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anyone who uses itunes thats updated to 8.0 had any problems?
when its on my computer runs slower than a week in jail, was using 67% of my cpu this morning. when it's minimise and i try to bring it back up it can be waiting 30 secs to a minute for it to appear

pretty certain its itunes as not having the problems with anything else, and never had this with itunes before they changed to 8.0 last week
i dont even have the new genius bar opened ,which was the major update (it spys on your music and recommends similar stuff from the store,,gave a few too many good recommendations and i had to turn it off before i spent a fortune)

I read a thread on it when it was first released, and apparently everyone is complaining about how slow it runs. 7 was bad enough, but apparently 8 is much worse.

It's also bloatware and installs a bunch of other crap that you probably wont use. Seems to run multiple programs whenever it's run. Doesnt surprise me Quicktime is the slowest media player in history, so it makes sense that itunes is the slowest media manager

It might calm down after a day or two of analysing your music


I havent found an alternative to itunes yet. Not since Yahoo bought and closed down musicmatch (also bloated, but not as bad as itunes.) I tried media monkey for a while, but didnt like the interface, however, it does seem to be gaining popularity.

only reason i use itunes is because i cant live without my ipod
it's my alarm clock,
it keeps me sane at work (and drives everyone else nuts, as i own the speakers, mwahaha)
it gets me to and from work every day, and i usually fall alseep plugged into it listening to classical music
got 60 gig used and counting.....

Toucan wrote:only reason i use itunes is because i cant live without my ipod
it's my alarm clock,
it keeps me sane at work (and drives everyone else nuts, as i own the speakers, mwahaha)
it gets me to and from work every day, and i usually fall alseep plugged into it listening to classical music
got 60 gig used and counting.....

Surely there are other media players which support Ipod. I dont have one, so its not something i look for.

Nope you know Apple and their software and hardware.. I also can't live without my Ipod has to be the greast invention sine the Auto.

Ill keep my Zune thanks.

Software is sucky but its conistantly reliably sucky.

Hotblack wrote:Ill keep my Zune thanks.

Software is sucky but its conistantly reliably sucky.

I've never had any probs with Zune software, i love my zune

couple of fannies

I had a problem with my Zune a few months back. My music got shuffled around when I downloaded the (then) new update. (It put songs into the wrong Album/Artist sections.)

Took forever to put them back in the right order.

I used to use musicmatch (bloatware) for managing my music library and organising/renaming everything. It was great for that, but for listening i just use windows media player. I know that supports portable devices.

I turned off the genie doesn't seem that bad, I just started to load my library on it but that is a slow process I do one cd at a time and I have over 5k of them

i use windows media player and DL music from limewire.com dont have any problems but you gotta look at wht type of file your DLing cuase peeps will spyware addware and virus your ass if your not watching for the elusive .EXE file

one of the reasons i buy stuff now rather than dl illegally
limewire pretty much singlehandedly killed my last computer