What is wrong with Windows Media Player....

I just connected my iPod, who already has a faulty USB and I'm getting a new one from Apple on its way, but anyways, I just connected it and for some reason WMP recognizes it and starts doing some loading and I see some songs being converted, then I think... this is not good, so I close WMP, and I open my iTunes and to my surprise ALLL MY SONGS HAVE BEEN DELETED!!!!!!!!! I just had my iPod replaced and it took me 3 days to put back most of my data back......... I'm just so friggin' mad right now, you have no idea. Why did WMP start doing stuff like that? I feel like suing them for my time that is about to be consumed.
Man... I'm regretting more and more that I got an iPod, it seems that I never got any problems like that with a CD player... so now I've paid over 500$ for something that I've enjoyed for 4 month and I've been deprived of it for the total of 1. This is just ridiculous.

First, the WMP question was more of a rant/question and I'm not that stupid to think that the almighty Steve Jobs will be reading this, or care about any of my problems regarding his products...
WMP is NOT his product and that is what is caused your problem.
it takes me more than 20 min. to put back over 4000 songs, with the right info put on them, because as you know, not all ID3 tags are filled out correctly
You should have done that when you put the music into iTunes. Why do you need to do it again?
Once all the ID tags and album artwork is sorted out in iTunes, you won't have to do it again.
Surely, you are not doing this only to the songs on the iPod?
and I like to have my Artist section sorted accordingly, plus when I put in some albums, the songs are not in order, so I have to play with that as well
Put them into a playlist so they are already sorted.
After you do this one time, just plug in the iPod to load it again.

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