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So it's been almost a year now since I got this 160 gigabyte iPod Classic from my girlfriend, and I've got to say, it's been a wild ride.

Initially, I just thought this would be a fun toy to play around with from time to time, but little did I know that this device was going to change my life, or at least how I relate to my music and my media.

So let's talk a little bit more about that now.

If you don't know me, I'm Spencer, and I like to talk about simple living, frugality, and ways to cut down on your technology usage, sometimes by using other technologies, like the iPod.

So spoiler alert, I love my iPod.

This has been a super valuable tool to me

and today I want to share with you guys 7 reasons

how using this thing over the past year has changed the way that I relate to my media completely.

Let's get into it.

So number 1, I've started to own the music I listen to once again.

Before I got the iPod, I was a Spotify guy.

I made the Switch to Spotify back in 2016 and I really never looked back.

Pretty soon after making the Switch, I got rid of every CD that I owned.

I had a pretty big collection at the time and I went 100 % all in on streaming.

And other than starting a small vinyl collection in the last few years, since that time I've got 90 plus percent of my music from streaming services.

But then when I got the iPod I ran into a bit of an issue.

You can't do streaming on this thing, you have to actually own the files if you want to listen to them.

And it was then

that I realized with a helpful little bit of back of the napkin math

that over the seven years that I'd been on Spotify I'd spent like 800 bucks, close to a thousand dollars i'd paid spotify over those years

and you know how much music i owned zilch zero and

that didn't help me much because i was trying to load up my ipod

and this realization was really powerful it changed the game for me it gave me some time to sit back

and reflect and think is this the way

that i want to go forward do i want to continue

renting this whole time do i want to continue paying

but not really getting anything at the end of the day once the payments stop

or do i want to be a little bit more intentional put my money where my mouth is

and start to own a music catalog

so what i decided was after seven years i was going to cancel spotify

and i decided to start building a small music catalog of

my own pretty soon i started to find websites like hd tracks

and kobas where you're able to buy a high quality drm free digital music

and i was starting to build out a small catalog of music

that i actually cared about so the second way

that using my ipod instead of something like a streaming service

really changed how i listen to music is it forced me to get real about what music I actually listen to.

You see with Spotify and other streaming services we see

that monthly payment as a pretty good deal

because we have access to a giant catalog of music more than we'd ever be able to afford on our own.

However we have to be realistic this is also a lot more music than we're ever going to listen to.

I think with music over TV shows

or movies we're very likely to find a few artists that we really enjoy and then revisit their work regularly.

In my case, I found that I was listening to a playlist

that I had made on Spotify with a hundred something songs on it, and that was pretty much the extent of my Spotify usage.

Like here and there, I'd listen to a new track from an artist that I liked if they'd put something out, but pretty much I was returning to that playlist for most of my music listening.

So when I stopped using Spotify and started listening to music on my iPod, I couldn't just afford to buy thousands of songs on a whim.

I needed to actually get real

and be a little bit more intentional about what music I actually valued and wanted to own.

And when I thought about it, I figured that if I had just the tracks that were on that hundred something song playlist,

then I would have probably 80 to 90 % of my music listening habits completely covered just by having that playlist.

So I knew once I secured that base, I really didn't have much to worry about.

So moving on to the third reason how having this iPod has just changed my music habits

and the way that I relate to media in general is I spend a lot less money on music now.

You probably think that renting is a lot cheaper than buying

and if you were to replace Spotify in your life it would require you to purchase a lot of music.

And originally I kind of assumed the same thing

but after almost a year of doing it this new way

and I guess by new way I mean the old way of doing things I found

that to not really be the case.

You know in minimalism the term is thrown around a just in case item.

It's an item that like the name implies you don't really need but you keep around just in case.

I think this is often what happens when we think about the music

that we're going to need

if we were to replace something like spotify overnight we imagine it's this massive catalog

that we would need to have just in case we wanted to listen to it

but the fact of the matter is we return to a few core tracks

that we really enjoy again

and again we need a lot less than we think we do

that was at least the case for me

and i found the number to be quite low and quite manageable

and nowadays i'm not even buying like one album a month on average i would say

if you took all of the music that i purchased over this period

that i've been using the iPod exclusively and spread it out so it kind of was a month -to -month thing, I would guess that I'd probably spend only like $5 a month on music.

And that's about 50 % of what I was paying monthly to have Spotify.

But if I stop paying that fee tomorrow, I'm still going to own all the music that I've bought up until this point.

So that's pretty good.

So keeping with the theme of intentionality, the fourth thing

that has changed since I've been using my iPod exclusively for

this past year is I find myself listening to whole albums all the way through once again.

Now this was something that I always did when I used to buy CDs when I was younger, but as I moved to streaming services, I found myself more and more moving away from that and just listening to singles.

And I guess that's just because the sheer amount of media that's available on these streaming services, there's not as much incentive for you to just dig into what you have.

You could listen to anything, so you don't really end up sticking with something for very long.

And I guess that's also why

so many artists don't even release full albums anymore they just do tons of drops of singles

or just release small eps but

when i buy my own album i only have a finite amount of music

so i have a lot more incentive to dig into those albums

and actually find out what's hiding in the nooks and crannies of

that thing not just listen to the singles and get out of there

and pun intended that rocks i love being able to dig into those albums go deeper

and find those deep cuts so to say it's a lot of fun

and i always end up finding something

that i like even maybe more than the single moving on

to the fifth thing that's changed since I've started using the iPod full -time is I find

that I care a little bit more about sound quality.

It's not to say that I didn't care about sound quality before, it was just not really a consideration whatsoever, but now I pay a little bit more attention to it.

Now the iPod isn't the most high fidelity music player out there, no, no it's not, but this thing can hang.

