*music*
You know what's bullshit?
iTunes!
I listen to music just about everyday
Im always using iTunes
I've been helplessly dependant on this
software for the past 10 years now it's
truly my digital jukebox and I can't
imagine my life without it anymore.
But I do have to say it's pretty annoying
every time you buy a new computer
you have to authorize it to play all the
music that you purchased on the old
computer from the iTunes Store.
It wouldn't be so bad... except there's a
limit to how many computers you can
authorize that would never happen with
CDs. Have you ever had a CD player tell
you "sorry, but you own too many CD
players, you're gonna have to de-authorize one
of them or else you can't play the CD so
next thing I'm going up in the fucking
attic to find my old computer so I can
plug it in and deauthorize it.
But now,
let's get to the main point about iTunes
it's an evolving Beast always pestering
you with updates!
Way too often I open
iTunes to find a message that says
there's a new version of iTunes do you
want to download the update?
I say sure, that sounds good I'd like to update
Then, I find something is different
Something, I don't like it.
For example, remember when
used to be a button to burn CDs
it was a nice little round flashy button
convenient and easy to get to.
For years now that buttons been gone!
Now, you have to go to the file menu and burn
playlists the disc there isn't even a
short key for it you have to go to the
menu I understand that not many people
burning CDs nowadays but what made
Apple decide that it was SO obsolete
they had to get rid of the button?
It's changes like this that pissed me off
it's not broken, don't fix it, so I've
caught on you you stupid updates I'm not
downloading you anymore I'm sticking
with the old version!
But then the message comes back. Oh yeah it comes back
to haunt you, you have no choice, one of
these days you're going to download it
by accident even if you click that
little checkbox to stop reminding you
all that means is that say it's asking
you
download version 10.2.7 it'll stop
asking you again for that particular
version but a week later when version
10.2.8 is out its going to
start asking you again!
Eventually, when you're suckered in the updating there's
gonna be all this new shit!
Genius playlists? Nice, now I got to wait for
iTunes to scan all my music so that can
create playlists based on songs the
other users have there similar to mine
whatever.
You know what will be genius?
To go back to the way it was!
Now there's Ping... What the hell is that?
Every time they add something, it seems
like it takes longer to boot up.
Back in the day, I click iTunes, it would open.
Now, it bounces a few times shows me a beach
ball and when it finally starts it tells
me it's searching for genius results
Accessing The iTunes Store, Updating
Playlist Information, Contacting Mars,
Raising Shields, Activating Atomic Sound,
Wave Booster, Scanning For Nuclear
Barracudas. How about just let me play my
music and let that be it? You can flip
through the album artwork now all these
unnecessary things just to look more
impressive to the common dummy who sits
there and goes wow that looks cool
I want to buy that.
iTunes is turning into
a monster we all keep feeding it and
it's been growing ever since one day,
all the albums are going to be hologram
flying all over the place you're going
to be able to listen to 10 songs at the
same time.
How did we get so far away
from just dropping a needle on a record
and letting it play.
Cassettes, CDs
remember when CDs first came out it was
like damn you don't have to rewind them
you can skip songs you could put it on
repeat or shuffle and then one day
somebody looked at their CD in their
computer and decided the two must come
together like a caveman putting a stick
to a fire the computerized music format
was born and the digital devil's been
pulling us deeper and ever since
I'll tell that Devil to fuck off!
Stop updating iTunes and say that's bullshit!