Another iTunes WTF

Inexplicably, the latest version of iTunes uses, for the title of its window, the drive letter of the drive where the current iTunes library lives. So, iTunes now shows up in my taskbar and alt-tab list as "Y:".

Not "iTunes Y:", not "Y:iTunes" (which would at least be the name of the folder where the library lives). Nope: just "Y:".

Why ?

Presumably most users have a single library that never moves. So why is the drive on which the library resides of any interest at all to a normal iTunes user ? And why make that the entire window title ? Why not show the name of the current song ? Or the name of the current library ? Or just 'iTunes' ?

The drive letter ? WTF ?

I know no other software as consistently stupid as iTunes.

3 thoughts on “Another iTunes WTF”

  1. Ugh

    So am I going to regret ripping all my CDs and using iTunes to manage them? Is there really any other option?

  2. cleek

    probably not. it’s not unusable, it’s just frequently stupid and annoying. underneath the ever-thickening layer of silly nonsense there’s a really nice music player.

    but there are many other music apps out there (WinAmp, for example)

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