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Just an eccentricity of mine. it could store hundreds of songs but I prefer to just download a single album then listen to it on a loop whenever I'm on the tube, out for a walk, etc. It's a good way of getting to know a single album quite well, without the distraction of skipping to something else. I tend to keep a single album on there for a week - uploaded from the original CD. I'll often go back to albums I dismissed when first hearing them (as was the case with Rather Ripped) to see if there's something I missed. RR lasted about two days before I just gave up on it, deleted it from the iPod and just consigned the CD to the racks.
I like having this self-consciously limited access to music. It gives what i listen to an added intensity simply because I hear it so much. I often find strange little fragments of brilliance in albums that I'd previously brushed aside after only a few listens. Joan as Police Woman's Real Life being a good example of an album I once thought of as OK but which has become something of a favourite of mine after listening to it on my iPod for an entire week.
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