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Thursday, October 27, 2005 » music

So I bit the bullet and got a new iTrip today. The tape deck in the car finally gave out a few weeks ago so I couldn't use the cassette adapter anymore. At first I tried out my beloved old iTrip for the 1st generation iPod, but I wasn't able to set the stations via my new 4th (5th?) generation Pod. (Plus some genius at Griffin decided to affix a useless slab of plastic to the bottom of the iTrip to make it physically awkward to use with anything but the 1G iPod.) After a few weeks of trying to endure silent driving, I decided enough was enough and picked up the new model iTrip today, and even after just a short drive to the store earlier, I was glad to be able to listen to horrifying Japanese songs in the car again. The one disappointment I have about it (besides the whole "having to buy a new one"1 thing) is that they replaced the wonderful blue LED, which was super-slick as well as easy to spot in a dark car. While the packaging suggests that the new LED is orange, it is actually a demonic red. It looks pretty menacing, and I'm sad that it doesn't shoot laser beams. Of course, I guess if I really wanted it to do that I could always put my electrical engineering degree to some use and rewire one of these things.

1 It's even more aggravating that the new iTrip has another, albeit slightly more purposeful-looking tab that fits into the iPod remote port, because that means they're going to roll out another version to fit the new video-playing Pods. DEATH.