Itunes is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used

Using the latest version of iTunes is one of the worst experiences I've ever had with Apple
Love the products they make
but the way the company decided to think it knows best rather than actually making a piece of software that is functional
It is a sad state of affairs when iTunes from 5 years ago actually functions better and more efficiently with an iphone than the current version
Syncing Apps, changing pages and folders is unbelievably clunky and poor
I would be ashamed to put my companies name to something so bad

If you call something "intuitive" it's mainly because your brain has grown used to work with an interface in a certain way. You brain automatically knows where to find what. So when they suddenly change certain parts of that interface, your brain gets confused. It takes more clicking around to find what you need. You call it counter-intuitive. It's annoying.....the first weeks at least. I work with iTunes 12 for quite some time now. If I try to use iTunes 11 I get a little confused. It takes more clicking around to find what I want. Is iTunes 11 become less intuitive. No. My brain developed a new routine.
So "Hopelessly counter-intuitive" says more about your state of mind, than about the quality of the program. Useless documentation, tutorials or Apple-assistence have nothing to do with the quality of the program (as far as I can see there's a good "help-feature" for beginners). There's nothing wrong with the search engine and I can drag and drop files managing my playlists and devices, as I always have in iTunes (even a little better, because they moved some icons from the sidebar to the top white bar, so playlists and devices show up right next to my library).
What might be inexcusable nonsens it that you have limited knowledge on the possibilities of iTunes or how to operate the program, but have strong opinions about it nonetheless.
iTunes 12.0.1 shows to much bugs. Some people can't even open the program in OS X Yosemite. This community has found some workarounds for now, but this release is not one of "Apple's finest moments". So if you want to criticize iTunes, be my guest, but do it for the right reasons. This way you're helping no one, and this is support to be a support community.

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A statement really. iPhoto is the worst piece of software I've ever tried to use. I plan to stop using it.

Faces causing problems. Distorted the photos when I moved them from my previous Mac OSX. I don't want "faces" but don't how to disable that.
It has created 30,000 records! It has pulled faces of complete strangers out of some photos!

Well as you were running 10.4, which is two - and almost three - iterations behind the current OS, I'm not sure they'll be entertaining feature requests for it.
You are constantly confusing Machines, OS and software and conflating them into some other entity. You need to separate them out in your head.
I had an Mac OS X 10,4
No you didn't. You had a Mac that had 10.4 on it. That's an older version of the System Software.
came away with an iMac Snow Leopard.
... An iMac with the Snow Leopard version of the OS - 10.6.
From there I transferred the photos to the new Mac.
And the key question is "How?". From your description you imported a library from the external to one on the new. This fits the scenario you describe:
I find after the load I have photos all in a disorganized condition, which much duplication of photos to the point that there are 30,000 photos!
I posted instructions above for bow to migrate a Library to a new machine.
"Faces" were not used on the Mac OS X and I suppose I must have turned them off at some point (?)
Faces is a feature of iPhoto 09 and later. Whatever version of iPhoto you had on the older machine "the Mac OS X") did not have the feature. You did not turn them off. As we keep telling you, you can't turn them off. But as you don't use them they should be invisible to you.
My advice is to trash this bunged up library, redo the migration as per the above instructions and ignore the faces feature.
Regards
TD

LiveCycle Designer 8.0 is the biggest piece of crap I have ever used.

I have been digitizing some forms for a customer, and this is my first experience with this product. It has not been a good one. I have been using the 30-day trial, and really don't want to buy it now. Here is my list of problems:
1. When you copy and paste, or move and object, there is a fade effect. On some of my machines, this is not noticeable, but on some, it is very noticeable. There is no way that I have found to turn it off.
2. When you copy and item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Why does the page even need to move when you copy something?
3. When you move an item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Shouldn't it center me on the item, or at least do something that makes sense?
4. When you paste an item, you are moved to a seemingly random place on the page. Wouldn't it make sense to paste it in the center of the page, or even close to where it came from.?
5. Inability to group text / numerical fields. When I am making a form with over 200 individual fields, it would really help to be able to group them in some sort of logical order.
6. The interface is not standard, like most of the other Adobe products are. Shouldn't it be the same across all products by one manufacturer?
7. Why not have discreet horizontal/vertical guides, instead of crosshairs? At least give me the option.
8. When aligning something to a guide, why does it line directly on the guide for the top and left sides, but aligns one pixel in on the right and bottom?
9. Why do I line up to text fields, and then later those fields are not lined up anymore?
I have used a lot of Adobe products in the past, and haven't used one this bad since PageMaker 6.5. Come one Adobe, you have a lot of good products...
This is definitely not something my company will purchase.

