quite hasty praise

hello there

not so long ago i got, well, if not all excited then a bit carried away believing that them what do the apple stuff (technology, not fruit, look you see) actually deserved some credit. this was in relation to an early model of the ipod, details of which can be found via clicking here, which remained armed and fully operational after several years of being laid dormant. fear not, for this is no tale of overt woe, as the device still works. it is just, of course, that at heart (or essentially) apple does wish it were french. 

having grown somewhat tired of the existing vibes on the device when i fired it up (see that link for the music what i had on it) i decided to change a few songs. my plan was to just take out one or two songs and replace them. in terms of replacement music the kind of vague idea (or intention) was to simply use some of the songs what i had bought off of itunes, since they were mine (in theory) to do what i wished with. 

my first step into what i (foolishly) assumed would be a world of quickly changing a few songs on the ipod was to remove one or two already on it. yes, indeed, If I Can Dream off of The King, Elvis Presley had been selected for such, as i remain at a loss to explain why on earth i ever added it. did this go well at all? not really, not really, no. 

no matter what i right clicked, left clicked, double clicked or highlighted it was simply not so that the apple software had any interest in letting me remove any tracks. i had authorised the pc, it was all logged in and what have you, but no. vaguely i could recall a reasonably similar scenario the last time i attempted to do this, having a sense that the only way the f*****g thing was going to allow me to change one or two songs was via doing a "factory reset" and thus changing all  the songs. great. 

for some reason i thought it would have been a good idea to show off the weight of this ipod in the previous post. i simply forgot to weight it, meaning (of course) no picture to add. this has been rectified with the above image, then. cannot think of who(m) this may be of interest to, but there you go. 

right, where was i. oh yes, the simple task of removing and adding songs. once the ipod had gone through the "restore factory settings" thing, which (to be fair) didn't take that long, off i went to my library on that itunes software. the intention was to download a few of my purchase and add them on. before it would let me download any of my purchased a thing flashed up (surprisingly in english, not sure at this stage why they don't put it all in french) saying i had to agree to the new "terms and conditions" before i could download them. not entirely unreasonable, except every time i clicked on the button to go and glance at them (momentarily) and just blindly click ok the whole f*****g thing just kept f*****g crashing. great. 

doubtful that to many of you shall be all that interested in what i have playing as i go out and about on strolls, or the occasional train ride (when the trains are running and not being french). on the off chance that one or two of you are interested, here you go. 

pretty decent mix, i oh so modestly say. mostly i am annoyed that i have momentarily "lost" some favourites from the Starstruck soundtrack. infamously this magnificent set of songs has never been released on compact disc or as a "digital download" (that i doubt apple would let me download anyway). i have no doubt that i have the mp3 files on a hard drive somewhere. just not sure where, exactly. 

to just sort of load the device (the ipod) up and get on with it "for now", all of these songs are mostly from purchases i made where the people paid have a decidedly non-apple (or if you like non-french) approach and let me download them again. beyond that it's songs which were on rather more easily accessible external drive things which took my fancy. will for the most part let the songs speak for themselves (if you can be bothered to read through them), except to say that Disintegrate off of Suede, played via this device sans audio limiter, just gets better and better the louder you play it. i very much encourage you to test this. 

otherwise, all remains (surprisingly) good with this quasi resurrected device. i did have concerns that the battery may have deteriorated over the years, which not even me at my most annoyed with them could i really blame on apple. not so, merrily, for it seems to be holding out just fine. i use this for at least thirty minutes to a whole hour (or close enough) each day. the battery test light has remained on green and i have had no need to charge it for a couple of weeks. unlike other apple things. 

well, that's that. unless there's some unexpected clamour (or similar demand) for me to share the details of any further changes i make to what's on it i am not sure there's all that much more i will have to say abut this ipod. things do change, mind. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!