https://nostuff.org/archive/tags/firstworldissues/ Recent content in Firstworldissues on nostuff.org archive | Chris Keene Hugo en-gb Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:48:40 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2011/things-that-annoy-me-with-itunes-and-ipod-iphone-music/ Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:48:40 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2011/things-that-annoy-me-with-itunes-and-ipod-iphone-music/ <p>Number 1. Metadata is crap. Not just bad. Not just ‘Jonny needs to try harder’ in parts. out and out crap. Even on popular albums. This is the most popular digital music system there is. by far. and they can’t get it right.</p> <p>When I want to browse albums I want to see albums, not random one-off tracks that so happen to include the album they belonged to (which is often the case from iTunes). Itunes is <em>designed</em> to allow you to buy one track, not whole albums, so why is iTunes designed in such a way that it doesn’t cater for this. Album browse is useless because most of it is random one of tracks.</p>