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The laborious time spent burning your CDs to iTunes the internal monologues about whether you really need to carry that collection of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds B-Sides with you at all times the majesty of the click wheel, scrolling through all your much-loved artists (admittedly, that’s one thing that takes some time to get used too, in the face of touch-screen ubiquity. And just as vinyl has its own perks that digital music can’t compete with – the feel, the weight, the aesthetic – I feel the same about that original iPod, too. Streaming is the future, what with the unlimited libraries to browse and cherrypick songs from – and yet there’s something about that endless choice that feels, to me at least, somehow emptier.Īs vinyl enthusiasts will tell you, there’s something special about the concept of ownership in music the idea that, among the huge back catalogues available to stream for free online, there’s a thrill in choosing to buy and cherish albums by bands you love documents of music and memory that you’ll keep forever and belong to you, rather than in an ether of other files. And it seems to me that we’re not just losing the iPod Classic, but a whole way of relating and consuming music, too.

I’m glad I did, too, even if it did mean a short period of time spent like a madman from Threads, obsessed with hording water before the apocalypse comes. As soon as I found out I it was to be retired, I spent frenzied days weighing up the fiscal pros and cons, and then just did it regardless. You’d think the fact I’d gone without having 160GB of my own music wherever I went would mean I didn’t need to desperately hanker after one. I’d lived without one for two years, ever since my old faithful broke and became permanently jammed on ‘It’s My Life’ by Talk Talk. That’s the image I had in my head a couple of weeks ago, when it was announced that Apple’s iPod Classic was going to be discontinued. Panic shopping in the aisles at Currys people hastily thumbing through the catalogue pages in Argos.

Download the new version for ipod Endless Memories