I was carefully crafting my MP3 structure and this iTunes changes the whole directories that I’ve been working on for several hours. Not a disaster? Read at this cried out and you will understand the tragedy.
Today I updated my MP3 ID3 tags and somehow iTunes did not honor it and that’s not all. It erased some of my ID3 tags and I have to re-tag-ing it! Duh.
What I do now, is, to remove the library list and then re-adding it, every time I want to updated my library. Somehow, this idiot workaround works!
Hey iTunes Dev, you SUCKS!
Anyone want to share how sucks iTunes is?
actually, when your itunes installed, there is an option for this.
1. leave the structure
2. let itunes arrange
but somehow,
i didn’t mentioned about this when i installed the itunes,
and all the structure has mess up! same like you.
since now, i don’t want to re-create the structure. I’m too lazy for doing that things!
Well if you “import” all of your music collections to iTunes, it will automatically reset the folder structure to conform with their own structure (like Artist->Album->Song) which is made to ease the users from updating the folder structure manually (just like you did). Of course if you have already create your own folder structure, just make sure that iTunes doesn’t automagically remove the structures you just create and leave it as it is (I’m not sure how to do this on Windows but on Mac, just go to iTunes preferences->advanced then make sure that you uncheck the first two box.
Hmmm, backup and backup again…
Your MP3 files is *gold” stuff. Don’t let applications such as iTunes or other access to your gold copy.
I use iTunes as my main MP3 player software nowadays (mainly because of I love my iPod). But, yes, I have also had experience with iTunes moving stuff and relabelling the metadata on songs (and failing to show cover images of album that I have added).
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Ah masa sih?
40GB koleksi MP3 saya manage semua pake iTunes, yang sudah dimanage manual pun tak masalah diimpor ke iTunes.
Check out these iTunes alternatives http://ipodmanagers.blogspot.com/ and you will see you don’t need that mastodon.
i hate itunes.
just downloaded and installed update. It says some files won’t play because their not authorized for this computer… prompts for username and password, then tells me it can’t connect to itunes store and I should check my internet connection… how am i posting this if I don’t have an internet connection. Ditto to the above gripes and tons of other features i’d like to see that don’t exist. how about data normalization? why must I have hip-hop, hip/hop, and hip hop as 3 seperate genres…. no global search and replace…. great for syncing to your ipod… horrible for managing a large database of music files from multiple sources.
I’ve just come across the same problem with itunes. Thankfully it was on my dad’s mac, I use winamp on my pc which I think is a far superior music application. The annoying thing is that itunes completely messes up the folder structures of albums with various artists and those with artist name variations. For instance I have a Santana album and almost every track has a different featured artist eg Santana ft BB King. All these tracks are now in their own individual folders instead of the single ‘Santana’ folder they should be in. It was only after the event that I came across the checkbox that you mention in your post, I’ve now unchecked it but it’s too late because there’s no undo option. If it had done that to my mp3 collection (over 15,000 tracks, 3000 of which were lovingly ripped from vinyl, tagged and renamed by hand) I think I’d have lost the will to live! Without wanting to get into the whole mac vs pc debate I do find that Apple applications try to make things easy for the average user and, in doing so, completely confuse and frustrate the power user. I’d never go back to using a mac and/or itunes.
I just bought my daughter a nano for Christmas and after installing and using it (iTunes) for a while now I can see the issue.
iTunes suffers from what they perceive as their niche and that is being so simple that any/all poor PC morons can use it. It tries to do too much and in the process screws up everything.
The interface is TOTALLY counter intuative even to someone with a great deal of experience using both PC and Linux platforms (opens by default to “wipe me out” mode? WTF is that??). It does not seem “smart” enough to not import the same song many times as any 8th grader coded piece of crap freeware player will do. You cannot register the device w/o a credit card # (which I refuse to do for anyone on principal alone). “Syncing” seems to screw something up every time you are foolish enough to try it. Back up is sketchy at best and seems doubtful it would actually work. I could go on but it would be pointless.
It’s pretty sad that people are so easy to drink the commercial Kool-Aid and think a $2500 Mac will cure what ails them. So easy even a dumb @ss like you can do it!
I know this is old, but I didn’t have an iPod until a few months ago, then I was forced to use iTunes, and yes, it renamed, retagged, and folderized all of my mp3′s. I hate you iTunes, please die now, thanks.
Yeah, I hate Failtunes (That’s what I call it XD)
It hardly ever does anything right….=\
Ha! I just found this page and am glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t like iTunes. The MacBook I bought a few months ago has pretty much become my wife’s computer for Internet, etc. and I’m still using my old Dell 8100 95% of the time.
I admit I probably haven’t given the Mac a proper chance to prove itself, but many of the cutesy names for things are a pain to decipher. Intuitive? Not really, in my opinion. Also, I don’t like to have to access files/photos from a program’s library – I’ve always gone straight to the folders where I’ve put stuff.
iTunes sucks heaven forbids you need to reset your password or i like have a bogus credit card charge still waiting on an “email” from iTunes Support. the first email i got telling me i am using the wrong login. I been using iTunes for over 4 years now i have over $100 charged on my credit card my iTune password does not work and i am still waiting on a darn email.
Yes, iTunes does suck. Because they want to market, market, market and sell, sell, sell, this software is a maze of crappy procedures, incomprehensible “help” pages — or help pages that have just about nothing in them. This is such BS! You have an MP3 player. You download a tune or album into your computer, you move the goddamn song from the computer program to the MP3 player, like moving a file from one window to another. THIS IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED, FOLKS!! All of this “syncing” crap, and all the complicating screwing around and other weirdness is aggravating. I can’t even figure out what the HELL an iTunes “folder” is supposed to be for. To my mind a folder is a container that has within it files — for iTunes a folder is a container of playlists, but when you click on the folder itself, you discover that IT TOO contains all the items that are inside all the playlists. This is just absurd, the entire thing is absurd. I HATE iTunes — for me, the Apple-Stupidity of the damn thing has ruined ANY enjoyment that I expected from my iPod and from iTunes. Grr…..