Argh !

Software patents, or at the very least the granting of obvious ones is just so dumb.

Here is the patent in question:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parse...p;RS=PN/5864868
It ammounts to:

- a database contain track names, composers etc
- a computer interface to filter and select tracks
- communicating with a "player piano" to play/pause the selected track
- a computer interface for displaying the currently playing track

It really doesn't get much more obvious an "invention" does it ?

In this case the invention really wasn't even anything to do with iTunes anyway, the patent is talking about a system for controlling a MIDI instrument for playing back music in bars, hotels etc

Edit: fixed URL - wfaulk
Edit again: or not. found a replacement URL