In all likelihood we’re not just seeing the death of the iPod Classic, but the death of the dedicated portable music player. Now it’s all phones and apps. Everything is a camera. The single-use device is gone—and with it, the very notion of cool that it once carried. The iPhone is about as subversive as a bag of potato chips, and music doesn’t define anyone anymore.
iProducts were never subversive. I don't think the piracy explosion was either. Before Napster the only people sharing mp3s were people who would be trading tapes before there were mp3s , after iTunes caught on people sharing mp3s were people who would have been trading tapes before there were mp3s. In between, piracy was the way you got music in your preferred format. That wasn't subversive, that was being the most convenient option. But yeah, don't let Apple manage your music collection. Disks are cheap, and so is rsync.net if you want an offsite backup.
Did you price backing up the whole thing? You don't want to do that. At the very least you've mentioned keeping time machine backups there, and since snapshotting is built into the price there is no point in keeping anything but the most recent time machine image.
Synology will interface natively with Glacier, but everybody hates it (it doesn't do a good job). You can trick it into running Crashplan, but I haven't had much success (and backing up 6TB via cable modem is a drag). I'll probably buy another box, seed it locally and then try and use RSync over VPN to get it to update the distant from the local but I'm not there yet. After all, if the box does take a shit I'm going to want to be able to restore now, not at 10MBPS.
It’s amidst this disposable culture that Apple took the unprecedented move of adding U2’s latest album, “Songs of Innocence,” to half a billion iTunes users’ libraries. People were pissed. I’m talking some truly next level Twitter outrage last week. You’d think Tim Cook had penned a Peter Shih-style Medium post about how much he hates poor people. Industry analyst Bob Lefsetz said it was “no different from a rape or a murder, but with even less legs.” iOS developer Dan Wiseman was more subdued, tweeting, “Evolution of music sales: 1. Pay a lot 2. Pay a little 3. Pay anything 4. OK fine, just pay once a month 5. Fuck you, now you own a U2 album.”
It's hilariously fashionable to hate on U2 right now.
The iPod and iTunes are what took my music collection, fragmented it, and gave me ten Track 6's. I couldn't even have my songs on more than three devices for a while. No one cared what was on your iPod, and even if they would have cared, there was no practical way to get a sense of it. The iPod is what made music collections intangible. Also, I am not sure why 'everything is a camera' when everything is also a music player.
Oh, come now. That's just ID3 management (which the iPod has always sucked at, but iTunes prior to v7 or so wasn't half bad at). And it's not Apple's fault you encoded as AAC so it would add their DRM to your content... or wait, guess it is. Just for shits and giggles, I fired up my iPod. It's an "iPod." Not a 1st gen, not a 2nd gen, not a click wheel. It's the original, the dude that came to life Oct 23, 2003. And while the claim that "your entire music library" would fit on 5GB was laughable, I will say that the content I found on that old beastie (from 2007 or so) does read kind of like a long playlist.
My first problem is I spend a lot of time on the beach. NIMBYism ensures that the beach has shitty coverage. If I were to stream my music library I'd be listening to silence 70% of the time. My second problem is Spotify doesn't have half my music. But my 3rd problem is iTunes sucks a mighty schlong.
Oh, I still use it. Every day. With TuneUp and BeaTunes installed. But I've tried pretty much everything else and it's no good. My problem with Youtube is it sounds like shit and I want to be able to go "play these three albums NAO" and have it do it without a bunch of clicking around and shit.
Try MusicBee, I switched from iTunes recently and I find it better in almost every way.
Get over yourself dude.I miss the time when we were still defined by our music. When our music was still our music. I miss being younger, with a head full of subversive ideas; white cables snaking down my neck, stolen songs in my pocket. There will never be an app for that.
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