My true feelings about iTunes Oct08 '06
This is a brief explanation on why I lost interest in Apple’s iTunes software. I still use it for various tasks, but only because it's there. If I could have my way with words, I’d say what follows. (Warning: this may be a little too heavy for some people. Don't say I didn't warn you. Also, I don't mean to pick on iTunes, because this applies to a greater meaning. iTunes is just the best right now, so that's why I pick on it.)
A short while back, I realized that iTunes wasn’t doing such a hot job managing and organizing my music.
What I truly realized that day wasn’t so much involving iTunes functionality itself - but rather, the fact that iTunes just doesn’t do music justice. iTunes tries to fully grasp the concept of how music affects our lives. And it just can’t. No software can do that. And, nothing man created (or will ever create) can do that.
Trying to "contain" music is like trying to fully explain what happens when we die.
Some things are greater than "man" can ever understand. So we must accept them for what they are, and rather than trying to "control" them, we must let them have wings, and take us places we could have never imagined on our own.
This is music to me.
Music can’t be "contained."
Music can’t be "controlled."
Therefore, music and software just don’t work well together. It’s like watching 4th of July fireworks on television. Sure, the television set could be very impressive - great color, great sound, great size - but it’s nothing like the experience of actually being there in person.
Technology, no matter how great it is, can’t imitate life.
Charades, pop skill
Water hyacinth, named by a poet.
Imitation of life
Like a koi in a frozen pond
Like a goldfish in a bowl
I dont want to hear you cry
I’d like to think that iTunes is only a small "flicker" of existence, one that will swiftly "fade out," once the next best thing comes along. In all the greater meaning of the world - iTunes is but a "sliver in time." And music... music has been around since the dawn of time. People created music from their hearts, and songs lived on - some still have for centuries. Some always will.
So tell me why I should let some "piece of software" try to tell me what music is all about? Or try to help me organize my music, in some manner suitable to it’s limited programming logic?
Why should my music be limited (and confined) to iTunes - or any software in general?
Music is in the air we breath. It’s everything in this world to me. Like a good deed, it should be passed on to those who need it. It’s truly a gift that life gives us. And, in turn, music provides life.
Such an astounding aspect of existence could never be explained or reasoned with.
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