Obviously if you want to use genius sidebar, you need to let them see your collection, but at least you get the decision. ŸApple did get a bit of backlash a couple of years ago for snooping on peoples collections, but there is a way of turning off apple being able to view your music. That strikes me as a reasonable business practice. It looks like apple are allowing people who have purchased music with drm to upgrade it to better quality drm free music for the cost difference (and be able to us it with another player). I think so long as the music in the folders is DRM free (either purchased from itunes, elsewhere or ripped from CD), you can just import it into other music player software. It's not a seemless automated process, but I perefer the control I have, and don't have to worry about my music collection being lost as I'm in control of my backups. I buy music from beatport, bleep, boomkat, and more recently from Amazon now that they sell DRM free music. On my PC I use Audiograbber, EAC, Foobar2000, Winamp, Audacity. The interface is not as good as the ipod nano G2 I had before it. The main factors in choosing it were sound quality, that it can play FLACs, and the 60 hour battery life. I prefer my mp3 device to be a mass storage device. I don't want to entrust my music collection to Apple. Every track in every itunes subscriber's collection is at the mercy of Apple. Don't forget that when you agree to Apple's T&Cs you're agreeing to let them do as they wish with YOUR music. Having to go to the trouble of installing it is! You can't just plug into a new machine and go. 70Mb is large, but size is not the only problem. I don't think it's necessarily best for consumers though. I agree from a marketing perspective it was an excellent decision for Apple, and no doubt they've made astronomic profit out of it.
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