ITunes Trouble

October 21st, 2008

ITunes sucks. A lot. I was forced to install it to remove a few videos from my pod today. The other software I use wouldn’t delete them for some reason. So I had to download and install itunes. I hate it. It’s bundled with quicktime, which sucks. You cannot uninstall quicktime because itunes requires it for the program to run.

You have to have a credit card to create an itunes store account, without which you cannot download album artwork. I forgot which email address I used for my existing account, so I had to create a new one. It’s impossible to do without a credit card. However, there is a workaround.

Apple allows you to use your paypal account instead of a credit card. So you go make another paypal account. Then it gives you some bullshit about the partner requiring you to have a payment method on file. Ok, so you add your debit card to your paypal account. You then complete the itunes store account creation and return to your paypal account and delete the debit card. Problem solved.

You still have to have a credit or debit card to create an itunes store account, but you only put the info in long enough to make the account, delete it, and then it’s not kept on record. Whether or not apple checks periodically to see if you still have a valid payment method, I don’t know. I guess I’ll find out in a while.

(Sigh) The things I do for free album artwork.

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