A couple of days ago my iPod Shuffle arrived and I love it. My lovely wife Emily got me one for my birthday.
As you can see from this picture, it is literally the size of a pack of gum. Tiny. I carry it in my front pocket with my chapstick and my spacepen.
Why a shuffle you might ask? Well, I agree with what Brad Wilson said: there are two kinds of music listeners. Those who have tons of music and probably use shuffle play a lot, and those who have less music and tend to pick and choose specific albums or playlists. I used to be the latter, but for the past year or so I have definitely been in the former camp. So when I saw the shuffles were only $100, I decided I wanted one.
There are a couple of accessories that I’m on the lookout for:
- A Key Chain Case – Something that will protect it from banging up against the keys but lets me use it as my key fob.
- An FM Adapter – Yeah I know I can get any number of these, but they aren’t designed to work with the shuffle and so I end up with wires all over the place. I’d like something that snaps on to it like the iTrip does for regular iPods.
Now playing: Tool - Jimmy
UPDATE: My frield PK just IMed me and told me that XtremeMac has exactly what I’m looking for in their new iPod Shuffle line. Or, more correctly, they will have them by the end of March. It looks like the SuperHook ($19.95) + TuffWrapz ($24.95) + AirPlay for Shuffle ($49.95) will do exactly what I want. But that will end up costing as much as the Shuffle did. Hmmm. There has to be e better way. I suppose I could make the hook and get a cheaper FM adapter. Hmmm… I think I’ll wait a bit longer and see what happens in the marketplace.
