Dude, Let's Hope You're Not Getting a Dell

If you've bought a computer in the past five years, there's a good chance it was a Dell, seeing as how they're the number one computer sales company, and they ship millions a year. Sadly, if you were one of those people who happened to buy a Dell, those friendly folks at Dell threw in a complimentary music program called Jukebox. Lucky you.

Or you could have been one of those smart people who realizes just how many problems any Windows operating system has in it, and you chose instead to buy a Mac. And of course, if you bought a Mac, you also have iTunes for your music player. Sort of lucky you.

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I happen to belong to the group of people who owns a Dell. And so, I've been stuck with Jukebox for all of these years. I absolutely despise and hate and loathe that program so much...expect for its play list feature. My love for the play list feature happens to overcome all resentment, so I continue to use Jukebox as my main music player on my computer. What I love about the feature is its simplicity. You click on a song from your music library, and it goes into this little box at the top and starts playing the song. From there you can add more songs to this list, save it, burn it, shuffle it, repeat it, all with a simple click of easy to use buttons. It's just great.

But when I bought an iPod, I was forced to download iTunes so I could actually put music on my iPod. After messing with all the downloading woes of trying to put an Apple program on a Windows system, I finally was able to put my music on iTunes as well. For a little bit, I thought I had found my answer to Jukebox. But it just wasn't me. And as I thought about it, i realized it was because the way iTunes handles playlists really irked me. You have to create a whole new playlist if you don't like the one you made earlier, there's the chance of clicking on a list, dragging and dropping it into another, royally fucking over that playlist.(Which I happened to do numerous times). Everything else about iTunes i really loved. Except the playlist feature, and ultimately it forced me back to Jukebox.

Sad, but true.

Now, if someone could create a program that combined Jukebox's playlist feature with all of iTunes other features, I would be...happy.

*Side Note- After using the program for a couple of years, I recently learned I could actually shuffle my whole music library on Jukebox....something I had really wanted to do for a while. Yay Jukebox.