[OT] The downside of being tech-savvy - other people’s iPods
Why is that friends and family always ask me to ‘just put some of their music on their iPod’?
So this weekend I loaded -
The Essential Michael Jackson
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen (OK - I can live with this one)
The Best of Fleetwood Mac
The Voice of Michael McDonald
Kenny Loggin’s Greatest Hits
Imagination - The Best Of
Earth, Wind & Fire - The Definitive Collection
Saturday Night Fever (OST)
City of Angels (OST)
was it the original ‘best of fleetwood mac’ when they were a blues band… or was it the ‘best of fleetwood mac’ with stevie nicks?
if it was the former, its a great album. if it was the latter, you should have exercised your right to use a hammer and destroyed the cd, the computer, and the ipod!
happened to me with fixing computers all childhood long (which i wasn’t good at anyways because windows is like rocket science!), so i’m feeling you.
and for ipods thats probably because apple hast this annoying itunes-only policy (which must be confusing when you don’t get computers anyways) and still every one needs to be hip and buy an ipod.
Maximum torment Josh. And with you BigC - all that crap with ratings and number of listens, silly genres and the untitled songs/albums. Nevermind that they actually use the supplied IEM’s!
packaging that crap should be against the law. i broke my usual earphones the other day (cheap ultimate ears ones) and left my senny’s in a mates car and had to resort to the apple supplied ones for a couple of days… never again! they sound F*ING terrible, and they don’t fit in your ears.
EDIT: what bugs me is the amount of people that replace their apple headphones, with more apple headphones when they need new ones!
Like I said - happy to go with Donald Fagen. It goes well with my iPod collection that includes The Doors, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Donovan, The Beatles, Jeff Beck etc, etc from the time when songs meant something. But, Imagination and Kenny Loggins probably won’t stand the test of time.
The worst is “You know what I like just throw whatever on there”. No auntie Janice I haven’t seen you since last Christmas since you came over and drank all my booze, so NO I have no clue what you like.
your telling me this me and my dad tried to start a repair business for them and now all my friends want now screens and shit. and they want all the new ones for $50. its sooo fucking annoying.
I can honestly say that I’ve never had that experience.
But I accidentally showed one girl–the first person I knew IRL to get an iPod Mini–that the little record-shaped control on the front was made for you to move your finger along it in a circle. She honestly thought that you were supposed to just go up and down on the button in the middle and that it would “take some getting used to” to not make it jump randomly through her library.
She figured it out when I asked to look at it and started doing it right. I still feel bad for correcting her…it was funnier the other way.
But, no…I’ve never had that experience. I’ve actually never done that. I spent my entire childhood fixing stupid computer issues, and I’m just tired of it. I don’t have any problem with telling people “you’re not smart enough to use an iPod. Give it to your 8 year old; (s)he’ll be fine as long as you don’t try to help.”
Back when people actually wrote songs that meant something.
