wizer":3qim7zri said:
With my previous MP3 players I used a modified firmware project. It's an open source project with good intentions. I now see that they are covering iPods. Those that can't stand iTunes might want to take a look.
http://www.rockbox.org
TrimTheKing":3qim7zri said:
I do admit that I 'jailbreak'ed my touch the day I got it, and this has freed up a lot of the file playing issues you mention,
There should not exist any reason that must be done. And doing so is illegal, or at least Apple and other would very much like that to be highly.
but I have to disagree with that iTunes is a bloated and ill behaved app. I have never once experienced any of the issues you mention, but then again I have built my own PC's for the last 10 years and I know what I'm doing, so maybe that's why....
For the iPod purely the device, for the package of iTunes iPod combo Apple, for iTunes and most of Apple's semi 'cross platform' software also Apple. Apple deliberately write their software in a closed and inconformity way (adobe does exactly the same. Both companies have been sued multiple times, but all cases get bought off so far) For instance enable high contrast colours or large fonts in Windows. All Appla and Adobe software refuse to use these settings. When writing software under Windows a programmer must display texts, buttons, menu's and pictues following some rules. Appla and adobe refuse to do this rending for instance speach or braile in operable or unusable. Its not because its impossible to comply with these rules they put huge effoort into avoiding complience.
To take another thing when going to the iStore website (which may be just a link, a referrer or an picture of an album on any site or blog of which the author choose iTunes as their source), Apple has put up a piece of script which launches the iTunes software and either forces the back button of the browser or closes the browser (which depends on the type and version of browser and OS). What if I did not want to have iTunes launched and loose where I was surfing?
Not bloated? Only the compressed files alone are 64MB. When started is slurps up about 98Mb of RAM of which about 10MB is permanently in use by iTunes even when iTunes is not open. PLaying a file using iTunes consumes about 19% more system resources than with WMPC, VLC or most other players.
Or for instance a while bck Apple released a new version of iTunes. After downloading the installer people with Windows 2000 could not install it. The installer refuses to install. But the installer does leave some msi files in the temp directory. Just running the loose msi files installed this new version of iTunes without any problem. A few days later the same version of iTunes after downloading it did not leave any msi files behind. But with this version while the 'iTunes can't be installed' was displayed the same msi files where still present in the temp directory and installed just fine. But again a while later theseseperate msi files all refuse to install. Apple clearly does not want any users with Windows 2000 to use this version of iTunes, whilst this version of iTunes runs without any problems on windows 2000. This is thick! Like this there are things like iTunes disallowing the useage of the iPod and or iPhone on certain software combinations, refuse some hardware to be 'detected' etc.
that normal buds won't stay in. They sound awesome too for buds.
