For Mac Users

[Strungup]

I just removed iTunes from my Macbook pro .

Reason: After doing a transfer from iTunes folder , MP3 conversion of some podcasts ( French for Beginners) and the transfering said MP3's to my HiMD while iTunes was open , all of the sudden iTunes looked a lot like the blue screen of death , all Garbled and mangled in appearance , so I quit (force Quit) then restarted iTunes , all looked normal and played normal .

so I listened to jams for awhile , then i went to quit iTunes , it would quit , log out then pop right back up , it did this 30 times with a span of about 2 minutes in between quitting and it popping back up . I tried repairing permissions , still did it .

I used AppDelete for Mac to can it , then moved that folder out of the trash to the desktop opened the folder and began getting rid of resource files first, then individual proccess file after that , down to the final package Itunes executable hidden in the MacOS file.

I have COG for Mac as a music player , and it plays everything that iTunes will not , Shorten Flac, monkey audio, etc .

I use Switch to convert stuff to MP3 , and it will convert the Podcasts to mp3 as well ( download on demand will download a file called "aauca" or similarand then it can convert the m4a files to wav or whatever you want.

iTunes was the only reason I would want an iPood , but now that I have seen it as a security risk , I will not use it .

for Cog , just drag files to it and hit play .

[Strungup]

Update ,........ they fixed the iTunes problem sent out an update notice , and a Securty update as well , go figure .