iTunes + Christmas = Err

Apple’s iTunes is a fun little program. It’s definitely faster on my Mac, but here I was on my PC wanting to paste the song titles of a playlist into Microsoft Word. I was looking at the playlist in iTunes, hit Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy. I fired up Word and did a Ctrl-V to paste. Oops! Immediately my computer started inserting 20 MP3 files (my playlist) into the Word document. Things ground to a halt with no way to abort the operation (reasonably). I let it run and a minute or two later the files and not the text were inserted into the document. Whose fault is this? Is it Microsoft’s for allowing people to insert MP3 files into Word documents? Or is it iTunes for apparently serving up links to actual goddamn MP3 files when I did a Copy/Paste? At any rate, I instead did the Ctrl-C to copy in iTunes and pasted it into Notepad, the most basic of text editors. Notepad is dumb, and sometimes dumb is good. The song titles and artist names were pasted into the document just like I wanted. I copied the text in Notepad and then pasted to Word.

Hah. I’m off to the homeland in the morning. Much Christmas cheer to follow. Take care and have a safe trip if you’re traveling this holiday season.