It can play Apple's lossless codec which is very high quality, but usually I just opt for really high quality MP3s.

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Back when I was predominantly streaming, I was just using my iPhone and a pair of AirPods

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and i wasn't really thinking more about it but

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because the ipod doesn't have bluetooth i was back to using

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wired headphones recently i switched to using a pair of iem's

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which stands for in -ear monitors it's basically super high quality sounding earbuds

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and if you're using an ipod

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and wired headphones on the go this is the option

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that you should choose i think this is the best way

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to go the sixth thing i want to note since i've been using the ipod for the last year something

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that i've really appreciated about using ipod only instead of streaming is the fact that there's no algorithm.

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With Spotify, there is just so much music to choose from.

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You need a little bit of help sifting through all of it.

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And that's kind of where the algorithm comes in.

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It kind of nudges you towards certain artists, right?

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It makes recommendations to things that might sound similar.

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And that's kind of the problem with algorithms, in my opinion.

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You know, Spotify wants you to keep using the app, so it wants to keep you enticed with the music you're hearing.

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It's constantly giving you stuff that it thinks you're going to like, aka more of the same.

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In my opinion algorithms are kind of like an echo chamber.

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They're just telling you what you want to hear and they're pushing you deeper and deeper into what you already know.

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Using an algorithm is much less of a chance

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that you're going to stumble into uncharted territory and really challenge your tastes in any way.

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And without Spotify

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and its algorithm curating my music catalog for me I have to do a lot of

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that work on my own and go find those new artists for myself.

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I actually made a whole other video where I talked about how I left Spotify

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and some of the ways that I found new music otherwise i'll link

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that one above up here somewhere if you're interested in checking

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that one out but i look at social media accounts

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that make recommendations based on genre i read subreddits based on sub genres i also read music blogs

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and other publications and i'll even find recommendations sometimes from reading an artist's history

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and influences on wikipedia so wrapping up the seventh thing

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and likely the most important thing

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that i've noticed since switching to the iPod over the past year is

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that I find myself getting so much less distracted when I'm out with my iPod.

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And for that, I have to thank the iPod's lack of connectivity.

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This is just an iPod, okay?

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It's not a phone.

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It doesn't connect to the internet.

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It doesn't do anything else.

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It just plays music.

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It's an iPod.

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And for that, I am grateful.

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You see, when I go for a walk and I just want to have my tunes with me, I don't have to carry along with me all those other distractions that come pre -built into smart devices.

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And yes, I can turn off notifications, put my phone on grayscale, delete problem apps, do all of those things, but there's still going to be that unshakable urge, just that quick draw effect to want to pick up your phone

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and check it that just is not present when you're using something like an iPod.

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And folks, if you pair this device with a dumb phone, then you have a deadly near distraction free combination.

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And I think that's a huge part of the reason why these iPods are seeing a little bit of a resurgence again.

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People want some level of an escape from their smart devices and the distractions that within.

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People want their tech to be a tool, not some flashing slot machine in the ever -growing attention economy casino.

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And for that folks, the iPod is rad.

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I can use the iPod, have a great experience, and come away from it feeling great as well.

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And I think it's so telling that people are so worried about screen time, monitoring their screen time.

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I don't need a screen time with this iPod because it's not an addicting device.

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It's just a tool and it's great.

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Well that's about it for today folks.

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Just a few reasons how this old iPod has changed my

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approach to music what did you think of this video have

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you been finding yourself moving away a bit from smart technology

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for older simpler alternatives like the ipod have you found yourself moving away from streaming

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but opting to own a smaller media collection for yourself let me know in the comments, I'd love to hear from you.

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Thanks very much for watching and I'll see you in the next video.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“I Used This iPod for a Year and It Changed My Life”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：ipod, spotify, streaming, listen。這段影片共有 161 個句子、2330 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 9:56。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 235 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
catalogue 名詞	/ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/	目錄 /目錄
algorithm 名詞	/ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/	演算法, 演算法
playlist 名詞	/ˈpleɪˌlɪst/	播放列表, 歌單 /歌單
recommendation 名詞	/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/	建議 /建議, 勸告 /勸告
intentional 形容詞	/ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/	故意, 蓄意
headphones 名詞	/ˈhɛdfoʊnz/	耳機 /耳機, 耳筒
incentive 名詞	/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/	刺激, 誘因 /誘因
genre 名詞	/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/	風格 /風格, 型別 /型別
earbud 名詞	/ˈiɹ.bʌd/	耳塞式耳機 /耳塞式耳機
entice 動詞	/ɪnˈtaɪs/	誘惑 /誘惑
gigabyte 名詞	/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/	千兆位元組 /千兆位元組, GB
grayscale 形容詞	/ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/	灰度
lossless 形容詞	/ˈlɒs.ləs/	無損 /無損
minimalism 名詞	/ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪz.əm/	{{t+\|1=cmn\|2=極簡主義\|tr=jíjiǎn zhǔyì}}
napkin 名詞	/ˈnæpˌkɪn/	餐巾, 餐巾紙 /餐巾紙

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
end up 動詞	到達
find out 動詞	找出, 查明
look back 動詞	回顧 /回顧
pick up 動詞	拾取, 撿 /撿
turn off 動詞	關 /關, 關掉 /關掉

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	i've been using
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	it's been · has been · has changed

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 53 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I've, you're, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, frugality /fɹuːˈɡæləti/, manageable /ˈmænəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/, minimalism /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪz.əm/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/, revisit /ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, vinyl /ˈvaɪ.nɪl/, overnight /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: catalogue /ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/, playlist /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/, headphones /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/, incentive /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/, curate /ˈkjʊɹɪt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, frugality /fɹuːˈɡæləti/, grayscale /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, predominantly /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/

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先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 catalogue, algorithm, playlist 這類單詞。

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