Carpundit

So My Six-Year-Old Has Been Bugging Me For An iPod

My older boy wants an iPod in the worst way.  He's been addicted to my iTunes for about a year now, typically cranking the volume to the limit of my Harman/Kardon Soundsticks and playing a single song over and over and over.  It wasn't so bad when he was addicted to American Pie, because the song is nearly ten minutes long and he'd play it two or three times and then move on.  But then he discovered the Ramones.

Blitzkrieg Bop at maximum volume ten times in a row can get to you.  (Plus, he always leaves the Mac volume cranked, so when I come back to the computer a system beep stops my heart for a second.)  Tired of all that, I started lending him my iPod.

So Have You Heard About These New "iPod" Things?

My brother gave me a new iPod nano for my birthday last week, and I just got around to opening it; I have no idea how I lived without one.  I've been making do with my iPod shuffle -I should say shuffles, because my wife and I have three between us- but I've never had a traditional-format iPod.  You know, one with a click wheel and menus.  This little nano is amazing.

Sure, it only holds 4GB of music, but that's roughly eight times what any one of our shuffles holds, and it sorts the stuff out for you.  I mean, I threw together some playlists and put them on the nano, and it just goes ahead and categorizes them by artist, title, genre, and album name.  Yeah, Yeah, I know.  I'm two or three years behind the curve here and everyone knows all about it.  Well, I "knew" about it, too, but I never had one.  Having it and knowing it are two different things.

Bonus nano feature: full-color album cover images pulled out of the ether.  Marvelous.