iTunes 11 release expected shortly

They need to hurry up. Was expecting this to be released already
 
Hope it's a fairly substantial upgrade
 
Its so nice to say I actually don't care, after over 5 years of using iTunes I have finally found a replacement that doesn't just do what iTunes does, but is actually better: MusicBee
 
I have tried so many different media players. iTunes is still the best.
 
I'm with Pooky here ('tho I am on a Mac). Tried just about every media player when I was still on Windows machines and iTunes worked best for me than and still does now.
 
I use iTunes purely as my music manager and to sync my iPods - have quite a large library (56 000 songs) and MANY smart playlists - run it on a fast laptop, but with all the smart playlists, it has over time become painfully slow, but at least does everything I need, so doubt if I will try anything else :)
 
Yeah, a lot of the consternation around itunes has really been around it's poor handling of improperly tagged pirated music. But once you have a perfectly tagged collection it works quite well. Obviously there are other annoyances like the way it handles syncing of foreign IOS devices and it's slowness, but as a music player it's solid - but not spectacularly. Hopefully the update takes it to a higher level.
 
Zyzzyva said:
It works fine but on windows its damn slow compared to similar applications.
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It's not slow on my PC, and my PC is very old too.

I have tried other applications, iTunes is fairly slow to import and may take a few more seconds to start up, but once it has, it runs perfectly fine.

One gripe I do have is when it sorted my music folder collection it really screwed everything up.
 
Zyzzyva said:
Yeah, a lot of the consternation around itunes has really been around it's poor handling of improperly tagged pirated music. But once you have a perfectly tagged collection it works quite well. Obviously there are other annoyances like the way it handles syncing of foreign IOS devices and it's slowness, but as a music player it's solid - but not spectacularly. Hopefully the update takes it to a higher level.
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before I import music (all mp3) I check it with MP3val and fix any errors in the mp3 file and after that I make sure that all tags are ID3v2.3 - if not, I clear the tag with mp3tag and rewrite the tag with iTunes - I also delete all the ALBUM ARTIST or COMPILATION tags (only use ARTIST tag, otherwise it stuffs your folders around)
 
Pooky said:
It's not slow on my PC, and my PC is very old too.

I have tried other applications, iTunes is fairly slow to import and may take a few more seconds to start up, but once it has, it runs perfectly fine.

One gripe I do have is when it sorted my music folder collection it really screwed everything up.
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how many songs have you got in your library and if you use smart playlists, how many are there?
 
Bundu said:
before I import music (all mp3) I check it with MP3val and fix any errors in the mp3 file and after that I make sure that all tags are ID3v2.3 - if not, I clear the tag with mp3tag and rewrite the tag with iTunes - I also delete all the ALBUM ARTIST or COMPILATION tags (only use ARTIST tag, otherwise it stuffs your folders around)
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It's the only way to do it. Itunes assumes all the music being imported into it was bought and is thus properly tagged. Without proper tagging it's a dogs breakfast.
 
Pooky said:
It's not slow on my PC, and my PC is very old too.

I have tried other applications, iTunes is fairly slow to import and may take a few more seconds to start up, but once it has, it runs perfectly fine.

One gripe I do have is when it sorted my music folder collection it really screwed everything up.
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The startup time annoys people. You don't have that problem on a mac.
 
Bundu said:
how many songs have you got in your library and if you use smart playlists, how many are there?
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I have 21000 songs.
Don't use Smart Playlists, never really seen how they would work in my favour.
 
Pooky said:
I have 21000 songs.
Don't use Smart Playlists, never really seen how they would work in my favour.
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I think that's why your speed is fine - smart playlists are very handy if most of your music is star rated and the genre's are properly set - it also allows you to not play your favourite music to regularly and risk getting tired of it - I have about 30 smart playlists and think that is what is slowing my iTunes down
 
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