I don't know how many CDs you own... but let's say you own a hundred or so... imagine having that entire collection held inside a tiny device that weighs only a few ounces, can be taken anywhere with you, played in your car, on your home stereo, or while out on a walk?
The device automatically organizes your music by Artist, Album and even Genre.. That lets you have access to your most obscure and least-listened CD in a matter of seconds... As opposed to fumbling piles of CDs, pulling them out of their case, loading them up one at a time, and listening.
That's the iPod.
I love mine. I love it even more now that Art Bell is pod casting. I have mostly meditation music and audiobooks with a little music. I never leave him without it and if I do, I'm royally p'oed!
Yeah, I know what they do, even from way out here in Fuddy-Duddyville, LOL! My teen has one.
And yes, I do have too many CDs...and I still have a cassette player in my car with my 70's Rock tapes, and a VCR...and an old toaster oven, a Princess Phone with a dial on it (still works fine) and my old 8-tracks are still up in the attic...
I think you can see where this conversation is going, LOL! ;)
Yeah, but how's the audio quality?
My impression is that they use compressed JPEGs or something -- in otherwords, not CD quality. Is this correct?
I've got more than 3 times that many CDs at work, which is about 1/15 of my collection, then there's the LPs and cassettes. With half way descent organization I've got access to my CDs at least as easily as an iPod, and don't have to futz with things to listen to them in album order (which is generally better, at least with artists that have been around a while and know how to construct an album).
I see iPods as pretty handy for your casual music listener, but completely worthless for somebody like me.
Some questions, I see the iPod folks w/little ear buds.
I use a walkman, have a long bus commute, and am subject to a lot of bus noise. I bought high end earphones (big suckers) to drown out some of the outside noise so I wouldn't go deaf turning up the volume on the walkman.
1. Can I use other earphones w/it? I've never seen anyone w/anything other than the little white earplugs.
2. I listen to a lot of talk radio (hence the FReepername). I don't suppose they make an iPod w/a radio? I haven't seen one, but the young people I know who have iPods don't listen to talkradio, so they wouldn't be looking for this function.
I wear my walkman all the time, but until I can get something small, like a walkman, that has radio, I don't see me switching over to an iPod. I don't even use a portable cd player cause they don't fit in a pocket.
But it also identifies the user as a self-absorbed fad following metrosexual.
MAC makes it, it's for swishy-folk.
Hate Microsoft all you wish, but thats what you use when you have a job.