Re: Re: Apple at it again..

[David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've got 42176 items in my iTunes database and it works fine. Does
this count as large?

Of course, I am using it on a Mac... which just goes to back up my
point about *disloyal* users, eg buy an iPod and then want to go and
use Windows :-)

David

On 19 Jul 2009, at 08:49, Andy Powell wrote:

>
> On 18 Jul 2009, at 21:16, Steve Morgan wrote:
>
> > Andy Powell wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >> However, who the f&$k in their right mind WANTS to use
iTunes for
> >> anything (other than torture)
> >> it's the biggest pile of donkey droppings to plop out of
those
> >> cappuccino sipping Cupertino dwellers.
> >> IMHO anyone that wants to use iTunes for anything deserves
the
> whole
> >> 'bag of hurt' that it is.
> >>
> > Really? Then I choose to respectfully disagree. I love iTunes and
> the
> > Apple Store. I find it a brilliantly easy-to-use way to integrate
> the
> > media files across 2 iPhones, 2 iPods, 4 PCs and a Mac. I'm more
> than
> > happy to pay for music, video and mobile apps and iTunes makes
their
> > purchase wonderfully easy.
> >
> > It appears that other people's mileage varies.
> >
> > Steve.
>
> I don't know how large your collections of music / movies / tvshows /
> apps are but try it with anything approaching large and it fumbles and
> fails. While I see it can be convenient I don't expect my 'database'
> of tracks to corrupt itself and require me to rescan just because I
> close iTunes.
>
> While I would agree that the OSX version is better the windows version
> is terrible, bloated and verges on being the new Realplayer in terms
> of the crap it installs.
>
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