Send A Tune
You can use your iPod for a lot of things. It can hold 1000 songs and play that new voodo stuff they're calling "podcasts". It lets you view pictures. And, if you're rich enough, it can even play videos for you. But the newest rave making the rounds in the iWorld is "Send A Tune", a game that needs only two people, and an iPod full of songs.* Here's the lowdown: you can be anywhere you like. A friend's basement, a girlfriends' bedroom, a Shopper's Drug Mart. Your iPod should be full, unless you have those 80 Gigabyte ones, than who am I kidding, those are impossible to fill up. Even with the whole nine seasons of "Raymond," you'd be hard pressed to fill one of those things up.You don't have to have a big variety of songs. Even if you have all Janet Jackson tunes loaded, you're good to go. As you'll see in a minute, or however long it takes you to reach the next paragraph, it's not about what songs you pass to your friends, it's about why you pass those songs to them. (Ooohhh ahhhh)
It gomes down like this: you and a friend pick a genre, and then pick a quality within that genre. Then, you trade songs that fit within that scope. Like this: me and a friend will choose rap as our genre. The quality we'll try to show off through our songs will be ecee-ing skills - or who can spit the dopest rhymes.
So now my friend and I have to select songs from our iPods, which show off a rapper's emcee-ing skills. I'll pick a emcee who spits a vicious verse, then I'll let my friend see if he can top that verse. If I chose Eminem's verse in Jay Z's "Renegade" as my first choice, he'll come up with something from Big Daddy Cane. And you keep doing that until your ears hurt.
- Ankur Taxali, pop/rock/features/live events
* You don't have to use an iPod. Go ahead, fill those Samsungs E250s up!Labels: ankur taxali, features, iPod
That sounds a bit like the idea microsoft had by putting wireless in the new mp3 players, so you could trade music for others to listen to. But its more fun with an ipod....good idea you have there.
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