iTunes WTF?

bingefeller

ICBM said:

In what way don't I have 100% control over them with iTunes, and if I don't, why does it matter? I seem to be able to organise them how I want now.

They do sometimes change stuff for no apparently good reason which annoys me for a bit, but it's almost always been possible to put it right - about the only exception being the global shuffle, and I can live with that given the overall ease of use.

You do have control of it with iTunes, just some people don't think you do.

crunchman

Glad I've stopped using my iPod and have a Sansa MP3 player now.  Much better, and I don't need to use iTunes anymore.

Drew_TNBD

Travisthedog said:

Vodafone game me a free spotify account and I've never looked back

Do they do that generally, or was that a special thing to you?

Bidley

I've used MediaMonkey for years now. I love it, it's like iTunes... but it just works.

Jalapeno

 Exemplar Apple Fanboi beliefs on display here - that if anything has gone wrong it is without any shadow of doubt the user's fault.

stickyfiddle

Jalapeno said:

 Exemplar Apple Fanboi beliefs on display here - that if anything has gone wrong it is without any shadow of doubt the user's fault.

Say you run a big warehouse full of books. Let's call it a Library. And say there's a chap at the front desk who has a catalogue with the details of the name and location of every book. And say someone came in and renamed half the books, or moved them to different shelves. Whose fault is it that the librarian can no longer find books?

I'm not saying he never makes mistakes, but that doesn't mean he's always the one to blame.

beed84

Nothing is infallible.

guitargeek62

Tell that to the Pope.

JayGee

stickyfiddle said:

Jalapeno said:

 Exemplar Apple Fanboi beliefs on display here - that if anything has gone wrong it is without any shadow of doubt the user's fault.

Say you run a big warehouse full of books. Let's call it a Library. And say there's a chap at the front desk who has a catalogue with the details of the name and location of every book. And say someone came in and renamed half the books, or moved them to different shelves. Whose fault is it that the librarian can no longer find books?

I'm not saying he never makes mistakes, but that doesn't mean he's always the one to blame.

To map this analogy onto iTunes requires the librarian to be a paranoid schizophrenic who every now and then suffers a psychotic episode half-way through a stocktake, throws all the index cards into a heap in the middle of the floor and then sets fire to it, then goes running through the stacks picking up armfulls of books at random and throwing them through the windows.

Of course it's probably all my fault for occasionally wanting to access my content on non-Apple devices...

 

guitargeek62

JayGee said:

stickyfiddle said:

Jalapeno said:

 Exemplar Apple Fanboi beliefs on display here - that if anything has gone wrong it is without any shadow of doubt the user's fault.

Say you run a big warehouse full of books. Let's call it a Library. And say there's a chap at the front desk who has a catalogue with the details of the name and location of every book. And say someone came in and renamed half the books, or moved them to different shelves. Whose fault is it that the librarian can no longer find books?

I'm not saying he never makes mistakes, but that doesn't mean he's always the one to blame.

To map this analogy onto iTunes requires the librarian to be a paranoid schizophrenic who every now and then suffers a psychotic episode half-way through a stocktake, throws all the index cards into a heap in the middle of the floor and then sets fire to it, then goes running through the stacks picking up armfulls of books at random and throwing them through the windows.

Of course it's probably all my fault for occasionally wanting to access my content on non-Apple devices...

 

Well there's your bloody problem - you're using Windows!

Jalapeno

Excellent work !

Rocker

I use a little Zen player and Superlux HD 681 headphones.  Brilliant sound as I use WAV or FLAC files [not iTunes], not expensive but the 'phones are too big for walking around.  I have a small pair of Sennheisers for that purpose.

The Zen has a built in radio and lots of gizmos that I don't need.  Copy music files from your computer via a USB cable.  I copied many folders of my favorite groups/singers.  Choose Shuffle and listen to your music and really hear close to what the engineer heard in the mixing studio.

ICBM

Jalapeno said:

 Exemplar Apple Fanboi beliefs on display here - that if anything has gone wrong it is without any shadow of doubt the user's fault.

No... I'm just puzzled by why, no matter how many Mac/iTunes users report well over a decade of use with no particular problems, and find it does "just work", whenever someone else has a problem with it on a different type of machine then it must be Apple's fault for writing such a shitty piece of software.

I'm certainly not an Apple fanboy, but I have to say some of the bashing is just silly.

Drew_TNBD

ICBM said:

Jalapeno said:

 Exemplar Apple Fanboi beliefs on display here - that if anything has gone wrong it is without any shadow of doubt the user's fault.

No... I'm just puzzled by why, no matter how many Mac/iTunes users report well over a decade of use with no particular problems, and find it does "just work", whenever someone else has a problem with it on a different type of machine then it must be Apple's fault for writing such a shitty piece of software.

I'm certainly not an Apple fanboy, but I have to say some of the bashing is just silly.

I dunno... I just explained what my experience was. It wasn't a bash. Just that my experience hasn't been good at all. I also find it to be a naggy piece of shit, constantly asking me if I want this or that update. Windows used to be bad for that, but now iTunes and OSX Yosemite have taken the crown!

Fretwired

Apple support for Windows just improved ..

Fretwired

capo4th

ITunes Match anyone a subscriber apart from me? I thinks it's ace!

Fretwired

capo4th said:

ITunes Match anyone a subscriber apart from me? I thinks it's ace!

I've seen it advertised not sure whether its any good ... what's the cost?

stickyfiddle

Fretwired said:

Except Apple are giving away their annual, major OS updates completely free and have for a couple of years now. I don't remember MS ever giving Windows 7 free, even to the poor bastards who already paid for Vista...

Fretwired

stickyfiddle said:

Except Apple are giving away their annual, major OS updates completely free and have for a couple of years now. I don't remember MS ever giving Windows 7 free, even to the poor bastards who already paid for Vista...

It's supposed to be a funny cartoon not an infographic explaining the differences between leading operating systems .. and it doesn't say whether the Windows upgrade is free .. it just highlights the frustration of the Windows user .... ;-)