Giving into iPod

I have over a 1000 clean LPs and 1000 CDs. I also have all the cleaning equipment for both and a very good turntable. It's nice to hear all my old music again. About 3/4 of it isn't on iTunes. My 10 year old daughter's favorite band right now is Herman's Hermits.

Something tells me there might be a business to be made ripping LPs or CDs to iPods for people. How about at $.99 a song?

El: Filthy media? Exactly how sloppy are you? All of my CDs are clean.

while i also enjoy using a computer and a cellphone, i wouldnt go to call CDs or LPs old, filthy media.
as long as music downloads are expensive, drm ridden and of laughable quality, i stick to buying cds or even *gasp* vinyl (remember it? those big black things your great grand parents told you about).

and smart playlists? why? i buy albums, and most of them are a piece of art, meant be be consumed as a whole, at least the first few times.
for example take pink floyds "the wall". it shurely is a great single, but its nothing compared to the whole two lp album.
or ever listened to some new prog stuff like the mars volta, dredg, tool or coheed and cambria and the like?
it would be a sin to take all of the songs out of context, and put them in a "smart" playlist.
after a while, if i know an album, i take a few songs out, and make some handcrafted playlists, for special moods or situations, but just a every songs thats older then two years and only has benn played two times? no thanks.
of course if youre just listening to some heartless niggagangztabitchasstits rap then go on make your smart lists.

and no, im no old fart, i have been using computers and stuff since i can think, but not everything thats new is the best thing.

qwert

I once read that the music that you listen to when you are 20 years old is the type of music that you will listen to the rest of your life. 22 years later, I agree with this statement 100%. All of my friends are the same; we're still stuck in the 80s.

OPEN LETTER TO LAUREN CARTER:

I don't get people who are afraid of the future... Afraid of change. You're a journalist. Do you still type on an I.B.M. Selectric and use correction strips? No. Of course not. The word processor features of your computer make your job easier and make you more efficient.

I'm nearly 40. I most definitely remember when "albums" used to come with art and liner notes and take up several dusty shelves at home. I absolutely love that I can carry around every song I've ever owned in something the size of a pack of a deck of cards. It's called progress.

Do you also prefer clumsy paper maps to the convenience of a GPS? What about dirty payphones outside of shady convenience stores instead of your cellphone?

I'm not even sure why I'm taking the time out of my day to write. I felt compelled to click the e-mail link at the bottom of your column.

I've always found Andy Rooney cranky and sad, not quirky and whimsical. Your column came across very Andy Rooney.

Enjoy reading liner notes and handling filthy media. The rest of us will be over here evolving.

Digitize CDs, eh? ;)

Buy an external drive, rip all your cds, and revel in a lifetime of music, however you want to listen to it. And no I'm not a shill for Apple, but that's how it worked for me.

This TUAW article seems excessively consumeristic to me, not quite to the point of "Brave New World", but too close for comfort. Apple really doesn't make much, if any money from the iTunes store anyway, so there's no need to go on cheerleading.

CD importing isn't that hard anymore (as noted above) and it's not as if you have to import all of them at once, a few a day and you are still importing them faster than one can realistically listen to in a day. I like the fact that these portable jukeboxes can near-randomly serve up tracks that I've flat forgotten about. I really don't need to be buying "fresh" music, and on the plus side, my doesn't go to feed the music oligopoly while still being legit.

If you're importing a bunch of content you can import with fewer steps by going into Preferences, click on Advanced and select the Importing tab. Change the "On CD Insert:" to "Import CD and Eject" and all you'll have to do is keep swapping new cds into the tray. Look Ma, no clicks!

"Don't feel tied to your older music. People grow and change."

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