goLfie Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hey I recently got a new iPod for a present during the holidays, and so I reinstalled iTunes after not having it for a while. It works and gets my songs onto my ipod, but there's a few things about it that bug the heck outta me. The first is that it run soooooo slow on my PC. My friend has iTunes as well and his computer isn't even close to as fast as mine and its running faster. There's a bunch of other things about iTunes that really bugs me, there's the whole 'Sync' thing, it takes forever and isn't needed at all. Then there's the fact that I can't hook up my old iPod and download the same songs onto it, because it doesn't have permission, that bugs me. Is there a way to fix iTunes or is there another way to manage your iPod without it? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockersh Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 iTunes blows on a PC. I found it works a lot better on a MAC. Fortunately for me... I have a MAC I use for photos and Movies AND my iPhone and a PC for everything else. Like I said, good news for me but not everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Krause Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Hmm... Where is your iTunes Library Stored? On a Windows XP Default iTunes Install (I think the same for Vista) the default is \my documents\my music\itunes Ideas?? 1) Make sure you don't have any compression enabled on that folder and sub files 2) Try to defrag your Hard drive - Try THIS ARTICLE for details on running defrag on Vista or XP. 3) Where is the Music? Network share? External Hard Drive (USB??) or? You might have some performance bottlenecks there. Try to defrag this drive also. 4) Might want to watch your Anti-Virus statistics. iTunes shouldn't be going crazy with reading/writing files which would trigger your AV client. 5) Tune your AV client if needed. Personally, I tune AV to disable READ on-access scanning and only leave WRITE scanning enabled. Keep us updated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goLfie Posted January 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 I decided to just forget about iTunes and downloaded Songbird instead, works waay faster and doesn't have to use stupid file Sync to transfer everything. Also doesn't try to copy protect everything way overboard like itunes does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexmvp Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I decided to just forget about iTunes and downloaded Songbird instead, works waay faster and doesn't have to use stupid file Sync to transfer everything. Also doesn't try to copy protect everything way overboard like itunes does. really? Never heard of Songbird. Will have to play with it and test it out. MRGROOVE - Sounds like a new Groovy Article you need to write! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Went ahead and tested out Songbird, I have to say I really like it and it runs great. Problem is that it doesn't support iPod Touch or the iPhone. Apple still has a tight leash on those so you're stuck with iTunes (unless you jailbreak it) for the time being. And unfortunately I don't have anything except for what isn't supported... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trex09 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Yikes.... no iPhone? bummer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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