Anyone who knows me very well, knows that I have been an Apple Computer advocate since... well forever. I enjoy working with them and I supported them as a developer and system administrator in my prior employment for many years.
Earlier this year I purchased a 15 Gb iPod and planned to fully load it with my library of music. Well, life and its associated priorities tend to get in the way of plans less significant, so although I had made a partial stand at doing it (and was happy with what I had done by the way), I never found the block of time I needed to complete the project. However, now that Sue and I are winding down our life in Korea, we have less to do and all the time in the world to do it, and projects like finishing my iPod music became realistic.
I am delighted to report that this is one project finally completed for the moment... although like anything of this nature it is a work in progress and will never be completely done. At any rate, at this moment all of the music I have and deemed worthy has been transferred from my iBook to my iPod. What is truly amazing is that this little 2.5 X 4 inch little unit could hold so much. It makes me wonder why anyone would consider having anything else to store and listen to music on. To date, mine has store about 2500 songs, amounting to somewhere over 200 albums and only has taken up about 11.5 Gb in storage, meaning I still have a little over 2 Gb left for future additions. Truly amazing when you think about it. I could listen continuously for more than a week and never hear the same song twice, which is better than I could hope for from any radio station. I'm more impressed with my iPod every time I delve more into it's capabilities... and I only use it for music. I know it does much more.
iTunesScreen, originally uploaded by tgolamb.
My iTunes on my iBook is equally amazing. My music interests run the gambit, from Punk to Classical... from Korn to Motzart to Uttara-Kuru to Consolidated (of course I do draw the line at Rap). Needless to say, I have lots of variations in my playlists and how I arrange my listening categories and genres. iTunes lets me do this with the greatest of ease, and although it was a LOT of work, it even lets me put in the album artwork. This can be particularly important as my music library grows and becomes even more diverse (as if that was possible). If you've never taken a look at compiling your music library like this, I encourage you to give it a glance. You might find it changes your thoughts on the matter. I can tell you that now that I have my music united into a central and easily manageable personal audio studio, my CDs may never again see the light of day. Isn't technology great?
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