Abandoning iTunes

This is part of my effort of "piecemeal engineering" where I try to adjust myself little by little to a more efficient lifestyle.

First of all there is music. The addiction to iTunes turned out to be a major efficiency killer. I liked it because it gave me a sense of elitism, but when you're not really some music addict it turned out to be snobbery. I really can be that stupid. And stupidity is recurring and reversible. You catch it like you do cold in obscure moments and can't seem to expel it as quickly as you wish.

I only realized that when I wanted to re-install windows and was trying to back-up disk C. Turned out, the copy of the music took up more than an hour.

I made a decision never to download music again. Why do I have to care about the play count of each song? I will remember the music that truly strike my heart even if I only catch it while passing a shop window. And for those I don't have much feeling, 100 times will not make me remember them. Whatever can be measured by numbers are not as important as they appear to be, I suppose.

The website I am currently using is http://www.saylikes.com/ I use it to search for music, single songs in most cases, and then it can allow me to listen to it over and over again. One of the drawbacks is that the collection is not very complete. I will leave it whenever I find a better one, but since I no longer store music, I have nothing to lose.

That is also, how you travel light, only in the virtual world, from one website to another.