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Originally posted by PASig:
I now finally see the hate for this POS and Apple needs to kill it soon.

If it weren't hard-coded to drive business to their downloads, they could just enable drag-and-drop copying like every other USB-connected device ever made, and divert those programming resources from wrecking performance on Windows boxes to something productive.

As it is, they keep flogging this forward, hoping to plant their 'download from the Apple store' flag on enemy territory.

I have an old Windows laptop, and when it becomes one of the infrequent times I need to force-feed my iStuff, I fire that one up, download the current iTunes, and make that my sacrificial offering to Cupertino.

Till I'm done, then I uninstall iTunes. Not even that old dog deserves the iTunes treatment.

and somehow iTunes doesn't manage playlists quite so easy.

I know WALTR and iMazing are fine as alternatives, but they are a little pricey too

The main issue is that iTunes is obsolete. Managing playlists in it, buying music in it, loading music onto an iPod...all obsolete.

Apple simply isn't investing in it because it's the past, not the future.

I realize that many, many people still use iTunes and buy music and manage playlists with it, I'm just saying Apple knows that's the past and isn't investing in it.

So what's the future/present? Music subscriptions and the Cloud.

I pay $10/month for iTunes music and $10/Month for 2TB of cloud storage.

I am fully in the Apple eco system and literally never use iTunes. Never, nada, not once in years.

All of my stuff is direct from cloud to device(s). I don't buy music anymore with my subscription.

Most music junkies I know all have subscriptions. iTunes, Spotify...whatever your choice, people are streaming now. Look at kids, they don't even seem to know why us old folks would possibly buy a single album.

My photos go straight from my phone to the cloud when I take them. When I use my digital camera, it has WiFi and I upload them onto my computer (Mac Photos) wirelessly.

iTunes doesn't serve any purpose doing things in this manner. It was once their main hub, now it's a fading software. I get a lot of folks still use it and I'm not bashing that, I'm simply trying to answer the question "why has Apple let iTunes become garbage?" I'm suggesting the answer is because it's obsolete.

My new MacBook only has USB-c ports on it. Nothing else. MacBook was the first to dump the DVD drive from laptops. This is the Apple way. They move on from old tech fairly quickly.

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Originally posted by Kovalsky:
and somehow iTunes doesn't manage playlists quite so easy.

I know WALTR and iMazing are fine as alternatives, but they are a little pricey too

I notice that this is part of your signature line. Is this why you joined this forum?

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Originally posted by jhe888:
I used iTunes for a while, but quit six or seven years ago when I quit using any iDevices. I don't like the way iTunes makes you do everything their way. I rarely/never download music. I prefer to buy a CD and rip to a lossless format, so I don't need a place to buy downloaded music. Lossy formats sound bad enough to my ears to make ripping CDs worth it.

Tru dat > FLAC all the way.

iTunes has sucked for a solid decade now. Maybe since day one. Between years of lossy compression, the closed ecosystem, and the bloated way in which it works, it's terrible.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
iTunes has sucked for a solid decade now. Maybe since day one. Between years of lossy compression, the closed ecosystem, and the bloated way in which it works, it's terrible.

Well, I've always been a bit different, but I love iTunes (on a Mac, at least). The entire ecosystem just works, and works well. I transfer tunes, tones, books, podcasts, app data, whatever you want to my iDevice, with nary a problem.