Comments on: I positively hate iTunes

By: tonel0k

tonel0k — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:30:59 +0000

Oh, sure it is, smartass.

By: jr

jr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:39:17 +0000

LIE. Not true.

By: tonel0k

tonel0k — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:52:55 +0000

Elsewhere:

Apple iTunes 10 is about to drop support for CD ripping

According to the sources not being disclosed, Apple is about to drop the support for ripping your audio CDs in the coming new version of iTunes 10. That is, you will no longer be able to transfer you existing audio CDs to your iPod using iTunes only. Rumors are that adding already ripped MP3 files will still be possible, though.

“We are committed to delivering high quality and valuable entertainment through the integrated Apple Store, and we are extremely pleased by its growing success over the last years. The decision to drop CD import functionality is just a part of a bigger, innovative plan to move away from the aging music distribution format. Other than that, scheduled for version 11 of iTunes is even more tight integration with Apple Store and DRM technologies to assure highest quality of music distribution possible, as well as to prevent low-quality music downloads commonly available over the Internet from being associated with the premium products iTunes, iPod and iPhone are…”

That is. Suddenly, you will have to throw away your music collection unless it was purchased through Apple Store.

By: iTunes Music Blog

iTunes Music Blog — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:14:24 +0000

I can\’t believe no one has made that point yet!!! Good work on really nailing down the correct approach. I\’m going to link to this from my blog roll, ok?

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:54:53 +0000

Rename the executables you don’t want to have start. Place a new text file into the directory. Rename it to the old file name. iTunes tries to start the application. It can’t, so it lives without it. Used to work in iTunes 5. I haven’t tried it in a while.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:13:30 +0000

@Dan – aha, I wasn’t sure if it would work if I uninstalled those. Now I will. Thanks.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:10:26 +0000

Just uninstall Bonjour and mobile device support before running itunes 8 once you’ve installed it

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:04:37 +0000

@Jack – thanks, will do.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:32:22 +0000

check out atunes on sourceforge.
worth a look.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:21:19 +0000

@Saad I hate quicktime too

By: Saad Akhtar

Saad Akhtar — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:50:47 +0000

I also dont like iTunes. But then I dont like anything by Apple.

Specially hate the fact that iTuneshelper is automatically loaded when I install quicktime. Which I installed just to watch some trailers.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:53:18 +0000

@acerious – That is one wild coincidence. Well, I never noticed the size, but yes… that too

By: acerious

acerious — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:07:24 +0000

You also forgot to mention that from 2006 F***! iTunes just crashed as i was typing this wow..

As i was saying, you also forgot to mention that the size of iTunes which from 2006 is around 45 megs has increased to a whopping 70.15mb on the 7.7.1 update. I googled around why the size of the installer is getting huge and I found this. iTunes does eat a lot of CPU cycles indeed.

Here is a little something for the folks down at Apple.

http://i34.tinypic.com/2qwncs1.jpg

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:38:24 +0000

I just realized that not only does this require a large number of processes to be run, the stupid thing also created a large number of Add/Remove entries in my Add/Remove Programs.

How do they make sure that I accidentally don’t remove something that is needed?

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:55:27 +0000

Sigh… I am still away from migrating to an Apple platform…. so I guess I am stuck.