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[coraa]

Dear iTunes,

You have insisted that you need to update my library, a process which, apparently, takes a while, during which I can't listen to music or do anything else in iTunes. Okay, fine. Applications require updates like that from time to time. I understand.

However!

Stealing focus from my other applications every thirty seconds (yes, I timed it) while you do this IS NOT ENDEARING. Especially when you aren't stealing focus to prompt me to do something, you're just randomly stealing focus to make me look at the progress bar crawl along a little farther. It means that not only can I not use you to listen to music, I can't do anything else while I wait to listen to music! Even typing this post is annoying, because every sentence or two iTunes opens itself over the posting window and then helpfully goes 'ding' because I'm suddenly trying to type onto the progress bar.

In conclusion: KNOCK IT OFF.

No love,

Cora
who's trying to listen to music and write, and right now, inexplicably, can't do either

People who get all smug in the comments about how this wouldn't happen if I used [insert favorite other music program here]? NOT HELPING EITHER.

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[coraa.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh yes. One of the things that drives me bananas is the way everything is tied together. I can't upgrade my iPhone firmware/software unless I upgrade iTunes. (Heck, sometimes it decides that I can't back up my iPhone unless I update the iTunes software, which seems like armtwisting to me.) If I upgrade iTunes, it insists on upgrading QuickTime and a handful of other stuff. So every time a new minor version of iTunes comes out, I'm stuck upgrading half a dozen things so that it will allow me to continue to back up my phone.

The fact that it then wants me to sit and admire the progress bar the entire time is just the icing on the annoying cake.