New Tricks
This entry was posted on 1/11/2012 10:48 AM and is filed under blather, Music.
If there's anything I hate these days, it's learning a new skill.
Yes, I enjoyed learning to shoot guns a few months back and I look forward to getting out to the range again. I still think getting a handgun permit is a good idea. I usually enjoy any new tricks I learn how to do, it's the learning that I hate.
Last Christmas (010, not 011) Jay gave me an Ipod and Zack's gift was to put as many of my cd's on it as he could. Every time he came over to the house, I'd give him a stack and he put them on.
Turns out, I have a lot of cds.
Both Josie and Zack showed me how to put a cd into the computer library and then load it onto my Ipod.
I watched, listened and promptly forgot everything they showed me.
My brain doesn't want to know how to load my Ipod.
But earlier this week, I realized that I really like having all my music in one tiny appliance and I only had one of my Peter Gabriel cds loaded so far.
So...since I had the day off and had already gotten my check and week's worth of orders...I sat down at the computer and tried to recall what my kids had shown me.
It didn't take all that long. Soon, I was inputting cds, building my library and filling that little gold Ipod with music. I went about my day, only remembering to check the computer every few minutes to do the next step, put the music on my device or load the next cd.
By the time Josie got home from school I think I had added fifteen or twenty more cds to my Ipod. I like that I can load a whole cd or just the songs I like. You know how it is; a cd you loved in high school but now you realize only two of the songs are worth listening to. Now you only have to have those two. You can put only Peter Gabriel's good songs on your Ipod. I love PG and think his good stuff, like Steam, is as good as it gets but his bad stuff like the Family and the Fishing Net is equally as bad. Now I can delete it from my files!
Several of my cds didn't transfer all the data digitally which puzzles me. Why did Billy Joel's greatest hits disc one transfer song titles etc to the computer, but disc two didn't?
When Josie got home from school, she showed me how to add that info by hand.
She mocked me, of course.
Snotty kids.
"Jeez, Mom. Use your eyes!" she said, showing me to double click a song to hear it and single click to add the artist and album title.
"Hey!" I snapped, not in the mood to put up with any whippersnapperism. "You just learned to drive. Did we toss you the keys and say 'Drive now.'? Or did we say 'Put the key in the ignition, turn it and keep your foot on the brake while you put it in gear'? Of course I don't know when to single or double click yet; YOU HAVE TO SHOW ME."
She was contrite and showed me what I wanted to know but she rolled her eyes. She couldn't help it.
Now I know how to put music on my Ipod.
And as a bonus, I've learned a new way to make Josie roll her eyes.
