Foobar2000 and why iTunes sucks Crap and should die in hell

Foobar2000 just works.
iTunes 12 is just broken.

Don't believe me? When we lost Steve Jobs, we lost a man with vision who actually gave a dam about integrity, honesty and making a product with the cost we were paying for it. Now, we can pay uber bucks to get broken lemons. Not worth it.

Take iTunes: It routinely does not recognize the iphone, and in my case the 5C. Speaking of iphones, the 6 was a thin piece of bendable crap. Enough said about that iphone.

iTunes 11 came out with a look and feel no body wanted with features missing that almost everyone wanted. iTunes 12 took that new "kill the features everyone wants" and took it one step further.

My biggest beef: The look and feel is so ew that I can't even come up with a family friendly way to say it, so I'll say it this way. Its Lika Sika Lanta!  Thats Finnish for Dirty Pig Manure. Its not Kosher, it slaps its users in the face, and tells them they aren't worth anything. I moved on to Foobar2000 and haven't looked back.

Here some grievances, many pulled off the internet (as I kept forgetting the name Coverflow), but that I fully agree with. I put everything in my words though. ;)

1. Play songs while importing or converting a CD. I never understood why the programmers needed to ban playing while importing. This feature used to exist where by you could import and play at the same time. I used to do this all the time. Windows Media Player I think still allows this.

2. ALL episodes on you-name-the-podcast must show up at all times and you can not delete them - ever. NOTE: This is considered a virus or rootkit under normal circumstances! Apple is now creating viruses and rootkits for our computers? Yes, technically they are with this behavior! If I've already listened to the podcast and I'm a uber-geek who remember everything, then I don't want to hear it again with few exceptions as I already know it. Now, what about those of us like me, who have lousy memories? Some episodes just aren't worth listening to again no matter how much of that episode we forgot.

3. Sidebar GONE, VANISHED like a very bad April Fools joke, except it isn't April, and it isn't April Fools. Instead, its another crappy idea in the interest of "stream lining because our customers are too stupid in the head to know anything". And  yes, I am deeply offended as someone who DOES have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and more brains then the lot of them put together. Programming may not be my area of savantness, but I DO know what I want and how to use it. I am not stupid like the CEO of Apple is! And he IS acting very arrogant and snobbish! (Note, that is MY opinion! See below for further proof.)

4. A blatant disregard for....yes, those with colour processing issues. They insist that YOU Dyslexic who needs a specific background colour and text colour are too stupid to use their privileged software, so they don't have to accommodate you. And YOU AUTISTIC person is too stupid to use their privileged software too, so your colour needs are not necessary for those imbeciles. Seriously? Even Foobar2000 has some choices (I've not looked at skinning it yet.) If they would simply let us skin it, we could accommodate our own needs and they could go on with their merry little "I hate you - you only need what I want" lives.
See Skinning Foobar2000 by Mark Koenig for skinning Foobar2000.  This tutorial may help you.

5. Coverflow is gone. Why? Apple thought it had died, so they buried it. They couldn't figure out why people were playing with a dead corpse. Oops! Apple died. Why are we still playing with it? Oh wait, I' not playing with it anymore! I moved to  Foobar2000. And yes, I do bring up iTunes from time to time, just to sync app downloads from my iphone 5C. But, I don't do iTunes music, so no loss there. Besides, HP movies and CC on iTunes wasn't that intuitive. (I might have just missed something here, and I can't be bothered to find out right now. But on the 5c iPhone, CC does work, but I forget which program I was using.)
http://www.change.org/p/apple-bring-back-cover-flow-now 3500 signatures when I looked, but Apple said that NO similar content to the "bring back coverflow" thread exists. This is false! There exist a 100 page thread of "why we hate iTunes 11" whose link I lost. (And I'm trying to find.)

