I know I’m late on the new iTunes 7 hating bandwagon but my complaint is different than most folks’.

On the 12th Apple released a grand new iTunes and I went ahead and downloaded it. At first I thought it was okay and I could live with the changes. I even downloaded some new songs to celebrate (okay, I was going to download then even if a new iTunes wasn’t released, but whatever). The next day when I plugged in my iPod to update, something went wonky. It continued to update for 30 minutes. And when I tried to eject the iPod, iTunes refused to let it go. I had to manually quit iTunes to break the grasp it had on my poor little iPod.

Jump to the next day when jparks starts investigated what’s up with iTunes. It turns out that some how, when iTunes updated, it lost a bunch of my songs. Or it had them but couldn’t locate them. I’m not really sure, but if you really want to know, jparks can explain it to you. And (here’s the heartbreaking part of this tale) the only thing jparks could figure out to do was move my whole library off iTunes onto the computer’s desktop and then move them back to iTunes. And this was going to cause me to lose my playlists, my perfectly constructed, time consuming to create playlists!

So here it is, five days since iTunes was updated and I’m still fixing my library and playlists. I am very upset with Apple. Damn it Apple, now when I see your witty little “Hi, I’m a Mac” commercials I won’t be so quick to laugh at them. You have created a little black spot in my heart of love for you.