Well, it turned out to be an early, iPod-laden anniversary. Sandy got me an iPod 60GB and I got her a 4GB Nano. So now we’re officially part of the cult followers er, group.
Of course, no iPod is complete without that freakin’ weird looking (from this Linux/Windows user’s perspective) music manager, iTunes. Appleganda says “iPod and iTunes work together! You will be assimilated! Buy overpriced music tracks from our store!” Neither of us have had a good experience with iTunes from the get-go. I’ve tried it in the past but always found it WAY too slow. Plus we’ve already manually and meticulously organized our total of 45GB of MP3 (and that’s a lowball count – I have over 100 CDs to re-rip).
For both of us…
- iTunes is simply not intuitive, period. It gets dumped on you and that’s it. Apple is not gaining any Mac converts by dumping this on Windows users.
- There are no tooltips, period, anywhere. I have to either guess at what the dozen-odd random icons scattered around the UI are, or read the entire help file from front to back.
From my perspective…
- iTunes crashes on my PC all the time. No I’m not blaming Windows for that, because nothing else screws up so often.
- It’s slow, so BLOODY SLOW at converting videos to iPod format – and then I just found out that most of the videos that I converted came out with no sound.
- Did I mention that it crashed my PC while trying to convert videos like three or four times now? I finally had to get another video conversion program. A 3 minute music video that iTunes would take an hour on converted in 5 minutes.
- It sucks for editing ID3 tags. I wish I could install KID3, the KDE ID3 tag editor on Windows. (Oh SNAP – turns out there’s a Windows version!)
- iTunes tries to be Mac-like but breaks standard Windows behaviour. I can’t Ctrl-Shift click to select multiple groups. There aren’t very many context menus period.
- How the HELL do I tell it that my videos are music videos, and not movies? It’s not right-click.
- Most of the context menus that are there, don’t do anything that I want to do.
- It doesn’t understand vCard files that contain more than one card.
Comments
10 responses to “I hate iTunes.”
I just read your post, and I too HATE Itunes. Computer crashes when converting video ALL THE TIME, ok, well not all the time I converted two successfully. The weird thing is, that I already converted them from Mpeg to Quicktime using Cyberlink Power Director, and I still have to convert the quicktime file I made for it to go in my Ipod (I’m guessing because MY converted file is WAY too big). DO you have any advice for me? or better still which program did you get to convert Mpeg’s to the Ipod format?
Thanks.
YES YES YES – I so strongly agree with this post. I too have just bought an iPod and started up iTunes and I hate it! hate it! hate it! Unintuitive is the word. I am a .NET programmer and if I made this kind of gui crap for my users they would shoot me!
so far, one of the best id3 tag editors i’ve found for windows was tagscanner @ http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
the it takes awhile to get to the site/download, but there are also other download sources for this app. i don’t have any of my machines running windows now, both x86 desktop and notebook are running linux and i have a mac mini as well.
little late to be adding this comment since you posted this in june, but hey 🙂
ohh.. and instead of using itunes for ripping, i recommend EAC and LAME: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EACandLame
iTunes rages me, just like most MAC stuff, it’s not useable. It’s not intuitive. I’m hardly surprised, the majority of Apple products personify form over function.
Apple is just clever marketing, their products are disappointing in general. My mother is on her FIFTH iPod Nano as they keep breaking. A few people at the gym are on their 4th and 5th iterations also.
Oh, and their ‘Power PCs’ are incredibly slow too.
Oh yes, and they designed the Finder application so its absolutely terrible for developers. It doesn’t even tell you the parnent folder(s) (to a high level), so you have no idea where you are in your system (any web developer will know what I mean).
NeXT Step > Mac OSX.
Rant over.
iTunes sucks! It makes me want to pull my hair out! It’s the most un-user-friendly piece of software I’ve come across. I am on the hunt for something better before I sell my ipod….which I really do love!
Thanks for listening….just had to get that off my chest 😐
I love all apple stuff exept iTunes. it makes me so mad. iTunes, msFrontpage and norton antivirus are the 3 most terrible programs ever to run on my cpu.
I have a new macbookpro and i love it exept itunes 🙂
Is it wrong to find solace in knowing that I am NOT alone? I HATE ITUNES, IPOD, AND THEIR LACK OF SUPPORT for computer inept people like myself-ggrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok.
thats clear. itunes is a load of xxxxxxxxx
so brainies; what do we use insead. I cant find something to replace the damn thing.
any suggestions would be most gratefully received
oh and a suggestion for the programmers out there;
no ipod interface might help; after all who wants an ipod messing with their management anyway?