OK! I LOVE music! It's gets you grooving and moving, or calms you down after a long day! It just depends on the genre you choose to listen too! In my case it's pretty much everything! I remember when MP3's first came out and my son wanted one, probably because music was one thing he could really relate to. (His story is for another post to explain that last statement.) Anyway, I remember getting him an MP3 player and having the worst time trying to get music loaded on it. I am not a stupid person, but the instructions for that fine piece of technology and some of the later programs or whatever they were called that offered the music, well, they all left me with a lot to desire!!
So, finally, since he was a kid, and irresponsible like most kids, we got him an iPod Shuffle! That year they were really cheap since Apple had come out with the Nano, I think it was called. Which really dropped the price and size of the Shuffle to something that if my son broke it, it was OK! (We still have that Shuffle and it has been passed down to his brothers, until they got their own I Pads~ which would be a great topic for another post). I loved the sound of that little 1"X1" square and it really held a lot of music, so I got myself one too. The sound quality of the Apple ear-buds, in my honest opinion, and their products are a force to be reckoned with for the money!! I loved my Shuffle, especially since my husband gets tired of hearing music, therefore I got to listen to all my favorite types of music, by myself! I love doing this while I clean the house, just makes it easier and time goes faster. Did I mention how easy I-Tunes is to download, then load their files on to the Shuffle, iPods, iPhone, etc... Much easier than the other 4 programs I tried to use, and that was so long ago that I can't ever remember which ones I tried. The only problem was that, in those days, if you lost your music, ie..PC, where all the music was loaded and just happened to crash, you had to kiss all those downloads bye-bye! Money down the drain! Was not a pleasant experience. Imagine my surprise when my other son got his i-Pad and now I got all that music back, for FREE!! Which convinced my husband when it came time to get new phones, because both of our laptops died and the desktop left a lot to be desired too, and we still had flip-phones! So you guessed it, we got i-Phones. We still have the 4 and 4s, even though they just came out with the i-Phone 6 recently, which works great for us!! Portable handheld PC's, phones and i-Pods all in one tiny, compact piece of technology!
So, fast forward to October, 2014! I finally bit the bullet, took everything off my i-phone to make storage space for the latest iOS 8 update! Of which my biggest file is my music! It was OK though, Apple even made loading all those songs back on so simple. But, while I was going through my purchased music, I had to endure some of the songs my son downloaded. Endure is not really a strong enough of a word here! We used to censor his music in the beginning, because there is a bunch of negative music out there these days, which is really sad! This lead to a conversation with my husband when he asked what I was doing, because although it was easy, it was time consuming. I let the DH (remember to look at the top for what DH stands for) listen to some of the songs that said son has downloaded. Some not so bad, but the majority of it was, I'm not even sure what genre it would be called, oh my goodness!! It could possibly be called heavy metal? I know when I listened to 'heavy metal' it had a lot of screaming, usually from the guitars, but this is far worse. Who could possibly think screaming at the top of their unintelligible lungs with screaming instruments is music? We were lost! It's his generation, WOW!! I couldn't even dance or groove to that stuff! All we could do was shake our heads!
Thankfully, I've downloaded all the songs I wanted from i-Tunes of my past purchases, and that torture is OVER! Whew! I survived! Now, if I can just get the other 2 boys to not like that stuff! Wish me luck!!
So, finally, since he was a kid, and irresponsible like most kids, we got him an iPod Shuffle! That year they were really cheap since Apple had come out with the Nano, I think it was called. Which really dropped the price and size of the Shuffle to something that if my son broke it, it was OK! (We still have that Shuffle and it has been passed down to his brothers, until they got their own I Pads~ which would be a great topic for another post). I loved the sound of that little 1"X1" square and it really held a lot of music, so I got myself one too. The sound quality of the Apple ear-buds, in my honest opinion, and their products are a force to be reckoned with for the money!! I loved my Shuffle, especially since my husband gets tired of hearing music, therefore I got to listen to all my favorite types of music, by myself! I love doing this while I clean the house, just makes it easier and time goes faster. Did I mention how easy I-Tunes is to download, then load their files on to the Shuffle, iPods, iPhone, etc... Much easier than the other 4 programs I tried to use, and that was so long ago that I can't ever remember which ones I tried. The only problem was that, in those days, if you lost your music, ie..PC, where all the music was loaded and just happened to crash, you had to kiss all those downloads bye-bye! Money down the drain! Was not a pleasant experience. Imagine my surprise when my other son got his i-Pad and now I got all that music back, for FREE!! Which convinced my husband when it came time to get new phones, because both of our laptops died and the desktop left a lot to be desired too, and we still had flip-phones! So you guessed it, we got i-Phones. We still have the 4 and 4s, even though they just came out with the i-Phone 6 recently, which works great for us!! Portable handheld PC's, phones and i-Pods all in one tiny, compact piece of technology!
So, fast forward to October, 2014! I finally bit the bullet, took everything off my i-phone to make storage space for the latest iOS 8 update! Of which my biggest file is my music! It was OK though, Apple even made loading all those songs back on so simple. But, while I was going through my purchased music, I had to endure some of the songs my son downloaded. Endure is not really a strong enough of a word here! We used to censor his music in the beginning, because there is a bunch of negative music out there these days, which is really sad! This lead to a conversation with my husband when he asked what I was doing, because although it was easy, it was time consuming. I let the DH (remember to look at the top for what DH stands for) listen to some of the songs that said son has downloaded. Some not so bad, but the majority of it was, I'm not even sure what genre it would be called, oh my goodness!! It could possibly be called heavy metal? I know when I listened to 'heavy metal' it had a lot of screaming, usually from the guitars, but this is far worse. Who could possibly think screaming at the top of their unintelligible lungs with screaming instruments is music? We were lost! It's his generation, WOW!! I couldn't even dance or groove to that stuff! All we could do was shake our heads!
Thankfully, I've downloaded all the songs I wanted from i-Tunes of my past purchases, and that torture is OVER! Whew! I survived! Now, if I can just get the other 2 boys to not like that stuff! Wish me luck!!
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