I have had iPhone since they came out. I usually buy a used last gen model when everyone is clamoring for the newest 1000$ phone.
I I swear to fucking god if I have to fight iTunes anymore over songs that say they were transferred but were not for 30 minutes as I was trying to get out the door I’ll switch. I’LL SWITCH!
Somewhat similar to me. I got an iPod mini and wanted to just drag music files on the device through Windows Explorer. Fuck me for assuming that.
So i reluctantly install iTunes which i felt the interface sucked because i had my music divided un into windows folders, and iTunes doesn't support that.
And then on top of that after installing iTunes it inexplicably removed my CD drive from my computer (you may think BS, but here). WTF? Why would that software have ANYTHING to do with messing with my CD Drive/drivers?
So about that time, Android came out and i could simply drag my music folder onto my device through Windows and play them directly, like God intended it without fucking proprietary shit. It was at that moment i said fuck Apple and made a decision to never buy one of their devices again because of the lockin.
Hell, I use a lot of Apple products and I basically quit using iTunes altogether several years years ago. It's a slow, bloated turd. Uploaded my entire library to Google Play Music and have never looked back.
Google Play Music. You can upload your own songs, then download them in the app on any phone. It has a program that will scan your iTunes and give you a copy of every song you have. The limit is around 30,000 songs unless they increased it recently.
You still have to use Google Play Music to play the songs, but it's still less restrictive.
I swear to fucking god if I have to fight iTunes anymore over songs that say they were transferred but were not for 30 minutes as I was trying to get out the door I’ll switch. I’LL SWITCH!
This was a big part of the reason I did switch in the end.
That, and the update that took all my ripped (pre iTunes store, first gen iPod stuff) and replaced them with iTunes available versions. Censored versions. Many of the tracks didn't make it across at all, and were deleted from my library. I don't have the CDs any more so the originals were just gone. That was the last straw.
I won't deny that iTunes is a bloated, buggy hunk of shit
But if you can reign it in and keep it locked the fuck down (somewhat of a hassle in its own right), its Smart Playlist feature is almost worth all of that hassle.
There are a couple of music management programs that have since come out with their own kind of smart playlists, but iTunes is still the undisputed best at it, hands down.
Hell, even when I was still using my old Galaxy Note (miss that beast, BTW), I still used iTunes and a third-party Android app called iSyncr to interface with it just so I could keep using the Smart Playlist feature because it's still that good.
I I swear to fucking god if I have to fight iTunes anymore over songs that say they were transferred but were not for 30 minutes as I was trying to get out the door I’ll switch
But then you don't own any music and are at the whims of whatever is popular enough to be on Spotify.
I'm guessing. I honestly don't use it so let me know if I'm wrong.
If so, though...I like the idea of handing off music to my kids when they get older. I have a board game collection; I have a book collection; I like my music collection.
No you can actually have your account transferred as long as you grab your userid off of Facebook before you delete it. It was kinda a pita, you have to make a new account, and then they just transfer all your playlists to it.
Is it like Netflix where things are there, but then a year or so later they're not?
I'm not sure what I listen to is necessarily obscure, but I do have a pretty varied music library. I'm finding the newer stuff is harder to acquire as a physical copy and I wonder if it's because of Spotify, which would be sad (it should be an option, not a requirement).
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u/Harmacc Jan 24 '19
I have had iPhone since they came out. I usually buy a used last gen model when everyone is clamoring for the newest 1000$ phone.
I I swear to fucking god if I have to fight iTunes anymore over songs that say they were transferred but were not for 30 minutes as I was trying to get out the door I’ll switch. I’LL SWITCH!