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Originally Posted by Locke
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 | |
The only thing that iTunes is going to do, if you allow it to because you do have the choice, is organize your songs in folders according to artists and then albums. Anything else that is done, such as editing metadata, must be done by the user in the program. iTunes isn't going to mess with your files unless to tell it to, or if you do it yourself through the program.
Half of these, as I've stated, aren't real
issues and most of these 'issues' occur in the Zune software as well.
"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."
So you don't even use the program?
Come on...that's like complaining about the President, but not voting when election time comes around. You need to use the program extensively before you sit around criticize it. Many people never take the time to look at the options provided with the program, and you get articles like this.
I checked when you posted the link.