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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!

ohh.. and instead of using itunes for ripping, i recommend EAC and LAME: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EACandLame

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 😐

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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?

I agree with all of you on hating iTunes. Mac is ok for me…I use it at work. But iTunes is absolutely horrible. All I want to do is copy movies, tv shows, and music to my iPod; which I successfully did with iTunes. Now I would like to delete some of the TV shows since I’ve already watched them. I’d also like to add some new movies. Seems easy? Nope, not even for a computer literate person. Instead when I hooked it up it deleted every movie and tv show, plus all my music off my iPod. WTF. I never hit the delete key, or selected yes to the warning (which doesn’t exist). Aparently since I have moved all my videos to an external drive, when iTunes couldn’t find the files that are already on my iPod, it just went ahead and deleted them. I just don’t understand the thought process of this. I’ve tried using other programs like Xplay, but they aren’t ready for the Video Ipods. You can’t make folders or place TV shows in the TV shows folder on your Ipod. Instead it puts all videos in your Movies folder. So I have tons of different episodes of shows all listed under my movies folder. Please someone write a program to take place of itunes.

just repeating much of the same I suppose – I HATE ITUNES ABOUT AS MUCH AS I COULD EVER HAT ANYTHING. Spent a fortune on an 80gb ipod and various bits of kit – actually to be fair against the advice of my 16 year old daughter who is a creative fan. Somehow – looks like completely by accident I have managed to get some music and a couple of audio books onto the ipod – but with regard to movies – YOU MUST BE JOKING! it keeps denying i exist even though i’ve registered 3 times and worrying supplied debit card details. All I want to do at the mo is download the blues brothers from DVD onto the ipod – thought this would be easy. I would sell the whole lot on e bay if i could bear to put anybody else through the frustration and anger making experience i’ve been through – now there’s a a though a 1p auction start with a challenge to make the damn thing work. Feeling slighty better now after a rant but will never never never recommend that anybody bye an ipod while it depends on itunes which has apparently had no functionality or user testing whatsoever.

I thought my husband and I were the only ones who positively detest iTunes — how affirming to see that we are NOT alone!!! Too many unintuitive icons and text, etc. Can ANYONE suggest a better and user friendly site? We’ll be forever grateful..

Great to see there are so many of us “logical” users. The only thing I hate more than iTunes is iPhoto. I don’t need to rehash all the reasons, but the main thing is, it’s not intuitive. Seems strange since Mac users tout the simplicity of the system.

Ok, so enough complaining. The question is, what software is better? Finding decent Mac software is a huge headache. Maybe I will just wait until the new Parallels comes out and start using Windows programs.

Cant help my self

Itunes sucks , I hate it so much , I wish I had not purchased this player and gotten something else.

My nano batery lasts 2 hours, then I have to run around looking for a system to plug into, this is the worst for international traveling, I want a battery I can just put another in.

GOD why cant I just drag a song from the library directly onto the nano?? WHY GOD WHY must i have a “Playlist”? and then I can never tell if its just sittin in the playlist or if it got loaded onto the nano.

I hate this POS. All apple does well is marketing, thats it, marketing. Most of there products have a useful life of 3 months. Its too bad so many fall for it and keep sending money to this crappy company

To add to comment above. If I’d knowen I-tunes was what it was I would have left it in the box and got my lovely wife to get her money back. Why can this software not work as simply as say something like Nero for burning cd’s dvd’s. I would love to start an online petition to get this trash trashed and really rewritten or some really cool hacker dudes to write up a program that overrides itunes and really let users use the product they paid for and paid alot of money to have use as their own. I know whay Apple did this with their precious itunes store and all that. But guess what Apple I will not ever ever use i-tunes store and what ever halo you think you have you really don’t deserve. Over priced, OverHyped, Welcome to crapland, sorry macland. I’m old enough now to really really know the old adage. Don’t read a book by it’s cover.

I think it has to be clarified. The ipod is the best. Best value and the best of all of them in terms of function and style. Also � per Gigabyte it is excellent value and with video as well it is hard to beat it. But, But It is an unforgiving beast if it’s stolen music your using on it or your own ripped music and not stuff you have just bought and downloaded from itunes. I figured it out this morning after understanding the Proprietary Tags and how important these are for the ipod to track, name and place music, this can be done by manually right clicking the track or multiple tracks and using the properties dialogue box, click on summary and there you can name the artist and album the music is from. If doing the tracks individually you can number them too. Two programs are available that can help with doing this. One you buy the other is free. The one you have to buy is Tag&Rename and the free one TagScanner. Haven’t tried them yet to know what they do or how but currently looking into it.
Last piece of the jigsaw was Album Cover Art Downloader. This was free but an excellent easy to use drag and drop album cover finder. It adds the image to your album and all the tracks. Once they are uploaded into the ipod it just works a dream in the cover flow function in the ipod classic.
The reason the ipod and itunes is so hard to work with is that it is designed to work almost exclusively with the itunes store where all this is taken care of and if your using it none of the above issues should ever happen to you. But if you have ripped a load of your own CD’s or have music you are only trying before you buy;-) then the ipod his going to have a fight with you. It costs too much to kick around a room so the next best target is itunes. But it all makes sense now and I can see why apple are protecting the need they have for people to buy music from their itunes store. I have my ipod working as it should be after two weeks, but it took two weeks to do it and a lot of stress and anger and angst.
I�ve switch off the auto � sync and I am easily able to drag and drop from a folder the album or video into the ipod via the pane that is open that shows devices.
All movies that are run on an ipod have to be MP4. So if they are dvd�s or you have dvix�s it has to be converted to MP4 I�m using a free converter called Videora by Red Kawa, which isn�t much to look at as a program but it was easy enough to use and I now have 4 video files on the ipod. For such a small screen I found them very watchable.
So hopefully this might be helpful to anyone who had difficulties with their ipod. I�ve started to really warm to mine and feel good about it. Give it time as it can be understood and that�s all that your really fighting with. After years of working with computers in a certain way it felt like hitting a brick wall head on. But it�s one you can get over and walk away from hopefully well able to get your ipod doing what you dreamed of it doing.
D.

I got sucked into the socialistic mindset of Itunes because I wanted a better MP3 player and bought an Ipod. So a war ensued on my computer where all my music (or allegedly all) was converted to Itunes proprietary format. Great, but when I look close, random songs from CD’s that I have purchased are missing. So I reinstalled some of the songs from the CD. That was the first time. Then over the course of a year or so, I notice that some of the tracks are missing again-not to be found on my computer!!! I know I put them on there but they vanished! And random ones. Additionally, there are tracks that I never owned or transferred in my Itunes library! Is this mind control or what?

I DETEST ITUNES MORE THAN ANY OTHER PROGRAM

I F@CKIN HATE I TUNES, it would be cool if i could import a song without it duplicating itself either in my music folder or whereever.. such a pain in the @ss!!!!!i plan to fill up this ipod and uninstall itunes all together… mp3 players for now on with my good old SEAMLESS windows media player.. FUCK APPLE