IPod etiquette falling on deaf ears

AP ^ | 8/13/07 | Erin Carlson

[Millee]

Dave Legeret silently fumed as the man seated beside him on the plane blasted techno music on his iPod at full volume.

"It was kind of rude," recalled Legeret, 38, a jewelry designer from Sandy Hook, Conn., who was forced to listen while flying from New York City to Disney World in Florida with his wife and 8-year-old son. "Listen to it at a level that just you can hear it, and everyone else doesn't have to be subject to it."

Apple Inc.'s ubiquitous iPod is best-known as an instrument of solitude - unless the user ignores standards of etiquette by invading the eardrums of fellow commuters, office mates or other innocent bystanders. Then it starts to get annoying. Especially when you're stuck in close proximity.

Amped to its highest volume, the iPod is not nearly as invasive as the classic loud cell-phone conversation. But it can have its moments, such as when you're standing in an elevator at 9 a.m. and a co-worker cranks up Amy Winehouse's Rehab. (Too early for that song.)

Or when an ear-budded subway rider belts out what sounds like a Whitney Houston tune with careless abandon, causing other riders to inch away or flee into another car altogether. (True story.)

"I've heard that problem quite a lot, people singing along," said Leander Kahney, managing editor of Wired magazine's Web site.

"And, of course, my kids - when they have the iPod in, they shout."

That kind of behavior - an ignorance by the user of volume levels and surroundings - is more odious than the low buzz of the iPod, Kahney said.

[knittnmom]

LOL! EXCELLENT solution!

[Lazamataz]

I don't know how to do the not equal sign hereon.

!=

[sarasota]

24

[sarasota]

Expensive!

[sarasota]

Thanks!

[sarasota]

Amazon has the headphones and adapter for $45.94. Do you think that’s a good deal??

[Quix]

One passenger finally surreptitiously recorded her while she sang, every day for a week, then burned those recordings to a CD. He then gave the CD to her, just saying that these are some tunes he thinks she’d probably enjoy.

I don’t know what happened to that passenger after that, but I do know that the singing stopped.

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ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

If I was filthy rich, I’d give the guy $1,000.

[Quix]

Ohhhhh, wow.

Then ignore my FREEPMAIL! lol.

Adult negotiations with an adult child can be tricky . . .

I suppose one has to approach it as though one were negotiating with a fellow captive in a hostage situation! LOL.

Goodness.

My sympathies! LOL.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I think I will design an Ipod or other MP3 player zapper!
Any market!

[Quix]

Is that a convention that’s accepted?

I know there’s a code way of doing it—such as on the printer, causing a strike over with / and = but I don’t know the code.

Is there an html code?

[sarasota]

Your freepmail was much appreciated!

[martin_fierro]

	iPod
Send FReepmail if you want on/off iPing list WARNING: This is a high-volume Ping list. Turn your headphones down
The List of Ping Lists

[Quix]

Bless you for saying so.

You are welcome to share it with whomever. Follow-up has been sent.

Thanks for the warm, friendly tears. Bless you.

[Quix]

Love it.

Hope you and yours are doing well this season.

Blessings,

[polymuser]

“Know what an Ipod tastes like?”

“No.”

“Like this...”

[dmz]

“It was kind of rude,” recalled Legeret, 38, a jewelry designer from Sandy Hook, Conn., who was forced to listen while flying from New York City to Disney World in Florida with his wife and 8-year-old son. “Listen to it at a level that just you can hear it, and everyone else doesn’t have to be subject to it.”
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I call BS. This guy is a weenie. iPods are nearly worthless on planes without noise cancelling headphones. The noise on the plane drowns out the tunes.