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4 reasons why I am Giving up on iTunes on Windows Vista

I loves iTunes but I am sick and tired of my Windows Vista Laptop running like crap when iTunes is running.

1) I recently posted a screencast showing the high cpu usuage of iTunes when exiting.

2) Next up is the 5gb worth of temp files (500 by number) iTunes thinks it’s cool to leave lying around in My Music Folder.

3) Legal MP4 video content from iTunes stutters and goes choppy during playback.

4) iTunes crashes on a weekly basis.

I am running iTunes on a very high specification XPS M1210 Laptop

Intel Core 2 Duo (2.0ghz)
2gig of Ram
7200rpm Hard Disk

What kind of super computer do I need to download a few podcasts and listen to music?

So for the moment iTunes can go live on a Windows XP machine until the performance picks up.

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Gary F Says:
May 7th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Apple are experts at making Mac software. Try WMP 11 or RealPlayer. When I first tried Itunes on a PC it started converting all my music to its own file format! How presumptuous is that. Or how badly programmed.
Colin DiPonio Says:
May 8th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Hi Gary.

I know what you mean, lots of people have ripped entire collections in basically one of the least compatible formats (I have a iTunes screencast that covers this issue going up soon).

Lucky for me it’s MP3 all the way.

One thing Apple did get right is Podcast support. It’s such an easy way to manage multiple podcast subscriptions.

As I said the application when behaving is great, and now without it Windows Vista is running better.

Colin