funny... i am currently working on a bunch of forms in LiveCycle and I am sooo incredibly peeved at this application that I searched for "LiveCycle is a piece of crap" and found this post. =)
Yes, i know the that this post is from over a year ago, but it is obvious they havent made any improvements to the software.
I'll ditto what Jeff said and add
10.the debugger constantly disappears (yes, I followed the directions in the "help" file). I have to constantly flip between Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle, close Acrobat Pro, come back, stand on my head, while balancing a banana on my nose to get it to stay. Seriously, I feel like I'm dealing with a set of old-school TV rabbit ears trying to tune in a distant station
11. the debugger is two lines off in its error reporting. If it says you have an error at line 39, the error is REALLY at line 37. Took me forever and a ton of messageBoxes to finally figure this out.
12. The debugger doesnt actually support breakpoints, watches, etc inside of livecycle. You can set a breakpoint, but your code isnt visible while you are in preview mode, so what good is it? What good is stepping into your code if you cant SEE your code?
13. If I have two documents open, and select an object from one via the Hierarchy palette, the view of that document jumps to the beginning of the document.
14. Why cant you drag and drop objects from the hierarchy palette from one open document to another??
15. Why isnt there a keyboard shortcut to flip between open documents?? It SHOULD be Ctrl+Tab (following what 90% of other programs use), but instead that flips between the document's different view tabs.
16. Why cant you click+hold+drag from the lower-right to the upper left to select multiple objects at once?
17. When you paste in a subForm with its objects, it makes the subForm area on the page HUGE, even if the objects in the subForm are fairly small
18. When you create a new subForm in the hierarchy pallete, the view in the palette jumps to the very top object, and you have to scroll all the way back down and find your unnamed subform
19. Why are pdfs produced in LiveCycle not compatible with Acrobat Pro's Accessibility Checker? This one is HUGE. I spent over a week with our Adaptive Computing department trying to figure out why my pdfs were failing the accessibility checker when I had followed every known guide available on producing accessible pdfs. Even more frustrating, despite all the errors Acrobat Pro said were there, JAWS and all the other accessible technologies were able to use my pdfs just fine.
20. Why do you have to manually add in a guide line via measurement first and then drag it to where it really needs to be? Why cant you just grab the ruler and drag a guideline where you want it like photoshop? Yes, I know I can drag from the upper left and get both a vertical and horizontal line, but if i only need one, then I have to drag the other one back off the document.
I could keep going on and on and on....

Skype is the Worst Video Calling Software Available

Dear All, Since I cannot find any easy way to contact Skype I'm complaining here. Skype is literally the worst piece of software I have ever used. Whats even more annoying is that is getting worse by the year. Every video consists of talking to one large pixel which keeps cutting out even with high speed internet at both ends. Its got so bad i'm even thinking about switching to Apple just so I can get Facetime, which works everytime with a perfect picture. I would like to think that the service will improve but I know it will not as Microsoft and Skype do care about provideing rubbish service.

http://blogs.skype.com/2015/06/11/a-more-efficient-skype-experience-for-your-pc/ "Starting on July 7, we’re updating PC users of the Windows modern application to the Windows desktop application, and retiring the modern application."

The worst software I have ever used

I have an Ipod Nano 4gb which was a birthday present back in October. Looking through this forum I see that I'm not the only one having problems.
My conclusion is that although the ipod is brilliant the software to get tunes onto it is the worst I have ever come acrossIt's so slow,it does diferent things each time it's used, it's not user freindly, it's just crap (itunes). I've heard a lot about Apple being the best computers from my experience with itunes I would need a lot of convincing.
Very dissatisfied, come on Apple show us what you can do with an updated version of Itunes that is both useable and friendly, we shouldn't have to rely on those on the forum to put our problems right

I have to agree with Mitch here. iTunes is one of the easiest and most user friendly pieces of software I have ever used, and that's my expereince on both Windows and a Mac.
Maybe if you asked a question of the many knowledgeable folks here, you would get some help?
"I've heard a lot about Apple being the best computers from my experience with itunes I would need a lot of convincing"
Yeah, I know what you mean. The tyres on my Mercedes as supplied by the manufacturer were poor. Must mean my car is garbage huh?

