Apple's iPod Leads the Way in the Fledgling Digital Music World

Kansas City Infozine ^ | December 19, 2004 | Chris Otts

[rawcatslyentist]

Here's a new Christmas song for you. And a few more to boot!
Merry Christmas!!!!

Shut down the Alphabet Channels (ABJazerra & Her Sister Stations)!
Vote with your Remote!

Christmas Heart
But, I Have A Plan
Zippo Hero
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

[Puppage]

Gave Mrs. Puppage a 20g pod.....then got the Bose Soundock for it. Oh, baby!!

[SamAdams76]

I think that depends on what you are looking for. I don't think IPods will work for me until they can offer a better alternative to a 8-hr lithium battery. Who wants to baby sit their power supply all of the time.

Honestly, that's not a problem. The iPod comes with a docking station. All you have to do is put the iPod in the docking station at night and each morning, you have a full charge that will easily get you through the entire day (unless listening to an iPod is all you do). I listen to my iPod extensively - hours a day - and I haven't once run out of charge. Just a total non-issue.

[msjhall]

But I mostly use mine while I am away from home. Maybe I need two, one for everyday and one for away.

[martin_fierro]

It took 3 networked PCs and several days to rip and backup all my CDs to my new 4G 40 gig iPod.

But it was worth it!

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[Cicero]

I confess I haven't tried this yet, but a good alternative is the Dell digital jukebox. I've read that they're better than I-pod, although I can't vouch for that from experience. But I've seen a fair number of students with them.

Here's the Dell web page. Warning: you get to hear music while you look it over. According to the web page, Dell is recommended by Oprah as well as a couple of PC magazines.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/dj?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

[John Lenin]

I wonder if you can upgrade an iPod with a new notebook hard drive or do they use a different type of drive ?

[Richard Kimball]

Horwitz said, "If Apple can attract enough mainstream consumers to the iPod platform - people who aren't familiar with tools for online piracy and prefer not to risk being sued by the RIAA - they can grow the legal market for music even further."

I know how to use peer to peer and I'm not that worried about RIAA. I use iTunes because I don't like stealing.

[perform_to_strangers]

Just a thought: I ripped all my cd's before purchasing my iRiver, then had to redo the whole project because I wasn't satisfied with the quality of my files. If you can, you might want to try ripping a couple of your favorite tracks at a variety of settings, then listen to those tracks on a friend's player (ideally through the earphones you plan to use), until you've determined the settings that will best suit your needs.

(I'm now facing doing this all over again, as I contemplate migration from a player that supports vorbis, but not audible.com, to one that supports audible but not vorbis. Argh!)

[.38sw]

I bought one of these to protect my iPod:

iSkin evo2