I promise I’ll write a real post soon! However, I’m still getting used to regularly switching between computers, so I’m still trying to wrangle my software to work for me.

A chief offender is iTunes: I am not working the way it wants me to. I don’t just have one computer, which serves as the master mirror of all my music. I buy some songs on one computer, rip some songs on another, and may not be able to sync up to those computers next week at all. I want to be able to pop my tunes from any computer onto my iPod, so I can listen to them on some other device into which I’ve plugged in the iPod. iTunes hates my way of life: it is not condoned by the RIAA. Even when I’m not violating any copyright laws, I’m behaving in a manner that might make it possible for someone to do so.

Do you have a total iTunes replacement? Do you simply use a utility or collection of utilities to move unauthorized music to and from your iPod? Or have you transcended restrictive consumer electronics, opting instead for some online service that sends the music to whatever device you happen to be using at the time– as though driven to you on a truck, or sent through a series of tubes?

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