Apple App Store Worst On-Line Store I Have Ever Used

For the first time ever I used the Apple App Store to upgrade my Macbook Pro to OS X Lion, I have only had a Mac for 8 months. I have to say I was surprised and extremely disappointed to find out that it is the worst on-line store I have ever used.
To start with I couldn't find out how to buy Lion, it is the first store I have ever been into that doesn't have a "Buy" or "Add to Cart" button. After twenty minutes of signing on / off, going out / back in, I discovered that if you click on the price it turns into a "Buy" button. Why not put a message on the screen to tell people to do this? I wonder how many customers they have lost who have just given up and gone elsewhere. Surely if the purpose of the site is to sell it should be obvious how you buy.
Having discovered this I thought it would be simple but no, you click on the "Buy" button and nothing happens, eventually over a minute later the "Buy" button changed to say "Installing". At no time did I get a message up saying something like "Please wait while we process your order". The site says follow the instructions, no instructions, no messages about download time, where the download would be located, etc, were given.
After this nothing else happened the only way I knew that the download was happening was that the lights on my router were flashing. I did eventually find that a Lion icon had been put in the dock with a progress bar. When I did find this I then found out that my download was going to take over 26 hours. Don't Apple realise that not everybody lives in towns and cities with superfast broadband. There are lots of people who only have access to normal broadband. The advertising states that there is no need to buy and load CD's. It would be preferable to losing the use of both my PC and Laptop for over 24 hours which is what has effectively happened as using them only extends the download time.
Another sign of poor service is the fact that a receipt was not sent to me until 14 hours after I made the purchase. Most other on-line stores send this out within an hour of the order being placed.
This experience means that I will definitely not be using Apple App Store again, if I can't get the software from an alternative source I will do without. It makes me wonder whether or not it was a good idea to convert from a PC.
ElBeardo

Have you looked in your Applications Folder for the App Store.
If it is truly missing and/or deleted... Go here and Download and Install the 10 7 3 Combo Update
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HT5772 How do you delete a movie from a local computer without deleting it from the library? This should be such a simple procedure, but it's not. And while we're at it, why is iTunes NOT one of the dropdown product choices?

All Apple support says about deleting movies from a computer is that you "should" be able to re-download it if you live in the right area. Well, I'm in the U.S.A. and just deleted one of the movie extra features exactly as described in the support directions. According to Apple I should be able to re-download this from the cloud at any time, but now I no longer even see the title listed. That's why I wanted to test their support statements with a Movie Extra instedad of a real movie. This should be the simplest of tasks to manage, yet they make it extremely difficult. Why? I own the movies and I want them to stay in my iTunes library basically forever. Makes sense, right? But, I only have so much room on my laptop to store movies that I want to have with me on long trips, etc. So if I only have the space to store 3 or 4 movies on the disk, shouldn't I have the ability to every once in a while delete one of those movies from my local computer ONLY, NOT my library, so that I can download a different movie? Yet the first thing iTunes does when you hit the delete key is tell you that it will remove the movie forever from all devices and the library. So why does support say you can download again any time from the cloud then? The worse part is, the calamity doesnt stop there. Wait until you see the message you actually get once you say that yes, you do want to delete the movie (but only because you assume that you really can download it again sometime). Here is the exact 2 messages you get from Apple, in the same popup box.
Do you want to move the selected movie to the Recycle Bin, or keep it in the iTunes Media Folder?
Only files in the iTunes Media Folder will be moved to the Recycle Bin.
[Cancel] [Move to the Recycle Bin] [Keep File]
Is that the most confusing popup or what? Who develops this kind of software?!?!?!
I have tried it both ways and the only difference is that the file shows up in the Recycle Bin or doesn't. But in both cases the file name no longer shows in the movie list, so I don't know how to re-download it from the Cloud. Better hey, if I clicked "Keep File", where is it? I can't see it anywhere, so where is it kept and what can I actually do with it?
I have to be honest, I love my iPhone and some of the neat features, but when it comes to iTunes, I have never seen a more difficult piece of software to use in my life... and I'm a software developer. Your Support documentation is actually more confusing than the softwae itself, it's almost as if you don't want people to use the software, just simply buy stuff and listen/watch it, but nothing else. Seriously, this is the most cumbersome, unfriendly piece of software I've ever seen. What does it say about Apple iTunes when everyone has to google solutions for how to do something rather than using Apple support documentation.
Seriously disappointed in Apple iTunes and it's never really gotten any better over time. This is one of the primary reasons I have never moved all of my recording studios and office operations over to an Apple platform. Hardware and phones are awesome, but your software is either grossly incompetent or intentionally designed to make it all but impossible to use. Either way, it's worthless to me. We're talking about software that does nothing else but manage media that I already own on multiple devices. That should be one of the simplest things in the world to do. Sad... very sad.
While we're at it.... why isn't iTunes listed on the product dropdown below? Maybe it's not even considered a product, which would explain it's goofiness I guess.

