Much the same as yesterday. Again I've listened to entire albums through, something I don't do with my mp3s.
The other thing that has struck me is how arse about tit my media player is. I use itunes. Now in my defence I only migrated to itunes reluctantly after Musicmatch was consumed and then regurgitated as Yahoo music. The final straw for me with this application was when it decided, on it's own, to re-tag all my mp3s, replacing, for example "The Beatles" with "Beatles,The". Any bit of software that has difficulty with the definite article is clearly not worth having. So I toyed with winamp (please) before going with itunes. Of course I had to then upgrade my PC from Windows 2000 to XP and stick more memory in the machine to make it work, but for a free bit of software it does the job. Needless to say I've disabled all the itunes store bollox it comes with.
Sorry where was I?
Right - the ease of use. I don't think itunes is particularly intuitive to use. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but simply reaching across and loading a CD seems to me (at least) a much easier thing to do that scrolling / searching / or changing the view to find a particular track. Sorry I'm not explaining this very well.
The other thing that is very obvious, if not entirely unexpected is how much better the CD's sound. Listening to Supergrass "The Road To Rouen" it's clear to my ears that there is much more "space" to the music. Again a difficult thing to explain.
What I thought might be interesting (as if this wasn't interesting enough) was to list the CDs I've listened to. So far I've played
U2 - The Joshua Tree
JM Jarre - Equinox
Mike Oldfield - Elements
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
DJ Shadow - Entroducin'
SFA - Phantom Phorce
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Arvo Part - Berliner Masse
Plaid - Not For Three
The Beta Band - Three EPs
Supergrass - The Road To Rouen.
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