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iTunes sucks: A GIF guide to why Apple’s desktop music app must be fixed

Why does iTunes suck so incredibly much?

iTunes sucks, we all know it. What are my options for music player (nonstreaming) on the iPhone 6s?

Why I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music

Can iTunes suck anymore than it already does?

iTunes Really Is That Bad

Apple’s iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

Eleven Reasons Why iTunes Sucks

Why does Itunes SUCK SO MUCH ???

Again: no, people are not happy using iTunes. People use iTunes because Apple requires it for their expensive iDevices. They hate it, but they want to sync music to their iPhones.

You're saying that my assertion about video players is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy? That's a laugh. You just didn't want to dig your hole deeper by responding to what I said. Video players are not designed to deal with large music libraries, nor should they be. A sports car can be used to take lots of cleaning supplies between cleaning jobs, but a utility van will be far better suited to the task. Your choice of VLC to support this notion is especially hilarious. The VLC media library is like only using the Winamp playlist for your entire music collection.

Or perhaps you meant that foobar2000 is not the true Scotsman. In that case, you missed my arguments about the interface being poorly designed.

Now here's a real laugh for you regarding your sneering at Winamp market share. While I don't have stats from anywhere today, Lifehacker did a survey in 2013 to find out what the readers thought was the best desktop music player and in the end Winamp was the winner. So at least in 2013, 16 years after Winamp was released, it was still the preferred player for everyone that read Lifehacker at the time. Unfortunately, most articles seem to omit or only "honorably mention" Winamp based on it no longer being developed which at this point is really only a problem for people who want double size mode to look better or want to sync a modern iPod with Winamp (yes, Winamp used to sync iPods.)

I'm sure iTunes can play music back on garbage hardware while multitasking. Maintaining a 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream while multitasking was easily done by Winamp in 1997 on an original Pentium, so why wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing today on a bargan-basement Celeron that's slow for browsing but still two orders of magnitude faster than an original Pentium? It's not hard to have a realtime-priority and heavily optimized thread that does nothing but decompress music file data and pass it to the sound system. Good luck switching between iTunes and other stuff in 2GB of RAM while trying to do some actual work.

One more thing was never addressed. You never elaborated on why "underlying frameworks" is some sort of selling point. Last I checked, no one went out looking for media players and said "I want one that has underlying frameworks."

you can download the Netscape web browser:

http://netscape-browser.brothersoft.com/

City walls got drawn on the map in Civ II. They varied according to which architectural style you had, but there'd usually be a line around the bottom of the square. (link For comparison, Cherbourg does not have city walls; Vichy and Strasbourg do.)

I tried FreeCiv and, while the graphics don't bother me at all, the game mechanics seemed horribly unbalanced: No matter what I tried, it seemed like every time I attacked a unit I'd inevitably lose. And this from a guy who's been playing Civ II for years.

Probably a false positive if you got it from here.
http://www.brothersoft.com/download-formatfactory-98431.html

Yep. That was one of them. Note that McAfee says the trojan will NOT be spotted if you are using signatures dated earlier than 6 January 2010 (abput 12 days ago). I can't say whether it's a false positive or not. Let's wait for the next update to the virus scanners instead. If it's really a false positive, then the Format Factory makers will notify them.

Probably a false positive if you got it from here.

http://www.brothersoft.com/download-formatfactory-98431.html

I have never known this page to host any bad files and my scans are clean.

As always be careful where you download things.

For me, NVIDIA scaling always makes things blurry. Even on my old 1280x1024, whenever I used fixed aspect ratios on a 640x480 game it, it would give me a 1280x960 image with tons of blurring. Fixed aspect ratio on a 1280x960 game (Morrowind) worked perfectly though :)

The monitor's own scaling was better, and my current 1920x1080 monitor is even better than that, but there is still smearing with the monitor's own fixed aspect ratio. And NVIDIA insists on treating this monitor as an HDTV, so I don't even have the option changing/disabling flat panel scaling in the drivers. Jumping through hoops I can disable it for resolutions of 1024x768 or lower only....

Direct 3D Windower was recommended to me, but I couldn't get it to work.

As long as you can make it not look like this:
http://vlc-media-player.brothersoft.com/screenshots/VLC-Media-Player-0.8.-6c_1.png

So we need some standardisation for EULAs, just like foods must list their ingredients in some standard way. Analyze the available EULAs, 90% of it boils probably down to the same few terms.

This is why we have the EULAyzer.

Pulled the product? Are you talking about G-Archiver, the subject of the blog entry? Think again; http://www.brothersoft.com/g-archiver-58027.html
Of course its linked to by one of those fly-by-night software "repositories" . I wouldn't call G-Archiver or the page that links to it paragons of digital virtue. As always let the buyer beware. I find it amusing that the author is charging for his little opus as well. $30, not exactly cheap for what it does. I wonder how much money he culls from his victi... er, users.

Unless we are talking about DBGrep. I've seen about half-dozen database "grep" equivalents over the years.