Sometimes I think must be the only person left who doesn't have an iPod and doesn't feel the need for one. I feel the same way. Except for me it's an iPod AND a cell phone. I have neither, don't want either :)
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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You're not alone. I'm a music junky, I get 1 or 2 CDs every week and have since I got my first job 18 years ago. No way I'm going to MP3, I like how albums work, I like how CDs work, and trying to convert my collection would take hundreds upon hundreds of hours, there are more entertaining things to do with my time than convert my CDs over to a format I don't actually like (it's just not how I listen to music).
idiotic reasoning --- he's an apple user?
Hah! You young punks don't appreciate the quality, the depth, the warmth of the 78s.
Beats the hell out of an iPod. :)
I'm gonna get one! When the price drops to around $5.00 to $10.00...
Sounds like some legal issues here. Anyone have a hotline number for the RIAA?
Heh. I'll never give up my wire recordings, or my LPs that are etched into large stone discs. I have teams of oxen to turn the turntable.
I can't be awake without listening to music. Literally if I don't have music playing for real I have it playing in my head (I've always been really good at memorizing songs), I'm always listening to music sometimes even music other people can hear.
Sometimes I think must be the only person left who doesn't have an iPod and doesn't feel the need for one. I feel the same way. Except for me it's an iPod AND a cell phone. I have neither, don't want either :)
I then go to my office and listen to XM all day. I am no longer a luddite.
Hank, I'll give you a pass on the ad hominem attacks on Apple and iPod users, but I have to correct you on this one. I have burned CDs consisting of songs downloaded from iTunes and converted to AIFF - the standard CD music format. It's built into the software.
I doubt that Roger Dean would have created the fantastic art for the Yes LPs for a CD cover, much less for an iTunes download.
Some of those tufa in your picture of Mono Lake are now under warer as the streams and creeks that used to be diverted are now again feeding into the lake.
After about a month, it's indespensable to me. I LOVE it.
My only complaint is that it doesn't hold enough of my CDs. It's 20meg, and holds just over 5,000 songs, but that's only about 20% of my 2,000 CDs.
I figure in a couple of years, that problem will disappear too.
I still love my CD collection, and have no intention of getting rid of it. I view it like other people view their baseball cards. My tastes are all over the map and a lot of them are from small companies all over the world.
But now, I can just leave them where they are and carry my music collection with me at all times.
It's just an awesome creation for a music lover.
I thought you just had a set of headphones that allowed you to listen to it. I didn't know you could hook it up to everything.
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You can add me to the list, though for an odd reason: when I got my last PDA, I found that by buying a $20 memory card, it would function as an mp3 player.
I've got most of my music collection duplicated from CD onto iTunes on my iBook, and am seriously considering getting the hardware to copy all the music I have on vinyl into mp3 format.
Actually old 78's are great, though you need a computer and some specialized hardware to see how magnificent they are. They have sonic detail beyond what any digitized format can support, or the human ear can discern, and infinitely more than the equipment they were made to go with could reproduce. They will be able to be translated into better and better digital formats to play on better and better versions of the iPod as technology progresses.
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