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My iPod Photo fits nicely into my Macromedia team jacket.Today, I shoved off into the brave new iPod world as the vortex has finally sucked me in. Today, I am no longer an iPod virgin. My iPod Photo has finally arrived, and the world is good again.

Seriously, I decided it was time to take a look at all that iPod hacking, podcasting, and audio blogcasting going on. I've loaded up my modest mp3 collection of 1900+ songs in about an hour, and the Old 97's are happily humming along in my head right now. Just 8GB so far with plenty of elbow room for my entire digital photo collection.

The iPod phenomenon is really amazing, and I'm surprised that it took me this long to dive in. There are people who use it for just about every purpose under the sun. People who cook by it. People who just want to keep their iPod cozy and warm while still being stylish. Personally, I'd like to catch up with those who want to use it with Linux, and others who want to run Linux on it. So if you see me on the street just tap me on the shoulder coz I might not hear you ;-)

 


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48 hours later and the iPod remains firmly clutched in my hands and plugged into my ears. I swear I can't put it down. Is this a sickness? I've been making playlists, dowloading music, and listening to songs until my brain is about to have a meltdown. Does this happen to everyone?


I've been through 3 iPods now - the addiction only gets worse, trust me.

Also - it's nice to hear someone else is a 97's fan. I've been a fan for a long time, and was extremely happy when they got back to recording :)


This morning I found that I can export my playlists to XML. Cool! Now I can build a "Now Listening To..." pod for BlogCFC.

Just last night I was checking out the Old 97's website. I was psyched to see that they are touring this year, although the complete tour is not not posted yet. When I saw that they were playing in Austin Texas this coming Saturday, well, 10 years ago I would have just bought a plane ticket and flew down for the concert, slept in a park or on the street and fly back the next morning... but I'm not so spontaneous these days :-(

http://www.old97s.com/tour/index.html


Actually, if you're running your iPod on a PC (I do), you can not only forego the evil iTunes, you can also query your iPod just like a SQL database.

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

Also, there are a _ton_ of "now playing" plugins for the various music players that will automatically write to a file or web page which song is currently playing. I use a couple for WinAmp which even update my instant messenger profiles!


 

 

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