OK. Now put your hand down, you're probably at work and look pretty stupid right about now.
I know I like iTunes, but I keep running into certain "that pisses me off" kind of situations. Categorizing my music. That's my job not iTunes job. Defining the style and audio settings of individual albums and/or songs. Just leave that one to me. I know, I can change settings and work around defaults, but there's two reasons I get irratated.
(1) I have to make the mistake first and then search to resolve it.
(2) Like any good comglomerate company, the software is designed to do everything for you as long as you always buy/trade/use their equipment. We all know how Metallica fought... and we see how well that paid off.
Example--did you know that if you buy a song from iTunes, it is automatically downloaded in an encrypted format (*.mp4 layered encryption of some type, I'm a science nerd, not computer nerd)? What this means is that if you try to play the music on software other than what Apple has created, you can't. You can, however, burn the music to disc and then rip the music off the CD back onto your computer in another format (such as .AAC or .mp3). What a bi&%h that can be!
Luckily, software has been made to work around this (Haha apple nerds). The best software I have seen is JHymn.
Oh well!
I must say thought that they have brought many small town people to the forfront of the music industry. Check out my old roommates band , Three Track Mind, Gavin's music is incredible and I hope his album "Throws Like a Girl" becomes a collectible. I also enjoy their free weekly downloads, which have actually paid off for me at least a couple times. The latest... Candy by Riton (sample at Amazon if you don't have iTunes).
The songs are cheap and iTunes allows the wanna-be people to pick out just the songs that are popular, but I almost don't like that. Freedom of choice and don't buy what you don't like and yadda yadda... still I'd like to think I have a deeper appreciation for the music I listen to. Even if it isn't the most popular or best track of an album, it was produced by an artist I enjoy and I still would like to know what the artist can and cannot accomplish. I can't agrue in a world of popularity and soundtracks, people telling you what goes well together.
In all, iTunes beat most of the industry to the punch and I can't blame them for how the system is set. Still, at the end, I love my music and still buy CDs and like it that way. Because, they are myTunes... not yours.
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