Why does itunes have to suck???

[sickboy]

I have 16G of music from my last computer backed up on an external in an itunes folder. Now I am trying to get it to play on my laptop, which I normally just use windows media player since I don't own an iPod (Sansa mp3 & 8G on my blackberry...) and I can not do it. I have to have iTunes on my computer and it is slower than dirt....
Why does iTunes have to suck this bad??? An mp3 is an mp3, is it not?

 

[el guapo]

i tunes sucks because you are trying to use it improperly . Buy an i pod and sync it up and you'll be just fine.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Apple%26...&skuId=9526006
163 bucks plus tax...

 

[dragonzim]

Originally Posted by sickboy
http:///forum/post/3223758
Why does iTunes have to suck this bad??? An mp3 is an mp3, is it not?
Nope! iTunes seems to set up their own specific file format so you can use it with anything other than iTunes. Good reason why I never used iTunes to rip my cds. Always ripped them to mp3 first using a different program and then imported them into itunes so i still have the original mp3 files to do whatever else I might want with.

 

[stdreb27]

you can tell it to use MP3 instead of the ACC format. It just depends on how you ripped it.

 

[bionicarm]

Originally Posted by sickboy
http:///forum/post/3223758
I have 16G of music from my last computer backed up on an external in an itunes folder. Now I am trying to get it to play on my laptop, which I normally just use windows media player since I don't own an iPod (Sansa mp3 & 8G on my blackberry...) and I can not do it. I have to have iTunes on my computer and it is slower than dirt....
Why does iTunes have to suck this bad??? An mp3 is an mp3, is it not?
Which Operating System are you using? If all your music files have the .mp3 extension, you can change the file type association so that Windows Media Player will be the default to play MP3's.

 

[sickboy]

Originally Posted by EL GUAPO
http:///forum/post/3223765
i tunes sucks because you are trying to use it improperly . Buy an i pod and sync it up and you'll be just fine.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Apple%26...&skuId=9526006
163 bucks plus tax...
I don't want to have to "sync" an mp3 player. My sansa works just like a flash drive so if I go to a friend's house I can just drag and drop, no syncing required. And it works with virtually any media player..
Originally Posted by DragonZim
http:///forum/post/3223810
Nope! iTunes seems to set up their own specific file format so you can use it with anything other than iTunes. Good reason why I never used iTunes to rip my cds. Always ripped them to mp3 first using a different program and then imported them into itunes so i still have the original mp3 files to do whatever else I might want with.
That is what it seems like. I will try this:
Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/3223904
you can tell it to use MP3 instead of the ACC format. It just depends on how you ripped it.
Thanks. I thought they were all mp3 format, but upon further review...
Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3224112
Which Operating System are you using? If all your music files have the .mp3 extension, you can change the file type association so that Windows Media Player will be the default to play MP3's.
Vista. They were originally ripped on an XP though, but I don't think that would matter. Thanks.

 

[yearofthenick]

iTunes no longer protects their content. They stopped doing that over a year ago. Now when you buy music through iTunes, it comes as a normal, run-of-the-mill mp3, totally unprotected.
I have been playing around with Windows 7 on some of the machines where I work. It's amazing to me how much crap they scalp off Apple. The windows 7 taskbar/etc looks very much like the OSX taskbar. kinda sad that they can't come up with their own ideas.

 

[bionicarm]

Originally Posted by sickboy
http:///forum/post/3224205
I don't want to have to "sync" an mp3 player. My sansa works just like a flash drive so if I go to a friend's house I can just drag and drop, no syncing required. And it works with virtually any media player..
That is what it seems like. I will try this:
Thanks. I thought they were all mp3 format, but upon further review...
Vista. They were originally ripped on an XP though, but I don't think that would matter. Thanks.
The OS doesn't matter, but Microsoft has changed Explorer with the different versions, and you have to know where to go to find the option for File Types.
Try this. Find one of your MP3's on your drive, right=click it, and select "Open With". I believe on Vista a box comes up with the apps on your PC that you can select with program you want to use to open it with. There should be a selection box thatsays "Use this application as default to open" or something like that. Check that box, and WMP will open MP's by default whenever you open one again.

 

[el guapo]

Originally Posted by sickboy
http:///forum/post/3223758
I have to have iTunes on my computer and it is slower than dirt....

Originally Posted by sickboy
http:///forum/post/3224205
And it works with virtually any media player..

So what your pissed about is your MP3's are formated for i tunes and won't play on your super cool sansa That is mega badass ? Seams to me its not that great if its giving you trouble that an i pod and a 3.5 to RCA adapter(about5.00@ walmart) would cure. But then you wouldn't be able to say "Sansa" %%
People can talk all the crap they want but if Apple sucked so bad they wouldn't still be in business. The i pod is a pretty good little gadget. I parked my Jeep on mine and it still works . Everybody trash talked the I phone and how stupid it was ... Now everybody has them and other companies are mimicing them with touch screens and app's and MP3 players built in.