ForeverAutumn
10-17-2011, 12:57 PM
After a year of performing weekly (at least) CPR on my old 5th Gen iPod from 2006 I finally had to buy a new one. Not because the old one finally released its last breath and died, but because I lost it. Damn! I even know when I lost it and the range of places it might be, but nonetheless, it’s gone. :cryin:
I hope that whoever finds it enjoys some of the tunes on it. But who am I kidding, it’s full of prog and indie hipster crap that the top-40, commercial, need-to-be-able-to-hum-it masses spend their time avoiding, so that’s probably not going to happen. In fact, it’s probably already been formatted and filled with hip-hop and rap. In which case I hope my poor lost iPod doesn’t have much life left in it because I know that would make its last days very unhappy ones. :incazzato:
But on the bright side, I now own a shiny new silver 160G iPod classic that totally kicks ****ing ass! :3:
I am astounded at how fast this new baby is. I have a little over 5,000 songs on my iPod…most of them Apple lossless. I thought it was going to take all night to sinc the new one. It was done in about an hour. Seriously, I should have timed it. It was through the first couple of hundred songs before the old one would have been through just Gates of Delirium. :smilewinkgrin:
I always wondered what the point of the Genius sincing that iTunes insisted on doing was. Now I can see that there are Genius playlists! I’d heard about them but never really understood what they are because my old iPod didn’t actually house them. But the new one does and they are totally cool! :cool:
A while back I posted here that I thought it would be cool if when the iPod is on shuffle you could click the centre button and have the iPod take you to the album that the song is on so that you can play the whole album. Well, slap me silly, the new one does that! If I hold down the middle button while in shuffle mode, I can choose to browse the artist or album of the current song. I can even select to create a Genius playlist based on that song. :2:
And as if all of that wasn’t enough, my Escape comes equipped with Ford’s Sync system that allows me to plug my iPod into the car and manage it through my car radio. The shuffle function between the old iPod and the car never worked. If the iPod was on shuffle the car would play the first song and then continue on alphabetically. The new iPod plays the shuffle on the car. The voice commands didn’t work on the old iPod in the car either. I haven’t tried voice commands yet with the new one, but I’m hopeful! If I remember, I’ll try the voice command on the way home from work. :thumbsup:
So, as much as my old 5th Gen was a good friend for many years and I’ll miss it, I’m totally digging the new technology (which isn’t very new at 2009) and wondering why I waited so long. If I’d only known then what I know now, I would have stopped resetting the old one a year ago and just let it go. :19:
:lol:
I hope that whoever finds it enjoys some of the tunes on it. But who am I kidding, it’s full of prog and indie hipster crap that the top-40, commercial, need-to-be-able-to-hum-it masses spend their time avoiding, so that’s probably not going to happen. In fact, it’s probably already been formatted and filled with hip-hop and rap. In which case I hope my poor lost iPod doesn’t have much life left in it because I know that would make its last days very unhappy ones. :incazzato:
But on the bright side, I now own a shiny new silver 160G iPod classic that totally kicks ****ing ass! :3:
I am astounded at how fast this new baby is. I have a little over 5,000 songs on my iPod…most of them Apple lossless. I thought it was going to take all night to sinc the new one. It was done in about an hour. Seriously, I should have timed it. It was through the first couple of hundred songs before the old one would have been through just Gates of Delirium. :smilewinkgrin:
I always wondered what the point of the Genius sincing that iTunes insisted on doing was. Now I can see that there are Genius playlists! I’d heard about them but never really understood what they are because my old iPod didn’t actually house them. But the new one does and they are totally cool! :cool:
A while back I posted here that I thought it would be cool if when the iPod is on shuffle you could click the centre button and have the iPod take you to the album that the song is on so that you can play the whole album. Well, slap me silly, the new one does that! If I hold down the middle button while in shuffle mode, I can choose to browse the artist or album of the current song. I can even select to create a Genius playlist based on that song. :2:
And as if all of that wasn’t enough, my Escape comes equipped with Ford’s Sync system that allows me to plug my iPod into the car and manage it through my car radio. The shuffle function between the old iPod and the car never worked. If the iPod was on shuffle the car would play the first song and then continue on alphabetically. The new iPod plays the shuffle on the car. The voice commands didn’t work on the old iPod in the car either. I haven’t tried voice commands yet with the new one, but I’m hopeful! If I remember, I’ll try the voice command on the way home from work. :thumbsup:
So, as much as my old 5th Gen was a good friend for many years and I’ll miss it, I’m totally digging the new technology (which isn’t very new at 2009) and wondering why I waited so long. If I’d only known then what I know now, I would have stopped resetting the old one a year ago and just let it go. :19:
:lol: