database//music//DIGITAL//ipod Nano

This is a list of the digital music I had collected up until around 2012. I was able to recover the data from my iPod Nano 3G, which had lived happily in a box until 2024 without being touched. It has 8GB of storage, so the majority of the albums are incomplete in this collection, and often only have one or two tracks. However, I often had the full album on my laptop/MacBook. The "Source" column is my best guess based on the file format of the music. There's music in this list I would never listen to again, but rather than curate out the cringe/ick, I've chosen to keep a full record of my listening heritage. I was gifted this iPod during my senior years of highschool, so this collection reflects what I was listening to throughout my teenage years, and whilst I was at college studying for a diploma.
(Last updated: Sept 2024)

Notes

<sup>1. I used this phrase in iTunes to keep tracks without an album name gathered together. Many of these would have been tracks copied from a friend's mp3 player, ripped from a home-made mixtape CD, etc. Not everyone had the internet in highschool, and even if you did, sending files as big as an MP3 could be painfully slow (and possibly expensive, depending on the type of internet connection you had). So we swapped home-made CDs instead.
2. Whilst I've chosen not to redact this individual from the list (so that my record is complete), it came to light c.2012 they were problematic. I do not support this person.
3. No idea what happened to this CD but damn right I'd buy it again!!
4. At the time of writing (Sept 2024), I have no memory of this music. Must revisit!
5. This was technically a recovery job. I had these tracks at some point, which I had downloaded from the band's MySpace/SoundCloud/BandCamp page (I forget which). That was taken down after they got signed, and I never liked the studio productions of the songs as much. At some point the files got corrupted, very sad. But through the magic of the Internet, I was eventually able to relocate them. :D
6. This was the album that got me started with "bargain bin wildcards". I picked this up in a second hand music shop for very cheap, because I thought the album cover looked cool and the track names sounded interesting. My boyfriend at the time was horrified I'd "take a chance on something like that". I never regretted it, nor have I regretted the vast majority of "bargain bin wildcards" I've picked up over the years. It's almost as if you can judge an album by its cover! ;)
7. as if there wasn't already enough lmao
8. for shame.
9. Turns out it was one track: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Your guess is as good as mine on this one.
10. I'm not even joking, it's literally four hours of actual wind chimes. Fuck knows. (Probably from the Buddhism phase.)</sup>