Gotcha. That helps a lot. I had no idea I had so many mp3s in the "Booty Bass" genre.

If your id3 tags are pretty consistent try using the nextstep browser. In the full interface click on the eye icon. That gives you three panes: genre,artist,album. I find it to be very fast and intuitive.

Did you get it to run under WINE? Or have you booted over to the dark side. I do have a few complaints about iTunes, but I imagine they're just a matter of personal preference. I've gotten accustomed to using Winamp and XMMS and just organizing mp3s through directory trees. With 3406 largely legal mp3s, scrolling through my music library to find the song I want is a lot slower than the old way. Maybe I haven't found it, but it would be nice to have a list album (but not song) titles and have the ability to add an entire album in one fell swoop. The UI is a little weird to me overall. As a longtime Intel platform user, dragging and dropping is a little counter-intuitive. It also strike me as a little strange that I see less latency when I reduce the size the iTunes window. I guess all the non-native UI widgets are fairly demanding on my old desktop.

I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes... which strikes me as funny. If you don't like it, don't use it. I like it and I'll explain why. First, it decouples music from filenames... this is long past due. File names cannot hold enough information to usefully describe music. That's what ID3 tags are for. Metadata is the way of the future (or, for you macheads, the way of the past.) Second, apple preserved the NeXTStep browser. Being able to browse my music so quickly makes me very happy. Finally, it has a simple, consistent UI. Most UIs interfere with the user, iTunes' doesn't.

There are some bad things, of course, but I find them fairly easy to ignore. First of all, it has a large memory footprint. Oh well. It doesn't interfere with my web browsing and I don't run it while I'm playing games. Two, no ogg support. This is a real setback for me... but one I believe will be solved soon... either by apple or with a plugin (as it is already solved in macland.) Three, strange disk usage. I'm not sure what iTunes is doing but it uses a ton of disk. I'll get that sorted out, though.

It's all in what you like, I suppose.

well, it's interesting as far as ui goes, but i still don't really see the appeal. i suppose it's just one of those things that won't ever grab me, but i look over every now and then and say 'nifty'.

I'm with you on this. This little app makes everything too easy to do any other way, not to mention the whole easy access to new music thing... legitimately... which will take some getting used to.

Great. Pretty soon, there'll be no good reason to own a Mac. If you can get all the Apple software running a cheap PC box, OSX & the fancy case will be the only things stopping me from switching (I guess I could always build my own fancy case).

if it would only let me specify how it names the files, then i would use it and not look back. damn you apple! there always has to be one worm in your lucious products. that little brused spot on the otherwise beautiful red surface. bastards. other than that it's a fine app, other than it's a frickin resource hog from hell. take a look at the task manager next time you run that bloatware.