Hate with a hatey hate.

[audaxfemina]

For those blissful few of you that have never had to deal with iTunes? Don't. Their product sucks, their support sucks, their entire operation *sucks* and I wish the entire company would die in a fire.

That is all.

Comments

[dementedsiren]

Yes, yes, yes and more yes.
I, of course, am not one of the lucky ones... I got sucked into them early before I realized exactly how insidious they were and now I have quite a large number of songs that I can't listen to on any non-Apple player and a piece of software on my computer that insists I need 100000000 processes running in the background EVEN THOUGH I TELL IT I DON'T.

[audaxfemina]

Yeah. I just hate them. And if I had half the energy to do so, I'd figure out how to unfuck their DRM stuff. Just had to import my entire library AGAIN because it's a fuckhead.

Started buying everything from Amazon.com, simply because they sell mp3s, and not protected files.

But damn. Glad I'm not the only person who feels the burning hatey hate.

[dementedsiren]

The easiest way I've found to break the DRM is to burn to audio CD and rip back. It's a pain to do it physically if you have more than 12-15 though (and I have hundreds) so you can also get software that lets you set up a virtual CD drive, then run a batch to burn to the virtual drive and then rip them back into MP3.

Still a pain in the ass, though. It got a bit better when they started offering the "+" downloads without DRM, but those are more expensive, too. No way to win.

*lifts metaphorical fist in solidarity*

[audaxfemina]

Yeah... I have hundreds too. Apparently, there's some programs out there to do it, but I don't know the best/easiest ones. I'm hoping to solicit info.

Because burning a cd, then ripping it back could take me... days? weeks? months?

Oh, and were you the person who asked me about the job search?

[ximeria]

Everytime friends told me how good it was, I tried to use it, tried to get used to it. NEVER. WORKED. FOR. ME. I don't particularly like apple products and even less so their policies (I am stupidly in love with my android phone and will never change to an iphone).

[audaxfemina]

Oh, neither will I. I refuse to get an iPhone, and I swear it's a conspiracy to get me to change to a Mac so that iTunes will work.

Never going to happen, Apple. NEVAR.

I shall buy a Blackberry or an Android for my next phone, but I will never buy another apple product so long as I live.

Good to know I'm not alone.

[ximeria]

Oh, you're definitely not alone. I've only ever managed to buy two tunes from iTunes - I learned early on it wouldn't fit with my music consumption.