Why I Hate my I Pod Nano

I'm sure you all looked at this title and went, WHAAAAAT? Miss Musical Amanda hates a piece of technology that enhances the ability to listen to music? Let me tell you WHY....

A few months ago I broke down and bought a new I Pod. After I had Violet I was suffering from some PPD and realized that that in part was because all of the music in my life was on hold because my awesome I Pod Video was broken. So I went to Sam's Club, (because lets face it... everything is cheaper there) and I sat there for like two hours deciding whether to just go with the new I Pod Nano or break down and get the I Touch. I decided that since I needed the Nano only for working out and for MY personal enjoyment I would go with the Nano. I figured it was smaller- fit in my purse better, and could now hold as much music as my old I Video could hold.

I got it home, tried to load everything and went .... WTF? The program for the new I Pod Nano is horrible to use and makes no sense! It doesn't allow you to just click a button and have it acquire a playlist. You need to manually click everything. SERIOUSLY APPLE? You come out with the I Pad which my MIL can use, but you make me manually click on every song I want on my I pod? You all know me, so you know how much music I have in my I Tunes. I have everything from Barney the Dinosaur, to Gangster wrap and Ska Punk. It would take me literally hours to go through and pick which genre's of music that I want on my I Pod. HUGE FAIL APPLE!!!!

I am now reconsidering my decision to buy an I Pad seeing as Apple has failed me. I am training for a 5 K and the Broad Street run and all I want is a fun playlist that will push me through my running. I used to love the basic I Pod (I had second generation.) Never had a problem with it until it literally died... Now I hate my I Pod and as a professional musician and music teacher- things are not looking good for Apple.

At least it isn't YOU!

Amanda