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How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge. I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interac

by crsv 8y ago

How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge. I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interact with. It's been horrible as long as it has existed, without fail. On second thought, perhaps its stalwart consistency as one of the most unusable applications in the history of consumer software is one of the few constants in this fast changing world. Perhaps its flawed nature is meant to remind us all of our own deep imperfections. God I hate iTunes.

justinator 8y ago
Version 1 was really good. That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.
- rbanffy 8y ago
  It's an app to play music. How bad can it be?
  - justinator 8y ago
    It was an app to play music. I fear that is has been transformed into some amalgamation of an app/media store, a mobile device wrangler, one interface to your Apple ID account - and a lot of good features that now kinda are half broken. Lots of stillborn features too - wasn't there a music social media integration that went nowhere? It's not very light on memory usage, either. It was so nice to rip a CD, have it part of your library, and well that's it. Search worked great, everything just worked. The UX is just so bad now, I don't even want to listen to the music I have saved. It's literally changed my music listening behavior.
    - rbanffy 8y ago
      I get it became a way to sync all your mobile devices with a music and apps library, along a music player and music/mobile app store (which, I agree, should all be moved to the App Store and become a "Store"), but that's the extent of my usage of it and it's mostly fine (apart from the fact it's becoming harder to manage my music library - I ripped all my CDs back when my Mac had a DVD drive). So far, the stillborn features don't bother me that much. It's heavy and should be lighter, with the features not being used quietly swapped out and remaining there - it seems like it's trying to reanimate the parts that are not in use all the time and that may be the root cause of the humongous memory footprint. Moving the store and sync out would somewhat make things better, but Windows users would need to run 3 apps instead of one.
- jason_slack 8y ago
  Or even better working than before Apple acquired Sound Jam (the original iTunes).

by crsv 8y ago

justinator 8y ago

Version 1 was really good. That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.

rbanffy 8y ago
It's an app to play music. How bad can it be?
- justinator 8y ago
  It was an app to play music. I fear that is has been transformed into some amalgamation of an app/media store, a mobile device wrangler, one interface to your Apple ID account - and a lot of good features that now kinda are half broken. Lots of stillborn features too - wasn't there a music social media integration that went nowhere? It's not very light on memory usage, either. It was so nice to rip a CD, have it part of your library, and well that's it. Search worked great, everything just worked. The UX is just so bad now, I don't even want to listen to the music I have saved. It's literally changed my music listening behavior.
  - rbanffy 8y ago
    I get it became a way to sync all your mobile devices with a music and apps library, along a music player and music/mobile app store (which, I agree, should all be moved to the App Store and become a "Store"), but that's the extent of my usage of it and it's mostly fine (apart from the fact it's becoming harder to manage my music library - I ripped all my CDs back when my Mac had a DVD drive). So far, the stillborn features don't bother me that much. It's heavy and should be lighter, with the features not being used quietly swapped out and remaining there - it seems like it's trying to reanimate the parts that are not in use all the time and that may be the root cause of the humongous memory footprint. Moving the store and sync out would somewhat make things better, but Windows users would need to run 3 apps instead of one.
jason_slack 8y ago
Or even better working than before Apple acquired Sound Jam (the original iTunes).