The main directory is 80gig. There are files perfectly tagged through to files with no tags but either way it’s 80gb. Cleared the music from iT and re-added. Then checked for Dupes. I have just one ZZTop CD called Eliminator but again iTunes tells me I have 2. Other examples continue to abound. I known some apparent dupes exist – Finished Symphony by Hybrid I have 3 versions of but iT tells me I have 3 of each version which I absolutely do not. It tells me I have more music than I have.

Go to the Apple forums and look at the iTunes forums – it illustrates just how much of a black box this software is. Unless you bought everything from them probably.

I genuinely have no idea how to make iT behave in such a way that it adds just one version of a track when there is actually just one version of that track. And it seems that the collected “knowledge” in the Apple forums hasn’t a clue either.

What I think I should do is use some Windows programs to better tag and organise the music – because those programs do not exist on a mac – and then not let iTunes play or organise a single track. Just use it to drag tracks to the iTouch.

If iTunes was exactly the same program but was released by Microsoft then people would mock wildly. It really is not that good.