I'm like a little kid with this thing. I've spent many hours carefully moving tracks from my CD collection onto this thing. Even though I have room for some 10,000 tracks, I want to be very selective about what I put on it. Only the best of the best. So that I can hit "shuffle" and never hear a bad song. Currently I have 1,787 tracks on it and I look forward to adding many thousands more during the weeks and months ahead.
It's fun to hit "shuffle" and never know what I'm going to hear next. Could be "Idiot Wind" by Bob Dylan, "Dazed And Confused" by Led Zeppelin, "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane or a chorus from Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion." Or it could be George Jones, Junior Brown or Hank Williams. Whatever it is, I will be glad to hear it because it is part of what I am. The entire soundtrack of my life is going to be on this thing when I am done.
I can set up "Smart Playlists" where I can listen to nothing but songs from the summer of 1979 or nothing but songs written by a particular songwriter (yes, iTunes also captures the composer of each individual song). Or I can setup custom playlist of whatever I want. If I want to mix up Frank Sinatra songs with AC/DC and turn it into a playlist, I can do that. If I want to shuffle within a playlist, I can do that too.
If you want to bring your iPod to work with you, you can rationalize it by loading up your Outlook contacts and appointments. Ipod even has a calendar built into it so you can click on any particular day and see all your appointments.
The thing is simply amazing. I have over 1,000 CDs in my collection and I can now box them up and put them in my attic because I can fit them all on my iPod and still have room for more. If I want to play my iPod on my stereo, there are accessories I can buy to do that. If I want to play my iPod in the car, there is a $40 FM modulator I can buy that will accomplish that as well. There are even portable speaker units you can buy that will turn your iPod into an instant boombox.
Anyway, I can't rave about this product enough. And I'm not even a big Apple fan. (I guess I am now though)
You can probably delete that one. LOL
I loves my 20GB G3.
I even bought it a glow in the dark skin and an Itrip. No longer need a CD player in my car!
All the major RNC speeches are available as free downloads at the iTunes Music Store. Just search on "RNC".
A Memphis woman was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod.
See story at:
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/rumormill/ipod_killing.html
iPod rocks.......
In your effort to put your favorite music on, don't forget your favorite books.
99 cents a tune is way too much. I can buy a CD with 15 tracks for $13, and it has to be pressed out of real plastic and the ucard has to be printed and the whole thing packaged and shipped to a store where the manager gets a salary and pays light, heat, and insurance bills and some pierced kid will get paid to wait for me to walk into his store so I can buy it. That's a bunch of overhead, and you have to add in the royalties and production cost and advertising.
Downloading the same tracks to an iPOD would cost more and the record companies don't have to pay the truck driver or the store manager or clerk. Where does the extra money go?
The music industry reluctantly agreed to this deal where they get huge profit for putting the tune directly on electronic media and bypassing working folks?
And hey ipod downloaders, what do you do when the drive fails on your little white box when you have 6000 $0.99 tunes on it? Got insurance? What's the MTBF on ipods?
Ipods are great, love it, love music, but there are other issues to think about. Like why the tunes cost more than real cds, they should cost $0.40 or so.
40 gigs eh? Try 80! I need a new hard drive, methinks. Anime, Rock, Celtic, New Age, Jazz, Video-Games..
I have Usenet addiction..
I am going to be getting a new one soon - my 5 gig is filled to capacity. Also, the older ones only did Windows or Mac, the new ones do both, so I can use it to back up more than just my imac.
They are nice, just expensive. Typical Apple.
bump ... I got an Archos about 18 months ago .... not the best .. but it's a small tank.
iPod + iTunes = iEnjoy. Works great with Macs AND PCs.
However, I'm surprised that Apple did not produce an iPod using the USB 2.0 connection, which most new computers (including recent production iMac's and Power Macs) have nowadays. With the transfer speed of USB 2.0 (up to 480 megabits per second), that's more than enough to transfer music from a desktop computer to the iPod easily.
But Apple cannot rest on its laurels: Microsoft with its monetary resources can have enough influence to push for more and more portable digital music players that are compatible with both MP3 and Microsoft's surprisingly good Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. I wouldn't be surprised that within a year there will be many online download "stores" that sell music in WMA format, especially given that Windows-based machines are something like 90% of the installed base of desktop machines out there.
Good luck when you need to change the battery.
Get musicmatch. It blows iTunes away.
Please explain to me what happens when the battery dies.
Steve Jobs can afford to sell music at a loss at the rate he's selling the hardware.
iPods are nice, and they are indeed great looking units, but it always amuses me to see press stories like this that act as if it's somehow the only thing out there that can do all these wondrous things, when in reality it's just one of many nice MP3 players.
I almost bought one a couple weeks ago myself. I listen to tons of audiobooks through Audible.com and was ready to upgrade my player to something more spacious and featured. The choice boiled down to iPod and Aireo from SoniqCast. The Aireo won out on price and features. It's WiFi-ready and uses my existing WiFi network to connect to Audible.com and download books directly. And it also has an FM transmitter built in, so I can conveniently play my books in any vehicle with a radio.
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Got my entire 200CD collection in my ipod. Best thing ever invented for travelers. Of course, you haven't lived till you have a MAC G5 to hook it up to. Just had to throw that in there. Good natured flaming may now commence.
With the iTrip converter you can play it on any radio. I love making playlists. I have slow songs, fast songs, country, hard rock, etc.
I sometimes play the games when I am sitting in a Dr.'s office. What a great gift my husband gave to me!