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I love iTunes. It has all my music in a scriptable database with a wonderfully configurable front end. I've never understood the hostility that's developed over

by ellyagg 16y ago

I love iTunes. It has all my music in a scriptable database with a wonderfully configurable front end. I've never understood the hostility that's developed over it, other than possibly sour grapes Windows users forced to use it because of their iPods. Before iTunes, I used WinAmp, which was garbage. Maybe there are better programs now, although I can't imagine what else I'd want to do that iTunes doesn't make easy for me.

davepeck 16y ago
80%, meet 20% :-)
steve19 16y ago
I think the hate comes from Windows users who do not like using a non-native app. Who can blame them. I too love iTunes.
- dagw 16y ago
  I used to be a Mac user and always hated iTunes. It always felt like it was fighting me and trying to force me to do things its way rather than my way. Asking it, for example, to play music stored on a remote samba share tended to make it copy the music to my hard drive rather than, you know, play the music.
warfangle 16y ago
Foobar with a few ui plugins :-) Arguably, there isn't a solid Linux solution (probably because audio dev in Linux is sisyphian.
- Naga 16y ago
  mpd+ncmpcpp!
tomlin 16y ago
Windows users hate iTunes because they think it's crap. Apple users hate Flash because they think it's crap. Neither camp thinks their wrong. Go figure.
megablast 16y ago
It all comes down to different ways of doing things. Some people like to manage their music more manually, copying over mp3 files to a folder. I am in this category, because I like complete control, and some of the things itunes does seems to be confusing. Also, I don't see the need of having mp3 files on a hdd, then stores on my iphone, then also stored in the itunes music folder. I don't need 3 copies of a music file. This is one part that frustrates me. Another frustration was silence between tracks, which itunes did not used to support. However, I completely understand why most poeple like itunes, because most people aren't like this, and itunes provides a very simple interface for them to do it. Saying that, the Windows version of itunes has not been as good as the mac version. And even on the mac, it seems to pause when copying over lots of large mp3 tracks, although this has gotten a lot better in the recent release.
- jasonlotito 16y ago
  iTunes is a poor media manager, mostly because it's focused on become a DRM System. Just think about what it really does, what it really syncs. iTunes handles applications, of all things. If you remain with Apple's ecosystem, everything will be fine. Go outside that, and everything starts to break down.
thewileyone 16y ago
Being forced to use software on one electronic device to control another electronic device is inane regardless whether it's a PC or Mac. I can accept that iTunes is not the greatest software written. Being forced to use iTunes, with no other options, sucks ass.

by ellyagg 16y ago

davepeck 16y ago

80%, meet 20% :-)

steve19 16y ago

I think the hate comes from Windows users who do not like using a non-native app. Who can blame them. I too love iTunes.

dagw 16y ago
I used to be a Mac user and always hated iTunes. It always felt like it was fighting me and trying to force me to do things its way rather than my way. Asking it, for example, to play music stored on a remote samba share tended to make it copy the music to my hard drive rather than, you know, play the music.

warfangle 16y ago

Foobar with a few ui plugins :-) Arguably, there isn't a solid Linux solution (probably because audio dev in Linux is sisyphian.

Naga 16y ago
mpd+ncmpcpp!

tomlin 16y ago

Windows users hate iTunes because they think it's crap. Apple users hate Flash because they think it's crap. Neither camp thinks their wrong. Go figure.

megablast 16y ago

It all comes down to different ways of doing things. Some people like to manage their music more manually, copying over mp3 files to a folder. I am in this category, because I like complete control, and some of the things itunes does seems to be confusing. Also, I don't see the need of having mp3 files on a hdd, then stores on my iphone, then also stored in the itunes music folder. I don't need 3 copies of a music file. This is one part that frustrates me. Another frustration was silence between tracks, which itunes did not used to support. However, I completely understand why most poeple like itunes, because most people aren't like this, and itunes provides a very simple interface for them to do it. Saying that, the Windows version of itunes has not been as good as the mac version. And even on the mac, it seems to pause when copying over lots of large mp3 tracks, although this has gotten a lot better in the recent release.

jasonlotito 16y ago
iTunes is a poor media manager, mostly because it's focused on become a DRM System. Just think about what it really does, what it really syncs. iTunes handles applications, of all things. If you remain with Apple's ecosystem, everything will be fine. Go outside that, and everything starts to break down.

thewileyone 16y ago

Being forced to use software on one electronic device to control another electronic device is inane regardless whether it's a PC or Mac. I can accept that iTunes is not the greatest software written. Being forced to use iTunes, with no other options, sucks ass.