iTunes Sucks
http://live.pirillo.com/ - Chris has never really liked iTunes. While it has gotten marginally better over time, it just really isn’t as structured as it could be.
On Windows, iTunes is more of a hack or a shim than anything else: it looks and feels out of place, and doesn’t always play well with the operating system. Another problem is that iTunes is getting very bloated: it adds more Windows services now than it ever did in the past.
Matthew said someone in the chat room claimed that AAC was the iTunes format. It’s true that iTunes plays AAC and sells music with DRM in the AAC format, but AAC isn’t an iTunes-exclusive format.
QuickTime, iTunes, and RealPlayer all play AAC, an industry standard format. Windows Media Player, on the other hand, doesn’t play AAC, as Microsoft is trying to push its DRM format - WMA - on the industry.
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11 Comments
Michael Markman
July 30th, 2007
at 11:18am
Can you elaborate on “isn’t as structured as it could be”?
Michael Markman
July 30th, 2007
at 11:18am
Can you elaborate on “isn’t as structured as it could be”?
Brian
July 30th, 2007
at 12:26pm
Dude,
Why are you still running windows? That is supposed to be just a compatibility layer in Mac OS now. This way, you can run the GOOD version of iTunes.
Brian
July 30th, 2007
at 12:26pm
Dude,
Why are you still running windows? That is supposed to be just a compatibility layer in Mac OS now. This way, you can run the GOOD version of iTunes.
Brandon Paddock
July 30th, 2007
at 12:35pm
Actually that’s incorrect.
Windows Media Player will play AAC files just fine, if the AAC codec is installed (just like any other format).
Brandon Paddock
July 30th, 2007
at 12:35pm
Actually that’s incorrect.
Windows Media Player will play AAC files just fine, if the AAC codec is installed (just like any other format).
JS
July 30th, 2007
at 5:37pm
Yup that’s why you keep using Windows…it’s such a streamlined app. You seem to have a problem with tech. for such a technical person. I watched your iPhone hysterics on Youtube. A set up that went so simply for most people seemed so complicated for you. Maybe you’re over thinking everything. Maybe you just have an issue with anything that doesn’t have a MS logo on it.
per kopp
August 5th, 2007
at 3:29pm
isn’t winamp a “big one”?
Ron Enderland
August 6th, 2007
at 2:45am
Amarok on Ubuntu is the best music player/library organizer I’ve found. It’s lightweight, reliable, and amazing.
Eduardo Dias, from Brazil
August 6th, 2007
at 12:04pm
I thinks it sucks because it works in only one way; the way IT wants to. I want to organize my own file / diretory tree, and see it reflected IMMEDIATELY. Poor old iTunes wants to “import” changes and reloading the whole shebang.
Thanks, but no, thanks. Winamp get the win here.
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November 14th, 2007
at 10:26pm
about iTunes for a school magazine when it came out as a freshman in college. [3] I’m not going to even go into more reasons why you shouldn’t install iTunes (especially on Windows). See iTunes spying on you andbloat and uglinessand what exactly does ituneshelper.exe do?. I’m sure there’s more.