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Post by Antony on Mar 5, 2005 12:51:10 GMT
Is it actually worth buying? Or should i buy a cheaper mp3 player?
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 5, 2005 18:02:15 GMT
get an mp3 player its much more worth it i pods seem to be big rip offs i mean who seriously needs to hold like 5 gig worth of songs ive got about a gig on my comp of songs but i barely listen to them and certainly wouldnt want to wait whilst they all uploaded onto my i pod so just get a 512 mb mp3 and ur sorted heh
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Post by ghost on Mar 5, 2005 19:39:45 GMT
speaking from the pov of an iPod owner, I say get a different mp3 player. iPod's really aren't all that. The only thing that really makes them better than any other mp3 player is battery life (which sitll isn't THAT long) and storage space. But like Sephiroth said, who's gonna listen to that many songs? I don't. I've only got like 70 songs on mine right now and I don't even listen to all of them. Plus there are mp3 players out there that let you record stuff from the raido! And that's pretty awesome. iPod's can't do that.
Get another mp3 player; it's for your own good.
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Post by Antony on Mar 25, 2005 0:16:58 GMT
speaking from the pov of an iPod owner, I say get a different mp3 player. iPod's really aren't all that. The only thing that really makes them better than any other mp3 player is battery life (which sitll isn't THAT long) and storage space. But like Sephiroth said, who's gonna listen to that many songs? I don't. I've only got like 70 songs on mine right now and I don't even listen to all of them. Plus there are mp3 players out there that let you record stuff from the raido! And that's pretty awesome. iPod's can't do that. Get another mp3 player; it's for your own good. Raido? lol, well yer i wanna buy one with a display thing with a back lght, but i can buy a £99 with 1gb or an ipod for £140, which isnt much more, and you CAn buy a fm transmitteer.
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Post by ghost on Mar 25, 2005 1:57:00 GMT
Raido? lol, well yer i wanna buy one with a display thing with a back lght, but i can buy a £99 with 1gb or an ipod for £140, which isnt much more, and you CAn buy a fm transmitteer. Well, yeah, but an iPod isn't worth the extra money imo. Yeah, it can hold 10, 000 songs or something, but you're not gonna listen to that many at a time....It's really your decision. But I'd get something else if I were you. I love my iPod, but I didn't have to pay for it. (b-day gift) If I had to actually buy an mp3 player myself, I would've gotten something else.
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Post by Silent Star on Mar 26, 2005 16:57:18 GMT
there was some article in my school newspaper on why not to buy an iPOD...I didn't read it but my sis did. she was completely disgusted afterword and said to my mom, "DO NOT BUY ME OR YOURSELF OR ANYONE ELSE AN iPOD!" that's really saying something coming from meh sis
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Post by Aegisknight on May 6, 2006 0:17:08 GMT
I see absolutely no point in buying an ipod.....there are better mp3 players you can get FAR less, with a HUGE increase in storage........... the ipod couldn't hold 5 % of my music collection [except for those 40gig things......then it's about 8% ]
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Post by The-Amazing-Me on May 9, 2006 5:17:44 GMT
I got no use for an iPod or any mp3 player for that matter, I still use CDs.
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Post by Aegisknight on May 10, 2006 1:00:16 GMT
I've triumphed over all: I've got an mp3-cd player.
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Post by The-Amazing-Me on May 12, 2006 6:09:10 GMT
If I didn't already have a hero, yours would be the altar I would pray to at night.
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Post by Aegisknight on May 13, 2006 4:08:11 GMT
I grant slightly increased air magic immunity to those who donate 50 gold to my alter.......it usually comes in the form of a bed sheet.
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Post by The-Amazing-Me on May 13, 2006 4:49:28 GMT
Sorry but that's just not enough to win me over.
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Post by Aegisknight on May 13, 2006 5:42:29 GMT
......with a special hood.
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Post by The-Amazing-Me on May 14, 2006 3:57:52 GMT
What color?
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Post by Aegisknight on May 18, 2006 1:49:10 GMT
APPLE IS GETTING SUED FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ON THE iPOD BY CREATIVE!!!!!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA~!
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Post by The-Amazing-Me on May 18, 2006 3:37:41 GMT
Guess they should have more creatively disguised their blatent ripoff of another company's idea.
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Post by Aegisknight on May 18, 2006 4:59:35 GMT
I hope iPod and iTunes go down......in a very large plume of hellfire, with those ****ing back-drop dancing black figures suffering a long and agonizing death, until the earth is cleansed of their wretched countenances.
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Post by [Xero] on May 22, 2006 16:30:59 GMT
I think this is relevant.. C|Net posted an article a few years ago (which I just found on Google..) entitled "Five Reasons Not To Buy An iPod". Thought I'd copy and paste it up, just for shits and a grin... Link: reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5102324-1.html"For the past year, the media has been clamoring about iPod killers on the horizon--new MP3 players with more features, longer battery life, and designs nearly as svelte as the iPod's. However, this oversimplifies the situation; in truth, while the iPod rocks, it's not now, nor has it ever been, perfect for everyone.
