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As a recent convert from Linux/Amarok, I think iTunes is great. I really don't understand why it gets so much hate. It works perfectly fine for me, and looks qu
by jeorgun 12y ago
As a recent convert from Linux/Amarok, I think iTunes is great. I really don't understand why it gets so much hate. It works perfectly fine for me, and looks quite pretty doing it. I don't know any other music player that has anything like "shuffle by groupings", which is a killer feature if you listen to a lot of classical music. Literally the only problem I've had is that it sometimes doesn't find album artwork[1], but it's easy to manually fix that.
What's the big issue?
[1] It's been 100% on non-artwork metadata.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoiTunes killed my music collection. Two weeks wasted after iTunes turned the rips into a jumble of random files. Of course I shouldn't have clicked the "Allow iTunes to manage..." button. Was it obvious what it would do? No. It wasn't. When you try to load apps from a device and it already has apps from the same device but a different session, you get an alert warning you about... something that doesn't make sense. The correct option is to cancel, then iTunes goes ahead and syncs everything correctly. Since when did Cancel mean Go ahead with Plan A? Also, the app screen manager. To move apps you have to: Click a screen with the app Wait for it to zoom Drag the app Wait for the target screen to zoom Wait for the other apps to shuffle around Drop the app Why is the zooming necessary? Why can't you just drag and drop without zooming? Why does the zooming cover some screens, so sometimes you can't drop the app on the one you want? Why can't you make folders in the file space of apps, and drag and drop files to/from the folders? Why can't you drag and drop a load of files at once? And so on. So many elements of the design should be in textbooks as classic examples of how not to make a UI.