Todays software sucks is Windows Media Player, a product I'm generally happy with. It's one major downside is it's really slow with a large library, and my library isn't that large - only 11,000 songs or so (so far, I hven't finished ripping the classical stuff yet). But two things I've hit this morning. First, after a rip it crashed. No surprise there, it does it occasionally. But the annoying thing is that when you start it up again it disables the plug-ins because "they may have been the cause of the problem". Right, wouldn't be your own code would it, no siree.
The other problem I have is with editing track details, especally the Find Album Information side of things, which gives you fixed width text boxes. Ick. But what's worse is that if you are editing the details via this site, and switch to the library tab, you lose your changes. Well, don't switch, might be your comment, but when editing mult-disc albums, as many classical ones are, you often have a complex list of artists/performers, and may want to flip back to your library to copy that from disc 1. Fine, unless you want to copy two lots of information, in which case the first lot you copy and paste into the editor gets lost. Actually, in general, I think the whole tagging thing is poor for classical music. It would be so nice to have rich meta data describing the soloists, the orchestra, conductor etc. Roll on Vista.
[Listening to: L'Estro Armonico 12 Concerto No 9 in D Major I Allegro - The Academy of Anciente Music - Vivaldi L`Estro Armonico Disco II]