Piece of shit software - Crappy software/apps/programs that make you MATI

[Cool Bug Fact’s]

Oh my god, Google mu-, I‘m sorry, YOUTUBE, music, is the most awful, petty, sticky icky downgrade of an audio application I have ever seen. Originally, you could search for whatever you wanted, put it on a shuffle, or have recommended playlists of similar tastes via data collection- kinda like YouTube but for MP3 files. Oh, and you could download the files too. And if there were outside files, it would be fine with it too.

However, for some god forsaken reason, the people at Google said “What if… hear me out… we made our app… worse? Brilliant, I know sister!” So now, I have to pay for the app if I wanna not have it take up my entire screen, or if i wann turn the screen off without the music going out too. it refuses to read the previous rendition of the applications MP3’s and playlists, and is a broken mess that would make an IT Virgin blush in embarrassment. At this point, I just downloaded from their own store a better app that does the same things the old one did. How the hell do you mess it up so bad that the rip of genera-steal companies do it better then you?

Honestly, so baffling. They need to get their you know what togethor.

 

[Spunt]

Spotify's mobile client is shit. Takes forever to load, illogical and confusing interface where no function is where you'd expect it to be and adding/removing songs to playlists on mobile doesn't always "take", songs I definitely deleted are still there and ones I added nowhere to be found. Often won't load or stream properly even on a Wi-Fi or maxed out 4G connection.

Also kiwifarms.net. It can be really fucking slow to load, and when it does it's full of stupid niggerfaggots. I really ought to get around to complaining about it.

 

[Plastic Love]

Oh my god, Google mu-, I‘m sorry, YOUTUBE, music, is the most awful, petty, sticky icky downgrade of an audio application I have ever seen. Originally, you could search for whatever you wanted, put it on a shuffle, or have recommended playlists of similar tastes via data collection- kinda like YouTube but for MP3 files. Oh, and you could download the files too. And if there were outside files, it would be fine with it too.

However, for some god forsaken reason, the people at Google said “What if… hear me out… we made our app… worse? Brilliant, I know sister!” So now, I have to pay for the app if I wanna not have it take up my entire screen, or if i wann turn the screen off without the music going out too. it refuses to read the previous rendition of the applications MP3’s and playlists, and is a broken mess that would make an IT Virgin blush in embarrassment. At this point, I just downloaded from their own store a better app that does the same things the old one did. How the hell do you mess it up so bad that the rip of genera-steal companies do it better then you?

Honestly, so baffling. They need to get their you know what togethor.

Youtube music, Amazon music, and iTunes music are all absolutely horrible and bloated to use both on PC and phone. It's like they actively do not want you to listen to music, I don't get it. The only music app I like using is bandcamp, it only lets you listen to albums but that is all I use it for and you can download your music in almost any format so it gets a pass from me.

The absolute shit state of music apps these days is why I still feel the need to pirate, because I can actually listen to what I want, when I want, how I want. Imagine that.

 

[Cool Bug Fact’s]

Youtube music, Amazon music, and iTunes music are all absolutely horrible and bloated to use both on PC and phone. It's like they actively do not want you to listen to music, I don't get it. The only music app I like using is bandcamp, it only lets you listen to albums but that is all I use it for and you can download your music in almost any format so it gets a pass from me.

The absolute shit state of music apps these days is why I still feel the need to pirate, because I can actually listen to what I want, when I want, how I want. Imagine that.

”They’re evolving, just backwards.”

 

[Staffy]

Oh my god, Google mu-, I‘m sorry, YOUTUBE, music, is the most awful, petty, sticky icky downgrade of an audio application I have ever seen. Originally, you could search for whatever you wanted, put it on a shuffle, or have recommended playlists of similar tastes via data collection- kinda like YouTube but for MP3 files. Oh, and you could download the files too. And if there were outside files, it would be fine with it too.

However, for some god forsaken reason, the people at Google said “What if… hear me out… we made our app… worse? Brilliant, I know sister!” So now, I have to pay for the app if I wanna not have it take up my entire screen, or if i wann turn the screen off without the music going out too. it refuses to read the previous rendition of the applications MP3’s and playlists, and is a broken mess that would make an IT Virgin blush in embarrassment. At this point, I just downloaded from their own store a better app that does the same things the old one did. How the hell do you mess it up so bad that the rip of genera-steal companies do it better then you?

Honestly, so baffling. They need to get their you know what togethor.

Oh fug, youtube music. They killed Google Play Music for this which was actually decent. Not as good as some other music players in terms of UI but it does its job perfectly for mp3 players. Retards at Google installed an update which kills Google Play Music but thankfully you can just uninstall the update and disable automatic updates for it but it fucked over my playlists which is a real MATI moment for me for sure!

Fuck youtube music and also fuck youtube premium, both are definitely unwanted. This must be made by the same guy who shoved google+ to everyone back then and it's their new pet project. Hope they both share the same fate and die for being redundant and unneeded, especially premium.