I own the movies and I want them to stay in my iTunes library basically forever.
But in both cases the file name no longer shows in the movie list, so I don't know how to re-download it from the Cloud.
iTunes prefs > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases.
This will show all your iTunes purchases in your library with a cloud icon down arrow. Click the icon to redownload or click on Play to stream without downloading.
Also see this , -> Download past purchases
and techncially, you don't "own" the movie, You simply have a license to use it.
Yet the first thing iTunes does when you hit the delete key is tell you that it will remove the movie forever from all devices and the library.
Actually, no it does not tell you that.
FYI: You should keep copies of all yoru iTnue spurahses as the labels/movie studios/copyright owners can pull their product at anytime and it won't be available to redownload.
Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Adobe uses one of the worst software for its Community

Really these forums use one of the worst web software I ever came across with. It is slow loading, the interaction is even slower, windows close unexpectedly, I get logged out mid writing a entry, or it just refuses to let me in all of a sudden. I've spend to much time just retyping a message as they just disappear.
Is Adobe support looking for a more state of the art software to use on these forums?
Wish list:
Include a predefined selection of Operating Systems
Include a predefined selection of type of error (Discussion or question is way to wide)
Remove all useless and utterly annoying animations
When starting a new entry STOP MOVING the cursor away from the title to the entry. LET THE USER DECIDE WHAT (S)HE WILL WRITE FIRST
Instead of your old MacPro you use now, invest in a good webserver park.
Include a search that works.
Feel free add more points to this discussion.

theking2 wrote:
In IT, everything is possible. Just a matter of money.
Time that adobe puts its revenue at the right place and starts supporting its customers instead of its shareholders.
Try to convince Adobe of this, not us fellow users.

I had a girlfriend buy me an ipod for my mom's music at her Celebration of Life and someone took it. Is there a way to track it down? She did register it. I can't believe someone did this to me on one of the worst days of my life.

I had a girlfriend buy me an ipod for my mom's music at her Celebration of Life and someone took it. Is there a way to track it down? She did register it. I can't believe someone did this to me on one of the worst days of my life.

Unfortunately, unless you set up an iCloud account on the iPod and turned on Find My iPod before it was stolen, no. Even if you did do that, there are many ways it could fail (for example, the thief could wipe it clean or not try to connect to a network or the network's location might not be known). But, you could try it by logging in to iCloud and using the Find My iPhone applet.

HT1325 I purchases a cd on iTunes and one of the songs shows that it is downloaded but it will not play.

I purchases a cd on iTunes and one of the songs shows that it is downloaded but it will not play. The rest of the songs play but this one song doesn't and it looks like it is downloaded completely. What do I do?

Delete and redownload it if doing so is free in your country.
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Updates to the 10.7.1 software update cannot be used!

Updates to the 10.7.1 software update cannot be used!
Why? I have nothing to delete!
Software update cannot check for updates, because of network problems.
My network is no problem, I can open a webpage!

