Listening to music
So, I’m thinking a bit today about how I listen to music. First, because last night I got really excited when I found a new CD from one of my favorite singers, Kristin Hersh, on eMusic.com, my current legal source for music online. The thing was though, I had already grabbed the entire set of of songs and they were already on my iPod even. Somehow, I completely forgot about it after I grabbed it.
That’s obviously the down-side to electronic music files – nothing physical to attach to in my brain. I never held the CD case or album sleeve in my hands so I completely forgot about it not long after the downloads were complete. That’s the first thing that’s got me thinking about this today.
The other thing is that my much revered iPod’s hard disk is nearly full now. I have about 200 MB of free space left, which means it has about 18 GB of music on there. At some point, how much music do I really need? Whenever this iPod (name: Shiftless) diesI will have to get a new one and that will be a bigger hard drive, but still. I have about 4,400 tracks on this thing now. Shiftless tells me that’s about 7 days of consecutive listening to hear it all.
I have a voracious appettite for music but at the rate I really do listen to tunes, that would take me forever. Plus, I’ve listened to a good chunk of that many many times already.
I’m seriously considering dropping my eMusic account for now. We’ll see…
