A tragic love story: iTunes

I had 100% good intentions buying a first gen iPod touch. It started and ended like a typical high school relationship- full of good intentions, but empties your wallet and breaks your heart.

At least, thats what it did to me. I don't know who was to blame. Was it me for having over 20 gigs of music and iTunes shitting its pants every time I opened it up?
Was it because I wasn't safely ejecting the iPod every time I was done syncing?
Was it because I let the iPod die every time and then binge-charge it?

The Apple store didn't know, and props to them for having such a nice system of repairing and dealing with problems. Just making an appointment online and going into the store so you can be humiliated with their uber-simple ways of fixing common iPod/Mac problems, but it still didn't fix the impending doom that was iTunes when I got home, so thusly, it was all for shit.

Anyways, iTunes rapes my computer if I hint at it being open. If I want to play Warcraft and listen to music, GLHF. Winamp wasn't working too well either, and it has a hard time handling my music collection too, I think.

Then, my father, in all of his fatherly-wisdom *barged* into my room and suggested that I check out a cool new music player called SongBird, which is an open source and fairly lightweight music player.
Awesome is one word to describe it.

My boyfriend apparently had problems with it crashing, and I think its because he has 3x the amount of music I do, spanned over 2 Hard drives. I haven't had any lag problems at all, and when playing WoW the quality never decreases.

Some of the other cool features it includes are:
*Firefox style Addons
*Built in browser
*Last.FM is built into the player itself (no need to download the last.fm program, now)
*Music suggestions

Not-so cool features:
*Dosen't support iPod touch or iPhone

Whoops, say what?
Yeah, its annoying. And I'm hoping their developers come out with THAT add-on, but for now I'
ll just use iTunes when I need to sync, its not too big of an issue, but very out-dated if this program wants to maintain a cool, hip indie status.
Although, those cool, hip indie kids could never be caught with such a conformist device such as the iPod touch.

Listening To: Forgive Me - Infected Mushroom