I have something of a confession to make: I’ve never really used iTunes. I mean sure, I’ve installed it and used it for a day or two, but then promptly uninstalled it cause it was too slow. And I do own an iPod, but that has always had Rockbox on it, so I just dragged and dropped. I usually use Foobar2000 for listening to music, that is, until today.

As I am something of an iTunes virgin, I’ve decided to give it a fair shot for a week. That means I will use it for a whole week for all of my music needs and report back here in a week to describe my experiences. If I’m feeling really saucy, I might just format my iPod also to try the orginal firmware for once.

So far, I just have it installed, my libary has been indexed (which took a hella long time, if you ask me), and now I’m just waiting for Genius to get done so I can try dynamic playlist goodness. All is smoothe right now, except that I notice my computer running slower at times, but the true test will be when I restart and see how long it takes to boot up. A little suprised that it’s installer is 64 bit, but the program is not.

Wish me luck!