The problem, which the Songbird team is already aware of, lies with a buggy iPod add-on that can corrupt and even delete music from your iPod. At this time, the problem is only affecting a small minority of users.
Songbird has pulled the iPod add-on from its list of recommended add- ons. But that hasn’t stopped understandably upset users from venting their anger on Songbird. One very upset Wired.com reader wrote in to tell us he lost 60gb of music to the bug. “It looks like I'm going to have to rip a bunch of CDs since I long ago lost the original files in a HD crash," he says.
Another victim, JG, argues that if Songbird wants people to use their product, they have to provide something worth using. “They haven’t [and] I’m done with it," he goes on to add. “Just lost about 70gb of music,” writes another user, who also says he or she will be “going back to iTunes.”
That’s bad news for the fledgling Songbird project which has, at least unofficially, positioned itself as an iTunes-killer. For many users Songbird offers the same promise Firefox once did — it can replace the bloated, over-hyped giant (in this case iTunes) with the svelte newcomer that “gets it.”
But what if the newcomer accidentally nukes all the music on your iPod?
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