Every once in a while I’ll go out and pick up some CDs. I have an eMusic subscription, which is pretty awesome, but they don’t carry everything, and sometimes I just like to have the album art in my hands.

Like hundreds of others, I own an iPod, and use it for almost all of my music listening. I load it using iTunes. I use Windows, and presumably Apple is writing this software to try to lure me over to the Mac side. I mean, if I love it, I’m really going to love the Finder and all that, right? I sincerely hope I am wrong with this presumption.

So iTunes maintains a “Recently Added” playlist. It contains all of the tracks you’ve most recently ripped or added to your playlist. You can sync this playlist to your iPod, which is pretty sweet, because then you “always” have your new music in an easy to find place.

The problem? iTunes adds the tracks to the playlist, as they’re ripped, even if you’re ripping the entire CD in one operation. As implied by its name, the playlist is loaded by adding tracks to the beginning rather than the end. The result? When you go to play the tracks back on your iPod, they play back in reverse order. Brilliant!