Saturday, February 11, 2006
My iPod loves me
In my continuing saga of reaching iPod Nirvana, I had to succumb to the fact that iTunes does NOT give you album art unless you buy the music from them. So I went to Amazon and other places and had to look up images of EVERY SINGLE CD in order to have them listed on my iPod.
Kind of annoying, but I'm obsessive compulsive that way. If I have the option of having the album art show up, then dammit, I'm going to do everything in my power to achieve that. Plus, it makes me feel like I'm actually listening to the CDs when I can look down and see the artist, song title, album name and a picture of the album itself. With my mini I always felt a little like a poseur when a song would come on and I wouldn't know exactly what album it came from.
"Oh, I LOVE THIS SONG!" "What album is it from?" "How am I supposed to know? Its on random."
This is especially true with Frank Sinatra, Man or Astroman? and Beastie Boys songs. There are just so many songs that I can't be bothered to keep up with which song comes from what album.
I've also discovered some VERY interesting video podcasts. One is called Channel Frederator. Its a place where you can submit cartoons and animations to them and they will put it together in their podcasts. Some of the animations are ho-hum, but some have been really cool. I'd recommend checking it out if you get a chance. There's always the hilarious Ask a Ninja, Happy Tree Friends (not only can you get these on the internet, they are available for download! Rhode Montijo ROCKS!) and the Vintage ToonCast. You can get these by my handy links, or they can be found in the video podcast section of iTunes. There's tons more that I plan on looking into when I get the chance.
Also don't forget that They Might Be Giants does their own podcasts as well. They are truly awesome, you won't regret signing up for these babies. One of the newest ones features a song I feel they wrote just for me. Its called "Why did you grow a beard?" I hate beards and this song cracked me up.
Kind of annoying, but I'm obsessive compulsive that way. If I have the option of having the album art show up, then dammit, I'm going to do everything in my power to achieve that. Plus, it makes me feel like I'm actually listening to the CDs when I can look down and see the artist, song title, album name and a picture of the album itself. With my mini I always felt a little like a poseur when a song would come on and I wouldn't know exactly what album it came from.
"Oh, I LOVE THIS SONG!" "What album is it from?" "How am I supposed to know? Its on random."
This is especially true with Frank Sinatra, Man or Astroman? and Beastie Boys songs. There are just so many songs that I can't be bothered to keep up with which song comes from what album.
I've also discovered some VERY interesting video podcasts. One is called Channel Frederator. Its a place where you can submit cartoons and animations to them and they will put it together in their podcasts. Some of the animations are ho-hum, but some have been really cool. I'd recommend checking it out if you get a chance. There's always the hilarious Ask a Ninja, Happy Tree Friends (not only can you get these on the internet, they are available for download! Rhode Montijo ROCKS!) and the Vintage ToonCast. You can get these by my handy links, or they can be found in the video podcast section of iTunes. There's tons more that I plan on looking into when I get the chance.
Also don't forget that They Might Be Giants does their own podcasts as well. They are truly awesome, you won't regret signing up for these babies. One of the newest ones features a song I feel they wrote just for me. Its called "Why did you grow a beard?" I hate beards and this song cracked me up.
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Well that's why I post this blog so my friends will give me important info, like this! I'll check it out!
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