shuffle love
Have I told anyone lately how much I love my Shuffle? So much more than my Nano. After a year of moderate use, the nano's battery is already not holding a charge, there's this really awful staticky sound in the right channel, and the case is all scratched to hell. All first world problems, I know. But it just makes it really not fun to use.
But the shuffle! I plug in the headphones, I press play, and songs I like come out, in no particuar order! Fun. Like just now I was inspired to write this because out of nowhere came Wilco's "Hell is Chrome." It was like a Friday early afternoon present, hearing that song.
I hope I like the new one just as much -- I pre-ordered one of the new shuffles with the clip. I'm hoping it will be like wearable joy.
Comments
Brad Choate wrote a good post on why he doesn't think the new shuffle is as good as the old one. I had a shuffle for a while and I enjoyed it, but eventually it just wasn't worth always the pain of trying to keep the collection on it fresh, and not being able to browse through it or select.
1. Select New Smart Playlist... from the File menu.
2. In the resulting dialo box, set Genre equal to whatever you want to shuffle through.
3. Click OK to save the smart playlist.
4. Then select the smart playlist (I recommend renaming it something sensible) and go to the Controls menu and select Shuffle.
5. You can now listen to that genre of music in shuffle. You can also create smart playlists of multiple genres by adding criteria in the New Smart Playlist dialog.