**** you, iTunes

Before I begin my rant on iTunes, I have to mention this. I like my iPod. Sure, there are a few things that annoy me from time to time. Seeking through an eight hour audiobook minute-by-minute is a definite negative. Or when my iPod randomly reassigns my album artwork so that Avenged Sevenfold albums covers are on my Beatles ones. But all in all, my iPod has saved me from countless boring situations ranging from long waits at the doctor’s office to sitting on the bus for forty minutes.

Despite the good times we’ve had, I’m ready to hand it off in place of a Zune. I opened my Music folder after installing iTunes on my new computer only to find this. Before you ask, no, I did not set the install path to my Music folder. I set it to install in the typical c:\Program Files folder. What the hell is this garbage? I don’t want my nice, neat, organised folders to be cluttered with garbage files from iTunes. I don’t care how necessary they are. It may seem like I’m complaining about a trifle issue, but the astounding volume of problems that iTunes on Windows has just isn’t acceptable. It’s slow, buggy, and just..fugly. I’d much rather drag and drop music and videos onto my mp3 player through Windows Explorer than have to see the ugly combination of grey, blue, and light yellow. I thought things from Apple were supposed to be pretty, minimalistic, and intuitive.

I’ve tried to manage my iPod through third party applications, but nearly all of them had one or more things that made the program harder to use than iTunes. I hate being stuck with such a badly-designed piece of software. What I’m saying isn’t new or special, I know. Many people have voiced their unhappiness with iTunes, but what has Apple done about it? Oh, that’s right. They just added another shitty sidebar to iTunes and called it the Genius sidebar.

Thanks, jerks.