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What's wrong with Itunes?

I really used to like iTunes but it seems to have issues with very large collections, additionally, iTunes cannot find half of my music files so that 'easy way' was not an option.

JRiver finds all of them, every file type, in seconds I might add, and I was able to delete the dups pretty easily.

Thank you Alobar.

Alobar said:
Yeah .... tedious. .
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I'm using JRiver since switching from MAC to PC in 2012. I thought iTunes was alright for OS X. Anybody compare the sound of iTunes vs JRiver on WIndows? I suppose I could try it out if I can find the time. I think a lot of my music is on FLAC now, so iTunes probably still doesn't support that. iTunes did have a nice selection of radio stations to choose from.
 
I prefer "Swiss army knife" programs that can handle every format I have, giving me hands-on control when I need it, or do things automatically to my satisfaction (which is rare). No proprietary bullsnot. Can that "other" program handle FLAC? Nope. DSD files (as ISO, DSF or DFF)? Nope. WMA files (which work in most portable devices and in-dash players)? Nope. OGG files? Nope. Work as a player on either of the computers, or work as a DLNA control point for my main system? Nope. JRiver does this for me. So do a few others, but I settled on JRiver. Until I find something better. ;)

olson_jr said:
JRiver finds all of them, every file type, in seconds I might add, and I was able to delete the dups pretty easily.
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This.

I'm going to have to try that duplicate trick. Even if I don't want to delete, I sometimes want to alter the tags for the file, to differentiate between alternate versions of an album for instance. I still have thousands of tags to modify, and the sorting options in JRiver helps.
 
I still have some MP3 left on my HD that I haven't replaced with lossless yet. JRiver can filter them out of smartlists easily by filtering only 400bps and above. I don't think Itunes can as it is very "simple" (note, I have not used ITunes in 2 years or so). Not knocking it for what it is, but it sometimes reminds me of Microsoft "Paint". Free, but not all that useful if you have ever used Photoshop Elements or something similar. but I could never go back to ITunes again.
 
I use Itunes for small 128k AAC files ... even at that ... only for Greatest Hits, Essential, Best of , Anthology etc .. 194 albums/15.7gb of data.

If I ever get to the point of ripping all my CD's (now ... I just stream then mostly) ... creating a large collection of data ... I might try some other software.

:eek: ... the idea of becoming a database administrator has never really appealed to me ... unless the streaming model gets more expensive or limits content (like Netflix movie streaming).
 
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Condorsat said:
the idea of becoming a database administrator has never really appealed to me ... unless the streaming model gets more expensive or limits content (like Netflix movie streaming).
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I think a lot of it is how one likes to listen to music. A great many don't really want to listen to any song more than once or twice ever so why would they buy music?. To them streaming makes a lot of sense, just letting an algorithm on a remote server figure out what they want to hear while they tend to more pressing matters of mixing a drink or whatever. Others want to play more of the same stuff again and again, not in a row, but to be repeated over a period of a month say or even 10 years later. I fit into that camp and I would be more than a little upset if a song I really wanted to hear again (or a whole group) suddenly and quietly disappeared from Tidal or Apple to be replaced by some generic similar sounding band playing the song I wanted to hear. Streaming, once everything shakes out will head in one of 2 directions. Either better through competition, or worse through the lack of it. So far I am seeing a lot of mega corporations buying up and internally dismantling the competition. If that continues, greed by the streaming corps, who with lack of competition could try to dictate prices paid to artists which might diminish a lot of the 30 million songs or whatever they are saying that they have, to include more of what nobody wants to hear anyway.
 
I basically use I tunes to sample new artists or music that I have not heard before purchasing. I used to love the Genius recommended for you selections when you could preview them on the same screen. But somewhere down the road this got broke and they have never fixed it so if you go three pages in and you want to sample the music when your done and you want to go back it takes you all they way back to page one... Lame! I do have my Ipod classic and a Fiio X1. The pod is nice as I can easily set up smart playlists where in Fiio if I want to import my itunes playlists you have to do some fancy spreadsheet work to generate the list. And last but not least Foobar for playing all my LP's ripped to FLAC. Life is like a box of chocolates hahaha!
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Last night I was playing a video game and iTunes determined it needed an update, "RIGHT NOW!", over riding everything. Later when I did an update it required a system shutdown and retart.

Plug an iPhone into a computer without iTunes and watch the chaos ensue.
 
What is wrong with iTunes, everything is wrong with iTunes. It takes more computing power to run iTunes than it does to handle recording, playback, and music scheduling for 3 FM stations (and this automation is many, many times more dependable and stable in 24/7/365 on air use)
 
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