iTunes 12 worst ever

by LeviDogbot Mar 10, 2015 9:57AM PDT

When will Apple actually start to listen to the end user?

Itunes has always left a little to be desired but for the most part has been reasonably workable provided you don't want too much info out of it.

Having just, reluctantly, downloaded iTunes 12..........It seems that instead of fixing problems and making it better it has got worse. A lot worse

Still no return of the coverflow which millions of folk including me found actually useful.

Sidebar gone for good as well

Yes I know there are work rounds but Really?

Support for audio books even worse than ever: Just managed to scramble nearly 2Tb of library and produce thousands of duplicates, Lost whole albums;missing artwork that exists; missing track info, etc,etc

It's even more clunky than ever with the payload on searches just ridiculous (jesus even a basic Access
database can handle things better than this!)

And to add to the misery it is now completely unstable crashing on a custom built media server that has given no trouble at all (never even been turned off for in excess of 2 yrs )
I dare not point it at my video libraries and
forget about asking it to stream to other machines.

The only reason I started using iTunes in the first place was because when it was first launched it was the nuts.

Time for a good alternative.

I'm running a windows 7 set up

Anyone any (sensible) suggestions?

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Of course I can use an older version but thats not the point is it? and WHY?
I have years invested in iTunes believing that it would get better so why go back to an older version? Is there nothing out there that will actually work?

As for the back up?

My media is stored on individual drives in a data store and they are frequently 'backed up' with full images.
The integrity of the data stored is as near perfect as possible.
There are no duplicates; no dead files and data is often more complete that iTunes is capable of displaying.

The fault is with iTunes
After a clean install, when pointed at the drives to create a new library oft it went and took over 6 hrs to complete its own library from the stored data.
When completed it had duplicated, sometimes triplicated, nearly every track
It reported that some tracks (nearly 5,000) where dead
It failed to list over 2,000 existing tracks
Failed to list correct information on some tracks
Couldn't handle the Audio Book files at all. Out of over 100 books it only listed 32, messed up track orders and info as well as duplicating and triplicating tracks. Didn't 'generise' them correctly and put them with music albums.
The xls is a complete mess
I could go on!

iTunes is essentially a GUI frontend over a database:-
A database that doesn't work with a GUI that is top heavy with limited tools that also doesn't work.
Surely there is a known decent alternative?

As for iTunes 12???? It's already been filed under B-1-N but the cost in time and frustration is huge
I will load it on a laptop and see if it can handle a smaller collection of data it may be fun to mess with it for a while and try to find out why Apple software geeks are messing with the end user so much.

The database I can handle ------- stick the whole lot on an SQL but developing a GUI for it is another matter Jesus I can search it faster with MS Access!

iTunes 12 worst ever

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