{"id":100,"date":"2006-09-18T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softonic-en-dev.albert.redtonic\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-07-02T03:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:01:41","slug":"from-itunes-to-icant-play-my-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/from-itunes-to-icant-play-my-music\/","title":{"rendered":"From iTunes to iCan&#8217;t play my music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week it was nearly impossible to miss the announcement of Apple&#8217;s array of new iPod products. Along with all the reworked, shiny gadgets came the latest version of its slick media management software, <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.en.softonic.com\/ie\/30110\">iTunes<\/a>. Over the course of the last six versions, iTunes has been progressively gaining hefty features to match the meteoric rise of the iPod. Music, photos, podcasts, album art, song lyrics, TV shows and now finally movies have all ambushed camp iTunes, and it seems that in version 7, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creeping_featurism\">feature creep<\/a> has finally breached its walls.<\/p>\n<p>After the initial elation died down, several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/digital-music\/new-itunes-version-a-lemon\/2006\/09\/14\/1157827068657.html\">reports<\/a> surfaced about <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/search.jspa?threadID=&amp;q=memory+hog&amp;objID=c149&amp;dateRange=last7days&amp;userID=&amp;numResults=15&amp;rankBy=10001\">slow performance<\/a>, iPods not being recognized and horror of horrors &#8211; at least for a music player &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/search.jspa?objID=c149&amp;search=Go&amp;q=scratchy\">&#8220;scratchy&#8221; sound<\/a> during music playback! Granted that these problems are usually amplified by a vocal few and that most issues will be fixed in the inevitable patch, it does however raise the question of <em>&#8220;When do you stop adding new features so as to maintain the original simplicity of a program?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To be certain, this is a careful dance between the status quo and selling more iPods but when basic features such sound quality start to take a dive, perhaps it&#8217;s time to take a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week it was nearly impossible to miss the announcement of Apple&#8217;s array of new iPod products. Along with all the reworked, shiny gadgets came the latest version of its slick media management software, iTunes. Over the course of the last six versions, iTunes has been progressively gaining hefty features to match the meteoric &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/from-itunes-to-icant-play-my-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From iTunes to iCan&#8217;t play my music&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2380],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionitunes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338062,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/338062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}