I have essentially changed over almost completely from listening to music on CDs to listening on my iPod. The main reason is that all my music can go on my iPod, plus audiobooks, podcasts and even movies. This is a fantastic thing on trips. I don't have to figure out which CDs I want to bring, find the cases, realize that the CD is missing, hunt for it, and then bring along the relatively bulky CD case, and then as likely as not realize I don't really want to listen to any of the CDs I brought. Plus as long as I don't mind watching a tiny little screen, I can also transfer movies onto my iPod. We finished watching season 5 of 24 on our flights to and from Mexico in January -- it made the five-hour flight, uh, fly by.
So far I've transferred about 1500 songs from CDs onto my computer. I've also bought a fair chunk of music online, plus some audiobooks. I also download podcasts on a daily basis. My iPod holds 80 GB worth of stuff (that's the same size hard drive as my computer) and it's about 20% full. That means I have something like 20 days' worth of continuous listening before any repeats.
The iPod, or any similar music player, is just a way easier way to take music with me than a tape or CD player.
Music I'm listening to these days: Wailin' Jennys, Beck, the Perpetrators, Jeremy Fisher, Joni Mitchell, Xavier Rudd, Crooked Still, Lovin' Spoonful, Men Without Hats, Mark Reeves, Neil Young and Leo Kottke. Hardly an exhaustive list, but I just made up an iMix and they were on it. You can see the complete list on the iTunes store (well, at least all the tracks that iTunes has) -- I'm calling the playlist Klassikal II. (The original Klassikal was a CD mix I burned several years ago that I still like a lot.)
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