Music, Speech, Speech and Music
August 15, 2007 by upyourego
My iPod must get pretty confused/annoyed with me sometimes - one week I’ll be playing nothing but music and then the next it will be nothing but speech.
I currently have a 4gb first gen iPod Nano which is half full of music and half full of speech - the speech content is a mix of audiobooks, podcasts, BBC Radio Shows that aren’t podcast yet and an archive of Just a Minute shows.The musi
The music side is everything from Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine through to Lilly Allen with a bit of the Beatles, Clash and Razorlight in between.
Although one of the things I’ve started doing recently is creating a ’schedule’ playlist that is a mix of music and speech - I use a smart playlist in iTunes to create shows that run in three hour chuncks with a mix of music, comedy, drama and news.
Thanks to things like BBC NewsPod, various new music podcasts, my music collection and the occasional Just a Minute or two - I can schedule my own radio shows.
I have seven at the moment - one a day for seven days each running three hours a day. That’s enough to get me to work, back from work and through various toilet breaks every day.
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You take your ipod for toilet breaks?!
You mean you don’t?
I have my iPod on a lanyard hanging around my neck so it automatically goes everywhere I go anyway - it’s just that I don’t turn it on while at my desk - wouldn’t hear the phone if it was on at the desk.
Hmm, a smart playlist sounds like just the thing - I hate it when I’ve made aplaylist which includes a podcast only for it to stop working once the podcast is long gone!
Yeach I create it to look for podcasts that start with xyz or contain xzy.
Smart Playlists, if used to effect, can be a great way of ’scheduling’ your iPod.