On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Kent Williams wrote:
quoted 29 lines On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian
> <BAlbers@premiereradio.com> wrote:
>>
>> My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I
>> expect to max that one
>> out as well. I'll be travelling for the next year or so and not being
>> able to take my 600 or
>> so cds with me, I cannot understate how valuable these two little
>> monsters will be to
>> me. And I am neither a teenager or a girl.
>>
>
> Perhaps a girlyman, yes?
>
> I think the only thing that bothers me about those little thingers
> that hold a bajillion tracks is that the failure mode is so extreme.
>
> 1950 -- you scratch your record you hear a little click. You gouge the
> crap out of it, and one song doesn't play, the rest still do. You
> crack the record, you can still play the songs that aren't cracked.
>
> 1983 - you scratch your cd, it starts sounding like Oval. You scratch
> it too much, it's unplayable.
>
> 2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are
> gone - poof. Sure you've got those files at home, but you're in
> Botswana and the only music available is bad South African pop* and
> guys beating on logs**
>
Surely the home computer and maybe even a couple of extra backup disks
are more portable than a turntable and record collection.
You have kind of a point, but the fact that you can so easily make
copies of your entire collection now more than compensates. Sure, if I
gouge one of my records I can play the other side and all of my other
records, but maybe the one that I gouged was my favorite rare,
out-of-print track and I can't find another copy for less than the
price of an iPod :-)
--
Tim Moore
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