how we experience music when we listen to music from iPod

I am sure that many people have been talking about this. Music listening experience through iPod seems to be totally different from that through other media. Okay, first of all, I should think about the live performance setting. Then, recorded media, started as Edison’s cans and evolved to vinyl records. Having going through a bit of optical analog period (laser disks, etc.), digital came in, CDs. Then, computer with iTunes took over, then more mobile devices such as iPod started dictating. Well, the point I want to make sure is the changes in the complexity of information we experience related with this activity of listening. Probably to think about other human behaviors, this seems to be very important. It is the question of what kind of accompanying information/stimulation we experience when we do an activity. In the case of listening to music, or more specifically choosing a song to listen, vinyl record for example is accompanied with peripheral experiences such as going to an used record store run by this particular person who are way more knowledgeable than you are, then hold the huge paper jacket, carefully taking the record out and play “carefully again” on the play so that the tiny stylus does not scratch the surface with black shinning grooves. Accompanying sources of information/stimulation around playing iPod are totally different. Well, going back to the live performance, I can see total differences too. The complexity of accompanying experience almost make a particular activity unique.