I can't live without music, I absolutely hate silence. Since I'm 12 or so, I've spent a good deal of my life with headphones on my ears. I started my walkman-geek's life with a couple Sony Sports walkman cassette players. (Has anybody any link to a collection of these?)

In late 96, I switched from tapes to a minidisc player which is still going strong despite the thousands of hours of daily usage. It's certainly one of the most reliable device I ever had.

Yesterday, I finally got myself a 30G v3 iPod and it's worth the hype! The packaging is brilliant, in fact it's plain techie fetish porn. The hassle-free iSync integration is handy and iTunes makes it easy to manage thousands of tracks. And that's the point, with the 1700+ tracks I can put in my iPod, I have in my pocket almost every single song I could ever want to listen to and that's a brand new way for me to have access to all my music anytime, anywhere... being able to switch from jazz to digital hardcore through vintage synth pop!