The iPod.

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Author: Moby

In two years it has changed how we listen to music

I HAVE A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD COUSIN who has never once purchased a CD, and he has a huge music collection. The iPod makes the days of portable CD players seem like a bad, distant memory. I love the novelty of having all of my favorite CDs in one tiny little box, all just waiting to be heard. Having 5,000 songs on something the size of a cigarette pack. Two years ago, I had a meeting with some people from Apple wherein I was singing the praises for iTunes. My only problem with iTunes, I said, was that there wasn't a portable MP3 player that was proprietary for the Mac. They kind of looked at each other with shifty eyes and said, “Well, we shouldn't show this to you, because it's only a prototype, but here it is…” and they handed me the first-ever iPod. I couldn't get my hands off of it. Now you can't imagine music any other way. I can be sitting on an airplane and think to myself: “Self, wouldn't you like to listen to the first Roxy Music record?” And there it is. I would have burned out the first four Roxy Music albums on vinyl by now.

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By Moby, Moby is working on a new CD and DVD due out in the fall.