Made for each other: iTunes and anal-retentives

So, the latest version of iTunes has this feature where it'll find the album cover art for any songs in your library that don't already have it. Cool. Of course, they don't have everything, so I was left with a lot of blank spots still. Even though that never particularly bothered me before, now all of a sudden I was determined to fill in all the holes. So I started poking around the internet finding pictures, or just scanning them off the CDs where I hade them. What a silly way to kill an afternoon. But wait, it gets better! I noticed I had a lot of songs ripped from "Greatest Hits" CDs, and I thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be cool to figure out which albums those songs originally came from, and use THAT cover art for them?" So now I'm using iTunes and Amazon and Google to look up track lists so I can sort everything by their proper albums. Just so I can look at the pretty album covers flipping by as I browse. I am a sad, sad, man.

(FYI, I'm hearing a lot of reports of bugginess in the new iTunes -- crashes, sound quality issues, problems syncing up certain models of iPods, etc. I haven't had any trouble, but you might want to hold off downloading it until they update it again.)