I was in the kitchen, listening to an album

So going back to my post on 5th January, and naming some names, the Decemberists album had stopped playing, and then the Sea of Bees album stopped playing. Strange enough, but you might think I was mistaken. Or it was a chance glitch. But no.

I don't drive often, as I cycle everywhere, but when I do drive I listen to music. Lately I'd been splitting my time between Sea of Bees and Braids. That's how I knew that Sea of Bees was playing fine: I'd played it on pretty much every journey I'd done between September and Christmas. In between listening to Braids.

So imagine my surprise when, whilst cooking today for a very special guest, I put on the Braids album, and randomly, at some point during each song, it would skip to the next track. In the words of one of the songs on the album, fucked up. Illogically, the tracks are also skipping on the iPad, even though I don't remember synching it recently. Although I notice they are less liable to jump to the next track on iPad/iTunes, and more likely to sound like someone has rammed a biro into a tape player.

So one by one, iTunes is mashing up my albums. One album at a time, but every track on it. Maybe it's because I haven't bought them off iTunes yet. Which is clever. And another great example of how Apple stuff just works.