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May 13, 2004
iTuning In
I've been trying to fill it my new 250 GB hard drive up by ripping all my CDs and turning my PC into a 21st-century jukebox. I've been using iTunes to rip and organize my music, and so far have been very happy (before you ask, I'm not using Windows Media Player because I can't rip music as MP3, burn CDs or organize my music as well as iTunes can).
iTunes is great for scaling to handle this amount of music (so far, 9 GB of music, over 1830 songs. I could listen to music for 6 days straight). But there are a couple of issues that aren't making my music digitizing experience all it can be:
Duplicate songs on multiple albums. For example, soundtracks or compilations that contain one or more songs I already have on full albums. Do I need to have two copies of the same song in order to be able to play both the compilation and the artist's album in full? (not that I'll be filling up that hard drive any time soon...) I can't find a way to properly file music by multiple artists, for example "Bug Powder Dust" performed by Bomb The Bass and Justin Warfield.
I realize these may be issues with the underlying MP3 ID3 tag technology more than iTunes, but they're issues that people with large CD collections will run into. Maybe if Longhorn's WinFS lives up to its promise, applications like iTunes will be able to leverage much more than just ID3...