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« Storm 100, Mercury 87 | Main | Say Hello, Wave Goodbye » May 25, 2007podSwapping, ReloadedTUAW has a bit about an article from the Ocala Star-Banner called "The great iPod exchange" where two reporters swapped iPods to gauge one another's musical tastes: The Star-Banner's Dave Schlenker and Brian Thornton traded iPods for a few days and assessed each other's taste in music. Because both iPods are Shuffles, there are no digital read-outs revealing song names, thus the listeners often had no idea what they were hearing. I'll save the dramatic results for your own reading, but the concept is an interesting one: in a world where we increasingly are keeping more and more - or perhaps the entirety -of our music libraries in our pocket, what would happen if you temporarily traded your collection with a friend, co-worker or that guy you just can't meet eye-to-eye with on [insert band here]? This, of course, gave me a fantastic sense of deja vu ... because Richard was suggesting something like this two years ago (today!). We called it "podSwapping": While cooling down, we got in to an interesting discussion about the Shuffle as a new-music discovery device. The idea is simple: when you see someone else with an iPod Shuffle, stop and trade. Just pop the Shuffle out of its armband, exchange with the other person, pop their Shuffle into your armband, and keep going. Bingo! An entirely new set of music. Life is, indeed, random. Its' still a great idea, and I've still got my 1GB Shuffle. Anyone wanna swap? Posted by Gavin Shearer at May 25, 2007 1:06 PM. Posted to Apple. CommentsPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |