itunes : the anti-hank

every time i get a hankering to go buy a mac, i end up (coincidentally) running itunes on my pc. that inevitably kills the hankering.

what a horrendous piece of shit that is.

maybe some of the following are true :
a) i have "too many" mp3s on my hard drive
b) i need to go find some itunes configuration checkbox or radio button that will give me better performance
c) i just don't "get it"

but if the design and usage philosophies that went into making itunes-PC the awful experience that it is are reflected in MacOS, and I must assume that they are, I want no part of it.

itunes on my pc is a horrendous memory hog, it's unresponsive, and the interface sucks. my mp3s are organized on the hard drive in heirarchical directories, with filenames being generally more important than id3 tags. that's the way it's been with me for nearly a decade now. itunes doesn't seem to be easily configurable to handle that workflow.

the only reason i bothered to install it is because i am forced to endure its crappiness to load mp3s onto my useless ipod, which i intend to take with my on my upcoming plane flight, on account of the fact that of my 4 (count 'em: four) mp3 players, the ipod is the one i'd lose the least tears over if some TSA goon stepped on it.