July 4, 2009 10:39 AM PDT
Poll: Why don't you have an iPod or MP3 player?
CNET News Poll
(Credit:
Steve Guttenberg)
What's wrong with you?
Doesn't everybody have at least one of these things? I'm just curious, is there anyone out there who flat-out refuses to buy an iPod or Zune or whatever? Are you just bucking the trend? Oh, and please tell us how old you are. I want to know if there are any iPod-less kids reading the Audiophiliac.
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But at home, I have thousands of digital music files (in FLAC, ripped with an error-free, secure ripper). So I do my listening at home.
If I'm going on a trip, I bring my laptop and terabyte external drive. I can plug that into an inverter and use it in the car on long trips.
I've owned several Archos evices and now I'm using a no name PMP with a 20gb hard drive and a 3 inch screen...and paid less than $120 for!
ed
i only have 12GB of 320kps tunes on my computer. i'm not sure i can tell the difference between 192kps and 320kps, but that's the format i have saved them. it's about 1500 songs.
i also have them in .wav format, to make CDs if i want to listen in my car, which, being a 2003 Accord, doesn't have mp3 plug-in capacity.
i'm in my 60s.
With that in mind, you can set your iPod to sync with your library at 128k AAC (converting the songs for the iPod). Especially on the lower quality iPod output, you won't hear the difference and will be able to carry all your songs with you.
The other source feeding my DAC/preamp is a Thorens TD521 with an SME tonearm. Now if I could carry that in my shirt pocket....
Blue Mikey
This is the lamest poll I have ever seen, It offers no real value unless you want to manipulate data
There is only one option there that could be considered useful.
How about some real options ?
I prefer better sound quality than the file-types offered on most mp3 only players
I have another device that performas the same functions.
I just don't want to listen to music on the go.
I am the author of the poll and I just like whoring myself out for ipods and page views
You seem very ready to dismiss the iPod and keep to your tried and tested music listening habits but most of us who discovered the iPod in recent years have been very glad we did due to the expanding universe of things an iPod is capable of.
BTW I don't know how you have formed your opinion that iTunes is an expensive way to manage music. Most of us use it to rip our CD's at no extra cost than the cost of the CD itself. The CD then becomes the back up. Of course there are times when stores are not open and you want a particular song on the spot. At those times it is very convenient to be able to buy it directly on iTunes. It has the advantage often that because you can buy individual tracks you can save a lot of money compared to a CD because you only need to buy the song you want rather than having to buy the entire CD as is the case with CD's.
Another convenience is being able to use a 3.5mm plug to RCA plugs to plug your iPod into any stereo amplifier. It means being able to share music with friends at parties etc. I run an entertainment business and I commonly get young women who hand me an iPod so that they can have the music that they like for their event.
Shuffle is another iPod innovation (now on most mp3 players) that is hugely convenient for party events. I just hit play and I the music is continuous until I shut it off several hours later - no having to change CD's every so often.
You don't have to give up your old ways but you should try living with an iPod Touch for a month some time. You need to be warned that you might discover it hard to go back if you did.
your post was ...your just a fanboy
podcast = marketing term (give you a hint mp3 file type preceded the ipod)
"you sound like you are intimidated by newer methods of delivery of audio and video files." - or maybe he doesn't like hardware tied to bloated buggy software that runs as a service chewing up PC resources.
The compression of AAC is lossy and sounds like ass in comparrison to Flac or CD audio, maybe cidman2001 just likes music at a decent quality
"Podcasts" mp3's, audiobooks are all the same thing... without DRM you can play them on any mp3 player.
"Shuffle is another iPod innovation (now on most mp3 players) " - No not an inovation of Apple nor was it first seen on the ipod, infact most things Apple gets credit for are not created by them or even released first by them . Most are however marketed well by them.
Here go learn some history.
http://www.notascoolasitseems.com/review/innovation-what-when-and-who
The rest of you post reads like Steve Jobs himself wrote it. Get off your knees , wipe your mouth and stop drinking the marketing koolaide.
Today I am less sane than usual - sorry for the rant
- by bukchuhd July 5, 2009 9:23 AM PDT
- I do not own an mp3 player or ipod. It's not that I am refusing to buy them, its just that I always had a phone that had a media player. I had a palm treo 650 for almost three years, and stored music on that. When the treo's age took its toll, I planned on getting an ipod or zune, in addition to a new phone, but I ended up getting an HTC touch phone with WM 6.1 which has a media player. I don't see the point in carrying two devices when I can carry one. I'm not looking for an "ultimate" media player, just something to play music on.
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