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  Try and silently install it. I double dog dare you to get it to get it installed without sucking. : tsuba
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    I've done it on a corporate network. Sometimes it goes without a hitch. Other times is bitches and moans ... : TrickSh0t
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      QuickTime has got to be the hardest thing to deploy ever. I suspect it is the reason iTunes is so hard : SigENeaT
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        Adobe Flash through SMS. Not easy. : umcpwintermute
        • Well, yeah, the 160 character limit on messaging has got to be a pain. Nevermind that you have to UUEncod... : digital_d
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  Itunes fanboy has arrived. How may i shoot down your troll attempts? : Iwannaacura
  • iPhone!!! : zebosausamite
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    Not every opinion is trolling. : Jobos
    • This one very much is though. Shit, there is a whole class of software that routinely segfaults for cryin... : terath
  • This wasn't a troll attempt, it was a rage post after spending 20 transferring two songs to my iPhone. "... : hussdelrio
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  you must have led a sheltered IT life : RikiTiki2
  • ^^^ Winner! : SketchyFletchy
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  It just works on a mac. : Zombie Vonnegut
  • Pretty clever there guy. : DooBall
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    Hilariously.... yeah, it does. The problem isn't so much itunes on windows, it's Quicktime (which itun... : Toraz Chryx
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      I'm bummed that iTunes 9 will probably not fix this. :( : Yanks
      • Hoping that they will announce something suitably good to merit the 9-9-09 press conference. : sgtsanity
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  I dunno, that AS/400 version of JD Edwards screwed me up kinda bad too. : freqq28
  • oh god, we use that at work. Using it is like going back to the 1980s. : peetabix01
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  The Zune software is equally bad. I was surprised : Modulus
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    Sarcasm, right? :) : TrickSh0t
    • no, I really don't care for either itunes or zune software. : Modulus
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    I have both and I have to say zune is a ton better then itunes. : erebus
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      I agree, the manual tag editor especially in zune is intuitive, auto tagging and album art is good too. ... : threeup
      • oh, and on the same token, i HATE manual tag editing in itunes, album art is decent, navigation is decent... : threeup
  • You'd be surprised to know that you're actually quite wrong about the Zune software. Never had a single p... : ateam311
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  Do you have a goatee or a ponytail / long hair? : not work safe
  • None of the above : hussdelrio
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  I'll put $20 on black jeans. : Danny5225
  • Nope, no black jeans either. : hussdelrio
• I used to hate itunes. Then I discovered iTunes+iPhone+someiDock+iRemoteIPhoneApp. : Skoal^Fyfan
• Peachtree Accounting software, ADP, two off the top of my head much worse : bozer
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  You've never used HP Open View or Adobe products then. : abrasion
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    Fuck Adobe products. Fuck them to hell. : Whistler77
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      OMG! Trying to slipstream Acrobat Pro .msp patch files into an administrative installation? THE HORROR! : TrickSh0t
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        I'd rather do this than QuickTime : SigENeaT
        • I actually got QuickTime installs to go through with 100% success using GPO installs. If you're intereste... : TrickSh0t
  • Actually I have extensively used HP Open View (and recently upgraded to HP Operations Manager)...it was a... : hussdelrio
• www.getsharepod.com : beastrabban
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  Adobe Acrobat is up there. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • fuck yeah it is : royalally
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  Songbird FTW : NFXFSX
  • I love it except for its lack of podcast support. : Whistler77
