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Old 05-07-2014, 01:22 PM   #46
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iTunes pretty much HAS to be big and complicated, given that it has to contain drivers for every iDevice ever released. One thing about Apple is that they've never dropped support for even the oldest iPods in iTunes.
I find a lot to shake my head at in that passage, but I think it would all tangential to the thread topic at best.
We agree that all big complicated software will likely cause problems for some people, and some big complicated software can be better or worse than other big complicated software.

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Old 05-07-2014, 01:23 PM   #47
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Why is it not so on a mac then?
Probably because the Mac is a tightly-controlled environment that's all under Apple's control. A PC is much more challenging, with a whole raft of different video drivers, network cards, sound cards, etc, to have to deal with. An awful lot of problems I get reported with the software I develop and sell myself turn out to be due to buggy video drivers, for example.
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Old 05-07-2014, 01:48 PM   #48
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Why is it not so on a mac then?
Because many of the technologies used in iTunes are native to OS X.
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Old 05-07-2014, 03:48 PM   #49
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I can't, because I don't know what the alternatives are. I don't know about them, because I've always been happy with iTunes. What other products are there which will allow me to manage my large audio library on my PC, edit tags, create playlists, manage the contents on my iPhone and iPad, etc?
My music collection is just short of 30000 songs, mediamonkey does everything you want. Since I discovered it I never looked back.

The best thing to do is try it. You can install it in Portable mode so its self contained.
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There's Songbird, too, but as soon as you want to manage other-than-music on your iDevice, you need iTunes. You *can* just do it all over wifi and never touch itunes, but I have found (yes even on my mac) that there can be pitfalls with that (for example, a failed iOS update which left my iPad unusable until I plugged it in and restored it via iTunes). I also use iTunes and my computer for backups in preference to iCloud. But thats just me.

If you have an idevice and nothing has ever gone wrong with it through *not* using iTunes, you're lucky.
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