For the last couple of weeks I've been on a buying frenzy. Under normal circumstances I try keeping it just under a small fortune. As a tech junkie, I could spend every dime in the bank account and every minute of my day looking for electronics to add to my collection. Luckily, I've been asked to do some electronics reviews giving me the perfect excuse to buy some neat toys.
The most notable of my purchases has to be my IPOD. This supped up MP3 player has brought music back into the forefront of my life. Who doesn't love music? We all do. Walk into any CD store and you’ll find variety to suit every taste imaginable. In recent years I've felt a large void in my life from not listening avidly to the music I would like.
I'm burnt. I hate toting around CD's. I like a wide variety of music. I can't stand listening to an entire CD by one band. Each time I walk by a three hundred CD player the guards have to hold me back with tazzers to keep me from running to the register with one. Of course, I could make my own CD’s with a computer burner, I’ve tried, but I’m lazy. Between my wife and me, we have hundreds of CD’s…perhaps more than a thousand. And mind you, that’s after giving away boxes of them to my sister and her brother while they were in college. So, who has the time to devote to sorting through hundreds of CD’s, thousands of songs to make mix CD’s?
If that wasn’t enough to burn me on CD’s, look at what has happened in recent years to music. Everyday (at least it feels like it) a new format comes out. Look at what we've seen in the world of music just in my lifetime: records, 8-tracks, cassettes, CD's, Mini-Disk players, and now MP3. These are only the ones I care to remember.
I love buying electronics, but I'm tired of buying new machines to play music. This is made ever more so painful because none of them have been extremely convenient for us users. For a number of years now the music industry has been in the business of selling us round objects to listen to their music. Right now, record executives the world over are having coronaries trying to figure out how to keep their control over the music they own. They’ve never had to worry about digital reproduction of their material, or a massive means to share between users worldwide. Listening to music has been cumbersome, the devices taking up a quarter of our living rooms and bedrooms.
Until now.
The IPOD promises to provide a portable means to carry your entire music collection with you, everywhere you go. With the 40GB model, it has the potential to hold 10,000 songs. If that doesn’t make you go Wow, then I don’t know what will. So, I’ll say it again for you, Wow. In only a few weeks of owning this thing it has dramatically changed the way I listen to music, the way I look at music. In the car, in the house, on walks, next to my nightstand at night, my IPOD has become a regular fixture in my life.
As you can tell, I’m very excited about this purchase. I love this thing. In the next couple of weeks, I’ll include a review of the IPOD with all my likes and dislikes of this little digital music miracle.
