While I have been using iTunes to sync my iPod and encode mp3s for years now, I was not extensively using it as a media player. Winamp had this role, until last week. As I wrote the other day, I finally put together my indie rock collection of 9 GBs, and I spent 3 days finding artwork and fixing meta-tags.
So when all was done, I needed to enjoy the whole thing. So I started playing the music, sorted by artist. At the end of the day, I turned off iTunes, put my PC to sleep and went to bed. The next day, I open again iTunes to continue listening to my music in order, but I was greeted by a negative surprise: iTunes doesn’t “remember” which song was the one last played. It loads the song library again from the beginning!
This was a big surprise to me, because simply, the iPod does remember when you put it on stand-by. Given the fact that iTunes doesn’t have a stand-by mode, and I don’t want it to eat all this RAM at all times (hey, sometimes I need lots of RAM for my video projects and so I need to conserve as much as I can), I need iTunes to remember. But it doesn’t…
Update: Finally, my iPhone review is up.