iTunes on PC

I have been a loyal Mac user since 1987, even though my first ever mac was shipped with system disks that had the nVir virus on them. My first and last ever computer virus! Since then I have had about 15 Macs and a few PCs.

Then I bought an ipod and it was great.

Then I bought an iphone and it was also great.

Then I installed itunes on my PC too, having used it for years on my Macs. BIG mistake!!!

Windows media player was rubbish so I put iTunes on there.
Now when I shove in a CD it randomly oscillates between scanning it in to itunes or media player. Some tracks appear on itunes and some dont so rather than mess about it is usually easier to scan it in twice. And of course the C-drive quickly filled up, so I dragged all the music to the D drive. Surprise surprise, it doesn't work any more. Itunes can't find the files, even though on a Mac you can put stuff anywhere and it will always track it. So I tried to import them into itunes again, but surprise surprise, the itunes 'import folder' command only shows folders for importing that live on the C drive. More messing about trying to fool it into working, then I just gave up and trashed the library and rebuilt it from scratch on the D Drive. All the folders are gone of course and I have to sort out what i want on the various ipods all over again. What rubbish software! Hours wasted! The sort of stuff I expect on a PC, but Apple should really know better than to ship such trash. I'm sure someone will say I should have read the manual, but Mac users aren't supposed to need manuals and most things that should work do work. iTunes doesn't! Not the way its Mac users expect anyway.

And now since I discovered Quicktime doesn't work properly on a PC either. Videos in MPG that launch in quicktime only give a tiny little window and don't let you save them unless you've got 'pro', (which I have by the way but their stupid validation software prevents me using the pro I paid for on the updates, but that's another whinge). They have shipped a knackered version and are trying to pass it off as a proper utility. I never thought I'd say this but quicktime isn't a patch on media player on my PC.

I don't love Apple any more. I still hate PCs but I am rapidly going off Apple too.