Radio me
As my reward for stumbling into a new job, I bought myself a new toy, and it arrived yesterday. MacWarehouse is unloading 20GB iPods for $200 off their original price, $299. I found that more compelling than the new models, which I don’t like as much.
Anyway, last night I loaded the tiny box with a ton of music (didn’t fill it, mind you, but I used about two-thirds of the space), and today I brought it to work. I thought it would be interesting mainly because I could have a sizeable chunk of my music collection with me and could therefore listen to whatever my whim desired. But what surprised me (and in retrospect, I wonder why) was that it was so much fun to use the shuffle command. I’ve never been a fan of shuffle, but that was only on our five-CD player; having 3000+ songs to choose from makes a significant difference. It was like listening to an unusually wide-ranging radio station (my tastes in music are, um, eclectic), except that when every song started, I would have that, "hey, I know that song" feeling, instead of just every once in a while. I wonder if perhaps you get used to that after a while, and then when you don’t feel that way when you listen to radio it’s disappointing. Guess I have plenty of time (and music) to find out....
Posted at 10:49 PM
I’ve been doing that on various computers for a number of years now; "elaine’s infinite radio" is my usual term for it. :)
Posted by Elaine at 12:51 AM, June 1, 2003 [Link]