that do all that itunes does infinitely better and without the risk and usually free.

Stay away from iApple!!!!!!

Headphones

Would like to fix all the typos in that post (The pain resurfaced...) but this board has never let me edit - is it Apple software?