I used it when necessary, but when out of practice, it always seemed like it's default operation was to delete all my songs from my device. It's second most likely operation was to try to fill my device with my entire library. In short, it was always hard to use, impossible to trust, and generally useless for anyone with a collection of music files that existed prior to iTunes.
Agreed.. except it sucked on Mac too. If you had already existing large, well organized collection of digital music in various formats (mp3,flac, ape, etc) then iTunes was not the app for you. Actually it was was one of the worst applications I ever attempted to use. It's ridiculous default behaviors and counter intuitive interface were so frustrating. I even tried using a Mac for a year to see if buying into the whole ecosystem was needed. Nope. iTunes was an app designed with no care whatsoever for w
Agreed.. except it sucked on Mac too. If you had already existing large, well organized collection of digital music in various formats (mp3,flac, ape, etc) then iTunes was not the app for you. Actually it was was one of the worst applications I ever attempted to use. It's ridiculous default behaviors and counter intuitive interface were so frustrating. I even tried using a Mac for a year to see if buying into the whole ecosystem was needed. Nope. iTunes was an app designed with no care whatsoever for what the customer wanted. This was many years ago but I was never able to find an app on the Mac that could easily manage a very large collection of digital music in various formats so after one year of trying gave the Mac to my wife (she still likes them) and went back to Foobar 2000 on the PC.
Your objections regarding flac, ape, (and ogg) are (or at least in the case of flac, were) duly noted.
However, all of iTunes "counter intuitive interface" issues are neatly negated by the use of "Column Browser" mode. Can't imagine a more intuitive interface; especially for large collections.
It was never intuitive on Windows (Score:2)
I used it when necessary, but when out of practice, it always seemed like it's default operation was to delete all my songs from my device. It's second most likely operation was to try to fill my device with my entire library. In short, it was always hard to use, impossible to trust, and generally useless for anyone with a collection of music files that existed prior to iTunes.
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Agreed .. except it sucked on Mac too. If you had already existing large, well organized collection of digital music in various formats (mp3,flac, ape, etc) then iTunes was not the app for you. Actually it was was one of the worst applications I ever attempted to use. It's ridiculous default behaviors and counter intuitive interface were so frustrating. I even tried using a Mac for a year to see if buying into the whole ecosystem was needed. Nope. iTunes was an app designed with no care whatsoever for w
Re:It was never intuitive on Windows (Score:2)
Agreed .. except it sucked on Mac too. If you had already existing large, well organized collection of digital music in various formats (mp3,flac, ape, etc) then iTunes was not the app for you. Actually it was was one of the worst applications I ever attempted to use. It's ridiculous default behaviors and counter intuitive interface were so frustrating. I even tried using a Mac for a year to see if buying into the whole ecosystem was needed. Nope. iTunes was an app designed with no care whatsoever for what the customer wanted. This was many years ago but I was never able to find an app on the Mac that could easily manage a very large collection of digital music in various formats so after one year of trying gave the Mac to my wife (she still likes them) and went back to Foobar 2000 on the PC.
Your objections regarding flac, ape, (and ogg) are (or at least in the case of flac, were) duly noted.
However, all of iTunes "counter intuitive interface" issues are neatly negated by the use of "Column Browser" mode. Can't imagine a more intuitive interface; especially for large collections.