Paging Dr. Hyung Chun: This Jack Johnson CD needs to be transferred to an iPod ASAP.
Chun, 30, is a graduate of Harvard University who researches cardiovascular medicine. But at night and on weekends, when he sheds his lab coat, Chun rifles through stacks of CDs and becomes a physician for iPods.
IPod owners who lack technical know-how or are starved for time are turning to music-loading services like Chun’s FeedMyPod, as well as RipIt Digital Music and LoadPod.
Chun is co-founder of Mountain View, Calif.-based FeedMyPod. For 99 cents to $1.50 a disc, Chun and his team will transfer your CD collection to an iPod. So if converting your archives of death metal or ’80s dance hits to an iPod sounds like a chore, just hang tight. There’s a doctor in the house.
Chun and his five-person crew picked the right time to start up FeedMyPod. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than 22 million people own an iPod or a similar type of digital music player.
But most users don’t need help to feed their iPod. And since starting the business in late 2004, only a few dozen customers have paid Chun and his team to stuff their iPods with songs.
His dream, however, is for FeedMyPod to be absorbed by Apple.
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But he’s also realistic.
“So far, iPods are easy enough to use,” he says.
For more, go to www.feedmypod.com.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Drew Sottardi ([email protected])