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I avoid updating iTunes because every time I do Apple has introduced some new gimmick that's taking another 256mb of ram and making it less useful to run in the
by electromagnetic 15y ago
I avoid updating iTunes because every time I do Apple has introduced some new gimmick that's taking another 256mb of ram and making it less useful to run in the background. On my netbook I can barely use iTunes and open a Google Doc because the scrolling causes the music to stutter. I've actually started using WMP when I have a lot of work to do in Docs as it's the only way I'm not hearing stammering music.
Strange how the only thing I've changed on my netbook in literally a year is iTunes and it never used to pull this shit before that Genius and DJ thing appeared.
- blhack 15y agoiTunes, even on my macbook pro, is a pig. It ends up eating 99% of my CPU, and requiring a force-quit almost every day for me. What happened, Apple? I get that iTunes is trying to be a million things, but why?
- Tycho 15y agoThe best thing they could do is enhance playback from the Finder a little bit, so you could play not just one track but a whole 'folder'/album. Maybe you can do this on Lion. iTunes is an abomination at this point. I prefer using Spotify even just for local files.
- cageface 15y agoThe worst thing about iTunes on the Mac is that it's absolutely killed the market for any kind of alternative player. I started writing a simpler, leaner player a few years ago but gave up when I realized nobody was going to use it.
- jokermatt999 15y agoI strongly advise you to try foobar2000 or pretty much any other music player but iTunes if you're on Windows. Once I switched, a good deal of my computer frustration was gone. iTunes on Windows is a freezing, memory hogging, constantly updating, useless feature adding piece of crap. Virtually all its major competitors are much, much better. I hear it's not so bad on a Mac, but avoid it like the plague if you're on Windows.