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Post by tuneschick on Mar 31, 2006 9:47:48 GMT -5
I love my ipod. My only mistake was in buying the mini because it was dirt cheap - I figured I'd be OK with 1200 songs, but alas. What was I thinking?
We actually have two minis now - one still in the box. That one was a gift from Michael Connelly, who's one of S's authors. Not sure what we'll do with it.
I understand the reasons for not liking ipods - I live with someone who feels the same way. But he also understands that for someone like me - who spends close to four hours a day on public transportation going to and from work - it's far and away the best option. I went through years of carrying my discman and a book of 30 CDs with me to and from work everyday. Now I can have more than 3 times that amount of music in my pocket. It's superb.
Though I still don't download music - despite my love of my ipod, I'm still all about buying whole albums. The CD buying hasn't slowed... and often when I'm listening to my 'pod, I'll listen to a whole album at a time.
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Post by Fuzznuts on Mar 31, 2006 9:51:35 GMT -5
We actually have two minis now - one still in the box. That one was a gift from Michael Connelly, who's one of S's authors. Not sure what we'll do with it. Dibs! |
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Post by bowiglou on Mar 31, 2006 14:19:59 GMT -5
well the ipod generation is completely under my radar....hell, I still have 1000 albums waiting to be played again!!...but I tend to just listen (and buy) CD's, and when I have time to kill at a public place (e.g., wife shopping!!) I always bring something to read...always!!!
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 31, 2006 16:26:46 GMT -5
...and what exactly happens to those 5000 songs when you drop an iPod and it smashes into like 5 or 6 pieces?
Or someone steps on it?
Or your 1 and a ½ year old who just LOVEs remotes n'shit because of the buttons and the lights starts pressing stuff on your iPod with a force of about 6000 pounds per square inch...for like a minute before you catch him...?
Eh? What then?
"Nyaaah....Where's your iPod now?"
...with the cadence of Edward G Robinson playing the Pharoah..'Where's your Messiah NOW?'
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Post by Kensterberg on Mar 31, 2006 16:40:52 GMT -5
I've dropped my 2 1/2 year old iPod a couple of times, and it's still in one piece. Someone steps on it? WTF is it doing on the floor? And look where you're going! No 1 1/2 year olds in my house ... well, at least none with less than four legs! The mastiff has eaten something like five remotes in her time with me, but never an iPod. Again, you don't leave something like this just lying around, just like you don't leave your cds out where she could taste 'em, either! (BTW, my Great Dane ate the packaging/booklet materials for both my Springsteen Tracks and SRV box sets back when he was new to the house. That's the only time I've ever had a dog go after anything musical of mine. Oh, I did have a tabby who sharpened his claws on my LPs once ... then he got declawed.). And anyway, iPods don't have any kind of tactile response with their buttons - they're just indentations on the face. Everything is touch sensitive. If you keep the "pause" switch locked in place, Jr. can touch it all he wants and nothing will happen. And ultimately, what you're saying is "what happens when your iPod is destroyed?" Well, what happens when your LP/cd/tape is destroyed? If one of my cds is destroyed, I've got to go buy it again, but if my iPod is ruined, well, I still have all those songs on another hard drive, and can download 'em to my new iPod right after I get it home!  Seriously, I look at cds now as being my music archive, or for "serious listening" only. If I'm doing shit around the house, going places, whatever, I want the convenience of (most) of my collection at my fingertips with no risk of losing the originals. |
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Post by chrisfan on Mar 31, 2006 16:49:27 GMT -5
My nephew, who is only 2 days older than Doc's boy, lives in a house with two IPODs. He's your typical toddler who is obsessed with all things remote control / phone / button oriented. (Except of course for the toy versions that don't change the channels on the TV to fuzz, hang up on Aunt Ah, etc) He's never come close to destroying one of the IPODs. Couldn't be bothered by them. They must look too much like toy phones and remotes to him.
