Itunes

[ViperXX]

Holy f@ck I hate itunes. I just bought a song. The song only half downloaded and it only plays for 30 secs then loops to the start. I need to re download it. I deleted the original file but there is no option in itunes to re download the file.

 

[utahraptor]

I also hate iTunes, but not because I use it, but because my boss does

 

[IronWing]

In the iTunes Store homepage look at the Quick Links on the righthand side of the screen and click on "Purchased". You should be able to re-download from there.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

My Blackberry gives me none of these problems. It just works..

 

[bbhaag]

Every time I think about dl itunes I remind myself that's just not worth it. I tried it once and that was enough. It took me two days of googling just to get it fully removed off my computer. No thanks, I'd rather use Amazon.

 

[saratoga172]

Eh while it sucks and takes 10x longer to launch than anything else it works. No issues with music or the radio player in it.

 

[gorcorps]

Eh while it sucks and takes 10x longer to launch than anything else it works. No issues with music or the radio player in it.

That's the thing though... It DOESN'T work properly a lot of the time, which is what the point of the thread was. ITunes was the primary reason I moved from iPhone to android.

 

[John Connor]

I don't do the proprietary shit anymore. I had Rhapsody and had about $100 bucks in music and then they decided to change shit and the encrypted RAX files are usless to me now. I just buy MP3's on Amazon.

 

[Centauri]

^What is proprietary about iTunes exactly? AAC/MP4 is open-format, and it's technically superior in every way to MP3.

 

[mugs]

Holy f@ck I hate itunes. I just bought a song. The song only half downloaded and it only plays for 30 secs then loops to the start. I need to re download it. I deleted the original file but there is no option in itunes to re download the file.

To see how hard it was to re-download a previously purchased song, I deleted one of my purchased songs. The file was deleted, but the entry remained in my collection with an iCloud link that I could click to re-download the song. Maybe this only shows up if you have iTunes Match though? So I tried to find another way. I clicked the iTunes Store link in the sidebar and saw a "Purchased" on the home page. Seems like a good place to download purchased songs. Yeah, it displayed all songs I have purchased that aren't in my library.

Did you look at all for an option to re-download the song that you deleted? It was so easy to find, it's hard to believe you tried and failed to find it.

 

[QueBert]

Eh while it sucks and takes 10x longer to launch than anything else it works. No issues with music or the radio player in it.

exaggerate much? I just opened it on my computer, as soon as my finger came off the macro key it was already open.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't use Apple products. They will never get a penny of my money, and I won't give legitimacy to their ecosystem by participating in the "free" portions of it. iTunes software is a big piece of shit anyway.

 

[silicon]

I don't use Apple products. They will never get a penny of my money, and I won't give legitimacy to their ecosystem by participating in the "free" portions of it. iTunes software is a big piece of shit anyway.

I agree that itunes is a big pile of crap although purchasing and downloading is fairly easy. The problem is when putting songs into my ipod...it seems itunes wants to delete or synchronize with the ipod. So i bought another program to add and remove songs from my ipod...i only purchase music with itunes now.

 

[QueBert]

I agree that itunes is a big pile of crap although purchasing and downloading is fairly easy. The problem is when putting songs into my ipod...it seems itunes wants to delete or synchronize with the ipod. So i bought another program to add and remove songs from my ipod...i only purchase music with itunes now.

Nothing even comes close to iTunes imho, every morning when my alarm goes off I have a script run which syncs the iPod in my car over wifi with a different smart playlist depending on the day of the week. I have tried every program from WMP to Foobar to Mediamonkey, nothing has the feature set. Music is about playlists and everything else pretty much sucks at making playlists. I even use iTunes to sync music to my Android phone.

 

[jeffrey]

I use iTunes with my iPhone, but I prefer to get my music from Google Play because the encoding is 320 kbit/s vs 256 kbit/s at either Amazon or iTunes.

 

[fjmeat]

i click iTunes on my Mac. the icon just bounces, iTunes never opens.

 

[lxskllr]

Music is about playlists and everything else pretty much sucks at making playlists.

Machines will never choose the music I want to hear. They don't have the ability. If I want a playlist, I make a playlist. I also don't want anything "synced" aside from a small selection of documents I use in several areas. Again, I manually add what I need, and it gets duplicated across devices.

 

[Imp]

I think it used to be that if you lost your downloads, you had to go through customer service. A few weeks back, I went exploring and found the "Purchased" section to redownload things automatically.

The pisser is that my oldest purchases from iTunes can't be played outside iTunes due to the stupid DRM crap. Think they've moved away from the DRM because I've been able to play most of the newer stuff that I bought in the past few years with WMA now.

 

[mmntech]

I think it used to be that if you lost your downloads, you had to go through customer service. A few weeks back, I went exploring and found the "Purchased" section to redownload things automatically.

The pisser is that my oldest purchases from iTunes can't be played outside iTunes due to the stupid DRM crap. Think they've moved away from the DRM because I've been able to play most of the newer stuff that I bought in the past few years with WMA now.

Apple dropped all DRM from audio downloads back in 2009. Sadly video content is still infected with it.

 

[Sattern]

I don't like Apple other than for their Macbook Pros, their phones have too many problems and the products they offer are very expensive compared to either custom build or competitor pricing.

 

[Ichinisan]

I agree that itunes is a big pile of crap although purchasing and downloading is fairly easy. The problem is when putting songs into my ipod...it seems itunes wants to delete or synchronize with the ipod. So i bought another program to add and remove songs from my ipod...i only purchase music with itunes now.

Well, now an iOS device can show your purchases with all your music, without synching at all. They'll stream as if they're on the device. Each purchased song and album will have a little cloud icon you can tap to download it I'm case you're worried about data rates on-the-go. I prefer to free up storage on my device.

A PC/MAC iTunes app is completely out of the picture.

 

[John Connor]

iCrap.

 

[John Connor]

^What is proprietary about iTunes exactly? AAC/MP4 is open-format, and it's technically superior in every way to MP3.

Can't use other MP3 players, can you?

 

[Ichinisan]

Can't use other MP3 players, can you?

I think many of them do support Apple formats.

 

[lxskllr]

Can't use other MP3 players, can you?

MP4 is patent encumbered. You can play Itunes music on any competent player, but if you have a competent player, why not *ogg? I would never purchase music that can't be played completely freely. Downloading is one thing, but paying money for the privilege is tacit endorsement.

Edit:
*ogg is only a container format. It's been colloquially used to refer to vorbis encoding, but with the emergence of opus, it probably isn't sufficient anymore. I haven't switched to opus due to Rockbox on my Sansa having some issues with it, but it's the codec of the future.