rob55

I love how they try to make their motives sound so altruistic by saying, "...and protect customers from devastating, monopolistic fees imposed by big tech companies." 
Would someone please think of the children!!! 

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've been using iTunes since 2003, and while that started out on a Windows PC, I migrated to a Mac in 2005. I've been using the Mac version since then, and while I personally have never found it too problematic, I can understand where many of the complaints come from.

One of the most frequent problems I've had over the years IS iTunes/Music's baffling inability to find cover art when absolutely all the metadata of a given album is correct. At one point, I had correct covert for my entire collection of over 1,200+ CDs. The majority of it was correctly found by iTunes, but a small percentage had to come from other sources (download, scan, etc.). Then, after one of the updates, things started to go awry. Now when I look at Album view, it is littered with missing covert. And good luck trying to automatically find cover art for an album that doesn't exist in the iTunes Store. Am I missing something, or did iTunes (or does Music) not have a fallback when the primary source doesn't have the cover art for a given title. It seems to find the correct artist/title/track info from Gracenote, but no cover art.

Another issue I had was iTunes' handling of Audiobooks, and despite having meticulously accurate metadata, it can never seem to sort the list of audiobooks in any consistent way. Most of the books by a given author would be together, and but then you'd have a straggler or two somewhere different. And before you comment, yes, I had all the "sort by" information consistent.

More recently, the current version of Music has a really irritating habit of stopping playback of an existing track when another track is added to the queue as "Play Next". And it seems to happen on the Mac and iOS versions. Not sure what is going on with that. I've submitted feedback, but the problem is unresolved as of this past Saturday.

cloudguy said:

"Even if you fundamentally disagree with Facebook's business model... you do need to acknowledge that Apple's actions are severely harming it."

Sure, if your business model is fundamentally flawed because the way you acquire data is shady at best, then it will suffer when you are forced to be more transparent about your practices. I don't see that as Apple's problem.

retrogusto said:

I’d think Zuckerberg would want to draw as little attention as possible to his situation, but maybe he’s a little deluded about what he should be allowed to do. The way I see it, the less people think about how Facebook earns their money, the better it is for them—it’s like a sausage maker commissioning a documentary about how the sausage is made. 

My wife hasn't eaten a hot dog since seeing an episode about their manufacture on "How It's Made".

dk49 said:

Zuckerberg is like a whining child. 

Like?!? He IS a whining child. I can't wait until my FB account deletion becomes permanent on Feb. 6th.

Wait, who am I kidding? I'm sure they're not really going to "delete" the content of my account. They'll probably keep it, and continue monetizing it somehow.