iPods and shit

[Maha]

The difference between an Ipod and an MP3 player is an Ipod will become obsolete as a fashion accessory in a couple of months and you're forced to buy the new one to stay in vogue, though it'll most likely break down not too long after then if you decide to hang onto it. An MP3 player plays music well and has many more features for their price to entice people away from the Ipod, but fail to get the majority since the Ipod has been so heavily marketed. They're generally better built and aren't as likely to be scratched with a goose down feather. My MP3 player is a DSE one from Dick Smith's and cost me $30. Holds enough songs for a weeks worth of bus rides and I won't be too concerned if it gets broken.

That's a relatively cheap phone. You got lucky this time.

I here what you are saying and it makes good financial sense to get a MP3 rather than the iPod (to me anyway) but Sam is 18 and I guess if she was say, 10? I wouldn't spend $249 on a birthday present (Nov' 8th)so close to Xmas but shes doing so well out in the big wide world (well CH-CH) so its the least I can do.

A phone to me is something to call on and txt on, end of!
I dont use it for anything else. Mine cost me nothing cos' of the plan im on.
However, the one I got for my other daughter cost $199.

[Laava]

My 2c[rounded down to0.0c] I have a 4GB Nano and love it! Yes, this is crusty old me we are talking about! I made the mistake of buying a cheap transmitter for it so I could use it in the car or with my site radio. It immediately munted some of the terminals in the ipod. lucky it was only the transmitter applicable ones. Do not buy dodgy plug-ins from TM! Also there are some awesome ipod/mp3 stereos available.[For xmas, Maha!]

[imdying]

I here what you are saying and it makes good financial sense to get a MP3 rather than the iPod (to me anyway) but Sam is 18 and I guess if she was say, 10? I wouldn't spend $249 on a birthday present (Nov' 8th)so close to Xmas but shes doing so well out in the big wide world (well CH-CH) so its the least I can do.

$249 is pretty cheap if that'll make her happy I brought one for my wife on her 21st, she loved it, I'm the good guy, case closed

[Maha]

My 2c[rounded down to0.0c] I have a 4GB Nano and love it! Yes, this is crusty old me we are talking about! I made the mistake of buying a cheap transmitter for it so I could use it in the car or with my site radio. It immediately munted some of the terminals in the ipod. lucky it was only the transmitter applicable ones. Do not buy dodgy plug-ins from TM! Also there are some awesome ipod/mp3 stereos available.[For xmas, Maha!]

Yeah fuck ya lost me at 4GB Al....I know thats bigger than 2GB eh?....

I have been to see two Lawyers today and that was not a pleasent experience, I struggle with two things in life...Tech stuff and Legal stuff.
Why it was only about 8 years ago that I said ''I will set up my own website this afternoon''....
The response was....LAUGHTER!!!!
A website? in one afternoon???......
What I ment was......an email account....mmmmmmmm

[sAsLEX]

I'm wanting to get a Touch. (nyarf, nyarf)

I'm heading overseas for a week next week, can anyone tell me what the tariff is on those things...I just want to know if Duty Free means anything at all when it comes to iPods.

How will they know you bought it overseas if it is jsut in your luggage?

[imdying]

I know of someone who had enough boxed motorcycle parts in their carry on luggage to sink a small ship... thousands and thousands of dollars worth... went through all the xrays in the known world, nobody said boo in customs Seriously, you ain't gonna get pinged on an ipod, not that you should waste your time declaring it anyway.

[martybabe]

Yeah fuck ya lost me at 4GB Al....I know that's bigger than 2GB eh?....

I have been to see two Lawyers today and that was not a pleasant experience, I struggle with two things in life...Tech stuff and Legal stuff.
Why it was only about 8 years ago that I said ''I will set up my own website this afternoon''....
The response was....LAUGHTER!!!!
A website? in one afternoon???......
What I ment was......an email account....mmmmmmmm

Ah, fuggin bless ya, I'm not alone in bewilderment . I've got a phone, I call it a phone cause I phone people, it can work out my tax returns, take photos n video and connect to KB...IT can do these things, I cannot.

I also have an mp3, it plays music, I listen. I can not see to use either without my glasses, which I never have to hand so I have my mp3 on shuffle and hope for the best and I only call people on my mobile when I'm at home with my glasses. Pfft, Techno Mofology.

And another thing, my spell checker just approved Techno Mofology, which I just made up, How the gibbity crack can that be in it's dictionary when I just made it up.

[Mom]

... the iTunes software will make you want to do bad things to your arms with sharp knives, but you can do away with it easy enough.

