A Time to Kill iTunes

It was quite good when it was released and did essentially one thing: managing your music library.

When it branched out to podcasts, movies, television shows, educational courses, app-management, mobile-in, and etc. is when quality tanked.

Perhaps I'm behind but last I checked iTunes was still encoding information such as the episode number as the "track number", reflecting it's musical roots.

I started using iTunes in 2001 because it was a nice straightforward music library manager and player. Aside from the twenty minutes I spend grumbling after every upgrade, while I try to remember how to switch off all the extra stuff Apple has never convinced me to care about, it's still a nice straightforward music library manager and player.

Maybe all the new stuff is crap - I don't know, I don't use it - but the ancestral core of the product still works just fine.