Itunes is bad?

[pmarion427]

after watching Linus' review of the Iphone 5s and hearing his opinion on Itunes I was wondering why people think it's a bad program. I've never had problems with it and it does the job, so why do you think Itunes is bad? what do you use instead and why? why should I change my music player? keep in mind I have an ipod I want to sync with my music player.

[Ryan Leech]

Its bad on windows

[coen113]

its terribly slow on windows, but its better on mac

[Volbet]

If you have an iPod you don't have much of a choice.

Personally I found iTunes to not be very user friendly, and some things are really counter intuitive, like the way you select multiple albums. 

I also never understood why it resets some of your settings after you update. 

I don't like the limited amount of file types iTunes can play. Why don't it support WAV and FLAC file?

 

As an alternative, I use Foobar2000. It's free and overall, I find it much better than iTunes.

[pmarion427]

its terribly slow on windows, but its better on mac

that I already knew, its on ssd and it still takes a while to load.  <_<

 

If you have an iPod you don't have much of a choice.

Personally I found iTunes to not be very user friendly, and some things are really counter intuitive, like the way you select multiple albums. 

I also never understood why it resets some of your settings after you update. 

I don't like the limited amount of file types iTunes can play. Why don't it support WAV and FLAC file?

 

As an alternative, I use Foobar2000. It's free and overall, I find it much better than iTunes.

looks ok, but can I sync my ipod with it? thats my main concern as I dont want multiple programs that do the same thing.

[coen113]

that I already knew, its on ssd and it still takes a while to load.  <_<

 

looks ok, but can I sync my ipod with it? thats my main concern as I dont want multiple programs that do the same thing.

it works, but just not that great

[Volbet]

that I already knew, its on ssd and it still takes a while to load.  <_<

 

looks ok, but can I sync my ipod with it? thats my main concern as I dont want multiple programs that do the same thing.

There is a plug-in that allows you to sync to an iPod, but I never got it to work. Granted, I never worked hard on getting it to work.

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dop

 

Edit; This might help:

[CornOnJacob]

There is a plug-in that allows you to sync to an iPod, but I never got it to work. Granted, I never worked hard on getting it to work.

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dop

I have a 3rd gen iPod Touch running iOS 5.1.1 (can't update any further) and the plugin never worked, even after a lot of troubleshooting. Foobar is amazing for everything besides syncing.

[tharvey]

foobar 2000 is way better..

[Hoppa]

it used to make my games laggy on my i7 930 because it took up alot of ram and processing power.

So Foobar2000 works a lot better (and looks cooler as well )

[pmarion427]

thanks everyone, I'll give foobar a try 

 

Edit: It's actually much better than I though it would be 

[tek inpektor]

Compared to Soundcloud yes.

 

https://soundcloud.com/

[TheArium]

Perhaps a bit slow but I've never found it to be a problem. I use it on my laptop and I like it.