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 Originally Posted by twobitsprite
Yeah, I made the mistake of letting quicktime install iTunes once, and it went in and moved all my music around, etc. Took me months to get it all straightened out. I have been using WinAmp for years (before iTunes existed) and still use it to this day. I haven't heard of a single use for iTunes that WinAmp can't match, and as a plus, it just works without trying to take over my media.
I rather like the way iTunes organizes my music. I find it very easy to find my music files (all named in obvious ways, in obvious folders) when I want to do something else with them, like drag&drop them onto a thumb drive.
 Originally Posted by twobitsprite
Remember how all the Apple fan boys would cry bloody-murder about how anti-competitive Microsoft is by trying to take over everything and force you in to using their stuff? Well, Apple has proven they aren't any better.
Well, that's been clear for some time now. I own a Mac, and I like it, but there are certain annoying things that have to be "the Apple way".
 Originally Posted by twobitsprite
Both the iTunes software, and the iTunes store suck. I can find anything I'm looking for on Amazon MP3, and guess what? It works just fine on _any_ device or software I want to use it on; no proprietary formats, no DRM, (although I recognize that iTunes has (finally) gotten rid of DRM) no locked in hardware/software bundles.
Here I completely agree with you. I prefer the functionality of Amazon's shop as well as the no-DRM policy. I still mostly buy CDs and rip them, though, and iTunes is an excellent program for that: dead easy to use and lots of choices, convenient entry of metadata, really, everything I want when ripping CDs. (not quite enough flexibility for ripping analog media, though.)
 Originally Posted by twobitsprite
I really just don't understand why anyone would want to use iTunes...
I've had it for a while, I like the interface, it does everything I need it to do. My only complaint is that it exports stuff to the iPod (or the Pre) as a hidden file. They were the first company to make a meaningful deal with the record industry to sell digital files with enough flexibility in the
DRM that you could reasonably use it, and their role in getting the record companies to allow that, paving the way for better services like Amazon, was important. The annoying hidden file thing is an artifact of the deal they had to cut, and it was the right deal for them to make at the time.
Still, I think I will use the less full-featured Missing Sync instead of iTunes so as to have direct access to my music files on the Pre. But in case I change my mind, I'm not "upgrading" iTunes.
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