OMG, so glad to be among friends. Yeah, I hate it too, it’s a total piece of shit, which I’ve been trying to tell people for years, but as others here have pointed out the majority of the public seems to have no problem with it, which never ceases to blow my mind. My theory is that they made it run like a piece of shit for the PC to force people to think twice about possibly switching to a Mac, but after reading the comments here it sounds like you Mac users have the same issues as us PC users.
I won’t repeat all the problems I’ve had, as many have been stated already, but here’s a brief list of issues I’ve had:
- Upon updating to the latest version (which seems to come out every few days), my entire library is erased – thankfully I’ve never purchased any music from Apple or I’d be SUPERPISSED to have lost my purchases in the process. – Upon inserting a CD or adding a folder to my library it decides to make two copies of each song in the library – very helpful feature. – And yes, there is a feature that will attempt to show you duplicate songs, but the fucking morons neglected to add the follow-on feature to that which is to have it DELETE the duplicate songs. So I have to go through one-by-one and do it myself. Thanks, Apple. – Upon attempting to download the frequent updates it locks up or gives me an error message. Most recently, 5 minutes ago it told me I had to download it manually using the tool menu, blah, blah, blah. – Upon updating Itunes, it also updates quicktime, despite me having no need for that even shittier program. This pisses me off because each new version of quicktime is set to automatically check for updates every so often, which typically happens when I’m in the middle of an intense game of BF2, which thus crashes my game. I then have to go in and turn off the auto-update feature myself. Great…. – Same issue the original author posted about it not finding the drive with the music (mine’s on an external USB drive), so then it thinks you’re entire library has vanished and you have to quit/restart. – But my favorite is when I’ve have to reinstall my ENTIRELIBRARY for like the 100th time, and in the process it deletes the contents of my playlists. Although it leaves the playlists there, just to mock you, but they’re all devoid of content. I suppose it would be too difficult to just have it leave those file shortcuts alone. It’s not like I’m reloading everything into the exact same directory where it was in the first place, so if it would just leave them alone they would all continue to work fine. That really fucking pisses me off…
OMG, so glad to be among friends. Yeah, I hate it too, it’s a total piece of shit, which I’ve been trying to tell people for years, but as others here have pointed out the majority of the public seems to have no problem with it, which never ceases to blow my mind. My theory is that they made it run like a piece of shit for the PC to force people to think twice about possibly switching to a Mac, but after reading the comments here it sounds like you Mac users have the same issues as us PC users.
I won’t repeat all the problems I’ve had, as many have been stated already, but here’s a brief list of issues I’ve had:
- Upon updating to the latest version (which seems to come out every few days), my entire library is erased – thankfully I’ve never purchased any music from Apple or I’d be SUPER PISSED to have lost my purchases in the process. – Upon inserting a CD or adding a folder to my library it decides to make two copies of each song in the library – very helpful feature. – And yes, there is a feature that will attempt to show you duplicate songs, but the fucking morons neglected to add the follow-on feature to that which is to have it DELETE the duplicate songs. So I have to go through one-by-one and do it myself. Thanks, Apple. – Upon attempting to download the frequent updates it locks up or gives me an error message. Most recently, 5 minutes ago it told me I had to download it manually using the tool menu, blah, blah, blah. – Upon updating Itunes, it also updates quicktime, despite me having no need for that even shittier program. This pisses me off because each new version of quicktime is set to automatically check for updates every so often, which typically happens when I’m in the middle of an intense game of BF2, which thus crashes my game. I then have to go in and turn off the auto-update feature myself. Great…. – Same issue the original author posted about it not finding the drive with the music (mine’s on an external USB drive), so then it thinks you’re entire library has vanished and you have to quit/restart. – But my favorite is when I’ve have to reinstall my ENTIRE LIBRARY for like the 100th time, and in the process it deletes the contents of my playlists. Although it leaves the playlists there, just to mock you, but they’re all devoid of content. I suppose it would be too difficult to just have it leave those file shortcuts alone. It’s not like I’m reloading everything into the exact same directory where it was in the first place, so if it would just leave them alone they would all continue to work fine. That really fucking pisses me off…