IPod, Why?

"Which iPod Are You?" the ad campaign asks, and I think I know what your answer would be. It would be, "I am the hostile, belligerent iPod, and I'm not sure I know how to spell belligerent."

And iPod, I have so many things to say to you, but most of all, I want to know, why have you turned on me like this?  I've loved you without condition from even before day one.  I used to say, "as soon as I sell my book, I'm going to buy myself an iPod," and this was a really long time ago, when you were giant and white and not silver and mini and Nano like you are now.  When my then-agent refused to take me off of speaker phone and told me I could not call his office for the months of July and August and I got to thinking that maybe my book it wasn't going to sell after all, I bought you anyway, instead of clothes, because I loved you that much and because while patience is a virtue, it's never been one of mine. 

When I spent all that time on the elliptical machine at the Equinox on 92nd & Broadway because my then-(never to be forgiven) boyfriend observed that my arms were a little chunky and I accidentally left you there, I bought you again.  When the horrible day arrived when I spilled a glass of water on my iBook and lost (along with a hell of a lot of other stuff) all your downloaded music, I downloaded it for you again.  The hours I have spent making playlists for you when I was supposed to be writing are far too numerous to count.  Really, let's not count them.  I have taken you with me to Rome, to Aspen, to Miami, to Costa Rica, to La Isla Bonita, and whenever you want, for the non-stop fun that is a subway ride.

Whenever iTunes popped up and harassed me about downloading a new version of iTunes, I always said no, I was happy with the way things were, opting eventually for "do not ask me this again."  But, fine, they finally got me when I just had to pre-order the new Sheryl Crow cd.  The Sheryl Crow cd apparently could only be pre-ordered by people who had iTunes 5, not the lowly iTunes 4.2 people, oh no. 

Maybe, iPod, you just didnt want to subscribe to the elitism?  That's just a guess, because I simply have no idea.  All I know is that now, whenever I try to iSync you, I get a message that "some" of my songs could not be downloaded because my iPod software is too old.  No matter how many times I download and install new iPod software and iPod updaters and whatever else I think it is that your little iPod heart might be desirous of, I get the same frickin' message.

It's unfortunate in so many ways, but unfortunate mostly that out of my 821 songs, the only one that doesn't fall under the category of "some"  is Glen Campbell's "Rhinetsone Cowboy."  Are you singing along iPod?  "There's been a load of compromising on the road to my horizon" maybe?

Comments

[Ally Carter]

I'm so loving that I've finally found someone else who appreciates Rhinestone Cowboy!

Good luck with it!
Ally

[Stainto]

Ooh bummer our kid! Now if it'd only been 'Wichita Lineman' then the day may've been saved.....

[Someone cooler than you]

I got my little nano for christmas. ZOMG I was so happy when opened up the box and pulled out the beautiful shiny little nano. It was sleek and i had been waiting to get it for months. Its march now and its already dead! I accidently spilled water on it! *sob* I'll probably have to buy a new one. My little nano was a white 2GB. Maybe ill try out a black one and see if it doesnt get as many scratches... Well, i miss my little nano. Im like dieing right now cuz i wanna listen to some tunez. Farewell, nano...

[Nik]

Lol. I had the same exact thing happen to me! I ended up having to burn ALL of the downloaded music on my computer onto cd's and then deleting them off my harddrive and uninstall Itunes. After that I had to reinstall it, burn everything from cd back to the computer using Itunes and then sync my ipod. Lol. Very time consuming. Good luck...

[yeomanrycavalry]

I love my wife's iPod. She doesn't use it and I paid $349.00 for it. It had been sitting around just kind of collecting dust since Christmas. So I have a new iPod that I can use for my work travels (which I just recently did). She doesn't know what she's missing out on. Then again if she ever does find out what she's missing, then maybe iTunes Store will have its act together and have full length albums for some of my favorite artists. Nothing is more irritating than to pay $9.99 for an album with two or more songs that are not available. Just as equally annoying is having to buy the whole album when I only want one song. Then the ultimate frustration is that dubious beast called the iTunes upgrade. I'm afraid to upgrade now because the last two upgrades counted against the amount of machines authorized to play the music I purchased on iTunes (how frickin' irritating). On the last upgrade I was scared that I had lost some $300.00 in songs as I upgraded my computer to Windows Vista. It counted against the authorized computers and after install I about had an ulcer trying to get it fixed. Now I am permanently stuck on version 7.1 until Apple pulls its proverbial head out of its rump and fixes this issue.