Funnily my current asus had no music player of its own and has to rely on Google Play Music.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Oh my god, Google mu-, I‘m sorry, YOUTUBE, music, is the most awful, petty, sticky icky downgrade of an audio application I have ever seen. Originally, you could search for whatever you wanted, put it on a shuffle, or have recommended playlists of similar tastes via data collection- kinda like YouTube but for MP3 files. Oh, and you could download the files too. And if there were outside files, it would be fine with it too.

However, for some god forsaken reason, the people at Google said “What if… hear me out… we made our app… worse? Brilliant, I know sister!” So now, I have to pay for the app if I wanna not have it take up my entire screen, or if i wann turn the screen off without the music going out too. it refuses to read the previous rendition of the applications MP3’s and playlists, and is a broken mess that would make an IT Virgin blush in embarrassment. At this point, I just downloaded from their own store a better app that does the same things the old one did. How the hell do you mess it up so bad that the rip of genera-steal companies do it better then you?

Honestly, so baffling. They need to get their you know what togethor.

The only "music" app I have ever cared about lately was Newpipe, just press hold and download, none of this greedy paywall garbage for basic features.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Spotify's mobile client is shit. Takes forever to load, illogical and confusing interface where no function is where you'd expect it to be and adding/removing songs to playlists on mobile doesn't always "take", songs I definitely deleted are still there and ones I added nowhere to be found. Often won't load or stream properly even on a Wi-Fi or maxed out 4G connection.

Also kiwifarms.net. It can be really fucking slow to load, and when it does it's full of stupid niggerfaggots. I really ought to get around to complaining about it.

A typical spotify mobile session for me goes like this:

Open spotify. Wait while it claims to be loading everything, but now it's just a blank screen. Back out. Kill the task. Open spotify. It loads up and shows me all the home page, but then it freezes and can't play anything. Back out. Kill the task. Open spotify. Everything works now. Play music. Spotify crashes.

It used to be half-way decent. The recent changes they made to the library are just confusing, though. Before, opening an artist from your library would show you the albums and tracks you had favourited from that artist, so you could just tell it to play what you picked. Now it just takes you to the default artist page and shows you the "popular" tracks. I don't want the popular tracks. I want my tracks. They're really pushing playlists hard now for some reason. Also the autoplay-after-finishing system is shagged.

 

[HumanHive]

A typical spotify mobile session for me goes like this:

Open spotify. Wait while it claims to be loading everything, but now it's just a blank screen. Back out. Kill the task. Open spotify. It loads up and shows me all the home page, but then it freezes and can't play anything. Back out. Kill the task. Open spotify. Everything works now. Play music. Spotify crashes.

It used to be half-way decent. The recent changes they made to the library are just confusing, though. Before, opening an artist from your library would show you the albums and tracks you had favourited from that artist, so you could just tell it to play what you picked. Now it just takes you to the default artist page and shows you the "popular" tracks. I don't want the popular tracks. I want my tracks. They're really pushing playlists hard now for some reason. Also the autoplay-after-finishing system is shagged.

You deserve it for letting your content be curated up the ass.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Interesting. I never would have considered using Calibre to actually read anything on PC, it's basically there to convert formats so you can send a well formatted document to Kindle. It's good to know that SumatraPDF can read non-PDF formats though, had thought of it as just a great PDF reader.

MultiDocConverter is pretty good for making one format into something else and as the name implies it can batch convert.

Funnily my current asus had no music player of its own and has to rely on Google Play Music.

The google player annoyed me to no end and now I use something that supports all formats and doesn't require tagging for sorting: it's fucking VLC on Android. It actually does a good job even though I loathe it as a video player on PC.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

Intel Rapid Storage Technology is the bane of my existence. My nice self contained rescue environment refuses to recognize drives on any 2020-2021 laptop I've tried it on and a couple of the modern bioses hide the option to turn it off behind a literal cheat code that you enter in on a specific screen in the bios to make options magically appear (ctrl-shift-alt-S on Asus machines, don't remember the Gigabyte combo).

Anything that requires 3 modified and a letter, is bullshit.

 

[ellroy]

I'll complain about Apple stuff, since I use a MacBook pro as a laptop.

iTunes: garbage software with an overly fancy and hard to navigate UI that fucks up your music and movie files by removing all the directories and vomiting everything into a sole directory. I used to use a deprecated version of Winamp over iTunes before I had a Spotify account.

Finder: Finder on its own is an ok file manager application, nothing to write home about and a bit dated. Finder in an application like Word or Firefox is the most aggravating experience since you can't use back arrows in the instead have to use drop down map to get to the previous directory. I don't know what danger hair UI designer at Apple cooked this shit up but they need to interact with their software more to realize how goddamn awful it is to use.

Discord for macOS: beyond the usual problems Discord has with Windows and Linux users, its even worse with the Mac version. Are you a member of numerous servers, you have to use your arrow keys instead of the mouse to scroll down the menu list. Want to scroll down chats, aim for the tiny little slider bar to move it down. It's fucking obnoxious. Note: Discord in Linux with XFCE deserves a mention, since it doesn't have a menu bar to fully close the program, I have to move my mouse to an icon in the top right to close the program completely, I hate the Discord designers for not having a menu bar to properly close a program out.

