Hello! See? I’ve comitted…
This evening is my last in Wales for just over two weeks, as I’m going away. Today, therefore, was reserved for the appropriate preparations for an extended absence.
One of which was adding new music to my ipod. I did so, I added the newly purchased songs to the device in the usual manner with no apparent problems.
Later, as I decide to have a cheeky listen to some of it as I try and sleep, and I find that a LOT of my other music had gone. Vanished.
This fault set off a chain of events that basically led me to having to WIPE my ipod free of any content. All my songs and carefully uncarefully constructed playlists had gone.
This was very upsetting! It was almost as if a lifeless metal/plastic gadget had rejected my taste of music, ready to be replaced by any old rubbish.
And that’s when I thought…is this sort of incident what leads middle-aged people to have a more dull taste in music? and in many cases to be more technophobic? Perhaps we shouldn’t be judging 40-year-olds as having bad taste and a lack of ability to adapt to technology…perhaps they are actually suffering from ipod-wipe-trauma…
Then came the business of replacing my music unto the ipod, seeing as I am not actually 40. Unfortunately there’s too many songs on my computer for my wanker ipod to handle, and as it’s getting late and I needed sleep, clicking and dragging each song individually back onto my ipod wasn’t the way forward, and so I needed an alternative.
iTunes offered me the option of selecting which artists and playlists to be synchronised (put) onto my iPod. This seemed manageable.
It seemed odd though, picking and choosing which bands to include and which to exclude. I sort of felt like a scaled-down Oskar Schindler. Scaled down rather a lot in terms of importance, obviously, but the responsibility still felt overwhelming. I was forging my music taste for what could be my best years, if I left any good’uns out, it could be grave. Meanwhile, I had to be decisive, given my restricted iPod-memory budget.
It was tough, but I think I’ve done ok….
Ooh that reminds me, do go and see Schindler’s List, it really is a wonderful film. Tragic, yet heroic.
And no iPod accidents.
S x
ps. In case you’ve forgotten/were wondering, all the titles are song titles. Barrel of fun, I am…