Entertainment For Lively Minds
Desert Island Months. Luxury item? My iTunes library.
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 26 November 2011 - 8:24pm.
I have just noticed that my iTunes library would take me 78.9 days to listen to.
Happy months I am sure would ensue but I doubt I would recognise over half of the songs.
How did it come to this?
I recall my 200+ albums/cassettes that I saw as friends as an 18 year old and could sing all of the tunes on.
Oh Well.
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About the same
And I do have days when I think Why?
My Ipod only has half my library on it mind, which makes life a little easier, but even that is way too many. If I'm listening on shuffle I do get songs coming up that I have no idea where they've come from.
I prune it regularly, but I never get down below 18000 songs. If I get a few days at home over Christmas with not much to do I'm going to wipe it clean and reload tunes, and if possible I'm getting rid of some of the excess.
Silly question
How can you have songs on Itunes but not on your Ipod? My Ipod updates automatically.
You can reset
your preferences so that it only synchs ticked songs, then unticking any you don't want on your iPod.
No Sync
I've got mine set up so it doesn't sync at all. The Pod and Itunes only go together as a means to get songs on the Pod for me when I want them on there not when Itunes wants them to move. Preferences, but also (excuse me if I'm not too clear here, the Pod is in another room)there are on/off tick boxes on various Pod pages for sync too.
I'm the same
When I was 17 I knew all the words to all the tracks on every album I owned or had taped off my friends. Now I'm 47 I've got 9000 tracks on my iPod and often find I don't recognise stuff which come up on shuffle.
Part of this is down to the fact that, at 17, I used to have to travel five miles to buy music from the nearest record shop/Woolworhts/W H Smiths. This would also require me to commit all of my pocket money to the purchase so, good or bad, that was all I listened to for the next couple of weeks. Now all I need to is perform a couple of mouse clicks and the stuff appears in iTunes and the amount of disposable income I've comitted is a negligable percentage of the total available. I'm not forced to put up with bad decisions any more.
I'm still not sure if this is a good thing or not.....
Couldn't agree more with this post
As for Spotify, don't even get me started.
Who ever would have thought that having access to so much music would be so disarming?
Will I ever again experience a joy as pure as that which I enjoyed the day I invested an hour and all my available earthly funds to walk to Our Price and purchase Doolittle by the Pixies, a record and band of which I had never heard so much as a note? I very much doubt it.