Why isn't there more signatures? Most people either don't know about the petition OR they have moved on to other software. OR they have gave up on Apple as Apple has a history with "you are an beeping git if you think that  you need what I am not giving you. I know best what you need and want because I am your maker and I am god!" Yes, I HATE Apple's arrogance and ignorance and blatant disregard for their customer's wants and needs.

6. With itunes 11, you download a song, and one user did not find it in his library. Instead, it went into user's  purchases and then user had to download it from the cloud. I don't buy music from iTunes because the music I want I want drm free, and preferably on a CD.

7. New movies? Forget about putting them in YOUR movies folder. iTunes will insist on moving them back to Home Videos according to one user.

8. Add folder feature never worked - at least, I never got it to work. According to another user, new songs that were added would go to the recently added playlist and delete themselves from the library. Oy! Foobar2000 does not have that issue. Just saying.

So why don't I use Windows Media Player? I LOVE the skin I have on that one, and was seriously considering going back to it. BUT I really do need Radio playlists that just work AND I need to have WMP NOT change foreign song titles to [_]&$%[_] because WMP insist that we all speak English and YOU Russian, Jewish Japanese Asian do NOT exist! Actually, I've not tried Japanese music yet, but I do know for a fact that Russian titles are changed to be non-sense.



UPDATE: FOOBAR2000 They do have 1 very serious flaw that has made me NOT want to use them. If I open up a song from my computer and foobar2000 opens up to play it, Foobar2000 DELETES THE ENTIRE PLAYLIST THAT WAS UP and substitutes that song. I've lost 2 radio playlist due to this very serious bug. I had to switch my default player to WMP.

MusicBee Issue: Radio Station LOSE their Radio name and YOU can't edit it because THEY BASTARDS ban it! And they ban the radio name from even showing up! I HATE MusicBee for this reason. I need to know WHAT the radio station is that I'm clicking on in my playlist.

Hence, I am still looking for a MusicSoftware that works.

How to MuRdeR and get away with it

Rule number 1: Check your bank balance. You must be a multi-millionaire. CHECK!
Rule number 2: Are drunk? CHECK!
Rule number 3: Are you driving? CHECK!
Rule number 4: Do you have the number 1 lawyers in the entire United States of Bloody Assholes on speed dial? DOUBLE CHECK!
Rule number 5: Were your parents fucking bloody rich and spoiled you rotten? But of course - CHECK!

Then murder away. Just be sure that you murder with the car and are very drunk. Bonus points if you are a teenager and murder a paster and his wife. Who cares about gOd anyways. This is immoral country who murdered Indians, so what do we care about a pastor and his wife?

Yes, I will NEVER EVER watch Young, Hot & Crooked again. I do not need more fuel for my dis the bloody self-centered rich stories. Ever watch the episode about "Mr. and Mrs. Couch and their murderous son Master Couch?" (Names have been changed to protect the bloody arses I'm sure!) The Teen murder 4 people and assaulted 2 other people. The teen, and his 4 passengers walked away with NO DAMAGE whatsoever. 6 innocent people's lives were shattered! And this isn't even beginning to count the hundred that were negatively impacted by the teenager's lack of respect for others.

What was his sentence? Affluenza Defense netted him 10 years PROBATION and some sort of treatment. Fire the Judge! I know, we debar here, but I would have fired the Judge for being a snob who worshiped the rich.

If I ran this country and was that Judge: That bastard would have been sentenced to 40 years in jail with NO possibility of parole. I would have sentenced his parents to the same 40 year sentence for not giving a damn about their son and giving him rules to teach him by. And, after 40 years, put them in a special treatment center called Teen Challenge! Why? They are one of the very few treatment centers with a extremely high success rate. However, the Teen really needs behavioral therapy that is 24/7/365 as he never learned right from wrong. That Teenager may not be fixable. I wouldn't let him out in public unless I knew he actually learned right from wrong and proved that he had empathy. I don't think he does.

