A Geek Goes Flying

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. 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 sha...

A few days ago a mass drop special, offering the Sennheiser HD58X Jubilee headphones, caught my attention at a price I couldn’t pass up ($135, less the $20 for being a new drop member). I’ve been listening to Bose QC25s at the office and QC35 IIs at home, but they just lacked a certain je ne sais quoi . (In particular: Bass. Bury a Friend just gets murdered on them.) Meanwhile, I still  haven’t listened to Fear Inoculum , as I haven’t found the right time to sit down with it, without distraction. (I named my first Labrador Maynard, y’all...) Finally, cleaning house, I found (again) my old iPod mini first generation, and toyed with the idea (again) of modernizing it. It still works, but the battery is pretty weak, and the MicroDrive is a moving part that will fail sooner or later. So I ordered: A high capacity replacement battery (750mAh EC003, 3.7 VDC, 2.77 Wh) ($17 when I ordered it, free shipping) (no reviews; wish me luck ) (I would have gone with the relative known quanti...