If it has a Core 2 Duo(not Core Duo) or better CPU, yes. Phone the Apple Store and order a download code for iMovie. If it's a Core Duo Mac, contact the Mac App Store staff and ask for an iLife 11 DVD.
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HP C4385 All In One is the worst printer I've ever bought

I will never buy another HP printer or other HP product for the rest of my life. I purchased a HP C4385 Photosmart All In One printer and it has been absolutely terrible from day one. First when installing it screwed up my LAN so bad that I had to spend hours on a live chat with Lynkys to get my network up and running. HP software would automatically delete my current network to establish its own for the wireless printer connection. After many attempts I gave up on trying to connect the printer wirelessly, which was one of the main reasons I bought this model.
Somehow the printer's software and drivers mysteriously delete themselves because I've had to reinstall the software and drivers around 15-20 times. When I go to use the printer, it will show it as a new device and that I need to install the software and drivers. This isn't a problem with my computer. It doesn't happen with any other device I use- other printers, camera, flash drives, etc. I have downloaded any updates but they do not help.
The monitoring software is constantly running with 3 or 4 HP process running at all times using up my RAM. The alignment is constantly off and when I go to align it gives me another nonsense error message because it doesn't acknowledge the alignment paper.
To top it off, after using about half the ink in a cartridge it won't print anymore because it says the print cartridge is missing or empty when I know its not. I have tried every troubleshooting tip offered and none of them work.
I am sure this will end up in another {Content Removed: no legal discussion permitted} due to faulty equipment knowingly being sold. I don't want my money back, I want the 50 hours I have wasted dealing with all of the {Content Removed: Language Filter Evasion} this printer has caused me.
Thanks a lot HP for selling me a piece of junk device. I used to respect you and the products you sold. Not anymore I will purchase another HP product because of the frustration this one has caused me.

I fully agree with this complaint. Curiously, I have faced similar problems like him. Frequently, I have seen the messages like "paper jam ", "Cartridge missing" while there wasn't any paper jam and genuine brand new cartridges were already installed. My experience is worse than his. I could hardly use it for more than one week! What is worse the wireless operation could never be achieved. Now this printer is lying discarded.
It really beats all logic that why should one not be able to scan a document (say -- to save the image on the hard disk for possible future use) even if there was so called paper jam or missing cartridge?
Also, it is virtually impossible to delete any job once you have clicked the button print. The printer would keep on retaining the job, making the printing of other jobs impossible, unless perhaps you uninstall it and then re-install! Why can't HP find a solution to this problem?
I join his sentiments that I would refrain from buying any HP product in future.

This is more of a statement than a question but I can't stand iTunes. It is THE WORST application I've ever used.

The single worst application I've ever used. Period. I'll never buy another song or use it as a back up again. I'll pay $9.99 per month for Spotify and a cloud-based back up service instead of using this PoS software to backup my family's iPhones. I consider myself a loyal Apple user having owned at least two Apple computers since the early 1990's.

If you like crappy quality and remakes of songs from nobodys then use Spotify. If you can't use iTunes then maybe you need computer lessons. It doesn't get much easier than iTunes. Yes,they changed it and made it a bit clunky if you ask me, but for an all around video and music manager, CD burner,streamer and radio,it doesn't get much better.

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I wonder if anyone can help. I’m having a nightmare getting BT Infinity installed. Despite telling BT I was moving back in April and being highly dependent on broadband as I work at home, three weeks after moving I am still waiting to be connected.
I must have spent 5 hours on the phone with people at BT and seem to be no closer to getting a resolution with no one prepared to take ownership. Firstly, my initial order didn’t go through properly and was only initiated on May 19th – three weeks after it should have been. Then an engineer came last Monday (June 2nd) but was unable to connect it due to a faulty port at the exchange/cabinet. An engineer’s appointment was arranged for today and my wife has been waiting in all day but have been told by BT that it will have to be rescheduled due to technical issue again at the Exchange (no one bothered to tell us).
Can someone help? I am absolutely at the end of my tether. This is the worst experience I have had with any organization…I also work from home so am highly dependent on connectivity.

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I downloaded an album from Itunes but one of the songs will only play first 4 minutes. It is the last song on the album. All other songs will play.

I downloaded an album from i Tunes but one of the songs will only play first 4 minutes of 26 minutes and then stop. It is the last song on the album. All other songs will play. The Album is U.F.O. 2 One Hour of Space Rock.

Jim, wanted to let you know it worked. I deleted the entire album since it was an album only (26 minutes long) song, then I went to the home icon of iTunes store, clicked on purchased and saw previous purchases and bam, I downloaded the album again and it now works!!! Thanks..
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