Senator Klobuchar and all Congressmen and Congresswoman. I humbly ask you to change FEDERAL LAW  to demand that 100% OF ALL DRUNKS WHO DRIVE be sentenced to a minimum of 2 years in prison (with NO deaths, 1st offense) and then be sentenced to TEEN CHALLENGE (no other treatment center will do) where by they must graduate. If they don't graduate in one years time, they repeat by going back to prison for 2 years and then try teen challenge again. They repeat this ad infinitum until they finally graduate from Teen Challenge.

If they murder: Then, they must spend at least 5 years in prison and then go to Teen Challenge - even on a FIRST offense! And, I'd have them in Teen Challenge for 5 years. Yes, Teen challenge would have to change things so that their program includes intense Post-Traumatic Therapy Treatment and grief counseling.

If they injure innocent victim on 1st offense and then have a 2nd DWI, I'd give them 10 years prison for not caring about other people's lives. If they murder, I'd make it 20 years. And for the one with Affluenza - I'd tack on an additional 5 years of Boot Camp BEFORE Teen Challenge just to help them learn discipline and consequence.

Third DWI - Slam them in prison for life. They don't care about our life. We don't care about their life. But instead of a normal prison. I'd commit them to a psych ward for the criminally depressed. Could they get out? In theory, yes - if they fully rehabilitate after being in the program for 30 years. You do the math 20 + 30 = 50 years in the system and it only took 3 times to win 50 years of Government sponsored housing. The rich that drink and drive deserve this housing of concrete hell. They put my life through hell. What goes around comes around. Its time it came around for them too.

Just keep in mind I'm not capable of violence. This is why I write this blog - under the delusion that maybe someone who can actually MAKE A DIFFERENCE will read this get laws changed! The only violence you'll ever see me make is the pen to paper. I can be acerbic but its for a greater good as soft, kind words has never worked for me. People just don't take me seriously.

NOTE: I might rewrite this to make it more clear as I was very tired when I wrote this.

Oh yes, I think this is clear enough. The Affluenza defense basically means that I AM BLOODY RICH AND CAN MURDER AND DRINK AND DRIVE ALL I WANT AND NEVER DO TIME. I still think that those behind this law, should do time with the poor people in prison just to know what its like. And keep them in their for life. Or, allow their kids to go through the same hell that the pastor and his wife went through. Until our government loses all their family and friends to murder by drunk, they won't change laws. Until they lose their family and friends through murder by gun, they won't change laws. Allowing guns does NOT prevent gun violence! See all the people who had guns in their homes and died anyways. There is way too many of them! I want to move to the UK where guns are banned!

THE Ultimate Solution to SSDI, Welfare, Arrears and Joblessness

Charge the bloody, filthy, greedy rich the entire cost the government concurs for people being unemployed, on SSDI, Welfare or Arrears or is Homeless. Why? They are the bloody imbeciles who refuse to create jobs for us, so let them pay the bill!

Problem solved!

Why is there 106 pages of mostly WE HATES ITUNES 11 under What are your thoughts on the New iTunes 11?

Because, itunes 11 was made by arrogant Nitwits who REFUSE to even LISTEN to what WE USERS want!

UPDATE: itunes DOES now stop alphabetizing my radio playlists! I do not know which version of iTunes (11.x or 12.x as I don't use iTunes anymore). 
Also winamp is dead, songbird is dead and nightingale isn't really looking too active either. foobar2000 still seems active, but has its own issues. We need a programmer to step up to the plate and make a software that does what everyone wants. Thanks! 

https://discussions.apple.com/message/20436499#20436499  The link to the thread I refer to. 

Number 1 feature I need: Radio Playlist that I make myself. itunes 11 technically has this feature. 

Number 2 feature I need (and lack): RADIO playlist to stop alphabetizing itself! BLEEPING BASTARDS!

Number 3 feature I need: ACCOMMODATE US BLEEPING PROABILITY USERS AND STOP TELLING US WE DON'T EXIST! DISABLE PEOPLE WITH COLOUR PROCESSING NEEDS ARE REAL PEOPLE!  

