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Originally Posted by stkr
But what 'problems' does it have? Not everyone will want their music organized the same exact way, which is why iTunes gives you the option to do it yourself. Turn the default system off and organize your files however you want. iTunes does a great job organizing music for me, while you say that it has problems. Whose to say who is right? No one, so if you don't like it just do it yourself.
As I said with plugins and more formats, neither of those issues effect me so I did not make any remarks for those points. I understand that others will have issues that I do not, so I did not make any comment.
The drag-and-drop feature is not crippled. It functions just as it is supposed to and iTunes even goes two steps further and allows you to add entire folders or single files to your library if you don't want to drag-and-drop. As far as I know, drag-and-drop is the only way to add files to your collection in the Zune software and is pretty much unavoidable if you're running Windows.
I already talked about their updating system. All of those programs are on my computer, except for Bonjour, which is how it should be.
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Programs like iTunes should not impose such force in file management from the start. If you like that, that's fine, but it's not good software design to needlessly impose things on the user. At least this one is fixable. However, even the Zune software, which loves to take so much control, does less to your files than iTunes. Is it really that hard for them to have those features off by defualt, and to have some sort of middle ground? Again, programs like WMP don't mess with your files until you tell it to. That's the way it should be.
Just because they don't affect you doesn't make them irrelevant.
I know that you can't say much about them because you don't use these features, but they are still issues regardless, and things that Apple should rectify. That's what this article is, a list of issues in iTunes that ought to be rectified by Apple.
Well, I haven't ever installed iTunes on my own computer for a number of reasons-though I have used it on occasion on others'-so I can't really say whether it's broken or not. But if it is, as this article suggests, then it needs to be dealt with. If not, all the better for Apple.
Have you checked to see if they aren't installed? Dug through the OS a bit to find out where all this stuff hides? Even if it doesn't look like it's installed, there's still plenty of little pieces left everywhere, which is very very poor design. An installer ought to be more like is described here:
How software installers should work | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise |