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The iPod Shuffles arrived yesterday. I've seen it before, so I'm not surprised by its small size. Let me just say when I put it on the desk it blends in with the other office supplies really well, smaller than the stappler, could easily be mistaken for an eraser.
The operation of it couldn't be simpler. Plug it into a USB port on the Mac mini caused iTunes to open up and a "Weiqi Gao's iPod" "folder" to appear. A click on the AutoFill button is all it takes to copy the songs in the Library to the Shuffle.
I left the iPod in over night to charge the battery. And I've been listening to it all day today, lanyard around the neck.
Upon hearing the first song, I said to myself, "this sounds nice." I'm not a big audio person and it doesn't take much to please me, but the sound out of the Shuffle is better than the sound out of my PC speakers.
The next song is one I had forgotten that I downloaded. (I hadn't bought any songs from the iTunes Music Store yet. My songs are either ripped out of my few CDs or downloaded in the First Napster Era.) It's a French song. Again, sounding nicer then I first heard it.
Steve Jobs is right (either that or his reality distortion field has worked) that the randomness of the selections is a source of pleasure out of the Shuffle. It feels more like listening to a radio station without the talking in between songs. Well, with the different genre of music I have, it's more like listening to ten different radio stations.
I'm really glad I bought the iPod Shuffle. I like the infinite little surprises that I was treated with today.
Who knows, maybe I'll start buying music from the iTunes Music Store one of these days.
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