iTunes for Windows

[DArque Bishop]

I'm a little pissed. My sings are doing this stupid ass electronic skipping shit.

Kind of like the effect they occasionally use on the voice of the hip hop guy in Lincoln Park.

Needless to say, this is unacceptable. I tried changing the sound output, and it does nothing.

When it skips my PC processor usage jumps by 10-15%.

Why? Help me. I love this program... and really want to keep using it.

If your sound ends up sounding muddy or staticy in iTunes, go to the Control Panel, into Quicktime Settings, and change the Sound Out option from DirectSound to waveOut. I was having that problem myself, and changing it to waveOut fixed it.

[LOL]

If your sound ends up sounding muddy or staticy in iTunes, go to the Control Panel, into Quicktime Settings, and change the Sound Out option from DirectSound to waveOut. I was having that problem myself, and changing it to waveOut fixed it.

I tried changing the sound output, and it does nothing.

[Josh]

pwn j00!

Thank you sir.

Update:

OK. It didn't do it yesterday. Since then I have created a shared folder on my network, and installed drivers for my Wacom tablet.

Why the hell would either of those be causing this?

[Regus]

most embarrassing, Apple did not test its client on Windows 2000 enough. Part of the coolness of iTunes is that it comes with built-in CD burning software. Yet this software taps into critical Windows system services, and several users have found that their system will not boot after iTunes is installed. The problem is likely to happen if users have other CD burning software installed, especially applications that support on-demand packet writing. Apple is aware of the problem, and in most cases it can be solved by a boot into Safe Mode and an uninstall, but that's a solution to problem that shouldn't exist. No one expects the installation of an "MP3 player" to bring a system down. While some will undoubtedly put the blame on Microsoft's OS design in order to defend the mighty Apple, that won't change the fact that bugs such as these make Apple look amateurish on the Windows coding scene—a scene that has traditionally thought poorly of Apple software "ported" to Windows.

That said, another charge being aimed at Apple relates to iTunes' library management. iTunes can be configured to scour your computer and move all of your audio files into an iTunes managed hierarchy on your file system. This functionality is not enabled by default, but several users are apparently enabling it by accident, for they are later amazed when they can no longer find their files. When they find them, they may be dismayed to find that iTunes routinely renames files according to its own naming scheme (which is not very customizable). The iTunes scheme users folder names to denote artist and album, leaving filenames only with track numbers and song titles. For some, this is unacceptable. One user complained that his entire hand-coded collection of vinyl rips was renamed by iTunes. At the very least, a dialogue box should warn users of the effects of allowing iTunes to manage all files by copying them into the iTunes folder. Of course, if all files are thoroughly tagged, then re-organizing the files isn't much a of a chore. (Once again, we see reasons why a metadata-supporting database-oriented file system is the way to go.)

Of course, the good news for Apple is that these items are easily fixed. The other challenges they face are not so simple.

Other complaints:
http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/i-tunes-1.html

[Diff-chan]

Im reading that... and its saying that Apple is trying to "lock people into" AAC, iPod, and the iTunes Music Store... instead of using Windows Media 9 format and one of those 40 different pieces of shit audio players...

Uhh.... if you're gonna use something, might as well be the best. iPod may be the priciest mp3 player but its by farrrrrrrrrrrr the best one and Windows Media Player 9 is absolute trash and by proxy so is all the other online music stores using it.

[DArque Bishop]

Shows how much I listen to him.

[Mr-K]

AH Goddamnit! I was really enjoying Itunes until it made like 80 folders in my music folder by artist and renamed the files. Damnit, I have to re-organize back to genre like I had before. Shit, this is gonna take hours.

[Schlep]

Why would you "re-organize back to genre" unless you're not going to be using iTunes anymore?

I make a smart playlist in iTunes, and am able to organize by genre in about 2.5 seconds.

[Mr-K]

I dunno, everything just looked so much neater that way. And now it's renamed them all crazy like as well. I like to keep my folders tidy, but now there are 1500 folders in my music folder with one or two files in each folder.

[Schlep]

If it's the same as the Mac version, there should be an option called "Keep iTunes folder organized" under Advanced that you can uncheck.