BURN IN HELL, iTUNES!

[Syt]

Whatever happened to just dragging/dropping your music folders onto your portable player and having a slim software for playback/playlists?

And worse, whatever happened to hackers who still haven't found a way to install new firmware on the iCrap Classic?



BURN IN HELL ALL Y'ALL! 

[DontSayBanana]

Dude, see your blog thread.

Executive summary: move the files and then change the xml playlist to match before starting iTunes. Strip DRMs if possible.

[Syt]

Dude, see your blog thread.

Executive summary: move the files and then change the xml playlist to match before starting iTunes. Strip DRMs if possible.

Already seen it. Doesn't change my opinion, though.

[Barrister]

You're crazy man.  iTunes works just fine. 

[Syt]

You're crazy man.  iTunes works just fine. 

No - I used my old player as external HD so I could play music on my computer at work directly from the player. I can forget about that now.

[DontSayBanana]

You're crazy man.  iTunes works just fine. 

Really? A buttload of experience troubleshooting the GF's MacBook (a month playing ping-pong with tech support and AppleCare... in 3-day, overnight-shipping segments!) and constant problems with iTunes (think we're on our 5th or 6th iteration) have pretty much told me all I need to know about Apple- product reliability: C-; tech support quality: D+.

[The Brain]

:nelson

[Ed Anger]

You're crazy man.  iTunes works just fine. 

Do I need to bring out Watermelon cat again?

[DontSayBanana]

You're crazy man.  iTunes works just fine. 

Do I need to bring out Watermelon cat again?

No need. I just started a counter-Beeb-taint thread.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Does iTunes let you burn a CD in MP3 format or does it still insist on waves that suck up almost all the space? 

I recall it being a royal bitch to transfer music between computers too.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

itunes is weak in terms of organizational logic, but I've never had issues in terms of song transfer, or drm issues. You couldn't pay me to pay for music through the store though. The store is for the same people who buy lotto tickets.

I also never use it to burn discs. any cd player that doesn't play mp3s just sitting in folders  on your discs is not worth whatever you paid for it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

itunes is weak in terms of organizational logic, but I've never had issues in terms of song transfer, or drm issues. You couldn't pay me to pay for music through the store though. The store is for the same people who buy lotto tickets.

I also never use it to burn discs. any cd player that doesn't play mp3s just sitting in folders  on your discs is not worth whatever you paid for it.

I like to put MP3s on disk for my car as I'm not a l33t youth with gadgets coming out of my ass.  As I recall iTunes wouldn't burn MP3s to disk. 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I've done that I'm sure, but I prefer to use "Toast" for disc burning. more efficient, works in more other computers/players.

[Tonitrus]

I have burned both music/audio CDs(for car CD players) and MP3 CDs with iTunes.

iTunes will only burn MP3 CDs with their updated, DRM-free (or you own, non-iTunes store content) music, of course.

I had some older iTunes-bought music (before I knew/cared better).  I pretty much buy exclusively from Amazon nowadays.