itunes mp3 insertion problem

i can’t add some mp3s downloaded from internets to itunes, they were valid mp3s and can be played by any other programs, only itunes can’t treat it right.

after some googling, i found this is a problem of id3 tag, mp3s with wrong id3 tag can’t be imported,  even in a half-broken way. (wrong or invalid character encoding, i guess) i strip tags using stripID3, downloaded from here and now i listen to mp3s ! thanks greg!

though its latest release is 7.4.2, itunes still has some bugs, very critical ones for me. i think this is the policy of apple. they don’t show much interest in fixing annoying bugs, that probably takes too much development resources. they only pay attention for adding new features,and if there’s new one, they don’t need to worry about previous bugs, because there will be new bugs, too.

anyway, i can’t live without itunes!