In 12.2.1.16, every time I change the rating of a song, it hypnowheels for 7+ seconds. And every time a new track starts, it hypnowheels for up to 30 seconds.Dear iTunes team: you are bad at your job and you should feel bad.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
What's contextually interesting right now is that Apple clearly is willing, sometimes, when the mood strikes them, to burn down their core apps and start again: iPhoto most recently, iMovie before that. With mixed results, to be sure, but point being there's clearly not necessarily an institutional injunction against this sort of thing...
...except for fucking iTunes. And I'd really love to know why.
This isn't an explanation, but it does describe the problem:
http://www.marco.org/2015/07/26/dont-order-the-fish
Yeah, I just read that. I loved his bit:
Given how iTunes completely infects Apple's ecosystem, it's probably difficult to touch. It's everywhere: music/video/photo management, system updates, on-line stores, etc. A rewrite affects a lot of servers, and a lot of old hardware would need to be left behind.
Maybe when they finally pull the plug on the non-WiFi iPods?
I assume the mandatory iCloud for contacts/calendar sync in 10.9 was an attempt to remove this component from iTunes' clutches. They failed though.
Your Javascript/Sound woes are the hideous birthcries of Gronk 2.0, aren't they?
Jesus, I hope not.
I wish there was some credible alternative to iTunes, but there is not, if you also have nutty desires like: being able to sync a subset of your music to an iPhone without doing it totally manually, coupled with a complete unwillingness to store music that you own in The Clown.
I hate storing my music in The Clown. It comes out all sticky, with needles and little bits of child.
The Clown. I am using this.
I know you're not a big fan of The Clown, but considering that the (apparent well-received) new Photos app is built on Apple ClownKit, I'm starting to wonder how long until someone tries to built the product that iTunes should be on Apple's own infrastructure. My understanding is that the user-based side of ClownKit's services are charged against the user's data pool rather that the developer.
Apple's reaction if such a thing ever came to pass would be interesting to say the least.
Ah, via Jason Scott. Excellent.
I'm more of a fan of The Butt
I'd call it "second system syndrome" but we're at... what, 12th system now? It's fractally broken.
I appreciate the "infinite combination of tasks" allegory; iTunes is basically Apple's emacs without an open platform, RMS, or the ability to send mail. You can see their desperate attempts to escape from this synctacular monstrosity through the aggressive push of iCloud, iTunes Match, Apple Music, and so forth. I don't even try to backup my phone to iTunes anymore because who knows if it will succeed.
Apple and Google both have backed themselves into corners with their sclerotic failures at software development. Google has the advantage that they mostly understand what it means to run a service, while Apple has the advantage that they mostly undersatnd what value UX designers bring to a project. But they're both so broken.
It's going to be an exciting next decade. I'll get the popcorn.... and the antipsychotics.
If you go into iTunes Store, and click the "Send iTunes Gifts", you are dumped straight into an interface for sending an email...
they used to have the best, then they started hiding it all behind menus, then they hid the menu.
not the best, that.
Well, that's two hours of my life I won't get back. I just restored from backup to downgrade back to iTunes 12.1.2.27, then manually re-imported everything that was missing. Because of course they revved the database number and the old version won't read it. Of course they did.
I also re-discovered that much of the time, iTunes doesn't bother to flush the "year" field back out to the ID3 tags. No idea when or why this happens. Hooray.
But look, no more hypnowheel.
Out of curiosity, how big is your main iTunes library? I'm juuuust short of 100GB for my entire mp3 stash (16,000 files), and I even think a majority of that was paid for at some point.
Somewhere around 280 GB of music (54k tracks) and 340 GB of music videos (6k tracks).
With its emphasis on tables-based spreadsheet curation and database management, iTunes is killing music.
12.2.1.16 may be broken, but at least the Spinning pinwheel looks beautiful in OS X 10.11 ;)
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/OS_X_10.11_Beta_Beach_Ball.jpg"
Apparently there's someone else who is unhappy with iTunes.