Simpsonize Yourself.
Simpsonize yourself.
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I have to admit that while I do most of my gainful work on GNU/Linux machines, when I sit at home and browse the web and play music, I use my iMac and OS X. I also will guiltily admit that I buy almost all of my music with iTunes music store. It’s just too darned easy; I’m a sucker for a click-and-buy song machine. My problem is with the deteriorating quality of the iTunes app itself. Apple has probably had me patch this thing literally 7 or 8 times so far, and each time I do the ‘upgrade’, the application runs worse. Every time. Soon, nothing will work at all. I am running iTunes 7.3.1 on OSX 10.4.10. This is basically the current releases of each at the moment. Right now, in iTunes, the following basic functionality does not work:
- The track clock at top center will not update unless you click on it
- The Visualizer has the same problem and is useless.
- Most importantly, the music store UI is not usable at all. They have killed my ability to buy music through them.
- If you open the artwork window by clicking on the album artwork, you’ll find that you can not close it. Ever. To make this more annoying, every time a new song comes on, the artwork window jumps to the front.
I would like to stress that all of these things used to work a few releases ago. How is it even at all possible that bugs of this magnitude could ship? Do they not test this application at all? I mean, this is their core app. iTunes is what drives people to the mac platform, kind of like how Office works for Microsoft. You would think iTunes would work right on their OS, their hardware, with all their patches. But sadly, no. This app only gets worse over time and I stupidly keep installing the latest release, thinking things will be fixed…