What's all the fuss about iTunes?

breadmonkey

As a long time anti-iPod consumer, I took the plunge recently and bought a Touch and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.:)

However, practically everyone I know who owns an iPod was warning me about the woes of iTunes and how horrible it is, yet it seems perfectly user friendly to me and I've had no problems whatsoever.

Gripes anyone?

Kid Nothing

Having used iTunes on Windows for the lat 4 years i can happily say that i've never had even the slightest problem with it, it's a great program IMO and I honestly think the majority of people that say it's crap are people who have it in for Apple.

Creamy Goodness

it was very tempermental in the early years on windows, it was essentially ported from mac os x and did not run as well as the itunes on mac software/hardware combo.

it's come a long way especially since apple have moved to intel chipsets and processors, but it can still be a pain in the rocks if something goes wrong.

pleasant Co.

Yup, itunes is fine for those basic music playing/transferring tasks...it is of course no mediamonkey...which I love - booting a copy of windows xp on my MB just to use it :P

Jip

I've found that people who complain about iTunes most are those the understand it least.

delly

I would compare iTunes to the gaming platform Steam. Very buggy in the early days, but pretty damn handy now. Works very well imho.

pleasant Co.

Jip wrote: »

I've found that people who complain about iTunes most are those the understand it least.

I think that that is a massive inaccurate generalisation... Most of my non techie friends who love itunes use it for the most basic of functions> ripping music and auto sycning... I'm more inclined to believe that these are the same mass market buyers who have given iPod the position it has today...

Jack Sheehan

There were a couple of problems with it the last time i used it, which was a little over half a year ago. It was a memory hog, which was irritating as i dont have a very fast computer. It was liable to crash. It was too complicated and it kept forcing me to delete my collection if i had put any on on a friends computer.

exiztone

iTunes is far from perfect. Frankly I think it's atrocious that it takes up 70MB of RAM to start it (in Windows Vista) without even playing an mp3!

Also, does it really annoys me that I can't use it as a multipurpose media player too. If I set it as my default media player, it would add any file I open to my audio library which isn't necessarily a good thing. When you spend ages organising it, you don't want it sabotaged by some random mp3 you download from the web.