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 31, 2006 18:02:10 GMT -5
I'll bet his parents just have been a bit more careful with their iPods...at least for now. My cellphone, with the wire earpiece IS a magnet for his busy little hands(like ALL the phones in the house)...but I simply haven't had him turned loose with it, yet. If I've just come home and he's running up to me to get picked up (and hugged), I'll snatch him up and usually try to get the thing off of my front pocket in one motion. And put it somewhere high. ~ So you've dropped it twice Ken? The third may be the charm... How'd it get on the floor to get stomped? I dunno...falls out of your hands while you're walking in a crowd to get on the 'L' train... And OK the 'lock' or 'pause' is a failsafe for the touchpads to be inactivated...but junior still drops things, he throws things... I cannot imagine this piece of electronic wizardry can back up a claim like Timex watches did 'Takes a licking and keeps on ticking'(...actually ARE there any sort of claims made to 'durability' with an iPod?)....and just like when I dropped 2 successive Sony Discman(tm) players once, and they stopped dead, full stop, I was not a happy camper. Better a $20 Korean-made discman, than a $200+ mini-computer...if I must indulge a musicallthetime-mania. Besides, headphones/earbuds will make you deaf. A foregone conclusion at this date, for me....  |
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Post by Kensterberg on Mar 31, 2006 18:13:47 GMT -5
Odd note on headphones ... I actually don't use mine that often. A lot of the time when I'm listening to my iPod, it's via one of the Macs and a stereo. I only use the headphones outside, and I don't wear earbuds. I've got a cheap-ass set of Sony (I think) sport headphones, where the connector sits behind my head instead of on top. They sit outside the ears, and I generally have it set so that I can hear stuff around me -- traffic, people, dogs, etc.
My days of cranking the volume all the way up and zoning out to headphones are looooooooong gone. I just like to have a musical accompaniment when I'm out. I'm lucky to have made it to my forties with my hearing pretty much intact -- not quite 100%, but not too far off -- and I don't plan on blowing my ears out now.
I can see where an iPod wouldn't make sense for someone in your shoes, RocDoc, but at the same time, the joy (and convenience) of having 8,500 or so songs in your pocket (or your car, or office, or ...) is awfully compelling. Don't knock it till you've tried it. Once an iPod has gotten into your life, it's hard to remember how you lived w/o it.
Just like computers, come to think of it!
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 31, 2006 18:52:32 GMT -5
Having 8,500 songs on hand would be strictly an indulgence...one thta my current listening habits seem to dictate that I would not use anyway, in terms of wanting some sort of mass-shuffle infinite variety. The folks who post over at the 'What I'm Listening To'-board, who say they've just listened to 4-5-6-7 albums on a particular day (or morning) simply amaze me. Rarely do I get that instantly tired/bored with something that I've put on that as soon at it goes silent I'm putting the next on...and the next after that. I can put on anything by say, the Hellacopters (or lotsa Springsteen these past days  ) and it can play all day (with the stereo usually switched to the NPR jazz station when patients come in)...or my many Putumayo label world music samplers... In the car, on occasion I wish that I had a CD player, but also Chicago's got its ton of quite good and varied radio stations...plus I live five minutes (with all the traffic lights green) from my office. The family car is always something low volume so as not to rile Matas too badly...and to communicate with the little jabberer... ~ Beware, that you may think you've got the volume down low on headphones, especially when you're trying to cancel out the often unavoidable outside noises. A car with the windows down? Fergit it, the roar there means you're suddenly cranking your ears out, bigtime. And I'm sure I've told the story here, to use LOTS of caution to not be falsely secure when you're walking city streets with headphone on....where a co-worker of mine, a bible student was attacked and beaten to death while walking and wearing headphones on a Chicago street on a beautiful summer's day right at sundown. This when we were both lifeguards at a fancy-schmancy downtown healthclub probably 20 years ago...I think I traded shifts with her that day.... |
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Post by RocDoc on Apr 7, 2006 13:19:21 GMT -5
Yup, spaced out, unalert in the big city while using headphones....beware the alluring comforting iPod.
For 'blissfully' walking in Chicago or New York, anyway.
Yup.
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Post by frag on Apr 13, 2006 19:04:06 GMT -5
Bow and Rocdoc rule.  |
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Post by Kensterberg on Apr 13, 2006 19:05:47 GMT -5
Bow and RocDoc are low-tech Luddites.  |
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Post by frag on Apr 13, 2006 19:07:48 GMT -5
nothing wrong with integrity |
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Post by Kensterberg on Apr 13, 2006 19:09:41 GMT -5
Who are you going to listen to here? Bow thinks the friggin' Doors were one of the great rock and roll bands, and RocDoc is so far gone he can't hear the genius of the Clash!
You know I'm right, Frag. Search your feelings ... join me and together we shall rule the boards! [cue up maniacal laughing and spooky music]
I need to go home ...
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Post by frag on Apr 13, 2006 19:18:41 GMT -5
Yeah but...
you're hard to argue with.
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) and it can play all day (with the stereo usually switched to the NPR jazz station when patients come in)...or my many Putumayo label world music samplers...
