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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5617607" data-attributes="member: 7883">Yes.....I have to say, I'm not that impressed with it....and it's such a central piece of the puzzle for them.  I can admit that I'm a Windows/DOS person....part of my preference will be by virtue of having used them for so long.But I *do* find iTunes almost needlessly convoluted.  Many Apple products I have used have seemed rather easy to work with (at least for simple stuff).  I can't say I'm a big fan of their version of Office.  My partner uses it on his Mac, and when he sends me a proposal we're working on, and I have to do work on my Windows based Office installation, there are definite compatibility issues.  Things go *way* slower than when I'm just working on a document, from start to finish, on a Windows machine.The audio program I've generally liked the best was Zune, actually.  And I don't even *have* a Zune player.  The only reason I got to using it was because I have an XBox 360, but didn't have Windows Media Center on my last Windows install....so Zune is what is used for streaming to the 360.  I originally installed it just for that, but then started finding myself using it for just about everything media related.  To me, it just seemed easy to use, had a really pretty interface, and just worked.Similarly, I'm not a fan of Windows Media Player.  In Windows 7 64 bit, it's got some definite bugs.  Next to iTunes, it's caused me more problems than any other piece of software on my computer.  There's this really annoying bug where, when you initiate media player (only in 64 bit, not 32 bit), when it prompts you to make it the default player of different media types, if you click one of the options to set it up, and do one wrong click, it automatically associates all media file formats to WMP, but then greys them out as options. Then, because they're greyed out, none of them play.  At all.  In any program.  I've had this happen to me like 5 times.  Then I've got to reinstall all my audio codecs, or, simpler, do a system restore from the night before.  But again, a program shouldn't have such a damaging bug.  It's not as bad as wrecking Windows Installer, but it's close.I think my biggest issue with iTunes at this point is the whole backing up thing I referred to in an earlier post.  That was very frustrating.  My wife just started her mat leave, and all her clients were on that phone.  If we hadn't been able to get the older back up by re-syncing it to the old computer, she'd have been out of luck.  And, apparently all because I didn't pick an option correctly in a menu like 3 or 4 levels in.There are some other weird things.  I have 3 profiles on my PC.  One for me (personal), one for my wife, and one for business/admin.  For whatever reason, even though it's the same install of iTunes, and the same account, songs and movies I've either ripped to iTunes, or purchased in the iTunes Store, or downloaded from my Blu-Ray digital copy disks onto my personal profile don't appear in my business/admin profile.....even though it's the same iTunes account.  It's silly.And the licensing.  Because I have 3 profiles on this computer, any time I want to use a purchased song or movie on one of the profiles, it uses up 3 of my 5 device licenses....even though it's one physical machine used by me and my wife.  That's just stupid.  5 licenses should mean I can use it on my desktop, my laptop, my wife's laptop, her iphone, and my iphone.  That's my definition of separate devices.....not one desktop being counted as 3 devices because there are 3 user profiles.  It gets even more complicated than that at times, as my laptop has a personal profile and a work profile.....so it counts as 2 devices as well under this profile.Banshee</blockquote>

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