I don't use a portable music player very often — I prefer to think during the periods I am at large in the world and not 'doing' anything — but when I do, I use my late-90s-'vintage' Walkman.
I don't want to listen to tracks in a random order. The order of the movements of a symphony is part of the music; the order of the pieces on an album is part of the album. I can't listen to thousands of pieces of music during one excursion. I find the crap-quality-ness of cassette pleasant and that of MP3 et al. unpleasant.
Of course, the iPod does have its benefits, for example, helping to secure the medium-term health of Apple, and thus of the Mac and OS X.
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I don't use a portable music player very often — I prefer to think during the periods I am at large in the world and not 'doing' anything — but when I do, I use my late-90s-'vintage' Walkman.
I don't want to listen to tracks in a random order. The order of the movements of a symphony is part of the music; the order of the pieces on an album is part of the album. I can't listen to thousands of pieces of music during one excursion. I find the crap-quality-ness of cassette pleasant and that of MP3 et al. unpleasant.
Of course, the iPod does have its benefits, for example, helping to secure the medium-term health of Apple, and thus of the Mac and OS X.