{"id":2042,"date":"2013-12-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:54:04","slug":"isolving-the-problems-of-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirekusoft.com\/isolving-the-problems-of-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"iSolving the Problems of iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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For a Mac user, everything is so simple. You are limited in what software you can and cannot use, but everything that you can use is streamlined for your system, and functions precisely as it is intended to. For a personal computer user, one who runs Windows as their operating system, computing is a matter of constantly stitching together programs that aren\u2019t necessarily intended to work together. As a consequence, Windows computers often run into performance issues as they add more and more programs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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This is especially so when Windows users install Apple software onto their systems.<\/strong> This is like a cat laying down with a dog; they\u2019re both domestic pets, what\u2019s so wrong with this combination? Yet all too often, the way Apple software is designed does not mesh well with Windows systems at all.<\/p>\n

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Take, for example, the issue of Apple iTunes. Originally, iTunes started out as a software platform for burning, ripping, and mixing music. It had a very simple purpose, one that it fulfilled well. With the advent of the iPod and portable mp3 players, however, iTunes became a means to update your music library and keep it in one convenient location. The iTunes store was a natural extension of this, allowing users to download music and expand their libraries.<\/p>\n

Little did we realize, this was the beginning of something terrible.<\/p>\n

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More and more services began to be offered through iTunes, from film to television to streaming to all manner of other media and downloadables that the software was never designed to handle. Of course, iTunes saw subsequent updates to account for these changes, rendering the software\u2026 functional. But iTunes has never been optimal, not since it saw these changes in its services. This only grew worse with the introduction of the iPhone and the advent of the Apps Store, with yet another type of media being sorted through your iTunes program.<\/p>\n

As a result, iTunes has become a bloated monstrosity, blundering through your computer, leaving a swathe of latency, wasted disk space, and excess CPU use in its wak<\/strong>e. This isn\u2019t the case at all for Mac users, of course; upon installing iTunes, the program fits seamlessly into the background activity of an Apple computer, to be accessed when you please and forgotten when you\u2019re done with it.<\/p>\n

The OS Wars Continue<\/i><\/p>\n

For Windows users, it\u2019s a different story. Consider the case of AppleMobileDeviceService.exe, an iPhone\/iTunes interface program. This will find its way onto your computer regardless of whether or not you use an iPhone; iTunes installs this software, and it runs in the background forevermore unless you manually disable it. This service runs 24\/7, and has a record of being an intermittent memory hog, using large amounts of CPU power at strange times.<\/p>\n

If your Windows computer is slowed down on installing iTunes, you have a few options.<\/h3>\n

First of all, you could go in and manually disable each piece of software that iTunes has arbitrarily decided to install onto your computer. This will take some cyber-sleuthing; you will have to monitor your computer\u2019s performance and identify those programs that are actively eating up your resources. Because these programs often don\u2019t use CPU resources 24\/7, but instead will spike their usage only occasionally, you will have to be especially vigilant.<\/p>\n