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

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by DanBC » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:36 PM UTC

I cannot tell you just how much I fucking loathe iTunes.

The Windows version is bad, but I hate the OSX version about as much.

I'd be fine with iTunes if Apple gave me an opt out. Even if it had a big sign saying "after this you're on your own; you get absolutely no support from us for anything if you use this opt out".

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by masukomi » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

Argorak wrote: post #37

Jein. (Thats a very german cross between yes and no) iTunes has a fast search through my large library and it is very easy to reach the thing you want. I don't create playlists, but from time to time return to my player, search for something and hit "play", closing the window afterwards. iTunes is not perfect at that, but _every other player_ is worse. Either, closing the window kill the program (lackluster Linux/Win…

i think you're missing the key argument which is that playing music is just one of the many things iTunes does. Those of us who dislike it rarely hate it as much for its music playing as for the fact that it's a file transfer app (to get files into and out of ios apps), it's a iOS backup and sync manager, it's an OS updater, its a store, it's a music player, and probably 3 other things i've forgotten.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

#53

Post by rnhmjoj » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

I can't say that I hate it but I don't really like iTunes. The problem for me is it is too slow, has too much features and always come out with annoying popups such as "iPad contains diagnostic information...", "A new iPhone software version... " and "Sign into the iTunes store". I quit using it as a music player some months ago: now I use mpd (music player daemon) with ncmpcpp (a client) and iTunes to only sync/backup my iPad. mpd is great for me: you control it with the client you like, it loads his music database from a directory, you make playlists and just listen.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

#54

Post by rare455 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:49 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #43

I thought iTunes sucked on Windows only.

Mac users have to go through iTunes sync just as Windows users :) So, it sucks on Mac but just not as slow as it is on Win.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

#55

Post by kimusan » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

yep hate it! one of the worst user experiences found in any app. Cant imagine how Apple UX designers ever figured that this would be a good design.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by rare455 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:51 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;…

this app was in Top 3 on product hunt http://www.producthunt.com/posts/waltr and they say it can transfer any movie or music file to your iPhone w/o iTunes

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

#57

Post by salibhai » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

Yes. Hate it

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

#58

Post by cheshire137 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 3:20 PM UTC

I mean, who doesn't? Sometimes if I accidentally hit a media key, it opens iTunes, which is slow as hell and I usually force-quit before it can fully load because it takes so long. When I do have to deal with iTunes, it's always this lumbering beast that I want to exit as soon as possible.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by ykka » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 3:28 PM UTC

nsxwolf wrote: post #41

ykka wrote: post #9

Tbh, when I bought my iPad and you didn't need to register it via iTunes I was relieved. For 3 years I didn't connect it to the computer so it never touched iTunes - this is how much I hate iTunes. + I am always afraid that if you sync with iTunes (yeah, soooo 2007) that I am going to lose something somewhere, a file, a tune, image or - for sure - a PDF in iBooks. I've had so many things "lost" that way. Without warn…

And yet if you don't, you risk losing purchases when Apple loses the distribution rights to something. The little cloud download button gives people a false sense of security, but I've lost a lot of music and TV shows by not keeping backups on my hard drive. Apple really pushes this feature, but when you get stung by a removal, iTunes support will say "what, didn't you read the fine print?"

Didn't know about that. Thanks for telling me.

It still sucks though.

Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?

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Post by crazygringo » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 3:33 PM UTC

Ugh. This post jumped to 40 points in 3 hours, and now has been pushed from the front page to page 4, rank #108.

It's really annoying and heavy-handed when HN shuts down and effectively censors conversation like this.