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.
