No Skipping
So I've been thinking for awhile about the whole iPod/MP3 brouhaha and trying to determine if it was something that would faciliate listening to music. Not that I have any trouble with that, but rather trying to ascertain a means by which I could carry around more music with less weight. The iPod is certainly an attractive toy, but it suffers from the same problem that my mini-disc player does: the music format -- CD -- isn't native to the device, which means that I have to transfer everything from CD to MP3 (in this case) if I want to use the device. Granted the ripping speed from modern CDROM drives is much better than the 1x transfer rate to mini-disc, but still, there is some planning and maintenance between you and actually listening to the music. And, when the whole point is listening to music, then the idea of time out for prep seems counter-productive.
Caught a wake-up call today via a reference to this cartoon over at Penny Arcade.