A dilemma…

Firstly, sorry for posting before even sorting this place out, the default theme still makes me cringe…

Now then… I have, sat around doing nothing, some applications from the iTunes App Store that I obviously can’t use on my iPod Touch until I upgrade to the latest firmware version (Pictured above, total cost of £0, btw.)

This is where the dilemma begins.

Upgrading means I lose, in no specific order, MobileScrobbler, Converter, SummerBoard, Pool, THTouch, iSolitaire. I’m sure that if I looked around the App Store a little I could find replacements for the three games, maybe even Converter too. MobileScrobbler however, is in the process of being ported, but at what cost? The cost of background scrobbling. A hefty price to pay considering that’s the main reason I have MobileScrobbler in the first place. Something I won’t find in the App Store is the abilty to SSH into the iPod.

However, it can Scrobble tracks played from the Last.fm site.

Next up, we have the news that the iPhone Dev Team have again, as with all previous 2.0 builds, jailbroken that arse. Why is this a problem you ask? Well… If I can get my mitts on that I may be able to run some of my applications. But more importantly, when they release it, they also may be a possbility (Until I hear otherwise) that MobileScrobbler could come back with a App Store version, as well as a jailbroken version that features background scrobbling.

What should I do? Mmm.. Well, as the Last.fm client now supports iPhone and iPod Touch scrobbling, which it did not when I first got my iPod, it makes sense to update. But, for another twist in the tail, I do not have that installed on my Mac as I use Coversutra to Scrobble my track plays. Also, doing scrobbles manually would mean that some plays wouldn’t get updated for several months at a time, and I’d no doubt forget to even do it.

Or am I just being stupid and over annalytical of the problem? Probably.