Heh heh heh – I’m cheating with the stats – they’re what iTunes tells me 🙂 But I’m a stats junkie, so that’s another thing that keeps me happy.
I kinda like iTunes but what’s really improved my listening quality lately is the Airport Express that lets me stream music to remote speakers over my wifi network. There is a bad though – iTunes 8.1 changed something that broke the wifi network for an hour or two. (See techie blog)
I don’t use archive cds as a backup – I’d lose ’em or they’d suffer cd fading … But what I do occasionally do is copy (there’s that word again 😉 the whole iTunes library between laptop and desktop so I have a backup on another hard disc.
And then I twiddle my thumbs while waiting for it to copy over wifi at about 5Mbit/s (Airport Express is unspectacular in its reliability) before giving up and using an Ethernet patch cable instead 🙂