I think even back then I knew that-but I also couldn’t stop whatever weird thing in my brain was making me argue with the iTunes UI, which for some reason loved to separate songs by the same artist into different, seemingly identical sections on a whim. I made sure that Cover Flow-a feature I would venture to guess that Apple designed mostly for the purposes of making the most interesting looking commercials-looked fucking flawless.Īll of this was a waste of time. I waffled on whether that Shins song was called “Spilt Needles” or “Split Needles” maybe a dozen times. I restored original album titles in defiance of some long lost attempt to rewrite history (that old Jimmy Eat World vs. I changed artwork that bore the “Deluxe Edition” graphic that infuriatingly obscured half of the original image. I went so far as to consistently alter the information attached even to those albums and songs that I purchased on the iTunes store-you might think that this data would be optimized for the perfect digital library experience, but you’d be wrong. I’d spend hours on my parents’ computer, wrangling and tussling with the latest version of iTunes to make sure all of the metadata was just the way it should be, that every song was sorted into just the right place, that every record had the highest quality. When I was a kid, I had a real thing for maintaining the perfect music library. Home > Introducing: On Shuffle Introducing: On Shuffle

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