[Millee]

I get annoyed when people play their car stereos loud enough that my windows rattle. But I'm old and cranky too. ;op

[1rudeboy]

A polite reminder to “tune it down or I’ll smash it to pieces” works for me, but then I’m pretty big.

[JRios1968]

I can’t hear you...

[wideawake]

I use noise reduction headphones - you can blast your iPod with crystal clear sound even on planes, while no one can hear your music except you.

iPod earphones are horrible on subways, planes, trains, buses, etc. - you have to crank them up to 11 just to hear your music.

[SamAdams76]

First thing a new iPod owner should do is chuck the cheap white ear-wax collecting plugs that come with the device (or hang on to them for when you want to sell it on Ebay when you get a newer model).

For $49.99 I got a set of Sony noise-cancellation headphones that makes the iPod sound like a living room stereo system. Nobody around you will hear what you are playing and you won't be able to hear them either.

[Quix]

Sigh.

I make sure in our physiological psych chapter that my students at least are exposed to a vigorous presentation of the information that listening to such will make them deaf within a few decades--at least partially deaf.

Somewhat sadly in terms of the effects delayed consequences have on behavior . . . it won't be for 3-4 decades . . . though at some volumens many are used to, it could happen in 1 or 2 decades.

I want a bumper sticker that says:

VOLUME NOT = LENGTH

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

[dfwgator]

Eh?

[RepublitarianRoger]

I have Sennheiser PXC300 noise-cancelling headphones. They are fantastic, and let me play my tunes as loud as I want without worry of annoying others.

Of course, that doesn’t really address the question of dealing with discourteous iPod users around you. One black girl that rides my commuter train had a habit of singing the songs she listened to. Aaliyah, Mariah Carey, Fergie, etc. It was really annoying.

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.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

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

[martin_fierro]

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[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.