iPod Wishlist

February 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I thought iPod reached critical mass about two years ago, but I think I was wrong. Judging by what I see on my morning commute – the Globe, USA Today, and a half-dozen local free weeklies, it’s still heading up. This morning I spotted USA Today‘s second iPod cover story in less than a week, though I’m curious, why did they use a photo of a four year-old iPod on the front page? I’m a happy iPod user of the “changed my life (or at least the way I listen to music)” variety, but I’ve long had an idea or two for some new features. 99% of the time I listen to it on shuffle, as Steve Jobs apparently noticed ipod_escape.jpgmany iPod users do, but every once in awhile a song comes on that fits my mood (or, more embarrassingly, reminds me that I own that album) and I want to break free of the shuffle and continue listening to the album that song comes from. I would press a button to listen to the album in order, starting from that song and looping around until the album had played once through, and then continue on with the shuffle. This button, which I would call “Escape,” would be found on the remote only, as it’s easy enough to do manually if you’ve got the iPod in front of you. If, after escaping, you wanted to return to shuffling instead of continuing on with the whole album to which you’d escaped, press Escape once again and get back in the mix. Please, Apple, steal my idea.

And on a related note, Doves are coming out with their new album later on this month (and can be kept up with on their new blog and Flickr account), and though they occupy fifty songs out of 7000 on my iPod, I pretty much always want to hear them. I don’t skip every song that comes along on random to get to one, but I often wish I could (and I know, I should just play a Doves album instead of always shuffling). My solution? A “Doves” button on my iPod. I know, it’s getting to be a lot of buttons, but hey, I’d use it. An example, with apologies to Picasso.

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Tags: Music

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Brent // Feb 9, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    This, this is why I live in slight awe of Meachams everywhere.