iPod farming

I learnt a new phrase this week. After his talk to the MA on Monday I went out for a quick meal with Mike and described how I’d spent half my morning deleting and adding tunes to iTunes. ‘Ah yes’, he said, ‘I call that iPod farming’. And that’s what I’m doing now, before going to an exhibition and taking my nephew swimming. Only, there’s an added urgency. I’ve had a 60GB iPod photo for nearly three years and it’s been full since Christmas. I’ve taken various precautionary measures – unclicking most files over 10MB on my iTunes, converting tunes with a high bit-rate to 128AACs, but this week I got to over 14,000 tracks and, when I updated my iPod, first it refused to…