Posts Tagged ‘itunessucks’

Ping Off, Steve

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Dear Steve Jobs,

Ping sucks, big time.  If you are going to try and demand that we all let you be the gateway for deciding what kinds of music we are allowed to like and what bands we want to follow, you’re going to have to develop a decent taste for music.  You don’t even support 90% of the stuff that’s for sale in iTunes.  I gave it a shot, ’cause I like stats and tracking history and whatnot, but I turned it off today, and probably won’t ever try it again.    Now if only I could turn off the stupid ping button that shows up on every track.

iTunes process xx exceeded 500 log message per second limit

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Dealing with some driver errors on my iMac, I started looking at /var/log/system.log on my Snow Leopard machine, and noticed that when I start iTunes, it’s generating a boatload of log messages of questionable value.

It’s row after row of incrementing numbers

Sep 16 10:22:03 WideMac [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iTunes[202]: 14212
Sep 16 10:22:03 WideMac [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iTunes[202]: 1
Sep 16 10:22:03 WideMac [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iTunes[202]: 2
Sep 16 10:22:03 WideMac [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iTunes[202]: 3

Sep 16 10:22:03 WideMac [0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.iTunes[202]: *** process 202 exceeded 500 log message per second limit  -  remaining messages this second discarded ***

Once the next second comes up, the messages start again.  It goes all the way up to about 10,000 before it hits another discard message and doesn’t start again when the next second comes up.  Odd.

New iTunes, new error message

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

So, apple still hasn’t fixed the problem with trying to download a bunch of app updates at once, but with today’s update, they also created a new bug.  Now, when I click on “get update” for a single app, it starts downloading the update, but also sends me to a page that says, “XXX (yyy@zzz.com) has no updates currently available.  To check for updates for another account, sign in with that account.”

You can tell this error was missed because they did their testing on a very fast network (or with very small apps), as the error screen goes away as soon as the update finishes downloading.  So at least the updates are getting applied.  One at a very f-ing slow time.

Minor Update:  It’s funny, this morning, I was about to post about how iTunes had finally managed to fix it’s grabbing-focus issues, but of course this update started grabbing focus during the “updating itunes library” phase. d’ohwell.

UPDATE2:  I could have sworn I had some audible books here at work, but there aren’t any here.  We’ll see what happens at home when I update there.  I’m also not a fan of the new “pause/stop” item at the top of the right click menu.  Talk about solving a problem that didn’t exist, while creating a new one.  There’s never a time where right clicking twice to stop a track is faster/easier than clicking the stop button once.  If only stupid itunes didn’t lock up every 5 minutes to admire the size of my library or whatever the hell it’s doing.  Putting “stop” on a right-click context menu doesn’t do much when the app doesn’t register any mouse clicks for a month.

UPDATE3:  I must’ve been streaming audiobooks here at work, ’cause the ones in the library at home just migrated from audiobooks to books.  The focus theft is still annoying.

Stupid Itunes Bug of the Day

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

If you have focus in the library and press the backspace key, it removes the currently selected file from the library, no prompt, no warning, no undo. What an utterly crap job of QA they do.