The nemesis of any iDevice exploiter ’s macrocosm is Apple ’s barely usable iTunes software .
Not only is iTunes obtuse , bloated , and broadly unwieldy – especially on Windows microcomputer – but it ask unremitting updates and maintenance , and it on a regular basis freeze and clangour .
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have ’s take a look at ten reason whyiTunes is annoying .
Constant Updates
I’msick of unfold iTunesandgetting the prompt , “ A unexampled interlingual rendition of iTunes ( 8.2.1.0.4.1.5 ) is available . Would you like to download it now ? ” Normally , frequent update are a good thing ( in one sense , anyway ): They show that the software shaper is tweaking the software package to make it the best that it can be . But each iTunes “ update ” requires you to download the total computer program – not just a fleck – and then restart everything .
For the 4,582,390th Time, I Don’t Want Safari
Apple Safari BrowserMaybe I could get on plank with the constant iTunes updates if Apple did n’t judge to push its Safari Web web browser app and its superannuated MobileMe software on me with every update . It was cute the first sentence , but after 2000 updates ? Plus – like Adobe with its barren toolbar fling – Apple sneakily automatically chequer the downloads , so you have to uncheck them manually if you do n’t require the software .
iTunes Is Clunky
iTunes is ungainly and slow , especially on PCs . open up iTunes immediately slows down all of my other processes and ramp up my CPU usage to 50 per centum . Also , iTunes crash about once every hour . And trying to do anything in iTunes – even play a strain or make a playlist – while you’reimporting musicor update an iDevice acquire forever .
You Can’t Sync an iDevice With Two Libraries
Sure , I get that Apple is hear to cut down on piracy and whatnot with the whole “ only sync with one library , ” but what if I have more than one computer ? Then it ’s all my music , but I can put only half of it on my iPod . Unless , of trend , I use Home Sharing to transfer my music from one computer to the other . The only problem with this is that …
Home Sharing Stinks
Home Sharing would be a great feature … if it worked . Home Sharing supposedly allow you to share your music with up to five computers . permit ’s canvass this claim . I put Home Sharing on five of my computers , and it was going okay ( admittedly , sometimes I could n’t see some libraries , but most of the time it was fine ) .
Apple Home SharingThen I got a newfangled figurer and tried to insert it into the intermixture by disablingHome Sharingon one of my old computers . Suddenly none of my figurer could see any of the other computing equipment ’ libraries . I basically had to uninstall every unmarried instance of iTunes and then re-start everything in decree to get it to work .
Syncing Is the Devil
There ’s no ‘ drag - and - dip ’ option on iTunes . Instead , there ’s a ‘ manually manage music and videos ’ alternative – but with it , you’restill syncing(just “ selectively synchronize ” ) . Syncing really becomes a trouble when you have more than one iDevice to sync to one subroutine library – especially if you have an iPhone and an iPad , because there ’s no choice to ‘ manually manage apps ’ .
You Can Add Only a Few Songs at a Time
Since Home Sharing is so clunky , I decided to save myself some time by confound a clump of euphony files on an extraneous hard parkway and then manually importing them into iTunes . Well , as it turn out , iTunes is really bad at importing non - CD euphony ( actually , it ’s middling unsound at importing CD medicine , too ) . mayhap this is some way ofguarding against piracy , but for some understanding I ca n’t lend more than five or six songs at a prison term to iTunes using ‘ Add Song ’ .
You Can’t Remove Songs From Your Library From Within a Playlist
Sometimes I notice duplicate songs in one of those nifty bright playlists , and I require to get rid of one them . But all I can do is delete it from the playlist , not from my iTunes program library . So instead , I have to go into my depository library and obtain it – and remember , it ’s a twin song , so I have to make certain that I discover the good one – and then get rid of it .
Occasionally, iTunes Forgets Where Your Library Is
This find most often if your depository library is hosted on an external hard drive – but it has occasionally happened to me when my program library is stored on my data processor ’s internal hard thrust . Once in a while , I ’ll come across a Sung or a telecasting , and iTunes just wo n’t know where it is . So it will ask me to hunt through the deepness of my concentrated drive to find the filing cabinet . Um … isn’t that your job , iTunes ?
Everything Is So…Slow
In the meter it take me to write this list , iTunes crashed once , judge to install Safari on my computer , and still has n’t finished back up and updating my iPad .
iTunes Alternatives – They’re Out There
The good news is that there are alternatives to iTunes – even if you ’re the proud owner of an iDevice . Be sure to read “ Apple iTunes Alternatives : Make Managing Your Music Easy . ”
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