 (Note:  blogger still does NOT allow me to choose black text colour over coloured background colour. bug that needs fixing, that they might not be aware of. If they aren't, then thats my problem because I didn't them. I tried Yellow background with Black text. It may also be a theme compatibility error. )

That is the short of it. 

This is a direct copy of what I POSTED over there on that thread. I wanted a backup copy here. 

Browsing this thread (see link above to read the thread I refer to here) tells me that the vast majority of users HATE VEHEMENTLY iTunes 11.

From a "Other Ability/Proability-Disability" point of view:

1) Never assume that colour processing disorders don't never to change background and text colour on PC, MAC and any device playing iTunes.

2) Never assume that we HATE choosing 1 song to play in infinatum repeat (hours on end).

3) Never assume that we HATE everything YOU took out of iTunes.

4) Never assume that whatever you create, change or input WE are going to worship and adore. WE DON'T!

Corollary: Never assume that the majority by 1% over the minority is going to be on your side. Currently the naysayers are almost a 98% majority telling you to knock it off and bring back the old and better iTunes!#

5) Never assume that customization is for beeping whimps who don't know who their god is! I KNOW who my God is and he is NOT YOU! I have very real needs that YOU have ignored.

    a) I need to make Radio Playlist that are NOT ALPHABETIZED!

     b) I need to be able, in the PC version to change the Background colour AND the text colour to better MY processing needs.

    c) Some of us needs to CHANGE the FONT size to whatever size we need because of disabilities.

    d) Some of us needs to change the font to size 46, and have extreme colour contrast of bright yellow and black. I don't, but I did find someone who did.

    e) Skins Customization: You should know that I bought a PC because I HATE Macs assumption that YOUR customization is the ONLY customization I need for easy use. You LIE! You have NEVER known me and will never know me because your head is in the sand crying " no no no! you do not exist! I am god and I created you and I know what you need and you need my font sizes, my organization of your library and you need everything my way because I made you! Stop pretending to be Jesus and give us our customizations!

We are the users of your piece of beep. We can go buy Winamp and SKIP your junk! We vote, We have money and We have spoken. Many of us are reverting back to the old and better iTunes, even if it means we lose other stuff (account validation for example).

So, why do I not use Winamp? They do NOT allow radio playlists at all.  That is the ONLY reason why I am still on iTunes, but because I do not use Linux anymore, I'm going to see about Songbird again. iTunes 11 is not even usable. However, I would have to be honest that iTunes 10 was barely useable. I'm the idiot who needs black background and bright blue or bright purple text. I process better what I'm reading and trying to find.

.ps MY website is SO ridiculously colour processing accommodating that I even accomodate the fantasy fans! And, if someone gives me a background colour and text colour request, I make it for them. Why? Because unlike you I refuse to discriminate against anyone for any reason what so ever. The Americans with Disability Acts I take seriously! Its about time you and other  businesses did too! WE are not living in the Victorian age anymore. WE are NOT Hitler's Germany where people like me would be shot. WE are living in a democracy where people are accommodated for and vote! We have Voted! Down with iTunes 11!

Thanks for you consideration in our plea.

The following is related, referring to someone who thought his post was deleted because he posted the link to where iTunes 10 was. This is my comment to that person.  

[I guess that if they are so upset that you posted a how-to downgrade, then they might just make the downgrade not available, which might lead to another thing bootlegged across the internet. Gee! That makes so much sense! I mean, seriously, just the title of this thread is BAD P.R. The only thing they are really going to be able to do to save face, is to FIX their problem, bring back the #1 thing that everyone but me seemed to use (I still can't remember what its called  ) and just face the music. I've not looked to see if my other post is still up or not. I don't plan on posting much more after this. Nothing left to say really. I've gone back to 2 of their competitors (that aren't being named because they probably won't like it.)  ]