Why do people like iTunes, again?

[Eel O'Brian]

Seriously, it's the biggest piece of resource-hogging bloatware on my computer

Hangs up everything else when I initialize it and takes like a year to load

Just because everyone uses it doesn't mean it's any good

[FlameOfCallandor]

Are you on a PC or a mac? I use a mac and it seems to run fine for me. One thing I really hate about it is the way it imports music. It has to take the song from wherever it is on the computer and import it into the itunes folder, so I end up having the song in multiple places. And then on top of that it imports the songs in whatever setting you last used. And because I have to convert audio files alot it imports them in AIFF which takes up alot of space. Why cant it just ask me how I want to import the song.

[Phoenix Dark]

I only use it to add music to my iPod. I don't buy anything from iTunes.

[Eel O'Brian]

Are you on a PC or a mac? I use a mac and it seems to run fine for me. One thing I really hate about it is the way it imports music. It has to take the song from wherever it is on the computer and import it into the itunes folder, so I end up having the song in multiple places. And then on top of that it imports the songs in whatever setting you last used. And because I have to convert audio files alot it imports them in AIFF which takes up alot of space. Why cant it just ask me how I want to import the song.

PC

maybe i need more RAMs

[Laramie]

I too have 64 mb of ram.

I only use it because it can distinguish between movies and tv shows and I have a lot of the two on my ipod.

[BamYouHaveAids]

itunes is infinitely superior to the shit zune software. i don't understand how microsoft: a software company, could make such terrible terrible software. not only is it a resource hog but it also fails to organize your collection and instead duplicates, renames, and deletes without warning.

where the fuck is that angry fist waving smiley!

[Raban]

Are you on a PC or a mac? I use a mac and it seems to run fine for me. One thing I really hate about it is the way it imports music. It has to take the song from wherever it is on the computer and import it into the itunes folder, so I end up having the song in multiple places. And then on top of that it imports the songs in whatever setting you last used. And because I have to convert audio files alot it imports them in AIFF which takes up alot of space. Why cant it just ask me how I want to import the song.

PC

maybe i need more RAMs

No, you don't. I have 4GBs and it runs like shit. iTunes just doesn't work well with Windows, but I use it to organize my complete albums, since I put those on my iPhone and I put my P2P songs on my Zune and organize them with Zune.

As far as import settings, FoC, have you actually tinkered around the settings? When I import things I have iTunes import it to my desktop and manually move it where I want it to go, and then add it to the library from there. I'd imagine that's a hassle for mass imports, but I manage.

As far as BUYING things from iTunes, I dislike having to go through the whole burn/rip process to take the write-protection away. I just did it to around 11 CDs a couple days ago and it was just a hassle.

iTunes is a great program, just don't trust it, it's imperative that you do 90% of everything in that program manually, because iTunes loves to fuck it up when you aren't looking, which is why Importing CDs is defaulted to fucking AAC.

[drew]

it runs just fine on a mac. 

[Candyflip]

I have 1gb of RAM on my PC and it works fine for me lolz. Then again, all I use it for is organizing my library and playing music. No iTunes store, no videos, etc. Still, I never get any random crashes or system hangs.

[Don Flamenco]

I have a gig on my laptop, 2 gigs on my desktop, runs fine for me. You must have no ram. I like it because I get shitloads of Itunes giftcards for holidays and birthdays.  But I'm making the switch to amazon and getting amazon giftcards...which they ought to start selling in stores. 
I'll still use the itunes store to preview tracks and look for new music.

I don't get the hate for sync though.  Designate a folder, download properly tagged tracks only, rip stuff through Itunes to that folder, and don't fuck with it--voila, ipod syncing works perfectly. 

[demi]

it runs just fine on a mac. 

Confirmed, Mac is bloatware

[huckleberry]

it runs just fine on a mac. 

Confirmed, Mac is bloatware

sweet sweet bloatware.

[T234]

AMAROK >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ITUNES

[Flannel Boy]

itunes ran fine on my old desktop, which had only 512 MB of RAM. I don't really use iTunes anymore, but it runs fine on my new computer.

[jiji]

iTunes is only for syncing with iPods and playing shoutcast streams on a Mac (no shoutcast ogg  ).

I have never used another program that was so unintuitive in its attempts to be intuitive.

[trippingmartian]

Works fine ony my new MacBook. 

Coverflow

Podcast management is incredible, as well.

[Eel O'Brian]

i have a gig of ram on my desktop, and run xp

should be plenty

i don't even have an ipod, but i need to use itunes for podcasting stuff

[pilonv1]

Just because everyone uses it doesn't mean it's any good

Reminds me of a shirt I have



itunes sucks a giant cock though.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

If I don't use iTunes, I can't find out what's on Kelly Ripa's playlist.  I needs to know.

[bork]

I never had a problem with it on PC. Now that I'm back to using a Mac, I had one problem with it.  I don't have much music...just a little over 4 gigs worth.  But iTunes was creating COPIES OF EVERY SINGLE SONG on my playlists.  There's an option to turn this off; WHY it's on as a default option is beyond me. Going back and trying to figure out which songs I needed to keep in the iTunes music folder and which were duplicates was a real fucking headache.