How you know you’ve been living in Arizona for to long, 88 Degrees and no breeze is a glorious night to sit on the back porch and blog.
I picked up a new iPod this week and I’ve been in awe of this little device once again. If your a long time reader you know that I spent the better part of 2004 gushing about my at the time state of the art top of the line 15GB 3g iPod. The iPod line has come a long way in that time, I picked up the new one knowing it would be infitenly thinner and have a better screen then either of the last two. What I didn’t count on as triple the battery life for some reason I though the iPod was still stuck in the 15 to 20 hour range not in 30+ territory.
And then there’s the choice of sync it to PC or Mac… and well I chose Mac this time around for no other reason then it seemed right. 6 hours later I read the first reports of iPods with iTunes 8 BSODing windows boxes. Hmmmm I made the right choice, well that and it turns out that firewire is no longer supported as a syncing cable (which dissapoints me just a bit I always have enough firewire ports I never have enough USB ports) Oh well I will survive.
So hows the lazy man playlist maker aka Genius? Take it or leave it on iTunes… I acually like it on the iPod though.
I did a genius list off of Pink Floyd’s “High Hopes” and in no particular order here is a sampling of 5 songs….
Pearl Jam, Given to fly
Radiohead, Lucky
Rage Against the Machine, People of the sun
Smashing Pumpkins, Zero
Led Zepplin, No Quarter
It’s eclectic… I can’t say that would have Rage and that particular Smashing Pumpkins song in a play list based off of a Pink Floyd song but I’m not going to entirely disagree with them either.
So genius is nice for random playlists that you haven’t been listening to for forever and a day. My only gripe is one of my long standing gripes in that there is no easy way to find and fix corrupted files in iTunes that “skip” in my iPod. And when I say skip I mean the song skips to the next song in the list.
Also the FM adapter I picked up either sucks or is broken… more research is requried.