Who likes iTunes?
Ask HN: Who else hates iTunes?
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#22iTunes has the single worst UI of any app, of any kind, I have used in the last 20 years. The page flow makes no sense. I can never remember how to get to certain pages, or out of certain pages. There is no flow. Important functions are buried where I least expect. I can't use it without a search engine handy, and there is no excuse for this.
Worse, it is 100% guaranteed that if I use it across devices, then eventually my library will be destroyed on one of those devices, because they've made syncing about as intuitive as git.
The 'normies' in my family also cannot figure out how to use it effectively, at all, and for once I can't help them. Apple must have no incentive whatsoever to fix any of this.
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#24Everyone?
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#25I admire your goal, but my first question is, have you tried Foobar2000? You could create a theme that has most of your features, and at heart it is nicely minimalist.
Foobar for interface, beats[http://beets.io/] for library organization. It's the perfect combination for any tech-savvy Windows user.
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#26As time passed I found myself using Apple apps less and less.
They just go so ridiculously bad: form over function, buggy software, worse UI and features compared to competitors.
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#27Been on Spotify family plan for years. Never touch music files anymore. I see no point to iTunes anymore.
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#28The reason I use iTunes...have to use Itunes...is because: * I love high quality audio books * I use a classic iPod * Audible is really the main game in town. I think of ditching the iPod and using the Android App, but that makes me a bit sad. What I'd really like is a Keyboard Kindle with 160GB of storage (I like knowing things are on the device) and some enhanced audiobook features. That's kind of my dream really.…
I used to have an iPod too, but the hard-drive eventually gave out.
What I did was get a dedicated android device for audible/music. One of those that looks like a mobile but doesn't have a sim card. A lot of people comment on how I could simply be using my phone instead, but you get a surprising amount of battery life out of a device that doesn't have cellphone, wifi or bluetooth active. And as a bonus, unlike my iPod I can simply flip on the wifi temporarily to sync up instead of having to plug into my computer.
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#29sorry for asking this. Why can't you use something else?
Nothing else works with Siri. That's it. iTunes and Apple Music are terrible to use. But my kids can use it with Siri and I can use it in the car. Only reason I'm still on the platform.
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#30The reason I use iTunes...have to use Itunes...is because: * I love high quality audio books * I use a classic iPod * Audible is really the main game in town. I think of ditching the iPod and using the Android App, but that makes me a bit sad. What I'd really like is a Keyboard Kindle with 160GB of storage (I like knowing things are on the device) and some enhanced audiobook features. That's kind of my dream really.…
I used to have an iPod too, but the hard-drive eventually gave out. What I did was get a dedicated android device for audible/music. One of those that looks like a mobile but doesn't have a sim card. A lot of people comment on how I could simply be using my phone instead, but you get a surprising amount of battery life out of a device that doesn't have cellphone, wifi or bluetooth active. And as a bonus, unlike my iP…
It's a decent idea and I have been tending towards it. The main reason I like the non-phone device is literally the fact that there is no internet. I like my reading devices to be offline (or at least functionally offline)...so no data is a feature not a problem.