Today I needed to make an MP3 CD to backup some music. So I fired up iTunes and opened up the preferences to change my burn settings to MP3 CD. Much to my surprise, I couldn’t find that setting anywhere. I looked around for a few minutes and finally decided it must be gone.

I knew that all the MP3s would not fit on an audio CD, so I figured I would just tell it to burn and it would give me an option then. Much to my astonishment, and with a great swell in UI happiness, I discovered this dialog:

This really makes me happy. This is right where these preferences should be. The user can now just click burn a disk and then choose, rather than making the choice ahead of time in an obscure preference tab. I don’t know when this got changed, I don’t burn many disks so I am probably late in noticing. This is a great example of making software user friendly.