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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by criddell on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:16PM (#43244157)
I use Apple Music on my Windows work computer and it's pretty good. I still have iTunes on my home Windows PC (I use it for ripping CDs) and it takes much longer to start.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by SSLy on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:48PM (#43244548)
> I use it for ripping CDs

may I introduce you to cyanrip or EAC? https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/downloa...

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by criddell on Monday March 03, 2025 @02:02PM (#43245403)
I own dbPoweramp which I believe uses EAC, but iTunes is just easier (I rip to ALAC) and is good enough. Apple will probably drop support soon, but until then I'll stick with it.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by LeoPanthera on Monday March 03, 2025 @10:43PM (#43250018)
Thank you for introducing me to cyanrip. Rare to see a ripper that supports HDCD and doesn’t require me to decode them manually with ffmpeg.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by sureIy on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:24PM (#43249037)
To be fair iTunes had become such a kitchen sync software. The Windows version is universally hated I think, I remember hearing jokes about iTunes on regular TV talk shows.
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