There is a setting in iTunes to actually close it when it closes. I was pleased to discover this had been fixed, along with my other primary complaint from early iTunes (that it rearranged your entire freakin’ hard drive if you organized your music by any means other than a Steve Jobs Approved system. Even today, it still won’t let you use a filename (i.e. the one universal constant across all media formats) to categorize anything in its library, though — and FSM help you if you have any non-MP3 files (i.e. the superior Ogg Vorbis format).).
That said, I still refuse to use it. During the brief window I was forced to use it in (before there was a successful untethered jailbreak for my system – and even then, you need iTunes to unlock the device and transfer the altered firmware to it), it randomly reset my date/time every single time it synced. This has apparently been a problem with iTunes for over two years, and it only shows up if you do the responsible thing and save power by hibernating your computer overnight.
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