does anyone know how to make itunes at least useable?

That's rather vague, isn't it?

 

I use it just fine.

Oh, sorry i was/am still pissed off at my itunes.

 

let me rephrase that.

Is there any way to increase the functionality of Itunes from near 0 to something worth it?

 

Reason why I got Itunes in the first place:

 

I have never been a fan of Apple anything, However i decided (against my better

judgment apparently) to try Itunes and a Ipod Touch.

now the Ipod touch is pretty cool. It does what i expect it to do, and it does

what i expect other mp3 players to do, that being a basic computer. IE like a

PDA.

 

 

Problems I have with Itunes:

 

1) Its advertising is probably the biggest turn off ever. I don't want to look

to my right and see a giant advertisement advertising every freaking song i

don't have.

 

2) Its Coverage of Album artwork, now i know that not every cd is in a database

somewhere with everything you ever wanted to know about a band. But COMMON, at least it should have the mainstream OR it should allow you to add your own

because I can search for it and find it.. in about 2 seconds.

 

3) It DUPLICATES items, and then SHOWS me them and i cant do a damned thing about

What advertisements?

 

If you're talking about the Genius sidebar, you can turn that off with View -> Show Genius Sidebar.

 

You can also delete duplicates by simply hitting the Delete key...

not really when there is 400 some duplicates.

 

Oh i didn't see that in the pull down menu "view".

 

thanks. that alleviates roughly 1/3/2 of the problem.

If you are in the "Music" section (i.e. displaying all of your files)

 

File > Display Duplicates