I was a zune user. I had my music organised meticulously and could simply drag and drop to my zune from my (parents) windows desktop. It was simple and it was fantastic.

Then I got a iPod so I needed to download iTunes. I downloaded iTunes, it told me to import my music. I imported my meticulously organised collection. It duplicated every single file into the iTunes approved format (AAC?) - my meticulous collection was now less meticulous, messy even.

It caused me to swear off Apple products for decades. Though it also led me to some very basic programming in order to delete the duplicates. I was only partially successful.

Programming led me to use Linux, before I eventually moved over to Mac. I like to think this was their plan all along.

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emsy 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Can’t reply to jsondb, but iTunes had a default option to convert to AAC afaik.

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jsodndb 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t think that happened. At least not as you’re telling it. iTunes never required AAC files.

	▲	JadeNB 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I believe that, (possibly only) in the early days, it offered to add any imported music to your library, which I think it indeed did by converting to AAC and putting in a directory structure of its choosing.

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senderista 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

iTunes for Windows was indeed awful.

	▲	emsy 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		iTunes for Mac was also awful. I don’t know where the idea comes from that iTunes on Mac was good software but I remember reading that and getting a my first (then Intel) Mac and wondering why it got so much praise on Mac. It was the same software with slightly better UI but generally the same awful UX