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Is there a major difference between iTunes for Windows and iTunes for Mac? (Don't use Mac OS X, sorry)

• phillmv 15y ago
  They both provide crummy experiences, but the for Windows version manages to be crummier.
• shinratdr 15y ago
  iTunes for Mac is a great music player/jukebox. The Windows version is slower, buggier and less responsive. As a result, it's a pretty bad library based music player in Windows (although nowhere close to as bad as people make it out to be). iOS device management is as flaky on Windows as it is on Mac OS X, which is what they have in common and one of the most frequent complaints. But to be fair, nothing besides iTunes even tries to do device management as comprehensively, so there is little to compare it to. Still, it can be buggy and slow and that is easy to judge even with nothing to directly compare it to. IMO iTunes gets an excessive amount of over the top flak from techie types. As someone who has used it since version one in Mac OS 9, it's really not that bad. I'm quite picky about my applications and I've been using it every day for around 10 years now. I always check out alternatives when they come up for OS X and they are always much worse in very simple areas, like scrolling. Go ahead, grab almost any alternative music player for OS X and throw in a 20k song library. If it scrolls as smoothly as iTunes, I'll be amazed.
  • TobbenTM 15y ago
    Good to know, but I was thinking more in the way of UI, as he said he wanted to skin it like the Windows version.
    • glhaynes 15y ago
      Sorry to have mislead - I was just making a dumb joke (against my better judgment) on the name... Winamp (which was famously skinnable and has "Win[dows]" right in the name) for Mac.