iTunes 7 is a cruel master
So I downloaded the new iTunes 7 a week or two ago… you know, the day that it came out. [Yeah, I’m a fucking lemming.] Actually, I couldn’t really have given two craps (I didn’t even know a new version had come out), but Josue had his [metaphorical] panties all in a twist about the coolness that was the new version. So off I went to download it.
It wasn’t easy. Apparently, the entire goddamn world had heard the news and was downloading iTunes 7 all at the same time. My OS X automatic update couldn’t do it. iTunes couldn’t do it. Finally, a visit to the actual iTunes website delivered me unto my much sought-after temptation.
I shouldn’t have downloaded it. Hindsight is always 20/20 (although in my case, my vision is so poor that I’m quite sure that my hindsight would still be crap). But download it I did, and now I’m possessed. Call me Linda Blair, because something has taken over my body. Perfectionism? OCD, perhaps? I don’t know. But it’s annoying.
iTunes 7 is hot stuff. It’s slick. It’s cooooooool. It looks good. And that makes me feel crappy about the state of my music library, for it does not look so good. My iTunes library is a jumble of songs that I’ve had since my mid-teen years (and given my predisposition to using the words “whippersnapper” and “trollop”, suffice it to say that it’s been a few years since I’ve had -teen as a suffix to my age), songs that friends have sent me, and the results of drunken rampages on the iTunes music store. Rape, pillage, plunder, baby.
So iTunes 7 has awakened the perfectionism beast within. I sit in front of my computer, blinded by a white-hot desire to have every, single song rated and categorized with the correct Title (capitalization matters), Artist, Album, and genre. I’m also on a mission to obtain album art for each and every one of my 3100 songs.
I’m slowly going insane. Who knows, maybe I was already insane before iTunes 7. If I was, this is only serving to expedite my inauguration to the Cuckoo Hall of Fame. And if I wasn’t already nuts to begin with, Crazy Land, here I come. So screw you, iTunes 7. Shame on you for being so shiny and pretty. Shame on you for leading me into perfectionist hell with your promise of album artwork. Shame on you! It’s all your fault.
[You may all download iTunes 7 here.]
Hindsight is nothing but foresight that comes too late, Erin. I absolutely relate. My own library is a little short of 4000 songs, and I was close to being one fry short of a Happy Meal too. It me took the best part of a whole weekend to sort my collection and categorize it properly, capitalize what needed to be capitalized, get ALL the artwork, etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam…
But, now that it all looks as it should… Yay! I love my iTunes!
Btw, I read somewhere that v.7 is a resource hog in MacOS systems. Is it true? Mine runs like a breeze but, then again, my Nano is the only piece of Mac hardware that I’ve ever had.
Aw, don’t worry about your sanity…you’ve already lost it.
…why do you even use iTunes? Use some open-source software, and you’ll make your hermanito happy.
iTunes 7.0.1 came out yesterday
Hurry and go download it you lemming!
j/k
BTW, I saw this on Digg recently, might help with your album art hunt.