Hatred of Itunes

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.

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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

you... can?

oh wait, they kind of screwed that up now, you have to save the image then select it, noticed it yesterday

lame move

You can drag and drop though? Straight from a browser window.

yea you can drag and drop but it's like really itunes can't find artwork for some high profile major label new releases?

I'm with you there!

However I was responding to mh- no need to save a bunch of images then attach from file.

I think I had trouble drag/dropping yesterday but in retrospect it was due to me grabbing an image from a PDF and it copying as the wrong format

does iTunes still replace your album art files with its own choices?

My experience transferring things on and off my iphone has been bad. I like having control over everything but itunes is all "do it my way bitch".

The first thing is that if you don't turn off auto-sync right away itunes will take everything on and off itself... most importantly your huge collection of phone apps will slowly be transferred to your computer. For what reason? I dunno; to take up space I guess. Now if you didn't realize that itunes was putting all those apps on your computer, wait for next time you plug your phone in (I'll get to icloud later) and see all those games you've already deleted magically reappear back on your phone. Deleting app backups off your computer is just a temporary fix if you don't turn off app sync all together.

Now if you've realized its best to turn off all those auto-sync categories then you're ready to put some songs on your phone. If you turn back on music-sync only, Itunes will want to transfer your entire music collection to your phone unless you are prepared to go through your collection with a fine tooth comb checking each and every thing you want. Be prepared to recheck all the music you already have on your phone if you want to keep it on there. That's because itunes has to transfer everything at once or nothing at all - meaning drag and drop one song at a time is just a fantasy too ridiculous for the current generation of apple.

What else can I say? Good luck adjusting the EQ any way you want. I hope you like those presets.

I would mention more things but I haven't read this entire thread to see what has already been mentioned and I'm not entirely sure if itunes has changed since the last time I used it.

"The first thing is that if you don't turn off auto-sync right away itunes will take everything on and off itself... most importantly your huge collection of phone apps will slowly be transferred to your computer. For what reason? I dunno; to take up space I guess. Now if you didn't realize that itunes was putting all those apps on your computer, wait for next time you plug your phone in (I'll get to icloud later) and see all those games you've already deleted magically reappear back on your phone. Deleting app backups off your computer is just a temporary fix if you don't turn off app sync all together."

Annoying, but after unchecking a box the first time it's really not much of a hassle.

"Now if you've realized its best to turn off all those auto-sync categories then you're ready to put some songs on your phone. If you turn back on music-sync only, Itunes will want to transfer your entire music collection to your phone unless you are prepared to go through your collection with a fine tooth comb checking each and every thing you want. Be prepared to recheck all the music you already have on your phone if you want to keep it on there. That's because itunes has to transfer everything at once or nothing at all - meaning drag and drop one song at a time is just a fantasy too ridiculous for the current generation of apple."

My suggestion here (this is what I do) would be to tell itunes to upload nothing but a specific playlist that you create (called "iphone music" if you'd like). That way you can curate the music you want by dragging and dropping into that playlist rather than checking tons of individual albums or songs. Whenever you've updated the playlist, just hit "sync" to tell the iphone to reflect those changes.

Hopefully that helps!

These little work arounds are a hassle iirc.
If I'm listening to music on my computer I never open iTunes. My customized winamp pro is boss.

Another thing that has happened to me was that my movies with subtitles displayed correctly in iTunes but when I put them on my phone all the subtitles disappeared. I didn't like having to go an extra mile just to get the subtitles working (I can't remember how I did it anymore).

IDK, it may take the most work to set up the playlist in the first place I guess but once established you can literally drag and drop like you said you preferred.

It's like micromanaging a library in your library. Itunes has multitudes of stupidness wrapped up in it. The UI, search engine/categories has always been weak compared to just about everything else.

For me, it's a pretty simple loophole around checking and unchecking tons of albums across thousands of artists. I can even toggle sub categories with other playlists like "new music" "summer" "eccentric soul" etc.

I just don't get it.
Yesterday I updated itunes and loaded it for the first time in a long while.
One of the first things I saw was a bunch of squares. Not a bunch of songs neatly categorized. A bunch of squares.
It took me a good while to see the "correct" layout. That's because clicking all the shit on the lefthand navigation bar and the '...' next to the music note over there wasn't helping. Apparently the navigation bar I was supposed to be using was in the top center of the screen and clicking 'My Music' there is different than clicking 'Music' on the lefthand navigation bar.

I said "this is fucking terrible" and I closed itunes after quickly clicking looking through all the categories in the top center nav bar. (5 out of 7 I would never use).

....

Today, I reopened itunes.

Join me now for part 2 of Once-ler discovers itunes and live-blogs the results!

I'm in the 'My Music' itunes section. I have one screen with a list that can be sorted alphabetically by name, time, album and artist (and genre if I actually gave a shit to label my music that way. even if everything was categorized by genre, who really gives a shit).

Great, I'm playing music now. YAY BEACH BOYS MIX

Now I open winamp to compare the main itunes library screen with winamps.

Winamp is split into 4 windows that let you quickly jump from one spot to another. I can't really compare the practicality and functionality of this layout with itunes layout without having yall here to see what I'm talking about. Suffice to say the speed and ease of jumping anywhere in my library and the ability to quickly pull up every album for an artist in one concise space makes itunes look like a big floppy turd.

Also, why can't I choose which folders itunes uses for my library?

How the fuck does itunes know which music and videos to pull off my computer and put in its' library?

I'm going to get to the bottom of this cesspool if it kills me.

Join me tomorrow as I look at itunes 'My Playlist' section!

oh, one last thing. I just maximized itunes to see what songs were on the Beach Boys mix playlist. The playlist isn't there! I had to click the the weird ._ symbol next to the heart on the itunes player and even then it only shows what's songs are coming up next. I can't see any songs I just played WTF. Also this upcoming songs list is bulky as fuck and I have to use the scroll bar. Where the fuck is a normal playlist screen!?!?

okay somehow I minimized itunes into a little player box. Like a tiny player window screen. There is no maximize button.

I repeat THERE IS NO MAXIMIZE BUTTON. The rest of itunes disappeared. I'm fucked. YOu cant get BACK INTO FULL ITUNES>FDSFKS

this must be what its like to use an apple computer