Dan the Man
05-04-2008, 07:25 AM
I've never been more infuriated by a single piece of software as I have with iTunes. If it isn't the fact that there is no information available regarding what bug fixes and improvements have been implemented into a new patch, it's the fact that there's absolutely no logic to the way the software behaves!
These are my current issues with the software:
At the moment there is a discrepancy of 42 songs between the iTunes library on my PC and what's on my iPod Classic. After so many damn updates to the software you would think that by now there'd be some kind of verification that the song lists match between the two, but no. I managed to find an album on my iPod that's missing tracks, and tried changing the track info in iTunes so that the next time I synched my iPod those missing tracks would be transferred, but after doing this only 1 out of 6 actually copied across!
I spent a while deleting composer information from my music, and in order to check that it had all gone I enabled the composer column in the music view. What then happened was that, while I was online, if ever I played a track, its composer information would be updated automatically. To stop iTunes from doing this I had to delete all the composer information again and disable viewing that column.
There's a podcast I downloaded that for some reason is in my iTunes library three times, and I can't get rid of the two extra copies without iTunes warning me that it's trying to copy them to my iPod the next time I sync it. It only shows up once in both iTunes and on my iPod, but if I remove that one then the others are still there taking up disk space.
iTunes lets you view your music by album, with artwork, but for some reason some of my albums would have the first track separate from the rest. To solve this I had to highlight all the tracks in an album and edit the track info so that it all matched up. However, after doing this I still have two albums that are split up randomly, one of which is split three ways. No matter what I do to the song info I cannot get the tracks to sit within the one album.
Changing file information within iTunes is supposed to update the iTunes Music folder automatically if you have that option selected, but many times I end up with my music or TV episodes sitting in separate folders on my PC. Also, the fact that iTunes doesn't delete empty folders is really annoying if ever I'm browsing my music library through Windows Explorer, as I find myself having to check that all these weirdly named folders are actually empty of files!
I have a series of about 14 free video podcasts that play fine in iTunes, but the first five of them do not play on my iPod. They're already in iPod format, and if I use iTunes to convert them to the right format, the audio becomes corrupted. (I think this is something to do with the generation of iPod Classic).
Anyway, that's my rant over. Do other people have similar problems? It must be mainly to do with the database format that Apple use to organise libraries. What's so good about the database system anyway - it's probably the main reason why people find it so hard to transfer music from iPod to PC. (Well, that and the fact that Apple don't want people to be able to do it in the first place. Question: if all this third party software is legal, then why don't Apple just implement iPod-to-PC functionality into iTunes themselves?).
Oh yeah, and Apple's telephone support sucks.
These are my current issues with the software:
At the moment there is a discrepancy of 42 songs between the iTunes library on my PC and what's on my iPod Classic. After so many damn updates to the software you would think that by now there'd be some kind of verification that the song lists match between the two, but no. I managed to find an album on my iPod that's missing tracks, and tried changing the track info in iTunes so that the next time I synched my iPod those missing tracks would be transferred, but after doing this only 1 out of 6 actually copied across!
I spent a while deleting composer information from my music, and in order to check that it had all gone I enabled the composer column in the music view. What then happened was that, while I was online, if ever I played a track, its composer information would be updated automatically. To stop iTunes from doing this I had to delete all the composer information again and disable viewing that column.
There's a podcast I downloaded that for some reason is in my iTunes library three times, and I can't get rid of the two extra copies without iTunes warning me that it's trying to copy them to my iPod the next time I sync it. It only shows up once in both iTunes and on my iPod, but if I remove that one then the others are still there taking up disk space.
iTunes lets you view your music by album, with artwork, but for some reason some of my albums would have the first track separate from the rest. To solve this I had to highlight all the tracks in an album and edit the track info so that it all matched up. However, after doing this I still have two albums that are split up randomly, one of which is split three ways. No matter what I do to the song info I cannot get the tracks to sit within the one album.
Changing file information within iTunes is supposed to update the iTunes Music folder automatically if you have that option selected, but many times I end up with my music or TV episodes sitting in separate folders on my PC. Also, the fact that iTunes doesn't delete empty folders is really annoying if ever I'm browsing my music library through Windows Explorer, as I find myself having to check that all these weirdly named folders are actually empty of files!
I have a series of about 14 free video podcasts that play fine in iTunes, but the first five of them do not play on my iPod. They're already in iPod format, and if I use iTunes to convert them to the right format, the audio becomes corrupted. (I think this is something to do with the generation of iPod Classic).
Anyway, that's my rant over. Do other people have similar problems? It must be mainly to do with the database format that Apple use to organise libraries. What's so good about the database system anyway - it's probably the main reason why people find it so hard to transfer music from iPod to PC. (Well, that and the fact that Apple don't want people to be able to do it in the first place. Question: if all this third party software is legal, then why don't Apple just implement iPod-to-PC functionality into iTunes themselves?).
Oh yeah, and Apple's telephone support sucks.