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18

Oct

2003

I'm sorry, but iTunes for Windows Sucks

Despite being a Win32 developer and user, since OSX was released I always had an interest in Mac's. However, when it came down to the crunch and had to by a Laptop, I went for a Win32 ultralight over the 12" powerbook, purely because im too ingrown into windows to change.

However I was excited to see that apple had released iTunes for Windows. I figured that all apple software was cool, so I went and downloaded it to give it a try.

Boy does it suck. Here's why:

  1. It doesnt support WMA. I am moving to the UK and am half way through ripping all my CD's to WMA so I can listen to them on my nomad and laptop.
  2. It doesnt adhere to your selected windows theme, it goes ahead and uses an ugly grey (the grey color reminds me of windows98 grey), with aqua style scrollbars. This might look at home on a mac, but in windows it looks different to every other program
  3. You can only buy music if you are in the US. Hello, there are more people outside the US than inside, let me buy music from anywhere, its not like your shipping it to my home address, its digital delivery.
  4. [Ed: 19/10/2003] The maximize/restore button on the title bar doesn't adhere to the same standard as (almost) all other windows apps on the face of the planet. Come-on Apple, if your going to write windows software make it behave like windows software, There is literally no way of maximizing the iTunes window.
  5. [Ed: 19/10/2003] There is no system menu on the iTunes window, so you cant right click on the title bar.
  6. [Ed: 19/10/2003] Re-size icons when you are dragging in and out the window panes are a little hand instead of the standard vertical/horizontal resize bar.

I will use it for a while longer and see if there are redeeming features, but for now its a 1/10 rating. It's a shame, I really wanted to like this.

Posted by Mark at October 18, 2003 06:55 PM
Spoken
 

What mikeb suggested worked for me !!!!

Posted by: LindaD at July 8, 2004 06:22 PM
 

I also ran into iTunes erroring out with "Unknown Error 4000". I tried reinstalling iTunes and updating the DVD Writer's firmware; after the firmware was updated, the problem changed from an "Unknown Error 4000" to an outright hang.

Anyway, I ultimately got iTunes to burn to a CD successfully by going to the Edit/Preferences menu and on the Burning tab I set the "Preferred Speed" to 8x instead of the default ("Maximum Possible").

It's burning fine now.

Hope this helps.

Posted by: mikeb at June 30, 2004 06:01 AM
 

i have latest version of itunes running windows xp and have abit borard and a tdk burner, witch i love and have never had a problem......except with itunes...error 4000. apple was no help so iam lost, guess ill have to break out the real time burner pionner and just record the raw audio as it plays, kinda sucks. reinstall itunes several times cuse the help my bro. no help to me though.

Posted by: marc at May 9, 2004 02:57 PM
 

I updated the driver on my Samsung drive and I do not get the error anymore. It seemed to fix the problem

Posted by: Mike at April 28, 2004 04:57 PM
 

I am getting the same error. Any solutions out there?

Posted by: Mike at April 23, 2004 07:33 PM
 

Yep, i get the error 4000 when I try to burn something also. If anyone can find a solution or workaround please email me.

Posted by: Bill Schoenfelder at April 14, 2004 03:23 AM
 

I have the same system (Dell with sony CRX160e) and am having the same problem. Has anyone solved this problem?

Posted by: Brad Barber at April 13, 2004 07:10 PM
 

Holy crap, your spelling is horrible.

Posted by: Spelling Police at February 11, 2004 01:18 PM