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Syncing music with iTunes was so much easier than the junk sync apps that other players had.

You mean copying and pasting files that already contain metadeta? That was difficult? Because I'm pretty sure everyone universally hated the formats and auto-renamed files that iTunes forced.

Everyone except people who had better things to do than to maintain a huge library of files downloaded from KaZaa with no metadata beyond vaguely-standardized file names.

yes everyone hated that. that's why itunes failed and we're still manually copying files to this day.

Sorry, but while Apple did succeed in manhandling the music industry, iTunes has never been a beloved piece of software. It has always been trash and barely worked. So to put it on some kind of pedestal is disingenuous, at best.

I loved iTunes. To this day it was my favorite all-in-one player, metadata editor, and syncing tool.

(Granted, I don't use it anymore now that streaming services are so awesome. But I miss it like I miss the feeling of buying a CD and listening to it on the way home.)

I plugged in my iPod to my computer and it just worked: New music was copied, and any cleanup that I made to metadata was applied automatically. The formats that iTunes used were some of the highest quality audio available at a bit rate that would fit onto my giant iPod.

Before I had an iPod I had a Creative MP3 player. The player itself was decent, but manually copying the files to it really was a pain in the rear end, especially when I updated metadata.

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