Rescuing my iPod
I have about 3,000 songs on my iPod, and I probably hate two-thirds of them now. Yesterday, I had the bright idea to create a playlist with just the songs I like on them. It brings the number down to just below 600. Put on shuffle, I find a much better experience than shuffling all my songs.
Now, if only I could get up the courage to remove all those songs I don’t actually listen to. Alas, I may not be strong enough to do that. I’m a packrat, even when it comes to digital music. Do I really think I’ll want to listen to all those bad electro records and hip hop hits again? I know I won’t. But there’s that fear that some day I will.
Ah, if only things were as simple as they were back in the days of albums and CD’s. We never had the clutter problem that iPod’s bring. I have perhaps thrice-exponentially more storage capacity on my iPod than on my first Macintosh, yet so much of it is wasted on bad music and alternate recordings of Johnny Cash songs.
