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Article STEPHEN RENNICKS The Audio Flâneur With t
he resurgence of vinyl and even cassette, perhaps nostalgia for and a return to the iPod and the CD collecting and ripping culture that surrounded it is inevitable. As I'm one of life's late adapters anyway, this isn't so long ago for me because I only got my first and so far still functioning iPod just 10 years ago (pro tip: never update your iTunes). This turned out to be a very good thing for me and my huge collection of CDs and luckily by then they came with a 60 GB memory. I've had as many as 18,000 MP3s on it but could always do with more. I filled it the slow way by burning as many of my CDs as I could from A to Z (nothing came from iTunes). At the start I was putting almost everything in but as I got closer to the limit I had to get more selective and even take things off (the eternal search for doubles!). PAGE 36 The most important and breakthrough function for me was leaving it on 'shuffle'. I know that many have already written about this phenomenon before but taking that chaotic route through my lifetime's collection of music is what really allowed my CDs a second chance. The memories and surprises were constant, especially in those early days. One of the best things was hearing a song I didn't even recognise and checking to see who it was. It might turn out to be a track from a various artists free magazine CD, a CDR a friend burned me in the '90s I probably only listened to once or a band I simply hadn't listened to in 20 years. It was worth all the burning and popping in and out of discs I can tell you!