I haven't been listening to music lately (though I do listen to a lot of podcasts), but I assume that will pass eventually and I will want to finish importing my CDs into iTunes and maybe rate my songs. I can see how that would be useful even though I cannot, at this point in time, be bothered to do it.

I don't rate anything in iTunes because I still use Winamp to listen to music. How can iTunes not have a Jump feature where I just type a few characters in either the song or the artist name and hit Enter or add to a Queue? Hell, why is there no way to just add songs to a Queue anyway? Also, why can't you stop, only pause?

I've love to replace my 17 year old Civic with 195,000 miles, but it runs well and is still pretty reliable. Maybe in a couple of years. There are a lot of really nice small cars coming out and in couple of years maybe I can get a lightly used one.

I used to love Winamp. I liked all the custom skins you could download, and I think it's prettier than iTunes.

But one thing I love about iTunes is it keeps track of how many times I play a song, when it was added and when I last played it - I use that data for many of my playlists.

I replace cars only when they are beyond hope. I am not the sort of person who replaces a car voluntarily, never have been.

why is there no way to just add songs to a Queue anyway?

What's a queue? And why do you need to stop, versus pause? Where do you want the audio cursor to be reset to?

iTunes has a Queue-like functionality in the iTunes Dj. You can even add to the queue-thing using an iPod touch, iPhone, etc.

I replace cars only when they are beyond hope. I am not the sort of person who replaces a car voluntarily, never have been.

I feel you. I drove my Mirage for three years after I rolled it. Yep, the entire roof was covered in giant pock marks. But that sucker was paid off and I was broke.

But one thing I love about iTunes is it keeps track of how many times I play a song, when it was added and when I last played it - I use that data for many of my playlists.

I do like that (and I use iTunes for my Shuffle), but I get my data from Last.fm anyway.

What's a queue?

When you choose the next song(s) to be played when you're on Shuffle.

And why do you need to stop, versus pause? Where do you want the audio cursor to be reset to?

Permanent pause makes me twitchy. I want the song to be STOPPED. Reset. Back to the beginning. Don't just sit there one second before the end of the song for all eternity. Ergh.

I think it's funny how differently people listen to music. I almost always listen to full albums. So I tend not to do rating and playlists. I just pick which albums I want to hear. Or sometimes the entire artist's catalog, and just have that going all day.

How do people who use earphones transport them? I broke an expensive, but very good, pair that I bought from Verizon for my phone just by carrying them around in my pocket and I am cranky about it. Because I don't really use them that often. Mostly I have full control of my listening environment. At home in the office I have it cranked into the ceiling speakers. On the road I'm jacked into the aux port.

So I only use the headphones for warming up my vocals backstage from my phone or as a mic set for Rosetta Stone practice on the laptop. For that it's not really worth buying a nice new pair if I'm only going to break them again.