Jeremy Zawodny opplever en ekkel iTunes-bug

Steve Jobs Ruined My Thanksgiving (by Jeremy Zawodny):

Two nights ago, I fired up iTunes and finally accepted its offer to upgrade from version 4.9 to version 6.0. That was a big fucking mistake--a mistake that I've spent the last two days attempting to recover from. Warning: If you'd rather not read a rant, please move on... Seriously. Somehow iTunes 6.0 'upgraded' my music library and managed to lose about 1,200 tracks along the way. I'm at a complete loss to explain how this could happen. But a non-trivial amount of my music simply isn't there as fas as it knows. Now it turns out that the tracks really are there and the metadata is still around, but iTunes simply thinks the tracks are elsewhere. When I click one to play it, it asks me if I'd like to try finding. Of course, it doesn't mean that iTunes will do its best to locate it in my music collection. No, it means *I* must manually browse my library to point it at the file (as if there are no ID3 tags on the files that it could simply match against its own catalog). What The Fuck, Apple?!

Selv har jeg ikke mange sangene i iTunes, men har opplevd at iTunes 6 fjerner muligheten for å bruke SharpMusique til å kjøpe musikk, inntil de klarer å knekke v6-utgaven av protokollen. Eneste løsning for å frigi et album kjøpt på iTMS blir følgende:

1. Kjøp og last ned på vanlig vis
2. Brenn album på en CD
3. Importer CD som MP3

Dette har jo den fordelaktige sideeffekten at du får to sikkerhetskopier av musikken.. Bruk ALLOFMP3 i stedet – Aftenposten rapporterer at denne tjenesten høyst sannsynlig er lovlig også i Norge, ettersom den opererer innenfor russisk lov.