I put a newly bought audio-cd "Dendemann-Die Pfütze des Eisbergs" into my iBook drive, to listen and rip it with iTunes. That is the main application of iTunes - right?

What happens:

• iTunes blocks and then hangs and fucks up. Great!
• ok, pressing F12 (the key to eject cd on iBooks) does nothing. So it fucked up the OS
• closing iTunes via alt+apple-esc (=ctrlaltdelete). cd still eaten
• ok, this machine is stuck, I'll reboot and blog on then...
• oh! rebooting doesn't work because the f*** cd driver seems to be hacked directly to the kernel or however they did it, I had to hard-reset the machine (basically, pulling the power chord)

So, after rebooting I wisely

• close iTunes
• put in the CD
• wait till this event of putting the CD in the slot starts iTunes, then
• iTunes asks me if I want to rip this CD, which I want
• and then it works

great! everythings so easy today.

R U serious I have to ask - or are you intentionally f***** it up so that I have to buy the music at the iTunes music store? (which is ok, but then I suddenly think about Audiograbber and Winamp...)