iTunes is the biggest piece of shit on Windows, but it's lovely on OSX.
I wonder if that was intentional.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:49, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

What's an OSX?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Apple's operating system.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Oh, i have windows and I hate I-Tunes with every fibre of my being

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:56, Reply)

Inside Windows, iTunes is an awful piece of software.
It's just so bloated, a complete hog, one of the bigger points of music players is that they're unobtrusive, let you do whatever you normally do in the mean-time.

If you're only bothered by music, I recomend Winamp (free) and the iPod plug-in (free) to do the same job, but it won't do anything appart from music, if I remember correctly.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Eh, it's alright on Windows, but I use Media Monkey instead
iTunes is the best on OSX by a long way.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Why would it be different between platforms
I mean, I unbderstand that they are set up differently, but are they not fundamentally the same on some level?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Something gets lost in translation.
A bit like how the origional bible in ancient hebrew resembles nothing to like the modern thing you read in english.

Let's take the example of the processes of copying a song from your iTunes Libery to your iPod's Libery. In windows, it opens up a datastream into the root structure of the iPod, and then changes the XML file containing the libary so the media player inside the ipod knows where to look for the song (eg, "Will Smith - Getting Jiggy With It" is at c:\media\will smith\getting jiggy with it.mp3"*). It's the same weather you're in windows or OSX. However, the driver/libary (DLL/Class), which contains the code which does the phsyical act of what we want to do (known as a 'methord') is different in Windows and in OSX, because the two operating systems work differently. One is optimised one way, the other the other way.... and _that_ is where the bloat happens.

It's like how Windows Media Player works effortlessly in Windows, but would run like shit on OSX (should it be made for OSX in the same way iTunes is made for Windows)... the other way 'round is true too, except iTunes is avaialbe in Windows, and so, runs sluggish.

* it actually looks totally different, but for this example, it'll simplify things.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Hardware-wise
a PC and a Mac are pretty much identical. But Apple have ported a program designed to run under OS X to another operating system. Which doesn't always work.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:15, Reply)