5 posts tagged “ipod”

Have just discovered that the company I work for has blocked all the BBC's live music players on the web so I can no longer listen to BBC 6 music while I work. (Or Radio 4 news programmes which is kind of important as a journalist.)

Classic FM isn't blocked though, what are they trying to say?  

And what is next banning iPod's at your desk?

Led Zeppelin will finally offer their music online starting next month.   Of the music you buy, about how much of it do you download and how much do you buy on physical formats (CDs, vinyl, etc.)?

I've very quickly converted to digital, mainly because I'm impatient. If I come across some music I like on the web or someone recommends something or I like the music in a film I've just seen I can buy it and be listening to it within 10 minutes.

Then there is the fact that I'm an iPod junkie.

I've also run out of space on the two shelves allocated for CD's

Since I got my new all singing, all dancing, mega-memory iPod (and sorted out the problem with loading on my iTunes library) I've been trying to hoover up all the stragglers in my CD collection that haven't yet been digitised.
In doing so I've been coming across some little gems I'd forgotten I had and this by Massive Attack is one of them.
My brother Derren introduced me to the band so thanks go to him. The track is from Protection, which is one of my mellow, winding down albums of choice.  Of course I love the title track but Three has to be my favourite. It is it's haunting sound yet clarity of the vocal together with the soft yet intense beat that make it for me. Best listened to at night, preferably in the dark or on headphones:

After many years of loyal service my iPod is on its last legs. It is one of the original versions - £350 it cost then.

It never fitted properly into the fab docking station Mosh bought me last year to replace my kitchen stereo and it's memory is full so whenever I want something new on there I have to take something off which is bloomin' annoying.
A thousand songs seemed like an endless amount of music back then.
So it was time to log onto the Apple Store, via the NUJ website of course so I can claim the 10% discount members are entitled to.
I decided on the black version and the 80 gajillion, 20,000 songs memory, that way I can get my entire record collection on it and still have a mammoth amount of memory left to fill with podcasts, videos and more music.
After a nail-biting week of waiting it has arrived.
Angels sang when it came out of the box and small children wept at it's formidable presence. It is a beautiful thing and I feel every smudgy fingerprint I leave on it. But that won't last.
Its speed of transferring songs is phenomenal. My entire iTunes library in about three mins. That'll probably be equivalent to dial up in five years time.
And the battery charged in about 45 mins but I'm following the start up instructions, which is so unlike me, and leaving it charging for four hours.
Now just need to update my iTunes library with all those CD's I never quite got around to importing and then work out how to play the thing through my stereo.

PS Any ideas what to do with an old iPod with a screen that fades on a whim and wobbly battery life?

Aah, I see what Mr Timberlake has done. The Futuresex bit is the first half of the album and the Lovesounds is the second half of the album.
Or to put it another way. Justin was dancing along doing all his cool little moves then he tripped, stumbled a couple of times, fell flat on his face and didn't get up.
The second half of the album, now I've had a chance to listen to it, far from being a funky, hip-moving, jiggling 'round the kitchen sort of sound can best be described as monotonous, dull RnB. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
So, it's going on the old iPod and Futuresex is saved, saved, saved and Lovesounds is binned, binned, binned.