A laborious process
... and that's putting it mildly!
I'm downloading CDs to iTunes in anticipation of getting an iPod when I'm in Jersey next week - it's a tax haven so I'd be daft not to - and boy does it take a long time. There's not even any particular order to it: I've covered Mozart, Beethoven, Telemann, Byrd, Britten, Poulenc, Handel and (because no classical collection is complete without her) Florence Foster Jenkins so far, and there's a while to go yet.
Ho hum.
I'm downloading CDs to iTunes in anticipation of getting an iPod when I'm in Jersey next week - it's a tax haven so I'd be daft not to - and boy does it take a long time. There's not even any particular order to it: I've covered Mozart, Beethoven, Telemann, Byrd, Britten, Poulenc, Handel and (because no classical collection is complete without her) Florence Foster Jenkins so far, and there's a while to go yet.
Ho hum.
posted by Anthony at
20:47
7 Comments:
Hold your horses young man! Mr Jobs is rumoured to be updating the iPod range at Apple's Developer conference in August. Waiting a month might cost you a bit more but you'll get bigger, better and faster....
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
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Anonymous, at 30/6/06 21:01
Thank you for the advice, Martyn, but as I'm not particularly bothered by bigger, better and faster, I may well get one anyway. Matter of seeing what the prices are like ...
As long as it's got enough memory on it to contain enough music to last me on long journeys, a 60Gb (or even 30Gb) one should be ample.
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Anthony, at 30/6/06 22:33
My iPod died a year after I got it and it's been 6 months now of me being iPodless. I'm waiting because I don't have $400:(
And I'd go Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Beethoven first;)
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Miss Scarlet, at 1/7/06 22:53
After reading several comments by «Anthony / Tony», I happened to choose a link among so many others, and here I am. Are there coincidences, or what?
Why you should be a faux-pretentious I don't know, but I did really enjoy reading through your blog. Congratulations!
As far as iPods are concerned, I don't mind saying I'm still in the Middle Ages: my cd's are just fine, and classical music doesn't run the risk of getting updated and upgraded that often, so as to make me buy constantly new interpretations. Yes, that´s perhaps an advantage...
Bye-bye!
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Anonymous, at 5/7/06 07:07
It took me a full month to get my CDs on, and I didn't even put all of them...mostly I pulled off the tracks I really like. And still I have 4001 songs on my iPod.
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Andy, at 5/7/06 21:21
... After reading Andy's comment, I just couldn't help posting this kind of a warning:
«The more we have, the more we want.»
And this seems to be unstoppable...
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Anonymous, at 6/7/06 04:01
Well, I got a 30Gb one (for just short of 200 quid) and I can't imagine I'll ever fill it up completely - 1,299 tracks so far and that only accounts for 5-and-a-bit Gb ...
Ricardo: never fear, I'm old-fashioned too. On long journeys, however, an iPod does take up rather less room than all my CDs! That said, I've no intention of downloading tracks from the internet; I prefer having the recording in my hand.
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Anthony, at 6/7/06 23:56
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