a giant mix tape!

Remember the days when you made mix tapes by copying songs from one cassette to the other? If you were lucky you had a tape player that held two tapes and could copy one to the other. If not you were stuck holding one tape player next to the one recording and trying to be as quiet as possible during the process. Ok, so maybe I am showing my age as the younger generation did not get to experience this, but that is where the saying mix tape comes from. You tok songs from different tapes and put them together. This could be done for road trips or often times done for a loved one.

CD's soon took over. Does anyone know what cd stands for? I think it is compact discs. Anyways soon it became popular to burn cds to a computer and then compile different songs onto a mixed cd. Oooo the sound quality vastly improved as you didn't have to try and hold your breath while recording. And now comes the newest improved version of the mix tape!

Mixed playlists or podcasts. But I am making mine in the format of an Ipod shuffle. I bought my bf an ipod shuffle with the intention to motivate him to work out, but he doesn't use itunes nor stores any music on his computer. I know, lame! Next week he will be traveling to donate bone marrow for a little kid. He's such a hero. So I want to make him a playlist to fill his ipod shuffle with while he is gone. Very fun.

I enjoy taking random cds from friends to put on my computer and then discover music I might not otherwise try. It has been a lot of fun. Anyways, what has been your favorite mix tape compilation? I copied my Savage Garden cd onto a tape because my first car only had a tape player and I listened to it nonstop! Sigh. Post your favorite mix tape songs here!

Itunes, Ipods, and playlists

I know I have not posted much. I finally fisined up my accounting class tonight. Wahoo! While I am finishing up babysitting, I am playing with my itunes on my laptop. I have a toshiba laptop btw. I have created a game where I listen to at least 30 seconds of a song. From there I decide what playlists to add the song to if any. Sometimes I am inspired to create a new playlist. I just added a song called Lemon Tree to a playlist I created called random. Random is for the songs I like but not sure where I would want to put them. I have a break up play lists, love songs, my jams, dancing music, work out music, stretching, and even on to fall asleep too! There are of course several more playlists, but this gives you an idea how specific you can be on itunes. It's great that you can make as many playlists as you would like. Also being able to play songs at random is way fun as you get to listen to songs that you haven't listen to in ages. I love revisiting random one hit wonders from high school and being like oh yeah! Or listening to my favorite Nsync songs and pretending to be a teeny bopper once again.

Currently India Arie is playing. If you haven't checked her out in awhile, you probably should. She is a talented singer who makes you feel good. Currently her song Wonderful is playing,but she is probably best known for her song Video. Here is the link to the lyrics for Video.http://www.google.com/search?q=india.arie+lyrics+video Taken a look. I bet once you read the lyrics you will recognize her great talent!

Well I will leave you on that note. If you have any suggestions as great song ideas for playlists totally shout them out!