Homebrew: I want to give these guys a break, they aren't officially supported by Apple and have to make due with the permissions they have but their package manager is just so damn terrible. The software takes over /usr/local/bin and constantly change permissions to suit their needs. Their packages break if the dependencies don't come from the package manager. For past working reasons, I do not like using openJDK and don't think there is a good reason to use for personal use. I installed the lastest Oracle binary blob JRE, brew doesn't want to recognize it and packages that depend on Java won't work as a result. If you are on an M1 Mac, they fucking place the binaries in /opt. You don't place that shit there ever, /opt should be reserved for stand alone binary blobs with no system or application dependencies, not package manager binaries. The reason they apparently do it is they can't manage packages of two different processor architectures so they solve the problem by just placing them in different locations based on the machine. These guys are about 10 years behind Linux package managers at this point if that is their solution. The only reason I use Homebrew is because MacPorts and Fink are even worse.

 

[Slav Power]

Basically any "conventional" file manager, like Windows File Explorer or Dolphin. Who thinks it's a good idea to operate with fifteen separate windows, each of which can have only one folder open and all the file operations have to be done with drag-and-drop or right click menu?

Thank god the legacy of Norton Commander lives on, so we have Total Commander for doing all of your file management tasks quickly and efficiently, and Double Commander as an alternative for Linux. After you get all the necessary keyboard shortcuts into your muscle memory, using anything but an OFM will feel like you're working with stubs instead of hands. Not to mention that Total Commander/Double Commander and Far Manager have a high amount of customisability, so you can really squeeze out a lot more from those programs.

An OFM will essentially become a bare necessity for you to use a computer, because without it you'll feel like a monkey slamming a stick on a rock while trying to do the most basic task.

 

[Grand Omega]

Waves Central practically made its users resort to self-flagellation in order to be worthy enough to use their "reputable" VST plugins, thanks to its hellish DRM.

There was always something that went wrong whenever I had to open up the client to install/register new plugins. It took a matter of luck to even log into the damn thing. It also loved to deem my HD as a "disconnected device", which immediately invalidated all of my plugins due to the "missing" licenses, which forced me to reset my MAC address every time it happened. Even then, there was always a few VSTs that would stop loading, disappear, or randomly throw out license errors.

Waves put me off long before I had the chance to upgrade, or buy an "upgrade plan". With those, there's the risk of getting your plugins so up-to-date that your audio software won't even recognize it as a VST anymore.

 

[Jazz never died!]

A lot of things for me but i put it in two lists. One good software that chugs on aging hardware and two crap. There is too much for me to post in a eloquent manner. I just wish programers would think about those who keep computers or smart phones for long periods of time so it doesn't chug. I don't know maybe its just me?

 

[Art Kassul]

Waves Central practically made its users resort to self-flagellation in order to be worthy enough to use their "reputable" VST plugins, thanks to its hellish DRM.

There was always something that went wrong whenever I had to open up the client to install/register new plugins. It took a matter of luck to even log into the damn thing. It also loved to deem my HD as a "disconnected device", which immediately invalidated all of my plugins due to the "missing" licenses, which forced me to reset my MAC address every time it happened. Even then, there was always a few VSTs that would stop loading, disappear, or randomly throw out license errors.

Waves put me off long before I had the chance to upgrade, or buy an "upgrade plan". With those, there's the risk of getting your plugins so up-to-date that your audio software won't even recognize it as a VST anymore.

Waves is best pirated. Even then it is a pain to manage, but nixes license issues.

 

[Cool Username]

Avast
More like AAAAAHHHHHvast
It drives me insane when the "IT'S TIME TO UPDATE, NIGGA" sign pops up for the fifth time in a day.
NO, I'M NOT GOING TO UPDATE NOW, you're going to ask me the same shit again tomorrow.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

If anything, Sibelius is even worse.

Literally the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread's title.

Any of you niggers tried GIMP? It's a frothy convoluted mess.

Want to select more than one layer? NOPE FUCK YOU WHY WOULD YOU EVER WANT TO DO THAT

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

There are so many better free alternatives to Photoshop

Can you list some?

 

[419]

Can you list some?

For me ditching Windows unfortunately meant ditching Paint.NET which I personally swear by, and I'm not quite desperate enough yet to get it set up under WINE - though considering the extension support that'll probably be a must-do eventually. Other than that, I'd also love to know another native alternative that works similarly to PDN and ideally has decent extension support.

I'm loosely hearing Pinta being marketed as a direct alternative to PDN but I personally know nothing about it.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

For me ditching Windows unfortunately meant ditching Paint.NET which I personally swear by, and I'm not quite desperate enough yet to get it set up under WINE - though considering the extension support that'll probably be a must-do eventually. Other than that, I'd also love to know another native alternative that works similarly to PDN and ideally has decent extension support.

I'm loosely hearing Pinta being marketed as a direct alternative to PDN but I personally know nothing about it.

I've used a lot of Paint.Net and it eventually drove me to pay for Photoshop.

Pinta looks

aaaargh