Posts Tagged as ‘iTunes’

June 30, 2008

Stuff My Generation Likes: Shuffle

On iTunes or any iPod, there is the invaluable tool of shuffling songs, having the forces of randomness mold our music playlists.

Perhaps this is because of our infectious cultural ADD—the desire for constant change, always shifting between songs for variation and to relive our boredom with the current selection. Or, perhaps, it is our spreading [...]

June 28, 2008

Stuff My Generation Likes: Free Music

We are one of the first generations to even imagine not paying for a song. Partly, this is because the record has evolved into the MP3. Partly, because of Napster. We happened to mature into our music-taste adulthood during a time which was shaped by the downloading of songs on Napster, and later, on other [...]