I really screwed up this weekend. I am a PC-boy by default. I know that Mac has advantages but I just never owned an Apple (if you don’t count the Apple 2c) The iPod was my first re-introduction onto Apple and I absolutely LOVE iTunes! I raved about it and recommended it as a player to anyone who asked, even if they didn’t own an iPod. That was, until this week. I saw the new update iTunes v7 was out so I downloaded it without thinking twice.
It sucks so far.
I wish I could go back to v6. I’m sure some of it is just getting used to some changes but the one that kicked me in the nuts was EVERY SINGLE ONE of my settings defaulted! Including where my music library is located, how it names files and how it handles purchases.
I now have an Audiobook folder, that’s cool except I can’t add any of my audiobooks into the folder unless I bought them from Apple!
Games. I’ve played the games on my iPod like twice now. I don’t need them. I don’t want them. Why must I see new games available for purchase on the iTunes Music Store? Well, at least they were honest about that one, they took “music” out of the title. Maybe that’s a telling sign…
The store is now frustratingly cluttered with shit I don’t want and I can’t find any way (if there even is one) of turning off the stuff I’ll never use.
I have no desire to purchase movies through this format but I am inundated with these fucking things like they were the cure for cancer. Why can’t I set iTunes to stop showing me TV, movie and music video files unless I ask for them?!?! Or at least keep them to a minimum.
The video screen I do use is for video podcasts. Now there’s a freaking control bar ON the video rather than underneath it. Why?
My scroll wheel on my mouse stopped rolling the iTunes screen up and down. It still works on all my other apps, just not on the new iTunes. I’m sure it’s a setting somewhere but I can’t find it! I never realized before how often I used the scroll wheel until it doesn’t work.
There’s a new pattern to when I can and when I can not click the titles to the songs. I haven’t figured it out yet but it’s KILLING ME!!! I double click, nothing happens. I click once to make sure iTunes is the active application, the background color brightens; good, double click, now the title is highlighted and I’m renaming the song. WTF!?!?!? I’m not stupid and I’m not new to the computer. Why is this happening?
The double click/rename problem is probably related to the fact that iTunes seems to be running MUCH slower now. I don’t have a slow computer. I am well beyond the recommended specs, why is iTunes bogging down?
It’s probably because it’s calling Lars Ulrich and James Hatfield to report me for music piracy (Napster BAD!!!). When I loaded iTunes and finally got it to recognize my library, it scanned every song in my files (took 20 minutes!) to create “gapless playback”. A few seconds later it tells me it can download any missing artwork. The first cool feature I’ve seen. All my old CDs that I loaded will now have artwork because there’s NO way I’m scanning in all those covers. Right on! As I tell it to go ahead and get the artwork, it warns me that records will be kept (somewhere, but not by Apple) about every file I have with missing artwork. So, they want me to believe that they scanned my entire music collection without asking and then tell me that they are tracking me? I am not denying it, I may have a song or two on my computer that I have come across for free but who the hell are they to decide which one I got from legitimate free sources and which one I got from the music pirates? Fuck them!
It’s time I listened to my friends and check out some of the other cool music apps out there. Sounds like I have outgrown iTunes.
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