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Music
I have spent a large portion of the weekend just passed loading music onto my shiny new iPod Classic. Yes, folks it’s true: the call of instant gratification proved too strong once the resources suddenly appeared.
I have six tracks short of 5,000 on it already. That barely scratches the overall music collection – I have only just moved into the ‘C’s (though I have cherry picked a few bands/artistes from further down the alphabet), but also includes a great deal of music from Furtle’s back up discs, which I uploaded en masse before deleting a huge chunk in horror. There is a fair degree of overlap in our musical tastes, but she is rather more enamoured of the 80s than am I, so although I have kept Aerosmith, Magnum and Guns’n’Roses on a trial basis (I am not really familiar with their output beyond the odd overplayed track on Planet Rock Radio), the Erasures of this world were, however, excised from the disk as soon as I realised they were there1.
A lot of classical music has gone west though I shall be replacing it with some from my own collection. It may be a shallow admission, but I can rarely find the energy or attention span to listen to classical music on the off chance that I might like it. There’s too many notes.
The tracks by the Pasadena Roof Orchestra however, have been retained in their entirety. I am going to have set up some playlists soon, otherwise I shall be driven potty by the unexpected conjunction of different musical styles. It is interesting though, to see just how wide the range of music we each have. It’s not always that apparent, just seeing the CDs stacked on the shelves.
Edited to add: As noted by the estimable![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ash1977law I have fallen victim to 'disappearing footnote syndrome2.
Anyway, the text of the missing footnote (précised): Anyone who points out that my iPod contains ABBA Gold and More ABBA Gold in their entirety will receive a withering glare. Even if it happens to be true.
2As identified by Dr Hasso von Bumpsfeldt in his address to the Hague Committee on publishing, August 19053
I have six tracks short of 5,000 on it already. That barely scratches the overall music collection – I have only just moved into the ‘C’s (though I have cherry picked a few bands/artistes from further down the alphabet), but also includes a great deal of music from Furtle’s back up discs, which I uploaded en masse before deleting a huge chunk in horror. There is a fair degree of overlap in our musical tastes, but she is rather more enamoured of the 80s than am I, so although I have kept Aerosmith, Magnum and Guns’n’Roses on a trial basis (I am not really familiar with their output beyond the odd overplayed track on Planet Rock Radio), the Erasures of this world were, however, excised from the disk as soon as I realised they were there1.
A lot of classical music has gone west though I shall be replacing it with some from my own collection. It may be a shallow admission, but I can rarely find the energy or attention span to listen to classical music on the off chance that I might like it. There’s too many notes.
The tracks by the Pasadena Roof Orchestra however, have been retained in their entirety. I am going to have set up some playlists soon, otherwise I shall be driven potty by the unexpected conjunction of different musical styles. It is interesting though, to see just how wide the range of music we each have. It’s not always that apparent, just seeing the CDs stacked on the shelves.
Edited to add: As noted by the estimable
ash1977law I have fallen victim to 'disappearing footnote syndrome2.Anyway, the text of the missing footnote (précised): Anyone who points out that my iPod contains ABBA Gold and More ABBA Gold in their entirety will receive a withering glare. Even if it happens to be true.
2As identified by Dr Hasso von Bumpsfeldt in his address to the Hague Committee on publishing, August 19053
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Could it be "1 Yes, I know; there isn’t enough beauty cream in the world…"
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Or not.
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Frankly, mate it depends (said he usefully). I bought the latest iPod Classic with 120GB capacity, which means that it will take up to 30,000 standard length pop songs (ie about 3 mins each). It will also play video, though I don't intend to use it for that.
I went for something that size because I like to be able to carry most if not all of my music collection with me and I have around 800 CDs plus downloads and stuff.
Sal would probably get by with something much smaller (but not that much cheaper). How much music is she likely to want to keep on it?
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She said helpfully.
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Thoughts? And with 2K, an auto-loader might be nice!
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I have an application that came with my old Archos
brickMP3 player. I can't remember what it is called and I haven't loaded it on my current PC, but it proved itself quite adept at ignoring copy protection.I'll look it out.
Do you mean you have about 2,000 tunes? If so I'd go for a Nano or a Walkman. Ipods in all their varieties have the best user interfaces, though.
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I feel positively insulted.
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I reckon you'll need a Craypod. Actually I think there is a 160GB model MP3 player out there, but whether you can squeeze the contents of 2,000 discs on is any body's guess.
If we assume an average of 15 three to four minute tracks per disk, that is exactly 30,000 tracks with no room for error on a 120GB iPod.