Hatred of Itunes

itunes' saving grace is this wonderful site:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/

despise compilations...I want "artists" to show up as "artist" not "compilation". maybe doug's got a script to do that, because if you select multiple tracks, you can't unclick the "part of a compilation"

this one might do it -

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=notpartofacompilation

although this is a v good program for dealing with ID3 tags in general -

http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html

Media Rage is amazing. I remember using it way back when OS 9 was around, so I'm glad to see it's still alive and kicking.

I'm on a PC...

oh yeah sry - i'm sure there are even better ID3 programs for the PC

Mediamonkey will be able to do pretty much everything said above. Search is great, you can browse by file directory, artist, year, whatever you want. Convert filenames from tag information. You can make a playlist with your duplicates. There's a lot of playlist stuff you can do. And it is free, though there is a commercial version with bells and whistles. Seriously, try this.

Winamp can do a lot of it too with its library, but not so much the file changing level.

Mp3tag is a great free dedicated program for tag cleanup and sorting, also does the fancy filename from tag stuff.

This update is taking the piss. JUST WANNA PLAY WITH NU ILX IPOD APP!

Status: copying old files
Status: validating install
Status: checking component registration
Status: validating install
Status: chillin with sum hos
Ststus: hold on imma thinka sumfing

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Haha yeah I got that when I did the upgrade dance cos I had to u/g the ipod to v3, which meant downloading it, which meant upgrading iTunes, which meant all the above. It seemed like it took 20 mins to install.

I only use itunes to copy shit over to my tooch tho - winamp rules all.

about once a week, iTunes stops recognizing my iPhone and i have to reinstall it.

AWESOME! THE FUTURE!

last night i installed my iPhone into the pavement. after i deinstalled i noticed that it had been "cracked" as the young programmers say.

The Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please has given me the first occasion to think about podcasts since 2007 or so, but itunes is giving me shit for it.

For some reason, none of the podcasts I download will sync to my ipod. I checked out some forums and the advice I found most often was to set my ipod to be synced manually. I tried that out and it worked, but from the standpoint of someone who acquires large amounts of music on a regular basis, it has been an unwelcome change.

Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks.

Nevermind, I just found the solution.

http://www.podcastpickle.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t8808.html

Neeeeevermind.

So, I'm an IT manager and my department just bought twenty iPads. Apparently I cant just set them all up on the same iTunes account; I need 20 different credit cards and 20 different iTunes accounts and 20 iTunes installations on 20 different boxes. And if there's an OS update or an app I want my people to buy, I need to purchase and download it 20 times.

This is the worst computer application ever written by anybody.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/mdm/

I dunno. I use iTunes and it does quite well. The only real problem I have is that it seems to randomly convert my MP3s to some weird format that won't play on my iPod unless I hit "Convert ID3 tags" on them. I really have no idea why it does that. Other than that I don't have any real complaints. Every software has its problems.

dont get itunes hate, i mean you should see the state of winamp

I'm pretty sure you can have an itunes account set up with a limited amount of computers? Years ago when I ran into that problem it gave me a no more than three to an account limit or something, maybe five. That could have been the case 6 years ago though.

hey here is an iTunes problem.

If I click Pop as genre then it accepts it, then actually labels the track as

[Rock-Pop] Indie Pop

I cannot find a solution to this.
Any advice welcome.

Only listen to indie pop?

Every time I load a CD, it labels it "indie rock", like this is still 1993 or something.

I need 20 different credit cards

Haven't investigated Joe's link yet, but when I had this problem in the past I found that you could 'gift' apps from one account to another.

Barbara Brotman on her war itunes Genius.

Here is the article. Sorry for the typo.

It was a victory for Hoku!

I ponied up for a song by heroin poster child Nico. "The Acid Queen" by The Who, the aural equivalent of 200 micrograms of blotter. Ten Years After's "Love Like a Man," a misogynist classic beloved by 14-year-old boys in 1970 and also, for some reason, a middle-aged mom in 2011.

You download Herman's Hermits but are offended by Britney Spears and the Cowsills.

"The Acid Queen" by The Who, the aural equivalent of 200 micrograms of blotter.

She's got some cold, hard truths to face up to about the "acid" she was taking.

This article is an ad for itunes, which I chucked in favor of Spotify (which doesn't have these stupid analyzers).

Can anyone help me with this shitty iTunes issue?

I load music on my iPhone. When I connect my phone to my computer at work, I can browse and play the songs on my phone, but I can't arrange them any way I like - including by track number so I can, say, play an album from start to finish. iTunes only lets me play the tracks as they were uploaded to the phone, in a random, haphazard manner. One solution for this is to make playlists, but I can't be bothered to make playlists for every album I put on my phone. Is there a setting I need to change/unlock so I can find an album, arrange it from first track to last and play like that?

no, sorry. i dunno what's up w that. my tale of hatred and woe:

i wiped and restored my hard drive last year. when i did this, i had to reinstall itunes. okay fine, but i foolishly allowed it to "keep itunes media folder organized" (the default setting). holy fuck! it went through my folder of miscellaneous single tracks, many hundreds of them, and created a new artist and album folder for each one. it also created a new folder for each full album and moved all tracks into it, leaving only the cover art jpegs in the original folders. way too big a hassle to fix, so i just left it.

oh yes- what a PITA. This thread title is beyond accurate.

so i made this smart playlist then put it on my ipad, but its rules only applied to the songs ON MY IPAD! i wanted it to grab a bunch of stuff off my computer and stick it on the padski. so how do i make it send over the right stuff, not just sort what's already there?

You could create a regular playlist on your computer and drag the songs from the smart playlist into the regular one, them sync the regular one to your iPad.

it seems to have worked when i tried it again? but the "randomness" is very weird. i have it choose 75 songs at random from songs that haven't been played in the last day. but it tends to select them in clusters of a few songs from the same albums.

Cool-looking audio player for OS X. Plays a bunch of formats and it's free: http://coppertino.com/vox/

Is there a damn reason why all the songs in my playlists are invisible? They're there. If I add them to my ipod, I get the whole playlist, but I can't seen any of the info.

jesus fucking christ I was with itunes until this 12 update. the UI is inscrutable. sidebar is now completely removed, not just hidden; if you select playlists it shows up but I can't even figure out how to make a new playlist.

never mind I figured out how to make a playlist. but why does it default to album view? who fucking looks at shit not in artist view? WHO?

my mom came to me the other day saying she couldn't figure out how to load songs onto her ipod anymore, and I was very condescending about it until she gave me her laptop and I was like "wait, where the fuck is the sidebar?"

i try to avoid hooking my iphone up to my computer because every time i do, no matter what, it tries to install a 3.5 GB game that can only be played on an iPad onto my phone.

12 is total garbage. can't drag album art in anymore either.

Itunes has always been garbagey bloatware. I consider it a necessary evil for syncing audiobooks/lectures to my phone, but do all my music library management in MediaMonkey.

anyway there really isn't a better alternative for mac out there is there. i want metadata sorting capabilities beyond my wildest dreams, sorts within sorts to infinity.

I reverted to v10 and turned off updates. Aside from some recurring registry error that prevents me from burning CDs, it's right where I want it.

so has itunes gotten progressively shittier at obtaining album art for imported cds? it's always been shit for maybe more obscure music but like kendrick lamar? kamasi washington? miguel? grimes? i've had to manually find jpgs on the web for these albums

the fact that you can't copy/paste art is kind of maddening