Posted on 09/18/2005 7:44:51 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I am giving up CDs. Within the next several months, I expect most of my family's CDs will be converted for playing on our iPods and personal computers. The actual CDs will either be sold or given away. As more people connect their digital music players to their home stereos and car stereos, they realize they have no use for the racks of CDs taking up space in their homes. If you no longer play CDs, why keep them? That is the conclusion my wife and I reached, and that is why I am completing the arduous process of moving the music to more compact computer storage from the CDs.
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Sammy, Sam, Sam! I was making a general comment on the subject matter of the article, not a personal judgment about you. I hope you enjoyed your walk.
Music in head - good.
Voices in head - bad. ;-)
You are not alone.
You're wrong ... but something tells me you're not too open minded.
I work in the stockmarket and almost everyone is a Republican and drives nice cars. Gays are relatively few in my business.
But I can tell you that over the last few years PC owners that I know have gone for the iPod BIGTIME. It is simply awesome..
Why you would equate a consumer device with homosexuality is curious but then I don't want to plumb the depths of your psyche. Do yourself a favor, next time you pass an Apple store, stop in and look at the iPod ... the Nano is my favorite. You might just realize you like it.
One of my acquaintances was able to get an iPod nano last weeks and is it ever sweet. With no moving parts it's nigh well impossible to make it skip. The biggest drawback to it right now is the slow speed of the Flash RAM which makes it take up to an hour to completely load all 1,000 songs. But that can be overcome by just letting it do the transfer over lunch or at night.
Like the other iPods, these will get sold as fast as Apple can manufacture them.
It all depends on what the voices are telling you to do and if you do it.
Of course sometimes the music in my head could be bad too. Like when I didn't realize I was whistling with a Tull flute solo during a Latin test, or when I was working at McHell and I had heavy metal playing in my head so loud I couldn't hear the shift manager making grill calls. But for the most part it's fun.
I've been a Mac user exclusively since 1987, and as much as a "Mac advocate" as can be found on this (or any) forum. I don't do Windowz.
Having said that, I don't really have any use for an iPod, either. As a music device, it doesn't meet my needs, because it can't record in "real time".
I use minidisc instead. I like to record internet "streaming audio" broadcasts, which I then listen to when I wish (favorite spot is riding on the Harley). As I type this, I'm recording bluegrass from channel #404 on the cable tv tuner. I run a digital coax cable from the "coax out" on the tuner box to the "coax in" on my MD recorder (bookshelf unit), pop in an 80 minute MD blank, and let it go. An hour and a half later I have an MD that sounds very, very good.
I prefer MD for several reasons:
- the music collection is "spread out" across many discs, rather than the "all the eggs in one basket" approach of the iPod. Lose it, or have it stolen, and you lose _a lot_ with an iPod.
- MD media is very rugged, being magneto-optically based. Audio recorded on MD will likely outlast any other current media, including most CDR's, possibly with the exception of commerically-pressed CDs. Those who keep their entire collection of music on the hard-drive-based iPod better have at least one or two full backups somewhere. EVERY hard drive will fail at some point.
- I _prefer_ the fact that each MD runs only 74 or 80 minutes. Try to sift through all the iPod menus while riding the motorcycle - if you dare!
- John
I hear ya, brother! Analog LP's still sound warmer than any digital encoding thats ever been devised so far. While digital may be mucho convenient, they still don't match the soothing dynamics of analog media (LP and magnetic tape)
My choice us iTunes overall. But this subject of ownship and transferability was covered in depth in the Wall Street Journal's Mossberg column a few weeks ago. Check:
http://ptech.wsj.com/
It may be under Mossberg File.
Please FRmail me with what CD's you all have that you want to sell. I will buy them if they are decent.
"Sometimes I think must be the only person left who doesn't have an iPod and doesn't feel the need for one."
Well, now there's two...
You have found the soundtrack to your life. You have found your pied piper and he plays though an ipod. You all are just programming yourselves. Like Pavlov's dogs. Stimulus and response
If I may be permitted to nit-pick, AIFF is not quite the same as the CD-audio format. Both AIFF and EFM (the CD-audio modulation scheme) are uncompressed PCM formats (so are WAV files, for that matter), so it's stupidly easy to convert back and forth, but they're not actually identical. Now you know something useless that you didn't before ;)
Try 128-bit WMA on a Creative player - it will blow your ears off. If you've got the ears for it, go for a higher bitrate, but 128WMA = 192MP3 or better.
Creative is known for the audio quality of their products, especially compared to the iCult.
No, you aren't. ;9)
Well, now there's two...
Well, now there's three...
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