iTunes Rant
Anyone else remember when iTunes was a relatively good way to -
Am I a lone voice in the wilderness?
I still think it does everything pretty easily.
What you have to remember is when iTunes came on the go people were still buying vinyl and CD’s so it was pretty simple to use because it was quite advanced stuff for the everyday person being able to listen to masses of music through your computer. But peoples knowledge and expectations have evolved, so has technology and so has iTunes. 
The search feature is all messed up now.
Nope. I don’t remember when iTunes was good for anything other than consuming CPU and disc space.
Don’t all applications use CPU and disk space?
Nope.
iTunes was programmed by the Devil himself to absolutely ruin my collection organisation, inject duplicates into the mix, and delete random rarities.
iTunes can suck my iCock…
Sounds like a noob problem lol.
iTunes is awesome but the last update just shat on my parade lol.
To do half the simple things I did before I now have to 2 like 5 different things.
Yes…but not in the way that iTunes does. First, I use Windows not OSX for DJing. Perhaps that is an important clarification…I do typically use iTunes on Windows. However, my wife has OSX on her laptop - so I do get to compare the two “side by side.” There is a vast difference between the CPU & disc footprint between iTunes on OSX and on Windows. I get that iTunes is the only beachhead that Apple has on Windows…but the resource usage of iTunes on Windows is well out of proportion compared to the same stats on OSX.
For comparison, I typically use MediaMonkey for my collection management. My collection is on the order of 300GB of mp3’s and about 1.5TB of FLAC (same songs, ripped to FLAC for archive and converted to mp3 for gigs). I use iTunes to build playlists for Traktor, and I have about 50GB of music in the iTunes library. When running, both iTunes & MM consume the same amount of virtual memory, and MM can complete a search of my full collection in about 1/3 the time of iTunes searching through a small subset of my collection.
I think iTunes is the best option out there. Especially for a Traktor user. I have had no problems with it ever. No CPU spikes, No lost or missing files, Smart Playlists do their job to an awesome degree, I use one library across multiple PC’s and Traktor Collections. Its just great. Its seems I am one of few.
Check out this link on a bit of iTunes knowledge:
Hm, I guess it’s a good thing I’ve been holding off with the update 
Missed this one DJ2C - nice one - thank you.
Almost forced into it in South Africa - we have been unable to open iTunes accounts in South Africa right up until January 2013. For ‘copyright reasons’ - go figure. We only came online this year, and in order to ‘benefit’ from this, we had to update to the latest version. My last update was 2 years ago. I have watched the updates closely, and most have to do with optimising the sync function(s). I don’t have an iPhone, iPad or Mac and never saw the need to update.
Hate iTunes…Wish it never existed!
Jobs. Steve Jobs
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Hate iTunes…Wish it never existed!
I still use iTunes for my playlists in Traktor and I got no issues at all. However, I heard the last update was awful so I have no yet installed that.
I’ve always used it t sort my music files out. The only problem I get is it likes to keep jumping back to album art view every now and then.
Don’t
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Nice one…
Never installed iTunes on pc, never opened it on my mac - devil’s software I tell thee…
And the heavenly alternative is…?