It's Too Hard to Manage Music Now: Why It's Okay to Miss the Old iPod

The Atlantic ^ | December 11, 2014 | David Sims

[C19fan]

Recently I had a fairly pedestrian thought, a thought I've been having on and off for 10 years: "I want to put some music onto my portable music listening device." This used to be a relative cinch: I'd put the music on iTunes, plug in my iPod, and drag the songs over. Now, anytime I dare hook my iPhone up to a computer, there's software that needs updating, apps and photos I need to clear away for extra room, and esoteric rules regarding what is allowed to "sync." After finally getting an album onto my phone, another software update a week later reverted my music library to its previous state, putting me back at square one and making me long for my iPod, the last device I owned that was just for music.

Apple discontinued the "iPod Classic" (the click-wheeled hard drive that changed the way much of the world listened to music) two months ago. Last weekend, The Guardian found absence was making hearts grow fonder. "With a storage capacity double the size of any current iPods still being made, versions of the 160GB Classic—which can hold around 40,000 songs—are being sold as new via Amazon for up to £670," or more than $1,000, Paul Gallagher wrote.

[philled]

I’m blaming the anti-smoking zealots for the demise of the 8-track. It’s just gotten too difficult to reliably find matchbooks to wedge under the 8-track cartridge. Especially necessary on bumpy roads!

[minnesota_bound]

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

Last week I tried to burn a CD out of iTunes for the first time in a year or so. It took a half hour of searching and clicking to find what used to be right there in the top menu.

[Sans-Culotte]

Yep. What's more, every time I have ripped any version of Beethoven's Ninth into iTunes, it splits the 4th Movement into two parts. I actually used a third party program to fuse the final movement into one piece because that half second gap was so maddening.

I've never had that problem with the 9th. However, the 5th sometimes splits at the junction of the 3rd and 4th movements. Kills the buildup to the entrance of the trombones.

[perfect stranger]

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