Week 15: iTunes is a bitch.

iTunes is a pile of stinking shit. it has already been 4 weeks since i first tackled it and up till the very NOW i'm still struggling with it. what a load of fucking nonsense. iTunes (and all other Mac products, i reckon) prides itself in SUPPOSEDLY being user-friendly but the only 'friendly' way in which i can look at it is if i had my foot up its non-existent ass. i shall now proceed to list my grievances.

1. the thing that irks me the most is how they list songs in alphabetical order when i'm viewing by albums. listing songs alphabetically is alright if i'm looking at my songs under a general Music tab BUT NOT WHEN I WANT TO LISTEN TO WHOLE ALBUMS! oh iTunes, you might think that you're one step ahead and smart by going alphabetical, but i'll let you in on a little secret: songs on an album often meld into each other often without a break in the music.

songs are given their position in an album's playlist for a reason! did you think that when jon foreman was arranging the list for Oh! Gravity he said to himself, "hmm goodiddly-do..what song should i put after Head Over Heels (In This Life)? i know, since i had chicken rice for dinner yesterday, i shall put Yesterdays next! goody gumdrops!" NO YOU DICKHEAD! the reason why he put Yesterdays after Head Over Heels (In This Life) is because the melody leads from one into the other!

moron.

i don't want to see track #7 above track #2. fuck you.

2. iTunes store is such a pain in the proverbial ass. i can't believe they could fuck up such a simple process as registering an iPod onto the system. i spent the last hour trying to do just that. i have since given up. they keep asking me for my credit card details and denying it because 'that number is not valid in australia'. well FUCK YOU i've used this credit card to pay for my plane tickets to gladstone and melbourne AND bali (plus countless others), my uni fees, my visa application fees, my healthcover AND the fucking AUD3.30 parking fee on Chalmers St because i had to go for a health check and the stupid meter wouldn't accept coins...SO DON'T FUCKING TELL ME MY CARD IS NOT VALID IN AUSTRALIA. fuck you.

3. iTunes promises album cover flow while you're listening to the iPod and also when you're using iTunes on the computer. well, it's all a bunch of LIES LIES LIES because i have about an estimated 300 albums currently (and i have to estimate it BECAUSE iTunes DOESN'T KNOW!) and only 11 of them have an album artwork! and if you're questioning the authenticity of my albums, i can assure you that the album artwork appears on my windows media player. what shit nonsense is this omg i feel damn cheated la wtf WHAT THE FUCK!? and when i try to get the album artwork through iTunes, it leads me back to the iTunes store and nightmare #2 (see above) starts all over again. i feel damn conned la! fuck you.

4. iTunes is so unflexible. why can't it play .wma files? WHY?! even windows media player can play mp3 files what the fuck's wrong with you!? why must you change it to a .m4a file and take up space in my C drive? why?? WHY?!?! are you bent on sucking up that very last drop of unused memory i have? all 193mbs of it?! fuck you!

5. ok, now i'm just being anal...BUT WHY ISN'T THERE A STOP BUTTON ON iTunes?!?!?! there's a Play. a Pause. but no Stop. the most fundamental command. stop. and it can't even process that. it's official, guys...there is no help for iTunes anymore. to say 'fuck you' to it would be like giving an umbrella to a fish for fear it might get wet: no fucking use at all.

i hope iTunes rot in hell.

the end.