Alternative to iTunes?

[ps49556n]

Originally Posted by wildonrio

I won't get into the reasons right now but I really hate iTunes. Does anyone know of an alternative that works with the iPhone?

iPhone does not and will never use any other program but iTunes for synch and music store.


In iTunes you can uncheck the box for automatic sync. I am like you and hate the auto sync but this option allows you to turn it off.

[ceedashrob]

try this out http://www.my-linker.com/hop/iphoneworld

[Peregrine]

I hate iTunes, too. It's not "because I have Windows"....



Nothing will ever synch with iPhones?!?
How can you say NEVER in this day and age?!?

http://www.mediamonkey.com works. (Supposedly... of course, I haven't tried it...)

[The Apple]

Why do all of you that hate itunes hate it so much???? I think its a decent music program.

[GordonChil]

I don't think there's anything out yet for the iphone. I broke out of jail on mine and it looks like the file system in the music folder on the iphone is similar to that on the ipod. And the ipod has many different solutions that you can use as an alternative to itunes.

I think I might watch to see one come out or maybe alter one of the open source ones to work with a jailbroken iphone.

I'm not all to keen on iTunes right now either. It's altogether slow and in my case the combination of itunes + iphone plus the combination of hardware that I have on my machine brings the machine to a screeching hault. (20 seconds for every request to the hard drive). No thank you.

[Peregrine]

Not to even mention the restriction to ONLY being able to use your iPod on 5 computers.
Not to even mention if you hook an iPod to a 'strange' computer it will wipe your songs. Lame....
I can hook my DAP (the real term for these devices, btw... DIGITAL AUDIO PLAYER) to any computer any time with no restrictions, no marrying to the computer, no REGISTER ME! crap to deal with.
Just the old familiar Windows USB sound DU-DOO.
I am very anti-proprietary anything. They had to create thier own DRM... weak. I can download free audio books from my public library through thier website.

Best Library in the Country

Awwww... sorry iPod owners:

Why can't I transfer OverDrive Audio Book titles directly to my iPod, or use these files on my Mac?

OverDrive Audio Book titles, provided by OverDrive, Inc., use DRM protection technology from Microsoft Corporation. Unfortunately the iPod and Mac do not currently support DRM-protected Windows Media Audio (WMA) files.
(//y'know... like EVERY other device on the planet does?//)

OverDrive, along with hundreds of online digital media providers, is hopeful that Apple and Microsoft can reach an agreement that would enable support for Microsoft-based DRM-protected materials on the iPod and Mac.


Had to get me started, didn't you?

The ONLY iPod I would own is a Rockboxed iPod.

http://www.rockbox.org

[escoffie]

Sorry for resurrecting this old post, but, i'm with Wildonrio. iTunes is a very bad piece of software. Maybe it really does the things in a logicall way (at least logicall for iTMS to get the permissions from the recod companies to sell music), but against my logic.
Logically, the iPod family works better with iTunes on a Mac, but maybe i would like to choose, i don't want anything imposed (talking about the vicious feature of iTunes to rename files, and that nasty "unknown artist" folder, as much as to get a new computer, a Mac, in order to make my iPhone 3G work smoothly). Besides, in my country there isn't a iTMS where to fetch the album art. I hate that! Besides, maybe iTunes works smoothly on a Mac, but 70Mb of memory on Windows! Not even the Windows Media Player! I really like to get an alternative for iTunes. I'm not interested on jailbreaking mine, nor on remove copy protection from tracks, nor on share pirate music. All I want is an app that let me order my music the way i want without that nasty duplicates and without that exagerated 70Mb memory usage.
Any alternatives?

[captaincore]

if you use anything other than iTunes to sync your iPhone you will definitely run into incompatibilities/bugs/issues. be safe and just use iTunes.

or, if you hate iTunes that much. just get a Zune and use Windows Media Player instead.