Nothing philosophical or scientific, just something interesting I noticed recently. Any song I have on my computer and therefore have listened to many times, I can almost instantly recognize the song as soon as it’s played — within the first second. Whether it’s the unique sound of the snare drum or the sudden pluck of a string, I can distinguish it from the rest and correctly point out the song.

I am never going back to iTunes again, for all the right reasons.

With ml_ipod, I no longer require iTunes to update my iPod. I can sync with my (currently) favourite mp3 player — Winamp!

I had to wipe the hard drive of the iPod clean and was hesitated to do so because re-transferring everything would take a long time, I thought. But it took a total of about 10 minutes to update 2500 songs! Maybe my experience with iTunes is tainted with unprecedented dislike of corporate abuse to consumers (e.g. the incredible lag of interface and memory hog of iTunes), but transferring songs has never been this fast!