tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21335024.post113926302844979855..comments2024-01-05T09:11:55.544+00:00Comments on brett jordan: Digital v Analogue #3: Why I love iTunesBrett Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07567439475008154845noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21335024.post-1139722892658775002006-02-12T05:41:00.000+00:002006-02-12T05:41:00.000+00:00Hi Brett,I liked your article. I remember the hour...Hi Brett,<BR/><BR/>I liked your article. I remember the hours and hours of putting CDs into my iMac.<BR/><BR/>And now, with my iPod, I can't fit all the music I have (it is *only* 20GB -- I think my first computer had a 40Mb hard drive and that seemed HUGE!).<BR/><BR/>While I love digitized music, I also still really like the analogue sound (even with the scratches and hisses and pops) of playing "records" on a turntable.<BR/><BR/>So I also sympathize with some of Conrad's rhetorical questions.<BR/><BR/>On a related subject, I think there will always be books because not everyone will derive the same pleasure from reading a pdf as from dog-earing a page or curling up on a couch with a cat and a good volume of Stephen King!<BR/><BR/>~ KeithCan Opener Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074132164038079006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21335024.post-1139493804750124852006-02-09T14:03:00.000+00:002006-02-09T14:03:00.000+00:00Conrad - Surely you could just browse by Genre, Ar...Conrad - Surely you could just browse by Genre, Artist or Album by using the Browse button at the top right hand side in iTunes and have a similar experience?<BR/><BR/>Also, the more Genres you have the greater the surprise :-)<BR/><BR/><BR/>But I know what you mean.Major Lookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999594130469891097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21335024.post-1139299285773050272006-02-07T08:01:00.000+00:002006-02-07T08:01:00.000+00:00OK Conrad, just SPOIL my next article why don't yo...OK Conrad, just SPOIL my next article why don't you!Brett Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07567439475008154845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21335024.post-1139292571768085002006-02-07T06:09:00.000+00:002006-02-07T06:09:00.000+00:00For those times when you think "I want to hear a s...For those times when you think "I want to hear a song," yeah. Is that primarily how you think of your music collection, though? A vast collection of songs? Is that how you want to think of your collection?<BR/><BR/>A CD collection arranged alphabetically encourages you to think not "I want to hear that song" but rather "I want to listen to that artist" and you put them on and a few songs will surprise you "Oh, I forgot that was on there."<BR/><BR/>A CD collection stored by genre encourages you to think differently as well.<BR/><BR/>And don't you miss looking at the rack without a clear idea of what to play and feeling like some CD is calling for your attention? Your subconscious has fashioned a link between the music and the experience of looking at the cover such that looking at the bank of covers is browsing experiences as well.<BR/><BR/>Much of this can be simulated with cover art and smart playlists, but not taking in the vista of a couple of shelves of CDs at once and thinking "Which of these do I feel like hearing next?" And if your collection includes classical works, well, smart playlists still can't seem to handle symphonies as units made up of sub-units.<BR/><BR/>And I miss the days when I'd look forward to a new Cockburn album coming out, thinking "It'll be good to hear what he's been up to lately." It was like catching up with an old friend. I don't seem to have that same relationship with musicians now, for a variety of reasons. One of them is that now iTunes and eMusic are teaching me to evaluate each individual hermetically Song Unit and decide "Do I want this one? This one? This one?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com