Why does itunes suck

Browse Search. Ask a question. Question: Q: Question: Q: why does itunes suck so badly It's been a long time since I had the misfortune of having to use iTunes, but I hoped it would have been improved to the point where basic functionality worked So, is iTunes really this useless? More Less.

Reply I have this question too 47 I have this question too Me too 47 Me too. Question marked as Apple recommended User profile for user: turingtest2 turingtest2. View answer in context. Unfortunately, it increasingly seems to be doing just that feature updates have taken a back seat to iTunes Store feature updates.

Take the arrows next to songs; by default they lead to the iTunes Store. Sure you can set them to point to your library, but how much cooler would it be if they led to a Wikipedia page or a band's homepage? The library manager is prehistoric Why do we need to tell iTunes about every single MP3 we add to our music folders? Worse, why does iTunes try to reorganize the folder without asking? Just mirror the file system.

And for the love of Fortran, stop rearranging things. IPhoto handles this quite well, allowing us the option to reflect the folders on the hard drive. So what's wrong with iTunes? And how is it that after seven and a half releases, iTunes still isn't smart enough to automatically detect when we've dropped new music in our library folder? The iTunes Store's recommendation features are pathetic. Since we're finding new music in the web browser already, we just head to Amazon to buy the actual MP3s.

Apple could have the links to the store and still work in a web browser use JavaScript to inject links that lead back to the music store into outside pages, and it's yet another way to get people spending money. In the meantime, we won't be opening a separate app just to buy some music. No plug-in architecture Just about everything Apple makes these days has a plug-in architecture of some kind. Aperture has nice way for outsiders to write plug-ins, as do Garage Band and other music apps thanks to Core Audio.

The iPhone alone should demonstrate that third parties could be adding tons of useful stuff to iTunes. This is the best part of Songbird , where the sky's the limit. Yes, there are a few iTunes plug-ins, but they're basically just very clever hacks using unofficial hooks to thrust themselves into iTunes. The exception is the visualizer SDK. Not that I can tell! Apple is condescending, paranoid, and lazy.

I hope their stock drops to nothing. I agree… Condescending, paranoid and lazy. I agree whole-heartedly sp? Apple sucks now. Switched from my highly limited thanks Apple to a Windows Surface Pro 3. I love it!!!! I can do everything I wanted to do on an iPad but also so much more! You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this topic to be really something that I think I would never understand.

It seems too complicated and very broad for me. I am looking forward for your next post, I will try to get the hang of it! I need a new mp3 player. Why is that so hard for apple to get? Their products are always so easy to use and consumer-centric. Why do they force is to use this itunes abortion? I dispise Itunes. If I try to copy a music disk unrelated to Itunes and itunes pops up it has taken over.

I like the ipod for apps but not music. Navigating itunes is a bear. I made the mistake of installing itunes on 2 computers one was bad enough. Spent more time trying to get my music on the phone than I have used the dammed thing. I HATE itunes. I agree, the Sansa was so much easier … just drag and drop. And I spent a long time selecting and deselecting my music only to have the above 10 songs only actually end up on my iphone.

And then it deletes other things. I love you man…. Only some songs I was able to transfer over and none of my audiobooks. When I try to sync my audiobooks, iTunes wants to erase everything, music, videos, etc! Things that I legally bought! Why do I have to erase all my music just to move audiobooks over?

It wants to do the same if I select to sync apps! I do not understand how iTunes is seen as the premiere provider of mp3 content when their syncing process is the most cobbled together piece of crap I have ever seen.

Drag and drop to a sidebar like Media Player or cloud storage is brilliantly simple and works like you expect every time.

I love my iPod Touch but thank goodness for Pandora and Slacker and Tune-in Radio or it would be useless as a music playing device. What is wrong with a company that sells a product that prevents a consumer buying the product? Itunes has managed to create a process of presenting a product for sale whereby the consumer cannot buy it.

Itunes idiot geeks have failed Business Preschoolers would have done a better job. The geeks may be great in setting up the most mundane crap to purchase but follow up is sadly out of sync. Itunes you suck! D in Business. As everyone else has stated, synching is everything Apple criticizes Microsoft for. Welcome to the big leagues, I guess, Apple. I've owned three MacBook Pros over the past 5 or 6 years and keep coming back, because I do truly love them, but iTunes and iPhoto are frustrating terds that don't seem to ever recognize 1 what my computer has done in the past, 2 what I'm trying to do right now which is usually, simply charging my iPod , or 3 that I've legally purchased music and simply want a tiny bit of control over it, and perhaps it not getting lost forever.

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