How??? Our PC is litterally on its knees with itunes, my son is home atm, I asked him to delete some of the obsolete stuff he says he cant??????? I smelled a rat then, I definately smell a bigger one now. Friggen memory waste of space.

...I can not see to use either without my glasses...

Yeah, and what is with that! I am blinder than a baby rat without my specs when I try to read anything, frigggen glasses need changing every year or so (apparently your eyes get older ) I am over old eyes

[martybabe]

I am over old eyes

me too babe, why has nature decided, at my age, I need to be able to see a couple of kingfishers mating up a tree 50k away but there is no point in me seeing anything up-close, like that bastard branch that twated me when I was doing the lawns this morning. or the teensy weensy little writing on my mp3 that says 'Repeat' 30 fookin Kilometers of Barca fookin lona.

[imdying]

How??? Our PC is litterally on its knees with itunes, my son is home atm, I asked him to delete some of the obsolete stuff he says he cant??????? I smelled a rat then, I definately smell a bigger one now. Friggen memory waste of space.

You could give winamp a go... excellent media library and built in iPod support. Getting a little bloated in its old age, but not too bad.

[Mom]

Well you might laugh, I cant even use those $2 shop specials, my obtician tells me I have brain damage the cheek of it! My eyes dont focus at the same distances (about failed the drivers eye sight test, I dont have binocular vision apparently) Friggen $$$ to replace my goggles. I am assured that your eyes only get so old then they stop and dont get any worse. Please let that be the case when I go get them tested next time He told me I had old eyes, I am not 50 yet, what is with that!! Brain damage and old eyes, may as well resort to pretty scar patterns on my arms and legs...

You could give winamp a go... excellent media library and built in iPod support. Getting a little bloated in its old age, but not too bad.

Winamp? I thought that had been canned, my version became inoperable anyway when there was all that fuss by Metallica etal. I had winamp back in the dark ages, was a great music stealer, but I only listened to music on the PC, never put it anywhere else.

[turtleman]

Winamp? I thought that had been canned, my version became inoperable anyway when there was all that fuss by Metallica etal. I had winamp back in the dark ages, was a great music stealer, but I only listened to music on the PC, never put it anywhere else.

Follow the link - winamp is still alive and kicking. I think you may be confusing it with winmx or napster though, as winamp doesn't 'steal' music - i.e. it's not download/file sharing software - it's primarily a media player (with a few more add-ons than it used to have though).

http://www.winamp.com/

[Slicksta]

Winamp has is a terrible resource hog sure in the early days it was good but all went down hill from version 3 onwards. Itunes is not that bad using less than 2% of my CPU atm and 20mb of ram on vista. Ipods are fantasic MP3 players better than most easy as to use does what it says, has fantasic battery life and lots of features i will never use, at the end of the say what more do you want from a mp3 player? Launching nukes at china?

[Maha]

Sam talked me through the Dick Smith website and this is what she wants..$189

4GB Flash Drive holding up to 1,000 songs
Music playback time: Up to 24 hours when fully charged
2-inch (diagonal) liquid crystal display with blue-white LED backlight
Up to 24 hours of music playback; up to 5 hours of slideshows with music
Holds up to 3,500 iPod nano-viewable photos
Stores data via USB flash drive
Ports: Dock connector, stereo minijack
Connectivity: USB through dock connector
Charge time about 3 hours (1.5-hour fast charge to 80% capacity)
Audio Support: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF
Photo Support: Syncs iPod-viewable photos in JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG formats
Size: (HxWxD): 70mm x 52mm x 7mm
Weight: 49 g
Included Accessories: Earphones, USB cable, dock adapter
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Mac system requirements:
Macintosh computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later
iTunes 7 or later
Windows system requirements:
PC with USB 2.0
Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or later, or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
iTunes 7 or later

[Highlander]

For what it is worth Mr Maha, in our house we have had at least half a dozen cheapish MP3 players and now 4 iPods (of varying ages and sizes, between the 5 of us).
The iPods are by far the easiest to use, the least problematic. We have had no trouble with any of them, where as the other MP3 players are all dead within a year or so (usually just beyond warranty).

My 1gb nano was our first iPod and I used it pretty hard for the last 3 years with no problem. I have just got myself one of the new series (16gb) so I don't keep hearing the same songs when away for a weeks hard riding (think Southern Cross type rides), but the 1gb still goes fine, I just wanted a bigger selection on it.

But then I'm no longer 18 and am not bothered about the fasion accessory factor.
I'm well past spending money I don't have, buying stuff I don't want, to impress people I don't like.

Edit: "They" will probably hit you up to extend the warranty, but I didn't bother figuring that it didn't cover anything that the factory 12 month one didn't, just extended it to 3 years for 1/3 the cost of a replacement.