I hate iTunes.

[Littles]

It gets all of my music mixed up where windows media player puts everything together in the correct album order. Why does it suck so bad, is there something I'm missing here? Is there anyway to link my ipod to WMP instead?

 

[potato28]

There's a plug-in somewheres, but I don't know where.

 

[Trevelyan]

I find iTunes music management to be the best of any MP3 player I've used. I can quickly find music by Artist, Album or Song title, and it keeps everything organized by the ID3 tags. It will even rearrange and keep an organized folder structure if I enable that feature.

I just cannot find the same quality in WMP11, Winamp or foobar. It's just too hard to navigate my massive music library. The only complaint I have with iTunes is that it can be slow, but I suppose thats because of its powerful library.

 

[zig3695]

www.jrmediacenter.com

 

[randomlinh]

if album order is your problem.. it's because you aren't sorting it correctly. or do you have a bunch of odd mixed artist cd's? those I find itunes hates. heh

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: zig3695
www.jrmediacenter.com

Wow its like a carbon copy of iTunes: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/i...s/Features/Tagging.jpg

 

[Schadenfroh]

Bloatfree alternatives to bloated programs

[*]vPod

• Tiny program that synchronizes media on PC with iPod (works with stock firmware)

[*]RockBox iPod Firmware

• Supports many new formats, your iPod can now play FLAC
• Allows you to load music via Windows Explorer, so no need to have preinstalled software on any computer to load and play music on your iPod
• I suggest using RockBox Utility to load it
• Open Source

 

[Littles]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
if album order is your problem.. it's because you aren't sorting it correctly. or do you have a bunch of odd mixed artist cd's? those I find itunes hates. heh

Yeah, that is the main problem, I listen to a lot of mixtapes. Well and it still gets tracks out of order. I never remember having this problem with WMP. I haven't used WMP in a while though. (haven't even touched the new version.)

 

[Barfo]

I haven't had a problem with iTunes sorting anything that is properly tagged.

 

[zig3695]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: zig3695
www.jrmediacenter.com

Wow its like a carbon copy of iTunes: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/i...s/Features/Tagging.jpg

anything but. they changed the appearance to go straight against itunes, but the comparisons stop there. jr rules all media players, hands down no question. period.

 

[Littles]

Christ, I just added a couple new albums. So I just went and hit "Add folder to library" thinking that it would just add the few new folders under that folder.....NOPE. I now have 90% of my music double listed...

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: zig3695

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: zig3695
www.jrmediacenter.com

Wow its like a carbon copy of iTunes: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/i...s/Features/Tagging.jpg

anything but. they changed the appearance to go straight against itunes, but the comparisons stop there. jr rules all media players, hands down no question. period.

Tell me more

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: zig3695

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: zig3695
www.jrmediacenter.com

Wow its like a carbon copy of iTunes: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/i...s/Features/Tagging.jpg

anything but. they changed the appearance to go straight against itunes, but the comparisons stop there. jr rules all media players, hands down no question. period.

Does it auto-download and install ALL codecs WITHOUT hassles?

 

[soydios]

I find iTunes+iPod to be the best integration and music management out there. Except that Apple apparently refused to test iTunes compatibility with any of the Windows Vista betas, so iTunes+Vista has some rather annoying glitches (cannot right-click on Taskbar block for iTunes, song corruption, etc.).

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Works like a champ in OS X land.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: zig3695

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: zig3695
www.jrmediacenter.com

Wow its like a carbon copy of iTunes: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/i...s/Features/Tagging.jpg

anything but. they changed the appearance to go straight against itunes, but the comparisons stop there. jr rules all media players, hands down no question. period.

So it's open source, accepts EVERY music codec, and allows for plug-ins?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

does it work with last.fm?