[crazy4laptops]

I found a more useable alternative to itunes while still keeping the ipod sync and itunes layout alive.

It's called songbird and i like it alot. Goto the link if you want to learn more.

[cortelle]

iTunes chokes on 80 Gigs!?



My 750 Gig drive has 400 Gigs of music, roughly 65,000 tracks, and MediaMonkey Gold has performed flawlessly. But, it's a real music management software, not a store.

[chgolady]

I have had my IPod for a long time, and have gathered alot of music. Trouble is, the music is on several different computers, my desktop, laptop, my daughters. I have so much on my IPod and now I have a new computer because the old one crashed. I am terrified to sync my IPod. Though I have retrieved most of my collection, I would loose the music from my daughters and my laptop. Now this is the 12th thing that I hate about ITunes.

[MattoB]

Chgolady,

There is a program for this just that issue. It's called Copytrans and by buying it you can have ALL the stuff from your iPod copied to your NEW computer. It will copy everyting on there (playlists, etc). I have used this program multiple times when I've had computer crash issues. It is a great iTunes helper.

[choksheak]

Thanks for this article! I think you are very conservative to list only 11 items about iTunes. The fact is, iTunes stinks.

[blackcross]

Hmmm, choksheak for your invaluable contribution. Now that we know your uninformed opinion, perhaps you would like to give us some facts rather than your emotions. What do you not like about it? Is it hard to use? Or are you trolling?

[choksheak]

Hi blackcross, I don't think you get my point. I'm saying that there are too many defects to list, so no point trying to list all of them. Does it make any sense to you now?

[rodndtube]

> I'm on the PC & I hate that iTunes is the only app on my desktop that doesn't
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> recognize or use the scroll wheel on my mouse. It may seem trivial, but it sure
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> would be useful when scrolling through thousands of songs or hundreds of artists or albums.
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I've been using a Freeware mouse program to enable scrolling in several programs that otherwise did not recognize the scrollwheel on my mouse (various logitech varieties). The utility is called FlyWheel and can be downloaded on PCWorld at:

www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23737-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

Formerly shareware you will see the instructions for free registration on the download page. I use it on Win XP systems...no idea about Vista compatibility.

[DisMartoo]

I find that check box quite useful. In case, you have only one iPod it's useless, but if in my case, when I have an iPod Touch 2nd gen. 8 GB & my sister has an iPod Classic 120 GB - I don't have much free space and she has got plenty of free space so some songs, I don't like, I don't check that boxes next to that songs and check box w/ 'sync only checked songs' , but she doesn't uncheck her un-liked songs, 'cos she don't mind having them in the iPod and she has still a lot of free space. That's from me, I know that this is quite late to comment but I just wanted to explain others opinions and possible uses of 'that mysterious check box'.

[junell]

This is a really good article. My biggest issue is the audio books which when downloaded, look like songs instead of chapters.

[tweakybird]

One thing I hate about my IPod is that when I open a particular artist to listen to his/her songs they are not displayed in alphabetical order. That would make the search so much easier. Is there a way to default that?
Another thing. At times by mistake I click BUY twice because the prompter appears that many times and I end up buying the song that many times. I Tunes should catch that and prompt me that I already purchased that song before. Thus saving me the wasted 99 Cents.
Another thing I don't like is the fact that when I buy a song I am not told is a remake of the original hit. I have an excellent musical ear and memory and remakes usually suck. The artists are older and their voices are different. I end up deleting the songs after I find out the Faux pas.
I love foreign music. Especially French Spanish and Italian oldies. Though I found some on I Tunes I would love to find more of them.
Another suggestion is, when I print a playlist for the CD case, can they offer an additional song list with the tracks numbered? That would meake it so much easier to find the songs to be played.
I buy lots of Karaoke tracks.But even for the regular songs. I would love it if all the different snippets of the same song are in the exact portion of the song so I can compare the differences in vocal and instrumental arrangments more suitable to my taste.
When I search for a particular artist and click on top of the song titles to set them in alphabetical order I find other artist mixed in with the one I am interested in. There should be an option where I could remove that particular track without deleting it, like we can do while at a playlist.

[Leice2003]

Hi Tweakybird,

A few things: first, I believe the songs are listed in the iPod that way because that is the order that they are in on the CDs and then depending on the order that they were uploaded to iTunes it will list the songs in that order. I see what you are saying and it makes sense. The songs should be listed in alphabetic order. They list the artists in that order so why not the songs?

