Hatred of Itunes

yes cosine

I guess we're supposed to sit back and assume that STREAMING WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING.

yep

files on your own computer are so 2011

I finally abandoned iTunes and having files on my computer. Since I haven't had a real desktop in years, the hard drives have too small for my iTunes library, so I use Spotify and then records when I really want to listen to music.

I miss having some not-officially-released tracks that were in my library but Spotify handles 99% of it without issue.

you are freaking me out

i couldn't see an album in the Music app on my iPhone that i knew i had, had to use search to find it

album displays fine in cesium - that was crashing for a while but seems fixed, so goodbye Music

had to use apple music again today and the UI is just spectacularly, hallucinatorily bad, it is crazy

even if it were the nutz though, the fact that it forgets what what point you were in the song you were listening to (like, ahem dj mixes), if it has to unload itself from your iphone's memory, is unforgiveable

iTunes' flakiness had been getting so bad for me that last night I deleted all playlists, music, everything and reimported my files. I hadn't reset my iTunes library in close to 10 years so who knows what the library files were looking like.

So much better now!

Not being able to edit stream URLs in the info box anymore really pisses me off. My WFMU stream's playcount was at 4500+ until they changed the stream address the other day.

iTunes has crashed and deleted my entire library twice in the last couple of months.

I really can't be bothered to reinstall it all this time, I'm just streaming shit for the time being.

itunes now won't add new podcasts, synch with my ipad or let me access my old purchases. nice work, apple.

For some reason starting today, whenever I manually copy music from my library to my iPhone, it doesn't copy the artwork- each track I copy to my phone has its artwork replaced with a seemingly random other track's. I've updated iTunes and my phone but I can't find any way around it.

lolll forever at this piece of shit program, it's really quite something

the 'rack of guitars' icon for the "genres" column label is nice though

just had to use it this week. ipod no longer has any menus associated with it. you need to click on a tiny icon to access it.

I thought this retrohack was pretty clever, though I doubt I'd ever commit to such a project:
http://imgur.com/a/VmT9e

Does anybody use Roon?

kudos to dude for having ifixit's guide that also shows pictures and steps to do exactly what he's doing open in the background.

i don't think i've updated iTunes in years

I desperately want to buy something off iTunes Japan, is this easy to do or do I have to jump through a shit ton of hoops

The purchase of digital media from countries other than your own almost always involves a piracy-promotingly high level of hoop jumping.

and likely you can "find" it online somewhere

I wish - there's a few things that haven't appeared in the usual spots yet

Was hoping someone developed a more streamlined process where you could just PayPal and get the MP3s, but I guess not - everything involves buying weird gift cards and changing a bunch of iTunes settings

Depends on how obscure your needs are, I suppose. Depending on the genre, there are lots of forums/message boards where I've found a request will go a long ways. Too bad we can't have a request thread for that kind of thing around here or ILM, but the mods don't like it.

slsk

yw

otm

(hi tracer!)

hello dandy don :)

yeah no luck there either

is it in japanese?

one of them is - I've searched for both the English and Japanese titles

have you ever seen them posted online in a search? Like, you located what you were looking for but the link to the file(s) was dead?

nah haven't seen anything like that either. just links to purchase really expensive copies.

Not much help, I know!

Ehh yes I'd think you could find some japanese forums where things might be shared but since I don't know japanese...haha.

You could make friends with a person in Japan (via forum or whatever) and have them purchase the files on iTunes then have your new friend export them to MP3 then send the files your way. I did that about 10 years ago but I lost track of her so I can't hook you up.

Holy shit WinAmp is back!

that hasn't been updated in a few years iirc?

Yeah that's about right. Seems like there's a big reboot on the way now though.

well I bit the bullet and jumped through the hoops

actually isn't too hard, just find the address of a Japanese hotel and make a dummy account. the store is nearly entirely translated to English so it's not too difficult to find stuff

only complaint is how weirdly expensive it is, albums are about $18 apiece and individual songs are about $2.50

still better than $25 + shipping per CD though

Too bad we can't have a request thread for that kind of thing around here or ILM, but the mods don't like it

Well, there's this one:

A thread for hooking people up with stuff that's out of print.

anyone ever used Roon (https://roonlabs.com/index.html) to replace itunes?

It's a good idea. There's an add-on to iTunes, or there used to be, that did something similar. Not quite sold on those screenshots tho I will try it.

Now if someone made an iTunes script that could load up the relevant ILX threads in a floating window....

that looks pretty cool! the emphasis on portability is nice

lol wait they want $10/month for aggregating songkick info etc? nnnno

Am gonna use it for a couple of weeks and honestly it's what iTunes should be...the metadata is appreciated (yes Songkick or whomever they are licensing to). Here are early thoughts:

- The default setting is auto shuffle and there seems to be some sort of algo as a basis e.g. Sloan-->Beulah--Warm Soda-->Weezer-->Andrew...yet on shuffle it doesn't play any of the bands that were stated as "influences" in the algo. So, weird.

- There's loads information displayed, that's for sure...

- There's also some weird GUI issues...two clicks to play a track is odd. It doesn't pull lyrics from ID3, it tries to look them up and thus if it can't find them on lookup it thinks it doesn't have the lyrics. In fact, can only summon lyrics if in Album mode. Doesn't connect to last.fm. Connects to TIDAL but not Spotify.

Not worth $114.

I will add that the sound is better through my DAC. Or, at least EQd with stronger bass or something.

I held off updating iTunes for several months due to a growing conviction that iTunes updates generally do more harm than good. Finally gave in a few days ago, to discover that the new version takes away all cover art in the "Artists" sidebar and removes the option to refresh a non-subscribed podcast, while providing no discernible benefits. Why do they do this.

Well one good thing is that they finally fixed the long standing bug where iTunes would rescan thousands of tracks for gapless audio over and over again.

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHH!H!HH!H!