We too have run our fair share of iPod-centric headlines--for a good reason. With about 1.5 million units sold, the iPod is the most popular MP3 player in the world, and it still makes other players look and feel inelegant in comparison. Don't get me wrong; it's still our favorite overall MP3 player. Although everyone can think of reasons why they want an iPod, I've decided to use this column to list a few reasons why not to buy one.
Before you send me rants for putting down the iPod, please read the list, realize that we still love the iPod, and take a deep breath. If you still don't think there could be reasons to go with something else, feel free to e-mail me your comments.
1. Six-plus hours of battery life is not always enough. If you regularly take long airplane flights, you'll find that the iPod's battery craps out before you reach your destination, leaving you to rely on the low-grade tunes pumped to the arm of your seat. If you need a long battery life from your MP3 player, go with the Dell Digital Jukebox DJ (15GB), which lasted almost 20 hours in our battery test--and it's less expensive than the iPod.
2. Jogging with a hard drive-based player is not cool. The iPod and other high-capacity MP3 players use hard drives to store music. In order to extend battery life and avoid skipping, the hard drives turn on only every once in a while to fill up a flash-memory buffer, which itself has no potentially skipping, moving parts. The flash buffer, in turn, plays the music. If something jars a hard drive-based player at the precise moment when the hard drive is spinning to load the flash buffer, the player could skip. Some experts say that it's impossible to damage the drive in this way, but I'm not buying that--hard drives spin thousands of times per minute, and they have tiny, fragile parts. Instead, use a small flash player, such as something from the iRiver iFP-3xx line. They won't skip, the batteries last longer, and they're much lighter than the iPod.
3. The iPod is expensive. As much as we love the iPod, it sure is expensive--especially when you consider that the nonreplacable battery will lose its resiliency in a few years. Although not nearly as glamorous as the iPod, MP3 CD players offer much more megabytes per dollar and can approximate the experience of using a hard drive-based player. Since each MP3 CD holds about 10 hours of music, you could carry 20 CD-Rs in a CD wallet and have about the same amount of music that fits on the 15GB iPod. Best of all, you can pick up a decent one (the iRiver ChromeX) for less than $60.
4. You want to make high-quality digital recordings. Apple recently announced the availability of a voice-recorder accessory for the iPod, but there's still no way to use the device to record high-quality audio. DJs who want to record their sets, people who want to encode their vinyl or cassette collections to MP3, or musicians who are looking for a replacement for their DAT recorder need this feature. Luckily for them, two new iPod competitors offer this option; compare them below.
5. You want a choice in online music stores. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the Apple iTunes Music Store; its AAC-encoded files sound great, the selection is decent, and it's easy to use. But I don't like feeling hemmed in. Some other MP3 players let you choose between BuyMusic, Musicmatch, and Napster, all of which use Microsoft's secure WMA files. Those files are supported by a wide range of MP3 players but not the iPod. If you want a greater degree of choice in music services, go with an MP3 player from one of the following companies.
Rio Creative Samsung Dell
Of course, if you don't care about low battery life, aren't fond of jogging, have ample disposable income, don't need to record/encode music portably, and want to purchase music downloads only from the iTunes Music Store, then the iPod is the best the way to go. While not ideal for some niche activities, it's still hands down the best-designed MP3 player in the world."
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Post by Aegisknight on May 23, 2006 2:12:44 GMT
I wouldn't throw it away if i got one, but I'd have to go get some third-party firmware, to use any of the lossless music I've got.......
I love FLAC
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Post by UCX on May 25, 2006 19:32:33 GMT
I advise you to get a Creative Zen. They are pretty big, but if you convert your MP3 files to WMA, then you can fit twice the amount of songs on it. Thats about 30,000. Which is a HELLUVA lot more than an iPod. I mean, I have 621 songs on mine, and I've only used up about 1000kb.
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Post by Aegisknight on Jun 30, 2006 1:26:50 GMT
they must sound like CRAP, though, to only take up 1,000 kilobytes
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Post by segadragon on Jun 30, 2006 2:13:44 GMT
He has to mean MB. Otherwise that's just under 1.5KB per song. I have 8.12GB with 1,695 songs.
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Post by Aegisknight on Jun 30, 2006 2:53:28 GMT
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Post by UCX on Jun 30, 2006 20:28:43 GMT
I dunno what I mean. But I've hit a thousand songs, and used 4000kb and I've not converted them all to WMA. And Aegisknight, they sound pretty good, but would sound better on a proper sound system. I have to go through another couple of thousand CD's to find the right albums.
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Post by Aegisknight on Jun 30, 2006 22:06:37 GMT
Music alone, I've got..........57 gigs for 3,466 songs......but you can't just divide the two, because a lot of them are albums made into one file........not to mention the gigs of lossless tracks I've got going.
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