I’ve never really liked iTunes but as I’ve blogged before, I’ve gotten spoiled in being able to get my music fix. I still have to run it through a reverse DRM application called SoundTaxi to make the music the way I want it. I don’t like DRM and I don’t like iTunes 7.2 when it f**ks up my ipod to such a level that its just “corrupted”. Why is it corrupted; I wonder? If I plug it into Debian Stable, it works and I can move music to it. The Linux applications that can read it and write to it seem fine; which leads me to my last vent above. I don’t think that iTunes on a Mac is as screwed up as it is on Windows XP; but then I ask the inevitable questions. Why even run XP when all I use it for any more is to get music from iTunes. I could run iTunes in VMWare Player and really get away from real instances of XP completely.
Most of all, why cannot Amazon sell DRM free mp3′s that I can just download and use on Linux? I am not a “arrgh matey” if you know what I mean. I plan on only using the music myself that I purchase. But I want freedom to use it as I want. This DRM crapola is rediculous and limiting and music is supposed to set you free. I notice that iTunes now has their iTunes Plus version which offers DRM free music; but of course you have to upgrade to iTunes 7.2 which then corrupts my ipod with every reboot. And everyone knows that XP likes to reboot with any ole change.
I am only hoping that Amazon decides to make their mp3 download service available to us running Linux. I’m this close to going back to buying my music on CD media and then ripping it; but truth be told the pieces I like about iTunes are its collections. My XP box is this close to becoming a Debian box at this point 
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