Does that make me too normal for you?

[cyrano]

I am so fucking TIRED of getting lost in my own back yard. After an appointment in Los Gatos this morning, I tried to get to work without the aid of a computer, which was obviously a big mistake. Because I ended up deep in some thicket of posh little homes on a hillside in what I later found out was Cupertino. I had to call the office to ask for directions from wherever I was, and that still didn't keep me from getting lost once more where I failed to specify whether I needed the north or south freeway. I need a fucking GPS. I've known this for some time, but I've kept putting it off. If I'd had the time, I would have driven to .... Radio Shack or Frye's or Best Buy or wherever the fuck they sell the things, and picked one up.

However.

I have a new desktop, complete with my upgrade to Windows XP. This will let me do things like watch Netflix Instant Movies, and a few other things that demand an XP OS. In order to move stuff like my music, my playlists (all 101 of them), my software, I think I need an external drive.

Last night at the gym, my little 256MB mp3 player gave up, and the audio jack can't keep music going stably to both ears. So I need an mp3 player, before I get on an aeroplane. And I looked at the Apple website at iThings and found a couple within my price range.
And neither of them work unless I'm running XP.

I'd budgeted to buy one new toy this month--the external drive. I might be able to swap out the GPS device. However, the mp3 player is essential to going to the gym, and is pretty important for anything involving airports. I can try to find a non-Apple mp3 player and continue to fight with iTunes when I shuttle music around, but I'm getting tired of that. And I haven't checked to see if other mp3 players need the XPlove as well.

If I need XP then I think I need the external drive. Because I am not manually recreating over 100 playlists. But it means I'm over budget. And I've already planned November's unneccessary spending. So there.

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Not directly, no.

You'd have to copy the mp3 files onto the external drive and import the files into iTunes on the iBook, thereby copying it onto the iBook hard drive. But you can use iTunes on the desktop to create playlists and import the playlist into the iBook iTunes.

This is essentially what I've been doing a lot recently with the mixes I've been making, just on a grander scale.

(Edited): If you want me to show you this on a limited test run this week, I can.