iTunes: Another Soul Lost...

So a couple of months ago, Tom got me into really using iTunes and it has kinda spiraled into this semi-encompassing obsession of cleaning mp3 tags, finding high quality album art, and systematically quantifying the value of a song between 1 and 5 stars. To date, I have about 30GB of music loaded into my iTunes library (conservatively about 40% of my actual mp3 collection), which translates into roughly about 5,000 songs and 340 albums. I dunno, there's something about a coverflow that seems to stretch on to infinity. I've also rated about 8 gigs or 1,300 songs out of the 5,000.

Well, like all good addictions, I had to spread the love. After a quick gym work out on Monday, Steve came over and I burned him about 4 gigs of music for his fledging iTunes library (he recently got an 8 gig nano). As he made his selections using iTunes' album view, I raved about the advantages of actually doing all the leg work that's required to make iTunes operate at its full potential. Long story short, I think I got him hooked on the idea of being able to quickly filter through gigs of music, make smart playlists on the fly, use Genius to build playlists for him and generally just have a very sleek and cool looking music library as opposed to viewing a bunch of directory folders through windows explorer.

Also we got to reminiscing about high school, and how we use to go to the store to buy CDs for bulky discman. Now all that fits in my pocket and I use it to make calls from as well as surf the internet. Sometimes I have to stop and remember how far we've come and how crazy the times we live in are. Seriously, what is going to come over the horizon? It's almost unfathomable.