Making The Move From CD to iPod

New Jersey.com ^ | September 18, 2005 | Allan Hoffman

[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.

[Dan Nunn]

I love it!

The trigger plays/pauses, and the buttons at the end of the barrel will skip to the next and previous songs. The cartridge holds all the memory. You might be on to something!

[Nowhere Man]

Sometimes I think must be the only person left who doesn't have an iPod and doesn't feel the need for one.

I still have a Walkman from 1985 and still watch my "newest" TV, a 1982 Zenith we got in early 1983.

[general_re]

Legally too - once you sell the CDs, the license to that music goes with the CDs to the new owner. You never really own the music, just a license to listen to it at your convenience, and the license stays with the disc. That's why, if you run over your discs with a steamroller, you have to buy new CDs instead of getting free replacements - you don't own the music, just a piece of plastic and a license to listen. Sell them, and the buyer now has a license to listen to the music, and you don't any more.

[BlessedBeGod]

Sometimes I think must be the only person left who doesn't have an iPod and doesn't feel the need for one.

Nope. Me, too.

[Dumb_Ox]

I already carry around a $100 cell phone and often an equivalent value in cash. No way am I going to carry around yet another expensive, really small electronic gadget, especially when I can replay and remix some of my favorite music in my own head.

[Revolting cat!]

RE: # 34.

Amazing, isn't it. It's been said that Americans are afraid of silence and of being left alone with their own thoughts. There is nothing more annoying than having to listen to overhead speakers blasting some disco garbage while exercising in the gym. Listening to music used to be done as a special occasion. Nowadays we are assaulted with recorded sounds everywhere we go whether we like it or not, all or most of it mediocre or worse.

When I do my runs I want to hear the street, the wind, the trains far in the distance, the dogs barking, the ambience of the world. But that's just me...

[SamAdams76]

It's all the rage among the Prius-driving, Starbucks-drinking, Barnes-and-Noble-lounging, Poncho-wearing urban flakes. Not to disgrace the submitter, or anyone else here who has one, as the converse is not necessarilly true. It just seems like Apple and Google are the latest fads among the 'metrosexual' crowd. Now, I have to wash my hands for typing that word.

First of all, the photo you posted is a first generation iPod that hasn't been made for years. Secondly, your description of the typical iPod user is not typical at all. There are as many conservative iPod users as there are liberal metrosexuals. Even President Bush uses an iPod.

Time to come into the 21st Century!

[Sans-Culotte]

As I mainly listen to classical music, rather than a list of "songs", I have little need of an iPod. Most symphonies and operas are rather long, so shuffling lists of songs does not interest me much. I could use one on a plane flight, I suppose, but otherwise, I'm fine with CDs.

[Nowhere Man]

And I have a 1987 calico cat hopping up to the top of the 1982 Zenith to lay down. B-D

[SamAdams76]

I can shop, exercise, do yard work, and, yes (gasp!) even drive without ever listening to music. Life is just fine without a soundtrack distracting you from the experience. You should try it sometime.

You make a lot of baseless assumptions and have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I just spent two hours walking in the woods this morning sans iPod.

[lawgirl]

oooh i see. Well that is a cool concept, but like you said- too cumbersome and I will look forward to having a program do it automatically. Have you heard about the program that will strip all the crap off songs bought from Itunes and convert them into MP3s?

[megatherium]

My iPod is on the fritz again. A couple of months ago, I had to send it in under warranty because it started to skip ahead to the next song on a playlist without warning. ("Restoring" it didn't do any good -- it wouldn't load all my songs back on it.) I got a new (refurbished) unit that worked fine until this weekend, when it has started doing this again. It hasn't been subjected to any abuse (it hasn't been dropped or left in a hot car, etc).

So color me a bit dubious about the iPod experience. Based on my experience: they're not reliable. Another deficiency with the iPod -- their sound isn't really that good. Not "near CD quality". More like a good chromium dioxide cassette, without the hiss. (But if you put uncompressed music on an iPod, the sound quality matches a CD. But then you're not going to get your whole music collection on the device.)

Still, I do love the gadget, when it's working that is. I'm thinking of getting a nano, which has no hard drive and therefore will be much more reliable (or so I would hope).

[M1911A1]

Pretty close, but still a little modernistic for the target audience. Do you think we could fit an MP3 player on a Single Action Army, or maybe a (ahem)Colt Government Model?

Perhaps listening to both kinds of music (country and western) that eminates from an MP3 player built in to a 1861 Army would start the ball rolling?

Hey, new idea for a thread: If your pistol was an MP3 player, what music would it play? :-)

[Dan Nunn]

True, now they have iPods with video screens and whatnot. Maybe there are a lot of conservative iPod users out there, but that's what comes to (my) mind when I think of the typical iPod user! Sorry for the vast generalization. The stereotype still sticks in my head, however!

[SamAdams76]

As I mainly listen to classical music, rather than a list of "songs", I have little need of an iPod. Most symphonies and operas are rather long, so shuffling lists of songs does not interest me much. I could use one on a plane flight, I suppose, but otherwise, I'm fine with CDs.

Who says you have to shuffle? I have several operas on my iPod including Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and Monteverdi's "Orfeo". I have absolutely no problem playing them in perfect order when taking a long walk or drive.

[Mr. Blonde]

I love my iPod. And I now lust after the nano. I don't really need one, but something that sweet I want.

I like iTunes better than any other jukebox on my computer.

[manic4organic]

Call me old fashioned, but I like to read the liner notes including musicians, producer, lyrics, etc. Sometimes the artwork doesn't suck either.

[Nowhere Man]

They should make an IPOD/MP3 player integrated with an AM/FM/TV sound radio, that would be nice. I work in accounts payable where I work at andmost of uscan listen to walkmans, Ipods, CD's etc., as we work. I'm a talkshow junky so I'd like the radio option but would like the music option when I start getting burned out from the talkshows. Being able to record off the air would be nice too.

[SamAdams76]

I'm sure those programs are already out there. However, you can already burn those AAC files to a CD and then re-rip them as MP3s. I've done this with no discernable loss of quality.

[lawgirl]

Yeah the program I use is called JHymn. It's pretty cool and works pretty well. It even rebuilds the Itunes library with the MP3s.