Before I begin, I’d just like to officially send my condolences to any Yankee fans who might be reading this. For the rest of the month, you are more than welcome to root along with the New York baseball team whose season is still very much alive. In fact, it would be my pleasure to dub you an honorary Mets fan. No one should have to endure such a tragic loss as you chaps did this weekend. Really, my heart goes out to you.
Now on to more serious matters. I kept bumping into this article while bored at work and scouring the Internet, so I figured I’d lend my impression of its validity. I don’t really care one way or another whether or not my iPod’s “shuffle” function offers a high enough degree of randomness, but I do find it odd that I have nine albums by The Beatles and nine by Elliott Smith, and – outside of my choosing to play albums all the way through in regular “play” mode – The Beatles or Elliott Smith has come up exactly TWICE, while during the same period of time I’ve heard half of Christian Marclay’s More Encores and all of the self-titled Ignatz album.
Meanwhile, someone else is asking whether or not the iPod will ever be replaced by one of its competitors as the top-selling portable music player. I was really late in buying my first (and only) iPod because I thought the concept was stupid and the sound sucked (you can read all about it in the archives, and for the record I still think the sound sucks), but I can’t really see Microsoft taking over the market because they’ve gotten started way too late in the game. I don’t know much about online music stores – because I’m poor – but I doubt the Microsoft one will outperform iTunes.
I’m not going to lie, my real interest in these “technology wars” lays in the fact that I want MTV’s The State to make a lot of money on iTunes so that they’ll release the full series on DVD.
