I am wiping my mp3 player clean this afternoon. It’s in the process of clearing off 3823 songs/podcasts. I’ve been meaning to bring some sense of order to the player for months now. There are songs on there I love and never get to hear because they aren’t in the right playlist or the playlist is so long there’s no way I could ever hear one of my favorites. Even though this is a much needed clearing off, cleaning up process, it’s still a bit strange to wastebin all those songs (yes, I just used wastebin as a verb–you cringed here first!).
I’m a bit of a music whore and have had a hard time saying no to free downloads. No more. I’ve been on the righteous path of only downloading songs I really like for the past few months. The songs I get from my Paste subscription get a free pass directly to the player because after all this time, I trust their judgement.
Now that our project of taking every CD we own and transforming the tracks into FLAC format is mostly complete, I feel comfortable in harnessing those songs now for my player and being reminded again why we purchased all those CDs in the first place. It will be nice to call up Love is the Seventh Wave with a flick of my finger instead of hovering over boxes trying to remember where the Bring on the Night CD is. Although, I have to admit, I tend to carry that sort of information around in my head and don’t usually spend too much time hunting around. It’s one of those systems that only makes sense to me.
I think this task of bringing order to the mp3 player will be the last time I do this with this current player. It is a Creative Zen M and it is no longer made or supported. It’s a shame really because overall I really like the player and the way it operates. We went to the local Apple store the other day so the better-half could buy some parts for a client. I told him when we’re ready to make the switch to an iPod, I don’t want to go back to that store because as much as I like technology and cool design the sheer volume of people in there drove me nearly crazy–too many people standing way too close (although the dude who waited on the better-half did whip out his hand-held register and we never had to wait in line–so awesome).
The cleaning off process just finished. Now for the rebuilding process.
I’ve had my 80 GB ipod since that generation came out. (05-06?) We got rid of nearly all our cds (that was a fun ebay/yard sale month). Hubby kept a few, just to be nostalgic. We never take that ipod out of the house and it typically just stays docked at the Bose dock in the living room. We have the first generation ipod that Hubby uses at work. I’ve got the shuffle for the gym and iphone for everything else. Works great…we just back the up the files on two different computers just in case. It got “stuck” once and I took it to the Apple store, expecting to pay to get it fixed. 15 min later they said it just needed restored to factory settings; no charge. Took it home, reloaded everything, and it’s good as new. (Not a fan of store either, but the wireless checkout does come in handy!!)
Sad to say, I don’t have any players at all. I can’t stand having the ear buds, hate music playing right in my ear. Even in the car, I’m a radio girl. I like surfing during commercials and listening to the morning dj’s. We have a huge category of CDs and LPs in the basement. I kind of miss playing my LPs on a turntable. That’s how low tech I am. At least they aren’t 8-tracks!
Liz, I can’t wear ear buds. I’ve tried them but my ears hate them. If I wear headphones, I wear the big fuzzy ones like the old walkman came with. I’m nothing, if not cool.
Dissertatingdiva, we’re in the process of taking all of our CDs and turning them into FLAC files (whatever that is) and then having a minicomputer play them all over the house. It will be like having the 80GB ipod but not portable. It will be so nice to “dial” up whatever I want to hear.