Musings on the new iTunes

So I’m sort of adapting to the new version of iTunes but so far I’m very pleased with it. The fact that the album artwork is more generally visible makes it seem more like I actually have my cd collection, but on my computer. Which I guess is the idea. Add this to the fact that iTunes will fetch the album cover art for my tracks and it’s a very nice thing There are a few bugs with the album art retrieval, like if you don’t have the artist named in the exact same way that the iTunes store does, or even if you don’t have the track assigned to the same genre. Robin has submitted the latter of these as a bug to Apple so we’ll see how quickly they get around to fixing it. It does seem like a pretty arbitrary thing. But it’s also a little frustrating to have it not produce album art for Hard Promises by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers simply because iTunes lists the band as Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, as far as I can tell. Or I could be suffering from the genre problem.

Oh, and it does bug me that my scrolling mouse doesn’t scroll side to side on my pc in iTunes. I guess Apple and Windows don’t like each other very much or something silly like that? It’s still pretty annoying, though, because it works really nicely on my powerbook.