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I'm fucking fed up with iTunes. What do you guys use?

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I know there are other programs for organizing your music and transferring files to an iPod. What are the best ones?

Sep 17 2011 2:33PM

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well for zune, i download from mediafire and drag it into zune.

i havn't used an ipod/itunes in over 4 years so i dont know much about it anymore. but you could try that.

Sep 17 2011 2:35PM

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i've never heard of another app that will work with an ipod well, apple as that shit on lock.

Sep 17 2011 2:37PM

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why are you fed up with itunes?

Sep 17 2011 2:38PM

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I don't see how you could be fed up, I am always quick to hate on apple, but after trying everything from WMP to winamp to the zune software. No matter what thouh I always come back to itunes, though winamp is a close second.

Sep 17 2011 2:46PM

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spotify is good for organizing. sort of.

Sep 17 2011 3:02PM

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It's the best streamlined music organizing system out there. Don't shy away.

Sep 17 2011 3:21PM

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There's nothing to be fed up about, aside from a new update every day. What's your queef?

Sep 17 2011 3:26PM

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Mostly I'm tired with the way it syncs with my iPod touch. It doesn't let me do anything manually. I have to check which artists/albums/playlists I want and then it spends the next 10 minutes "Determining tracks to sync". Why can't I just copy and delete things manually? Today I got pissed off because I added on album to my iPod and for some reason it added 90 songs I hadn't even selected and deleted some albums I didn't want to delete. The whole process took 15 minutes.

Sep 17 2011 4:22PM

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OMG u people from the US.... Hahahahha xD Dont say you haven't heard of spotify before? It's like all the music for free. You can make playlists and share with others, subscribe to other people's playlists, buy music there to get on ur Ipod. (MUUUCH cheaper than Itunes) Spotify.com

Sep 17 2011 4:33PM

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Zune is sick

Sep 17 2011 4:47PM

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UR MOM

bitch

Sep 17 2011 4:48PM

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This. Spotify really is the way to go. You can put music that isn't on Spotify in to the mixes as well, and it all just works soo smoothly.

Americans are slow.

Sep 17 2011 4:57PM

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you can, just check "Manually manage music and video"

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Sep 17 2011 5:02PM

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SPOTIFY !

pm me if you want an invite.

Sep 17 2011 5:03PM

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Yeah, Spotify is like all over best! Haha how come you haven't heard of it, it's been around for like 3 years now...

Sep 18 2011 3:04PM

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I don't think he's angry about getting music, just organizing it. Do what whoever posted the picture of itunes did and check "manually manage music".

Sep 18 2011 5:06PM

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Bearshare

Sep 18 2011 5:11PM

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Sep 18 2011 5:14PM

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what do you mean by "u people"?

Sep 18 2011 5:15PM

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Hate itunes. crashes allot and it's pretty slow. and no my computer isn't crappy/slow.

Sep 18 2011 5:18PM

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iTunes on my Windows system is horrible. iTunes on my Mac is unbeatable. Not sure why it's so different.

Sep 18 2011 5:44PM

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make SURE you click, manually manage music, otherwise yes, it will fuck you over, in even greater proportions when using an ipod touch.

Sep 18 2011 5:46PM

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OP fail

Sep 18 2011 5:50PM

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Vuze/torrentz for full albums

vid2mp3 for single songs

Sep 18 2011 6:05PM

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Spotify

Sep 18 2011 6:15PM

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Try foobar2000 if you want a super customizable, super powerful music player.

If you want something almost as powerful but not as customizable, try mediamonkey.

Both will sync an ipod and they're both 100x better than itunes.

Sep 18 2011 6:32PM

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Copy trans Control center

Sep 18 2011 7:05PM

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linux rhythm box motherfucker.

Sep 18 2011 7:14PM

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check out mediamonkey

Sep 18 2011 8:21PM

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I've got a nice PC that's pretty new and yet iTunes crashes all the damn time.

Sep 18 2011 8:48PM

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zune

vuze

freshnewtracks

Sep 18 2011 8:49PM

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http://www.video2mp3.net/

Sep 18 2011 10:15PM

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there is nothing wrong with iTunes, it is the best one. i dont know why you have trouble with it but just learn how to do it and it is great. set it to manual (i dont know how you didnt know that already) and you can manage music/videos however you like and from other computers too.
take a tutorial or something lol

Sep 18 2011 10:17PM

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google music beta

Sep 18 2011 10:27PM

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To all you Europeans saying "OMG SPOTIFY LULZ AMERICANS ARE SLOW HOW HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF THIS ITS BEEN AROUND FOR LIKE 3 YEARS" I'd like to inform you that it just recently became available in America and is just starting to gain attention here. Not ranting, just clarifying.

Sep 18 2011 10:59PM

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Same here, no clue what that's all about. And it runs 10x slower on the PC. I don't get it.

Sep 18 2011 11:07PM

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Youtube and then use youtube2mp3

Sep 18 2011 11:09PM

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I think a lot more people thank you think have heard of it...

Sep 18 2011 11:14PM

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GTFO

Sep 18 2011 11:22PM

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when i do that this is what i get

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then i have to go through my entire music library checking which songs i want to be added and unchecking which songs i don't want to be added when i sync my iPod. fuck that.

i want to be able to add music and delete it the same way i do with my shuffle

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Sep 19 2011 1:34AM

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well the pictures section is undergoing surgery so i'll link em

https://www.newschoolers.com/memberphoto/345281.0/itunes?s=111103&c=0&t=1&o=8
https://www.newschoolers.com/memberphoto/345284.0/shuffle?s=111103&c=0&t=1&o=8

https://www.newschoolers.com/memberphoto/345284.0/shuffle?s=111103&c=0&t=1&o=8

Sep 19 2011 1:36AM

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Hey man you should check out my Fuck itunes thread

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/634651/

I went with Miro and Spotify but if your not going to buy into the spotify thing like me it's kind of a waste of time. There are just too many adds. Significantly more than Pandora or grooveshark

YOU MUST GOOGLE MIRO THOUGH
it's open source and literally ten times better than itunes

Sep 19 2011 2:04AM

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