Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by yla92 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:02 PM UTC

Yes. Lately, as a replacement, I've been using VOX[0] and it's a pretty sleek player.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by monroepe » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

Yes, I hate it so much. I have had many discussions about how great other Apple products are and how frustrating iTunes is. It's like they are made by different companies.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by bpg_92 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

No. No linux support. I got an ipad as a gift and to use it is a mess. Spotify can work, but the fact that you need Itunes to pass items to the ipad annoys me as hell.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by Lancey » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

Maybe if it didn't run like it had two broken legs I wouldn't hate it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by derrick_l_grant » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

Using itunes makes me sad. I wouldn't say it was a terrible product but it has way too many features all of them at a mediocre level, which amounts to a poor user experience

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by jpetersonmn » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

Yes, I dislike the whole iTunes thing all together. I'd like to be able to just plug it in and move files around like it's a drive. (like my android phone) I also really dislike iTunes a media player on my MacBook. Love my mackbook over all, but iTunes as a media player sucks. Main complaints is that I can't just point it to a folder and have it load into a library without it copying files around, so now I have music in two places wasting space. Maybe there is a way I can change that in the settings, but that shouldn't be the default behavior.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by yummybear » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

The whole interface is incredible unintuitive. Especially if you come from Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by whatta » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

Hate it with a passion since 2001.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by kabdib » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:17 PM UTC

The UI is really, really bad. Every time I sync one of my devices I have to search for the widget that gets me to the place where I can search for my content. The software makes arbitrary decisions on what type of content goes where, and honestly this shouldn't matter.

Music is music, a book is a book, an app is an app. Just provide a default structure and have the device figure out what's what -- we've been doing this with file systems for decades.

iTunes doesn't scale. A linear list of all of my music? Those books? Doesn't scale. Ordering a list by title / artist is clumsy after fifty entries, and unworkable past a few hundred.

I'm really surprised that Jobs didn't rip the iTunes team a new one. Or maybe he did, and this is the best they could do.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by whichdan » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:17 PM UTC

robertfall wrote: post #10

No. I don't hate iTunes. It could certainly be better but I wouldn't say I hate it. If they improved the loading speed of iTunes and the App Store it would be fine. It's very similar to the Steam Apps in some regards (store and library in one). I do hate the fact that ONLY iTunes can be used to move stuff onto an iPhone though. That's the part I hate. If they broke it up into small parts I'd be so happy though... tl;…

Oh, yeah, the Steam and iTunes stores are both abysmal! Slow loading, no tabbed browsing, poorly designed views -- it all gets in the way of spending money.

That said, I do quite like the iTunes album cover view.