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RE: Are we surprised?
By kmmatney on 4/22/2013 11:52:04 AM , Rating: 2
While I used to like iTunes, it just hasn't gotten any better, and new versions seems really buggy (running with Windows 8, at least). I'm in the same boat - I want to get some more music on my iPhone, but have just been dreading using iTunes. What I really hate is how it insists on backing up everything to my computer - I have an SSD and I don't need 16GB of Apps copied over to it.

I've been using iTunes for a long time, and each release I can barely figure out how to get it to work again (at least how I want it to work, which is not the out-of-box experience). I don't see how this would have any chance of working in China (and I've worked in China and Taiwan quite a bit).

What's ironic is that most iTunes alternative programs were made to look just like iTunes, with the same music browsing interface. (for example Songbird, MediaMonkey, SharePod, etc...). iTunes has gone and cluttered everything up, while these alternative programs are now much easier to use.
I dropped iTunes a long time ago for my old iPod Nano, using SharePod straight from the device itself). I'm still looking for a good alternative for transferring music to my iPhone. Maybe Songbird has gotten better...