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  I bought a couple of albums through iTunes on my phone, when I synced with my laptop it deleted all of th... : socksta
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    I don't want to give iTunes anymore of my money to test this but I don't believe there is even an option ... : socksta
    • TLDR; iTunes can go fuck themselves in the ear. : socksta
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      This is false. I don't know what caused that to happen for you but I've bought music on my phone a number... : tfboc
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        I did this about the first week they added iTunes to the iPhone maybe they patched it but my music is gon... : socksta
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          click on "transfer purcahses" : CoRDS
          • ^^^ This guy reads his prompts instead of blindly clicking away. Who does that? How silly! : SketchyFletchy
  • Weird, I bought a song through my iPhone, and it doesn't appear on my iTunes list, yet it remains in my s... : bling1bling
  • I just purchased the new Sleepthief album on my phone, synced it to my computer and it's in both places n... : Snif DeCrac
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    I put music on my ipod at work. I come home and try to transfer it to my pc here and I can't. I fucking c... : bozer
    • I didn't realize there was such a large disparity in freedom between different MPEG audio coding standard... : vigilante
    • I'm confused? If want to burn the songs to disc why would you need to convert to MP3? : pap26
    • You can't copy music off iPods because it promotes piracy. This is how it's been for years, Apple is stil... : SketchyFletchy
    • AAC isn't from Apple, its basically mp4 audio. : flooq
  • this is why i buy cds : eeeealmo
  • I've ran into this problem as well. Luckily I have everything backed up on my pc, laptop, external, nan... : Darthbrooks
• that's why i only install it at work and leave my home pc clean : grabbie
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  Winamp it really whips itunes ass : melkore
  • Yeah but Winamp uses those faggy 3d cursors and I have to go digging around for how to turn them off... g... : snuff
  • it whips itunes' ass in doing almost nothing that itunes does but play audio files : Yanks
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    I still love WinAmp on PC. I'd use it on Mac if it existed, but iTunes kinda killed all competition on Ma... : node
    • VLC is about as good as it gets for a light mp3 player on OSX, I think. Which is better than nothing, bu... : pres589
• there's also quicktime : [fry]
• Lotus Notes gives it a run for its money. : biskits
• i used to think that until i learned its quirks now its pretty easy to use. import playlist, drag to devi... : podizzle
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  It IS really laggy on PC. : bolneze
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    While it is worse in Windows, it's not very snappy on my Mac side either... mac pro quad core. : Wheatloaf
    • Weird, iTunes is perfectly snappy on my MacBook C2D 2.4 w/ 4gb RAM and a fresh 10.6 install. That said... : rudds
    • Uhhh, whut? Runs crazy fast on my Mac Pro. 46GB worth of music, all fully tagged and album art loaded. : SketchyFletchy
    • snappy as hell macbook pro c2d 2.53 : cdbeckman
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    I think he is talking about the design of it : gyokuro
    • I'm talking about just about everything - from its pseudo-malware secret installs of bonjour/apple update... : hussdelrio
• http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=itunes&cs_user=thekidd&cs_parentauthor=&s_type=all : thekidd
• I kind of like it. : pres589
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  seriously? I mean, I'm not fan of iTunes, but that better be a lot of hyperbole or your 13 years in the I... : halophoenix
  • Don't get me wrong, I've dealt with some MAJOR pain in the ass software suites in large-scale deployments... : hussdelrio
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  I love itunes mac side. I was not a fan when using it windows side, however. It makes so much more sens... : SolrFlare
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    This. It's fine on Macs, but sucks on Windows. I wonder why? : Fenring42
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      Two factors I think: 1) In order to get iTunes in its current implementation to behave the same Window... : SolrFlare
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        That was sarcasm.

