Apple. Great fruit to eat. ;0

So, the story was that I received an iPod as a gift. I thought, "Hey, look at this cool music device". So I started exploring, by diving into the settings. The customization part was fun...

Next came to adding the songs... toughie.

Thing is that I couldn't add any songs, without using the tedious, boring, and dull GUI iTunes.

A music player for a 57MB file?! I thought. Geez, Apple has sunk lower than Microsoft. :P. I know that Microsoft's products (excluding Windows XP OS) lags&lacks all that, and they take forever to patch, but what company forces a video player along with it too?!

Such unfair business practices. Upon executing a 5-minute installation, my Task Manager was jammed with 5 more processes. Bonjour, heck I had no idea what it was.

So, the Apple software thought it was so important, thus it had to force an entry to the startup manager.

Thinking that I did not need QuickTime, I removed it, consuming another 5 minutes of my day... Bingo! iTunes couldn't function without it's blue-gargantuan of a brother.
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iTunes creaked and groaned. Like a rusty iron gate. It finally started up.

Uploading the songs was a breeze, but I just had to find my way through the iTunes labyrinth.

Apple Software Update stood on the side, dormant. I thought, "Hey, this might be interesting". So I clicked.

Apple Safari was on the list. Hrm. Hearing all those stories, I decided not to update yet. However, the update program itself required an update.

After a 2MB file, it prompted me to reboot. Reboot I did not.
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Apple today wouldn't be a big success if it wasn't for the iPod. Their iMac's were much business after all.

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Edit:9.12.08

So, iTunes 8 has been released. Nothing new really. Just a new "kick" to it. I would consider it a add-on, which randomizes songs that "fit" in the category that you selected.

What is more disappointing is Apple "collecting" information about your library prior to using
Genius.

Shucks. :spider:
 
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Yes, iTunes has grown quite a lot in the past years, from a small and nice thing to a huge monster. Bonjour is actually the only reason I still use iTunes: it allows computers on your network to see each other without any configuration required. So one iTunes could see any music that another iTunes on another machine has shared. I use this to have all my music on a central server (which is running Linux, so no iTunes, but an iTunes compatible open source server software called Firefly Media Server).

But then, you can't sync your iPod with music on iTunes network music shares, which makes sense on the one hand, on the other hand it adds even more restrictions on that piece of bloatware.

At least it seems you got the updates - if you're a Windows XP 64 user, you get offered the updates every few days, it'll download them, only to tell you then that it couldn't install them (because XP 64 is no longer supported... or probably never was, but earlier versions at least worked!).

As for the video player, you've got to admit that Windows Media Player plays videos as well, as does even WinAmp. It's just todays do-it-all-attitude. With the nice exception of Foobar2000 probably :)

There are alternative apps out there to fill your iPod with music, don't quite remember their names though since they didn't work so well when I last tried.

Will stop now before I'm drifting away even further ;)
 
Winamp served me well, before I joined the forum. It was a good media player, except I would like to keep it simple. WMP 11 was enough for me.

Sad thing is that if I had more RAM or even better a new PC, then I would install all the Apple software \m/ ^_^ \m/ and gunk. Haha.

Maybe not... 1GB of RAM for Windows (or 2) seems to be the sweet spot.
 
Thinking that I did not need QuickTime, I removed it, consuming another 5 minutes of my day... Bingo!
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5 minutes to uninstall quicktime? quicktime is the most useless player ever:flame:
 
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