iTunes for Windows

I know everyone’s blogged about it already, and some people are having a few teething problems with it, but I just felt I had to write about this. After a couple of minutes playing around with the store (and being in Europe, I can’t even buy anything), the CD completely died for me. When this is available for me (wake up record companies!), I will never buy another CD for personal use again. Ever.

Now, since I’ve only had my sweet-as-a-nut Arcam CD72 for not quite two years, I don’t say that lightly.

Perhaps Arcam could start producing a digital media server? No matter how often I write it, no-one seems to pick up the challenge (or, at least, do it well). I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a real business opportunity there…

I don’t believe I have ever reacted to a piece of software the way I have to iTunes (one of the guys in the office just shared his playlist, and it just appeared on my iTunes without me doing anything—it was just there).

To echo Russ, I need to get a Mac so I can react like this more often…

Update: This post shows that some people aren’t getting on very well with iTunes for Windows, but on my Pentium 3M 750MHz, I’m seeing an average of 3% CPU time, and have had no playback problems at all so far.