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.

[Jeff Chandler]

Life is just fine without a soundtrack distracting you from the experience.

You make a lot of sense.

I enjoy music, but I enjoy people more. I could never walk around in my own little world listening to music while around people. I drive A LOT of miles, though, and it would become boring driving in silence all the time. I listen to music when the commercials come on during conservative talk radio.

[Dan Nunn]

And it's funny that you mentioned getting into the 21st century. I've got a Windows Mobile 2003 smartphone on Verizon Wireless! The iPod just never appealed to me, but that's probably because I'm not that much of a music lover. There were mp3 players before the iPod came along, and there have been cheaper ones since. 'Podcasting' has been along long before the iPod, with a different name.

I was just surprised to find that President Bush indeed has an iPod. I didn't believe you until I did some searching, but you're right!

[LongElegantLegs]

I love that picture!

[M1911A1]

I recall when CDs were under attack because they meant the end of album art.

I do miss some of the tactile things that technology replaces. There is something completely unsatisfying about slamming down a cell or cordless phone. Heck, I even miss the noise the dial used to make.

[SamAdams76]

Have you set equalizer settings for your tunes? Makes a big difference.

As for your defective iPod, you must have had some bad luck. I've dropped my 40gig iPod multiple times, once in a puddle of water and it still works fine. Though the day I dropped it in water, it didn't work right for about three days (display was faint and scroll wheel didn't work very well). Then suddenly it went back to normal again.

[el_texicano]

I have an IPod 60 and love it. It really takes the place of having all those cds around and getting scratched up till you can't play em...

One place, thousands of songs.

[SamAdams76]

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

The newer iPods have functionality to display cover art and lyrics.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

I never bought a CD until I about 2 years ago when I had an IPod to upload them to. Held onto the CD's just as backup/proof of license. Until 2003 I stuck with cassettes as they would play in my car.

The IPod has been wonderful for podcasting! Nearly 2 years ago I emailed Rush with a request to get his shows on IPod and that this was the one thing that would make me immediately sign up for 24/7, though I didn't know the term 'podcasting' back then. Finally last May it came around and I signed up on the first day. I immediately signed up and I'm a much happier person not listening to 24 minutes out of 60 of repetitive insipid commercials or top of the hour news breaks on topics I already read on FR. I'll gladly pay for content with cash rather than pay by listening to commercials.

[dawn53]

Until you own an iPod, you will never understand! I bought mine on a lark and now I don't know how I ever lived without it.

My son had an iPod and I thought it was just a fad. But until I realized the ability of the iPod to access all your music with no effort and to find it in an organized way, I didn't understand the appeal.

It's like carrying around every CD you ever owned, plus all your favorite singles, but having them in a handy little pocket sized device.

Now we can hook iPods into the car stereo, or into a docking station. There's even a device called a dockapod, that allows one to play the iPod through the intercom.

I'm now a firm believer in the technology.

[Melas]

Same here. The Digital U2 boxed set clinched the deal for me. I had to have an Ipod when I saw that deal.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

And, if you live/work in a deeply liberal place as I do, having Rush Limbaugh surreptitiously on your ipod is a benefit also. He is the stream of sanity piped into my brain daily.

[Melas]

You know what they call those extra-large belt buckles that cowboys where? Tombstones for dead meat.

[Hank Rearden]

Sorry to hear you're temporarily saddled with the iCult gadget. It's all the more reason to absolutely keep your CDs so you can re-rip them in a decent format like WMA or future higher-quality formats.

Player capacities will never get smaller, and sooner or later you'll want to re-rip something in higher quality once you get a bigger, better player.

Also, you can't burn a compatible CD for yourself or anyone else very easily with MP3s or whatever silly format crApple uses.

Keep 'em. I've ripped almost 700 of my (factory-original) CDs to my Creative Touch player so far, and I'm boxing them for future use.

[Melas]

Wrongo on the moving parts my friend. Only the Ipod shuffle solid-state. The Ipod, Ipod Mini, and the Ipod Nano all use tiny harddrives with motors, actuators, platters, and other moving parts.

[manic4organic]

The newer iPods have functionality to display cover art and lyrics.

I can barely read that print on CD liner notes. How big is that iPod screen?

[CFC__VRWC]

At work we just recently switched over to a 3 TB array as the primary network storage device. Our IT guy figures that'll hold us for a year to a year and a half, at the rate our GIS Department chews up storage with aerials and topographic data sets.

[M1911A1]

Darn, somebody beat me to it.

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/kalashnikov/Ak-mp3.asp

[The Great RJ]

Don't pitch those CDs yet. I recently had a hard drive crash on my computer and lost my I-Tunes library. While I also had my music on my I-Pod I needed to download a program to dump the music from the I-Pod BACK to my computer. Reinstalling I-Tunes and then resyncing with your I-Pod runs the risk of reformating your I-Pod meaning a total loss of your music. Backing up your music purchased from I-Tunes on audio CDs is also a good idea.

BTW--I saw the new I-Pod Nano this weekend and I have seen the future.

[Tribune7]

ping

And then there are the CD players that can read Mp3 format.

[Riley]

Wrongo on the moving parts my friend. Only the Ipod shuffle solid-state. The Ipod, Ipod Mini, and the Ipod Nano all use tiny harddrives with motors, actuators, platters, and other moving parts.

I haven't had the opportunity to take one apart. May I borrow yours?

Seriously- I don't dislike them, I don't have one, either. I suppose it's reasonable to expect that they'd have to have a HDD for all of that storage.