While I agree with the sentiment of this post, be aware that CDs in a fire safe won’t survive a fire – keep them offsite, at work: at a family member’s home, or a safety deposit box. Ditto if you keep important financial information on CD. Fire safes aren’t magical. They can prevent combustion of paper by limiting oxygen and reducing internal temperature, but it will still get way more than hot enough inside to render CD’s unreadable. And even with paper, they usually tell you to make sure that it isn’t touching the inside walls of the safe (i.e. to use the hanging folder thingies), or it may char.
I have a Nano precisely for the durability reason. Unless you immerse it in water or break the screen somehow, it’s pretty hard to screw it up.
Thanks!
Nanos are more durable than classic iPods? Wouldn’t not have occurred to me, but I guess the “shake to shuffle” thing makes sense.
Blackberry - t’yeah - as if he carried a cell phone 
Yes, they’re basically a “flash drive”, while classics have a hard drive inside. Lots more moving parts in the latter. Please note the capacity difference in the Nanos, however, compared to the classic.
If he’s worried about the ‘250’ songs he’s purchased from iTunes, I didn’t think ultimate capacity was an issue. With the relative ease that music goes on and off these devices, the storage means less to me than I thought it would. I had a 30Gb iPod (still do, but it’s been relegated to kids movies), and an 8 Gb iPhone…with a 50Gb music library, it’s bugged me less than I thought it would.
Firesafes aren’t magic, but CD’s in a firesafe that never gets burned is a heckuva lot better than music on a harddisk that’s never backed up. If you catch my drift.
How might one deauthorize a computer that no longer works?
You can deauthorize all computers, and then individually reauthorize those you still have.
Just wanted to point out that a 1gb ipod shuffle (which holds approx 240 songs) runs for $49 in the Apple Store. 2gb shuffles hold around 500 songs for $69. You may be able to find them cheaper at Wallmart or ebay. You don’t get a screen or anything but if your hubby can live without that, they are cheap and will play and store all his music.
How do you do that? I only find the “deauthorize this computer” command.
Ah, thanks. So it seems it can be done only when the 5 computer limit has been reached already. I can’t deauthorize all of them if there are fewer than 5 authorized.