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The unadaptive iPod

I've only had an iPod for a few months, but that's been long enough to realise a few things about it, good and bad. My department's boss, Dan Hill, wrote a very good critique of the iPod's physical design, pointing out the disjunct between the appearance of impenetrable perfection and the reality of constrained manufactured product, and praised the adaptability of the software.

On iTunes and random play

I may be an exception, but I listen to my music exclusively by leaving my iPod (and iTunes, for that matter) on random play, set to shuffle by album not track. I don't use playlists (I find the process of making a playlist quite traumatic, actually). Before iTunes I used to listen to CDs by pulling out albums and moving between them as the mood took me, and as albums which had lain unlistened to for a while caught my eye.

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