in which my worst impulses are thwarted

[lolaraincoat]

Why are all the other iPods so elegant and the stupid new full-size iPod so very, very hideous? Why?

I wanted to spend my tax refund on a shiny new iPod -- the 80-gig kind that would have room for all the music currently jammed onto my hard drive instead of only about a third of it at a time -- even though my beautiful 6-gig mini works just fine and is pretty. But the new, 5th-generation iPods are even uglier than the full-size iPods used to be. They've now in two shades of gray, black and white at a time, rather than just white-and-chrome, which was bad enough. And the grays are in diagonal blocks, too, in some kind of misguided tribute to that retro '80s aesthetic. Couldn't they just sell them with preloaded Bananarama and Scritti Politti?*

Fuck it, I'm just going to donate my damn refund to Amnesty International then. Bastards.



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* Yes, I still love Scritti Politti. Shut up.

Comments

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Oh my dear, I have just given up the Silicon Flamingo 6Gb pink Mini as featured in my icon above and graduated to a shiny new full size 5th-Generation Video iPod. In a complicated deal, I got the recently discontinued 60Gb for just a wee bit more than than the 30Gb version, and I am all swoony. Also, I got a transparent plastic case for it so I can still see the all-important video screen. To decorate the back, I cut out a luscious stick-on BVM from the cover of a book of Christmas stamps and stuck her under the clear case. (No engraving on close-outs, but now it is personalized.

It's not only big enough for all, all, all my music, I am planning to load it up with a photo album and also use it as back-up drive. I can also use it to carry files between work and home without schlepping a laptop. It's divine.

This very moment, I am ripping the Goblet of Fire audiobook to it, thanks to a generous coworker. ¡Viva la 5th-Gen!

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

Farewell, Pink Flamingo! Hail, Blessed Virgin iPod!

How much of a pain in the ass was it to synch up the new iPod with your old iTunes library?

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

No difficulty at all with synching it. It took a good bit of time to physically copy all the files over, but there was no fiddling. You just plug in, register the device, and tell it to synch. Then you can go about your business while the files transfer.

After that I reset it to manual update so I can drag things around between different computers.

It was much less hassle than it has been ripping the HP audiobooks, frankly, because GraceNote has inconsistent titles and listings for each disk and then I have to batch them all to the proper settings and structure the naming of the albums so they sequence properly. I feel like it's not too much work since I am getting them free from a friend, but it would be exactly the same work if I had paid for the disks, and then it would annoy me.