The Day the Music Died

Dozing in my usual semi-vegetative state through another daily Wired News story conference, I thought at first I had misheard him.

"... library of 90,000 songs, and iTunes can't handle it."

That was Mike Calore, one of our editors, pitching a story about new software designed to help aficionados store their vast troves of music, collections so enormous that, without help, the iTunes library would collapse under the sheer volume.

"Nine thousand songs?" I interjected incredulously. "Who the hell has 9,000 songs?"

Mike shot me a withering look. "Ninety-thousand songs. I said 90,000 songs. And, I do."
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