iPod Exchange Service
I love my iPod.
I know we have already been there before ! So before you guys start groaning about how I can't seem to stop raving about the iPod, I should let you know that I refer to it only because it is the basis of an idea that I had.
I have an iPod mini which holds about 1,000 songs. Its full.
I usually use the "Shuffle Songs" feature while I am using it, so that I get treated to a random stream of music. However, after about a month or so, it seems like I have listened to every song a number of times and am ready to listen to new songs.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up an iPod exchange service where two random people could exchange their iPods. Each of these could have a completely different taste for music, which would be a good thing (or bad) depending on how you view it.
Two things I would consider as potential complications are:
1. Music, I think is a very personal thing with ones musical taste very much part of ones personality - I do not know how comfortable people would be in revealing their tastes to other people and also in subjecting themselves to a certain "loss of control" in terms of the music that they would listen to, after the exchange
2. Would this be legal ? In this day and age where record companies are fighting tooth and nail against file sharing programs, would this be considered to be fairly similar to those sort of sharing services ?
I know we have already been there before ! So before you guys start groaning about how I can't seem to stop raving about the iPod, I should let you know that I refer to it only because it is the basis of an idea that I had.
I have an iPod mini which holds about 1,000 songs. Its full.
I usually use the "Shuffle Songs" feature while I am using it, so that I get treated to a random stream of music. However, after about a month or so, it seems like I have listened to every song a number of times and am ready to listen to new songs.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up an iPod exchange service where two random people could exchange their iPods. Each of these could have a completely different taste for music, which would be a good thing (or bad) depending on how you view it.
Two things I would consider as potential complications are:
1. Music, I think is a very personal thing with ones musical taste very much part of ones personality - I do not know how comfortable people would be in revealing their tastes to other people and also in subjecting themselves to a certain "loss of control" in terms of the music that they would listen to, after the exchange
2. Would this be legal ? In this day and age where record companies are fighting tooth and nail against file sharing programs, would this be considered to be fairly similar to those sort of sharing services ?
Comments
That said, if you like to switch music, try one of the music services like Rhapsody to go or Napster. They let you download unlimited music to your Ipod, and you can look at other people's playlists.
They appear..nod their head.. the switch happens and disappear
On a list of Top 50 cool things you can do with your ipod
http://www.kottke.org/plus/50-ways-ipod/