abba is better than weezer

I was playing with my brother-in-law's iPod the other day. He has about 10MB of songs from about 1,000 or so artists. The iPod really is a nice device, worthy of the techno-lust that seems to surround it. Still, it is not a perfect interface. I wanted to listen to some Weezer, which is an alphabetically-challenged band. I had to scroll through the 950 or so artists until I could get to the 'w' bands. This really took me about a minute of making my thumb do the circle-dance. I could see no better way of doing it. Now I could select a song by album, which would be faster if weezer made albums like "abbey road", but the only album I knew by them was called 'weezer', sigh. So my best option was to just hit shuffle play and hope that I would get lucky. Maybe I should just start listening to Aerosmith, AC/DC and Abba. Oy!

Posted on: Jan 03, 2005

Posted by: plamere

Category: music

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If your brother-in-law had any brains he would have organized his music into playlists as an option to reduce the scroll time.

Posted by 24.4.97.142 on January 03, 2005 at 10:09 PM EST #

The more you continuously scroll on my iPod, the faster it goes. To get from AC/DC to ZZ Top on my 20GB 3G iPod takes about 2.5 to 3 secs. You just have to get used to it. My fiances' 4GB iPod Mini has about 1/20th the amount of music on it, but experimenting just now, it seems even quicker when scrolling through Artists.

Posted by rarneson on January 03, 2005 at 10:45 PM EST #

Rarneson: I was expecting the scroll to go faster, but for some reason it didn't, maybe something wasn't set some where, or perhaps I was just fat fingering it. 3 seconds from ac/dc to zz top, that's what I was expecting.

Posted by Paul on January 04, 2005 at 07:52 AM EST #

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