itunes raze thank you, from the bottom of my hairless heart, for forcing me to sign out of my apple account to rid myself of your ceaseless, maddening requests to sign in when i was already signed in, and then erasing the entirety of my library as punishment. eleven years of playlists. countless full and partial albums. some with cover art attached. all gone. it isn't the end of the world. the music i've lost still lives in other places. i do most of my listening away from the screen anyway. but_still. you and me, we're finished. kaput. you can choke on digital dust for all i care. 241018 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Man, that sounds aggravating. I'm sorry you had to lose all that, but at least you won't be dealing with the system's caprices any further. (Even the time of rebuilding_my_Polish_playlist was frustrating - with a much smaller song collection lost.) 241019 ... raze there's an unexpected happy-ish ending to my tale of woe — my dad figured out how to restore a previous "playlist", which was more like a whole pile of playlists and random songs. it didn't bring back everything that was there before, but only a handful of things are missing now, as opposed to thousands of them. i s'pose if i'd linked up with the cloud like all the cool kids are doing these_days, i could have avoided the whole thing. (that kind of sounds like i'm considering a romantic entanglement with a cloud. which maybe isn't such a bad idea...) 241019 what's it to you? who go blather from