iTunes will never work well
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iTunes will never work well
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Re: iTunes will never work well
#2This isn't constructive, just spiteful and angry. I can't tell what problem OP actually has with iTunes.
Re: iTunes will never work well
#3This isn't constructive, just spiteful and angry. I can't tell what problem OP actually has with iTunes.
Hmm… I’m not spiteful, I just don’t have any hope for improvement. iTunes has been chronically bad, I could find thousands of other articles and testimonials about that. At this point the issue is clearly endemic to the product.
Constructively: everything else aside, one glaring and easily-fixed problem is the dialog boxes. No program released after 1997 should be so behind in the state of the art that it throws up modal dialogs that lock up the whole app to say pointless things like “We’re checking for updates”.
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#4I found the new iTunes for Mac to be quite clean (12.5)
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#5People always bash iTunes, but I actually use it quite often and I like it. Maybe it's just me though?
The only thing that bugs me, is on iOS, when I load the music app (that's basically iTunes for iOS, right?) it shows a blank page until it can connect to the their servers to grab some data. It doesn't have a problem if I'm on wifi or a fast connection, but I'm often in places where my service is shit, and I get a white screen and can't pick what music I want to listen to. My workaround is to pull the menu up from the bottom of the screen and just hit "play" and then it usually works.
But iTunes itself, I do like.
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#6Hah! I also literally had to Google how to play a song on repeat, but for me in the new iOS 10 Music app.
Re: iTunes will never work well
#7This isn't constructive, just spiteful and angry. I can't tell what problem OP actually has with iTunes.
The same problems everyone else has, from the sound of it.
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#8I've grown very fond of a CLI media player named cmus. It's lightning fast and does everything I need with a simple interface http://matthieukeller.com/media/2015.01/2015.01.cmus.png
I also keep aliases in my .bash_profile for streams like this:
alias bbc='/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --quiet -Idummy http://bbcwssc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcwssc_mp1_ws-eieuk 2> /dev/null'Re: iTunes will never work well
#9Hah! I also literally had to Google how to play a song on repeat, but for me in the new iOS 10 Music app.
I found that on accident the other day. It wasn't very discoverable, but on the whole, I'm really enjoying the UI revamp.
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#10I've switched to using Plex now, I find iTunes and the Music app way to complicated to use and constantly throwing up dialog boxes when all I want to do is listen to some music.
I've never truly understood how the people who gave us Safari and OS X gave us iTunes - they couldn't be more different.