Dilemma of the Day
My iPod is full. I've been using it to store all my music, and the family's too, so that whenever we go anywhere we all have whatever we might possibly want to listen to right there with us. But lately I've gotten my hands on a lot of new music from my brother--he is so very hip and I am so middle-aged--as well as a whole load of U2 and Clash bootlegs, and all those tunes simply will not fit on my iPod anymore. Now I have to make choices about what's actually going to be carried with us from now on. Do I get rid of a few VeggieTales albums or do I forgo one more scratchy Clash bootleg from 1978? Should I allow any more of Lauran's music? Meat Loaf is still not on the thing, though Prince, Air Supply and Phil Collins are (and they are not comfortable iPod-mates with Robyn Hitchcock or Billy Bragg or Bauhaus, et al, I might add). Yes, I could manually manage my library, but I have always operated with the principle that my iTunes library and iPod should mirror each other. It was comforting to know that I had a backup, should anything happen to either. (Never mind that I have it all on CD in the first place.) But that was before I was initiated into the have-too-many-CDs club. I could look into purchasing a bigger iPod, but then I would have no room on my laptop for anything but music. I thought about keeping all the music on Lauran's iMac, but we tend to use that one for video editing and it doesn't have the room either. I suppose one other solution would be to get a new iPod and an external hard drive to keep all the music together, although I wouldn't have a backup on my computer then. Perhaps I should get a new iPod, a new hard drive for my iBook, an external hard drive (just in case), and a new iMac too because it would be a lot easier to edit video on one of those new 20" screen SuperDrive models. Or, I could not spend the $3,000 and simply make it a sort of game to put stuff on and then take it off the old 10GB iPod. Of course, the new iPods can record and play solitaire...
My iPod is full. I've been using it to store all my music, and the family's too, so that whenever we go anywhere we all have whatever we might possibly want to listen to right there with us. But lately I've gotten my hands on a lot of new music from my brother--he is so very hip and I am so middle-aged--as well as a whole load of U2 and Clash bootlegs, and all those tunes simply will not fit on my iPod anymore. Now I have to make choices about what's actually going to be carried with us from now on. Do I get rid of a few VeggieTales albums or do I forgo one more scratchy Clash bootleg from 1978? Should I allow any more of Lauran's music? Meat Loaf is still not on the thing, though Prince, Air Supply and Phil Collins are (and they are not comfortable iPod-mates with Robyn Hitchcock or Billy Bragg or Bauhaus, et al, I might add). Yes, I could manually manage my library, but I have always operated with the principle that my iTunes library and iPod should mirror each other. It was comforting to know that I had a backup, should anything happen to either. (Never mind that I have it all on CD in the first place.) But that was before I was initiated into the have-too-many-CDs club. I could look into purchasing a bigger iPod, but then I would have no room on my laptop for anything but music. I thought about keeping all the music on Lauran's iMac, but we tend to use that one for video editing and it doesn't have the room either. I suppose one other solution would be to get a new iPod and an external hard drive to keep all the music together, although I wouldn't have a backup on my computer then. Perhaps I should get a new iPod, a new hard drive for my iBook, an external hard drive (just in case), and a new iMac too because it would be a lot easier to edit video on one of those new 20" screen SuperDrive models. Or, I could not spend the $3,000 and simply make it a sort of game to put stuff on and then take it off the old 10GB iPod. Of course, the new iPods can record and play solitaire...
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