iTunes Sucks!

I have never been an iTunes user but deceived by all the coverage about release of new iTunes and its Genius feature that matches music tracks in your library that go together, I downloaded iTunes last night and here's what I think:

iTunes is the worst excuse for a media playing software. If you have fallen for the ipod hype,your computer is a mac or you actually buy music from Apple store then maybe you don't have any other option except using this crappy piece of software. 

But for any Windows user who wants to be in control of his music library and sync files with different non-Apple devices there is no better option than Windows Media Player. WMP plays all filetypes smoothly while itunes only plays AAC and MP3 files meaning all those WMA files I have should be transcoded into AAC which is ridiculous because it's going to take two days to transcode all my files at the rate of one file per 2 minutes or so which was iTune's average speed on a high-end computer. More if you have an older machine of course. WMP looks better too and does everything like it's supposed to without requiring you to connect to a store or sign up with your credit card.

I mean seriously Apple, what is this bullshit? In the era of open-source and cloud computing why should I sign up with a credit card to use the Genius feature on iTunes? I don't buy my music online and I use a Creative Zen instead of an iPod. I was thinking of buying a macbook air as a second laptop but seeing the Genius sign-up pissed me off with Apple's stupid corporate mentality and I've become sure to go with an Asus eee now.