The Deleted Years?
Found this article (A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are The Deleted Years. Now Let Us Praise Them.) from this article (Jewel-Box Heroes: Why the CD Revival Is Finally Here), and I take exception:
Everything you bought from 2003 to 2009 is stuck on a dusty iPod for which a charger can no longer be found, or on a MacBook that’s three MacBooks ago. Whether you bought that whole first Kaiser Chiefs album or just plunked down the 99 cents for ‘I Predict A Riot,’ you don’t have it anymore.
Ahem. I’m not necessarily proud of what remains from that era, but it’s still here.
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Screenshot of Apple Music in 2023, showing iTunes purchases from 2004 |
2004 was about when I got my first iPod, a mini, that I still have and use today (albeit refreshed). And that’s just the music I bought via the Apple iTunes Music Store. A quick glance at my music folder on my NAS shows MP3s dating back to September of 1997! (Ah, college... I remember everyone having open Windows or AppleTalk shares and a huge sort of communal playlist up on the LAN we built. Most folks had computer speakers hooked up (like the venerable, nigh ubiquitous Altec Lansing ACS90s), but I ran my Windows machine inline with my receiver using the TAPE 2 monitor loop and the mixer built into Windows, and had ... More decibels.)
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