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Here is what my MP3 player needs: a "This is what I was in the mood for!" button that would switch from shuffle to playing the album to which the current track belongs.

Or if it were really smart, it could have different options. "Play this band now," instead of just "play this album."

Because I am lazy and don't want to have to pick the thing up and scroll down to whatever it has found that I was really in the mood for, and push buttons and such until it's playing that instead of randomness.

And if it were really, really smart, I could tag different tracks or albums or bands with keywords, and then tell it "Play me everything that's autumn-day music" or something. Because, again with the laziness, I don't know that I want a playlist like that until I'm sitting here wishing I had it.

If ipods can do these things, I'm not sure I want to know. I am both proud of and sensitive about choosing a non-ipod player, for a combination of reasons, but in there is a bit of hating the ipod interface and thinking the jukebox is genuinely better, but also feeling like the cool kids have ipods and they are more widely supported, but then again, being cooler than the cool kids because I can force itunes's stupid proprietary format to play on my terms, dammit.

Fic wishlist, part 2

First part is here. I think I actually found some of #1. Yay for havocmangawip!

A few additions:

4. An AU historical novel in which Baldwin IV (Best! King! Ever!) doesn't die terribly young, and how that affects everything, even up to the present day. I won't ever write it myself, because good god, that's a lot of research. But think of the possibilities! Maybe things would be totally different! I count this more as fanfic than original fiction because, apart from what I can remember about medieval history 10 years after studying it, most of what I know about this particular setting comes from reading Alamut and seeing Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, I know those are inaccurate.

5. Good Futurama fic that doesn't confuse random with funny. The Arrested Development fandom tends to have this problem too.

6. A not-stupid, not-smutty, not-lazy Spirited-Away-ten-years-later fic. The not-lazy part means I probably won't try this one. Then again, you never know with me.