my 2nd gen ipod nano
guess what's been hiding in my tech graveyard drawer! THIS GUY.
i got this ipod nano most likely as a christmas present? i think i was in high school, definitely a freshman. no later than 2006-07. before this i had a couple other mp3 players (a creative zen, and some little guy too), but i was cooked in the apple soup and NEEDED the nano. i put this guy through its paces, as you can see by the wear and tear. i eventually bought a 3rd gen nano from a friend and used that for a while, before upgrading to an ipod touch (3rd gen i want to say?) that held through most of college. i got a 5th gen touch as a birthday/xmas present sometime in college, or maybe right after i graduated. though soon after that, it became more typical to just put your music on your phone. i mostly used the last ipod touch to play music at work; leeching off wifi next door or just having something other than my phone.
and so, after this thing has been collecting dust for many years and is old enough to drive, i have taken it out of retirement and put some custom firmware on it. it can run doom now! not well most likely, the play/pause button is not the most responsive, but it can do it! so i was wondering to myself...with only 4gb of storage, what would i put on it today? what can 4 precious gigabytes get you today? that's what we're going to find out!
you may wonder why i'm not documenting what was on there all those years ago...that's because this puppy was wiped when i got it. and i had to wipe it a couple times to make the custom firmware work too. although, there is a suspiciously labeled folder deep in my files that is 3 gb, so that may be it. that'll be an investigation for another day, as i don't feel like unzipping that big of a file.
methodology
my thought is to only grab ONE album per artist, and then get more if i have room. i did grab a couple soundtracks but prioritized absolute favorites that aren't...five discs long. once those are covered, i'll grab one-off tracks for my ever famous "miscellaneous" folder. i'm trying to get a variety of things on there to really showcase what i'm about musically. i guess that's just what i do!
i COULD be cramming more things in here, as i'm not crunching everything down to 128kb AAC like itunes used to do, but i'm not too worried about that (yet anyway). i'm typing this up as i'm putting stuff on here. as it turns out: i am going to need to compress these a bit. i will settle for 192kb AAC since that cuts some of the big mp3 files i have in half. it could be my fault that i like getting stuff in 320kb MP3??
NOT TO MENTION in order to replace some of these, i have to delete them, eject the ipod, then plug it back in for the stupid. trash to register. mac promblems. i may have to come back to this later because i'm down to less than 500mb and i'm starting to get choice paralysis. so i'll go with what i have now and update later.
picks
American Football - LP2
Andy McKee - Art of Motion
Counting Crows - August And Everything After
Augustana - All The Stars and Boulevards
Beltaine - TRIU
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Clayflower - Still
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Covet - Catharsis
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Dio - Holy Diver
Duett - Borderline
Emil Rottmayer - Descend
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Green Day - Kerplunk!
Hall & Oates - The Singles
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
L'Avenue - Club Tropez
Live - Throwing Copper
Michael Jackson - Bad
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nintendo - F-Zero Jazz
Noriyuki Iwadare - Turnabout Jazz Soul
Pearl Jam - Ten
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Heavy Metal Soundtrack
Metropolis Speed Racer Soundtrack
Spyro The Dragon Soundtrack
Sonic Adventure 2 Soundtrack
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The Midnight - Nocturnal
The Rippingtons - Topaz
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
Vertical Horizon - Live Stages
