A new corollary

[angela_o]

I've always said that stuff expands to fill the space available. Well, apparently music expands to fill the iPod space available as well. I thought that 4G sounded like so much when I opened my lovely early birthday surprise, but I'm closing in on 70% filled up already. Ah, the decisions! What do I exclude? What must I have? It's tough I tell ya. Plus, I still need to figure out if there's a way to keep iTunes from downloading everything to the iPod when it synchronizes the folders. Hmmm.

Anyway, I now enlist suggestions from all of you. My musical finds that I've loved in the past few months have been Keane (Hopes and Fears), Frou Frou (Details, my latest love), Rufus Wainwright, and The Postal Service. I know, I'm really behind the times with some of these, but I figure much better late then never right? I'm bound and determined not to be one of those people who ages and refuses to listen to new music and thus gets stuck with a finite pool of listening choices with nothing from past their middle 20's in the queue. So, what five bands/singers would *you* recommend I check out? I'm primarily a British alternativeish kind of gal, but I'm open to all suggestion. A brief description of the singer/group's sound/music would be a great help.

Please, rec away!

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[emluv.livejournal.com]

Someone on my friends list was having iTunes downloading issues. Apparently somewhere in your settings you can fix it so it doesn't download everything from your computer automatically, but lets you manually indicate what to transfer. (And likewise, if you delete something from iTunes, it won't automatically delete it from your iPod the next time you synch up.)

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

I'll fiddle around with the preferences and see if I can figure something out Neph. Thanks for the lead. I think I've finally decided that I'm just not a Mac person when you get right down to it. For some people their setups seems perfectly intuitive, but not to me. However, I'm still quite rapturous over my Mini. We're developing a deep and meaningful relationship. :)