It's gotten worse over the years but it's most certainly better than any of the alternatives I've been obliged to use on linux.
Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#32Yes, almost as much as I hate iPhoto.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#33Yes!! I hate it so much, it's the worst UI experience ever and I've used a lot of bad UIs over the last 35 years.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#34I loved iTunes up until version 12. It is now a bafflingly user hostile piece of software and I am done with it.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#35I don't hate it, but I don't like it enough to use it. Any apps I download I do from the App Store from my iPhone, and for music I use Spotify almost exclusively.
My Spotify Premium subscription is worth it just for the fact that I haven't had to touch iTunes in months.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#36I don't like it. It's heavy and bloated for what I would ever need it to do (put music onto my ipod). In fact, I have it installed solely for that purpose.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#37Jein. (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-Ports), the search is slow or just not very central the interface. For example, VOX wants me to search for a song and then hit "Enter" twice before playing it, with a fancy, but slow animation. Searching for albums is even slower, I'd prefer if they just presented me with album matches immediately.
So, the outcome of my eternal search is: iTunes is not a great music player, but every other on OS X is worse.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#38The 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 th…
Agreed. The UI is horrible and getting worse with every release. What used to be a decent interface for digging through Genre -> Artists -> Albums is now hidden behind super kludgey nonsense. To get a fresh install of iTunes into a usable state with a music library of any reasonable size is a huge pain.
The idea that the default interface should basically just be a window with big album art is probably the worst thing they ever did.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#39I find it works really well for listening to music in album format and getting more albums from the iTunes store. The store integration is well done and I love the (newish) UI that reacts to the colors of the album artwork.
For listening to music that is not in album format and/or which you didn't purchase via iTunes and for any other tasks they have bolted on, such as device management, I find it not so great.
Re: Ask HN: Do you hate iTunes?
#40It was so bad when i got my first iPod nano (2009) that I quickly actually gave up on using my iPod. It was such a faff getting music on it (using a windows based laptop) that I stopped changing my music and soon I lost interest in my iPod all together (couldn't be bothered to change the music). Later on, I've started using spotify on my android phone and it fully replaced my need of iTunes/apple products (iPod).