One thing that will help with accidently buying a song thta is a remake, be sure to listen to the preview. The preview tells a lot, but I've done the buying duplicate song before and that is not fun, but .99 cents makes it pretty painless. To pay less than .99 cents, check out Amazon.com. They have a lot of songs that are mostly .89 cents, not much of a discount, but those pennies add up when you are talking about thousands of songs.

[itunessucks]

I hate Itunes. A few days ago I bought an ipod. Hooked it up to find out I had an older version of Itunes that I have never used. I need to upgrade, so I do. After all that, the program started and all my music was in the library, I thought cool, but I couldn't play any of it. I got a msg that said something like the original location was not found or something like that. I tried to figure it out and wound up deleting the library to start over. It asks if you want to delete everything in the itunes folder also. I said yes. Get that stuff out of there, that has got to be the problem. Then went to copy My Music folder to the library only to find out that I was missing all of my music and was left with all the album art pics. I was pi$$ed. Itunes had MOVED (not copied, which it should have done)but moved all of my music to the itunes folder. Which they never told me was taking place. I went to the recycle bin to find less than a third of my music. Now SUPER pi$$ed I called techsupport to bitch and rant to them only to hear a camel jockey with a bad accent pick up. Complete BS. Then they want me to use my 1 and only call to techsupport for my Ipod when it wasn't even a call for the ipod. This company is full of BS and I really hate them. I can't believe they can actually do this and get away with it. They shouldn't be allowed to move anything. If the music needs to be in the itunes folder than it should have to copy it there not move it there. I AM SO PI$$ED OFF I COULD SPIT IPODS!!!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as I get all my music on this ipod I will remove itunes from my pc and figure out a different way to get new music to the ipod in the future.

[mrme]

i feel your pain brother, i really do.

itunes and apple have that "you dont need to know where your files is" idea, i'm a long time pc user and i always know where my programs and other files are on my systems, then i can go and move/copy them fast and easy.. i really need to keep my files in order, without any tagging them, well now days i using vista tags but even then i have perfect idea and knowledge of things what i have on my systems.

apple users are just a users, they dosnt want to know, or they dont know that they can know :) something more about their files and programs.. and that is what apple wants, "be stupid to buy our products and keep your stupid mind when using them".

itunes idea is to be simple, and it is.. but that kind idea not working on a real pc environment, (linux/windows). we real users want to keep our own data there where we want their to be.

ofcourse you can use mac osx like we do but then you broke your own rule, and all softwares dosnt works like they need to be.. example, some photoprograms dosnt find your photofiles or music player dosnt find your musics.. if you keep these files some other places on the system :)

[djsyntek]

On that note mrme:

I hate that without basically hacking your iphone, itouch, ipod, et cetera. Once you put your music on the mp3 device you can not do the reverse can take your files and use them off of the ipod. You can't browse the ipod software or double up and use it as a flash storage as well. When you paying as much as you are, you should be able to do both and itunes just does not allow you to sync you ipod with your computer. But you can sync you computer with your ipod.

[Carlimited]

Where do I start??? LOL. Last night, I downloaded 120 episodes of a podcast. When it started syncing, it decided to erase my entire ipod (EVERYTHING), and then it decided that I needed to restore it, even though it was working fine! The way that is lists songs is annoying too. One of my songs is called "track 4", but there is no such song in my library (it is actually "Turn it Loud" by The Headpins. Hhhmmm. And why does sync mean erase everything first, and then add the new stuff, OR add duplicates of everything??? iTunes is quite possible the WORST piece of software ever conceived by mankind!

[fisherjon72]

Here's something else to hate about iTunes - the crappy selection of music and videos in the non-US iTunes stores. If you don't live in the US you might want to check out www.itunesaccess.com which will allow you to buy from the USA iTunes store even if you live in other countries.Try it at iTunes Access

[littlepitcher]

I want to be able to start iTunes, Bonjour, and QuickTime, as a package,when I click the iTunes icon, access "All Programs" or the start menu, or use Launchy.
When not specifically requested and opened, nothing on these programs should be running and none should be on the boot menu.
Songs transposed or mislabeled by iTunes is a Big Gripe.
And I wouldn't mind an anti-spyware and temp file cleaning program for the iPhone and iTouch. Hey, app developers, are you listening?