Dear Apple:

[jsbowden]

What exactly is wrong with you?



Why the hell does iTunes need a full core and then some to PLAY AN MP3 FILE? What fucking crack are you people on?

Comments

[markerikson.livejournal.com]

You use iTunes to listen to things? I only use it to organise my iPhone.

I used to use it to organise my Music folder, but I reinstalled after upgrading to Win7 and I went and included _every_ media file on my hard drive in its library. I would try to limit it to just the Music folder, but I'm scared it will delete everything not in my Music folder if I do that.

Winamp. Winamp is still king of the castle when it comes to mp3s. And flac files.

[prince-corwin.livejournal.com]

Speech recognition and analysis software is pretty intensive, even today. I mean, you don't expect iTunes to play the music you want, do you?

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

But but but it also has to search for updates! And trawl your hard disk looking for non-DRMed music! And Jobs knows what else! And cripple other programs! And recatalogue everything! Or something! And and and!

[kjn]

It uses the processor cycles to fuel Jobs's RDF.

(But yeah, iTunes or Quicktime on Windows is no joy. Think of it as shoehorning almost the entire Mac OS Classic/Carbon environment on a wholly different OS. At least the memory usage is sane.)

[haides.livejournal.com]

If it didn't suck on Windows, who would buy Macs? Apple has no vested interest in making iTunes work well on Windows.