        Sep 02, 2009 9:10am PDT
        That was sarcasm. : Fenring42
      • Apple doesn't want to fix Windows issues when they can just say, "hey buy a Mac" and people do. : hussdelrio
• Acrobat, Shockwave, Flash, Java, iTunes... oh wait we don't support that since there isn't any business r... : trove
• I have no issues with it! Works great, though the interface can sometimes take a second or so to update a... : aggressor
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20720659#itemanchor_20720659 : mysled
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  MediaMonkey FTW : watcherxp
  • Abso-fucking-lutely. : PlanetPerfecto
  • Yep. MM is great. : zipr
• Fucking thing sucks : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Rumors of iTunes 9 releasing on 9/9. I don't know how much faith in these rumors I believe, but supposed... : Tripps
  • Well, it's one of three apps remaining mac side that are not 64 bit cocoa based now that is included with... : SolrFlare
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    I am very doubtful of this because if it were 64bit it would require the use of QTKit/QTX and I just don'... : Yanks
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      Actually, it could. You see Quicktime X doesn't just use it's 64bit component. It uses it's 64bit compo... : SolrFlare
      • Pretty sure Yanks knows that. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        I think though you're underestimating the range of functionality needed for something like iTunes that QT... : Yanks
        • Oh I agree it's more complex than that, but it is still feasable. The real question will be how much time... : SolrFlare
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      I used to really dislike Quicktime, but then I read that ArsTechnica article that explained how fucking s... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        'parse' is a strong word -- because MOOVs are all atom based there are potentially a number of tracks thr... : Yanks
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          I take that back, I guess that was actually an untrue statement -- just opened a run of the mill CBR file... : Yanks
          • Also since we're talking about this I want to say that I am so, so glad that we're throwing away the crap... : Yanks
  • There will be a new version of iTunes next week. : -sk-
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    Probably won't run on 10.4 PPC then... which means I'll be stuck on 8 for a while, since I share tunes to... : pres589
    • I'd expect them to have a PPC and an Intel version and for the Intel version to be 64-bit. At the moment,... : BlackCat9
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  I was thinking about thie the other day. It is quite had but I have seen worst. Also it is by far the bes... : davidc02
  • I like the play count thing also. : davidc02
• I haven't had a problem with it for years since I stopped fighting it and just used it. (Well, now I do h... : rosewood
• I dont mind the design and like a lot of the functionality but seriously, the application is painful to u... : trevis
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  it's on par with real player and quicktime imo : arizona bay
  • nevermind, i change my answer. flash is the worst. : arizona bay
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  I'm convinced that Apple only writes PC software to perpetuate the stereotype of PCs sucking. What other ... : Gnowknayme
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    Anything that installs drivers which iTunes does for iPhone/iPod support : Yanks
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      It is 2009, you can install drivers w/o a reboot. You can even update your video card drivers w/o a reboo... : rosewood
      • Yes, but, as I understand it, kernel level drivers(like itunes' drivers) need windows 7 and support for i... : SolrFlare
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        Yeah, I nearly shit myself when Windows 7 didn't ask to reboot for new nVidia drivers. : node
        • Vista can do this if you use windows update for drivers. : Beady
    • I install my ATI drivers without a reboot. : Pettytheft
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  never used lotus notes? : moshman
  • ^^ He's right, as much as iTunes sucks, lotus is so much worse in every way. : devi| dog
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    i like lotus/domino :-( : eyegeegeewhy
    • you're not serious are you? I have to use it every damn day and it drives me crazy with it's non-complian... : moshman
    • get the fuck off my planet! : Toraz Chryx
• It's truly terrible, but you have had it easy for 13 years if it's your #1 enemy. : brewsterdog
• Clearly a very sheltered 13 years. : terath
• I don't think it's the worst software on the planet. It's just the worst software bearing the apple trade... : stuka
• I completely agree. I have no idea what happened given the rest of Apple's products, but iTunes is defini... : DerHuhnTeufel
• I don't know what happened to it. WHen it first came out it was nice. I loved it. After version 4 it went... : Pettytheft
• Sligh hi-jack Whats the best program to get stuff off my ipod ? : Vincenoir
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  No, Outlook is pretty much the most horrible piece of screaming bloated horrible cludgy slow ugly stupid ... : node
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    Dude, Outlook isn't even playing the same GAME as Lotus Notes, let alone being in the wrong ballpark. ... : Toraz Chryx
    • Yes Lotus Notes is very very high up on the list. But iTunes is such a PITA that I don't even want to LO... : hussdelrio
• I don't understand why it's so sucking slow in Windows 7. It was ok in windows XP with the same hardware ... : razlebol
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  Yes... Yes it is For some reason it's not letting me add certain mp3's to my library. Mp3's that worke... : shavenewok
  • apparently i have to go through each mp3 in foobar and rebuild the stream :( : shavenewok
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  if iTunes is used as intended then it is more then fine. Its only when you try and go out side the box t... : topkatz
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    "using as intended" has nothing to do with it being bloated and sluggish software : maulla
    • I dont know, I mean lets review what it does. Media organization and management. iPhone synch, backup... : topkatz