iTunes is Nice, But…
As is typical with all good things, there is always a catch (or three). iTunes fulfills all my music playing, ripping, tagging and management needs and manages to look good doing it.
But.
There’s that but, sadly. iTunes is also one of the most sensitive applications on my desktop when it comes to resource availability. If there’s a song playing, and I fire up a large Java application I get more hops, skips and jumps than kids at play do. At first I thought it was an operating system specific thing, but after installing a fresh copy of XP, it still persists. Doesn’t happen anywhere else other than iTunes either. Winamp keeps chugging along, even under assault from the heaviest of Java based applications.
Sigh