One of the features of the new series of iPods that I don’t need (and don’t really want to pay for but have little choice) is the bit that displays cover art. I concede, it’s pretty cool although entirely unnecessary. What’s most annoying about it? The fact that iTunes doesn’t do close matches. Erm, shouldn’t it somehow be able to suss out that Greatest Hits in the Bob Dylan artist file is the same album as Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, or that At Budokan is Bob Dylan at Budokan, or that MTV Unplugged in my library is the same as MTV Unplugged (Live) in iTunes?

I realize that this request is harder than it seems, but a lot of this is just silly. For instance, there are seven albums in the bootleg series. Why is one The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (2 of 2) (quite a mouthful that won’t fit on the iPod screen by the way) and another Live 1966 “The Royal Albert Hall Concert” - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4, and yet another No Direction Home, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7 (Movie Soundtrack)? That means this series of albums winds up being alphabetized under ‘B’ and ‘L’ and ‘N.’ Stupid.

On another note of aggro, I tend to like Adobe’s programs. I’ve used Photoshop for years as well as ImageReady and ImageStyler, and have always been a fan of Acrobat. Except for the software updates. For some reason, Adobe hasn’t figured out how to do unobtrusive software updates, and they have taken a page out of Microsoft’s book as far as backwards compatibility goes when it comes to PDFs. And if you have an older version of Acrobat installed in order to create PDFs, but need a new version of Acrobat Reader to open newer PDFs, the computer gets confused and melts down. The only answer? To always buy the most recent version of Acrobat of course. Annoying? Not hardly.

Current Mood: Annoyed |
Currently Listening To - Bob Dylan - “Self Portrait”