I Hate iTunes
Posted on December 8th, 2007 at 1:46 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)
I officially hate iTunes and that I am forced to use it to manage my iPod Touch. Okay, so I can tick the manual box and just drag and drop any songs I want to be on it, but the fact that it refuses to fetch album artwork for all my CDs drives me nuts. A huge part of the thing is displaying the album artwork (you can fly through it, it displays while playing, etc.). Worst of all, even if Winamp has already snagged the album artwork and saved it as a JPEG in the album’s folder, iTunes won’t notice it and I’d have to manually add it to my bazillion albums. Why oh why…
Hey Viperbond, i am a great fan of top gear and final gear, so thanks for finalgear.com and ive also used a few of your plugins for my wordpress blog, so i thought i could help you out here, theres two ways you could do this, embed the album art inside the mp3 if you can do that with winamp, or the easy way from itunes, is to have the album and artist id3 tags properly filled out, and make a itunes account (you will have to put in your credit card number, even though its free to get the album art) thats about it. works for me email me if you need help
A good program for adding album art (and only for that use) into the tag is to use MediaMonkey.. saved me alot of time.
I hate iTunes too…
Bigger piece of crap software you have to look for. I have over 1200 albums ripped to MP3. Neatly structured in folders with a naming standard for the mp3 file names.
So I got an iPOD. Had to install iTunes. Now this freaking software goes through my music collection and:
a) change the folder names
b) change the filname of my mp3 files
my whole music filing system is now in disarray…
On top of that…and this is precious… To get album art I have to sign up for the iTunes store!!! Why? any other media player downloads album art, but noooo, I need to give them credit card details to get album art.
On top of that the actual iTunes user interface is horrible.
I will NEVER buy an Apple product again. EVER. I rather slit my wrists than buy an Apple product.
FYI: You can disable it changing your files/folders. I did.
I love my iPod Touch though, even with having to use iTunes.
I don’t mind the I-tunes store but it annoys me that some artists don’t have a full discography avaliable. Certain boxed sets are not avalaible for example. Also it would be great to have more insentives for using i-tunes such as more exclusive bonus tracks, releases and live show recordings.