iTunes? or iProblem from Hell?

Once again I made a blog, posted twice, and then forgot it for a year. Such is life. Tonight I feel bloggy, so here it is.

For Christmas my parents bought me a shiny new iPod classic. I've had my old iPod mini for around 4-5 years. It has survived many many falls, scratches and other disasters that should have destroyed it. But around a year and a half ago my personal music surpassed the 4G limit that iPod could hold. So a new one, with 120G, was a nice gift.

Anyway, around 3 months ago my computer caught a virus and I had to reformat my hard drive. Even though I thought I had successfully backed up my iTunes collection, I had not. Last night I got tired of not being able to play with the new iPod and downloaded Yamipod so I could transfer the music from the mini right back to my hard drive. It succeeded, but left me with two problems.

1) iTunes decided it no longer wanted to be white, but grey and pink/purple. This was a very strange thing for it to do. But not as annoying as 2) Instead of overwriting the current library, it just copied everything in duplicate and sometimes triplicate. So every single song is now listed twice or three times in iTunes. One/two of the listings don't work. So my iTunes is now doubled in size, with one half of it being completely unusable.

It only took a few minutes of googling the problem to find out how to solve number 1. But the only solution for number 2 is to manually scroll through all of my library and delete the broken songs. In case you've never done this---it is painfully annoying.

Dear Steve Jobs,

In the future, try not to make iTunes suck.