iPod shuffle

Since my first generation iPod is pretty much dead due to bad sectors on the harddrive, I bought a 512 MB iPod shuffle. The main reason I got this instead of a larger iPod is because I wanted something super small to take with me on my trip to Japan and didn't want to worry about having to baby a more delicate harddrive based player.

Due to it's relatively small amount of space and lack of direct access to individual tracks, I decided not to load it up with my usual collection of soundtracks (Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, Braveheart, etc.). Instead, my iPod playlist mainly consists of more rock oriented music and select tracks from various soundtracks which would lend itself better toward randomized track playback.

The only problem with the shuffle which I have noticed so far is that sometimes it forgets what track you were last on when you turn it on after it's been off for a while.