The end came too soon. We went through good times, and bad times. You were never the same after the techie boy downloaded all his music onto my computer and wiped out all my lovingly-created playlists., but I grew more and more attached to you, not just for the way that you would sweeten my working day with music, but for the way you could filter out the millions of annoying people on public transport.
Then I left you on the tube at Liverpool Street. After all we've been through! I didn't mean to, I swear, it was a codeine-and- lemsip-induced haze that caused a moment's lapse.
And I've been having unloyal, unfaithful thoughts since you've been gone. Like, maybe, just possibly, there's a better mp3 player than the iPod?
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What's so special about iPod's anyway? I never understood the attraction myself, amd can't see how a walkman or some such can't do exactly the same thing at a lower price.
I prefer an ordinary mp3 player. No sodding about with proprietary formats and also much cheaper if it dies. It's a bummer losing an iPod though - they don't come cheap.
You might think their is a better music device, but you'll find there isn't. Sure their are devices with longer batteries, more space etc etc. But for something that just works the best you can't beat an iPod.
(Llwetrah, their is nothing propritry about the iPods formats. Both MP3 and MP4 (aac) are public formats implementable by anyone. Unlike WMA)
Give the SanDisk Sansa a go, Nikki has one and from what I can see they're frickin' brilliant. I'd totally buy one, if I didn't have an iPod.
Oh and Adrian, I think you might be hard pushed to find an mp3 player that's any use at all that doesn't play WMA, apart from an iPod.
Oh no annie! That must be so annoying! I'm terrified of leaving my sort-of-new 30gb MP3 player somewhere or getting it nicked, partly cos it cost £160 (most expensive thing I own aside from laptop) and partly cos I've lost so many productive hours copying music onto the damn thing. A month in and there's still 12gb of space, it's driving me mad and I just have to fill it up or it'll be like admitting my music collection is rubbish or something.
Anyway. Get a Creative Zen Vision M, they're prettier than iPods. I have never used an iPod so I can't comment on their operation, but I like my technology to look useful as well as beautiful and I think the iPod looks neither. Those white headphones too - ick! 80's, in a bad way. My Creative came with white-cord headphones and I've ordered black ones sharpish. The picture and video quality on it is great, plus John Lewis may still have a good deal on - I got £30 off mine for reasons I'm unclear on but didn't want to argue about.
There is nothing better. There's cheaper, and there's similar. There is no better. I've had mates go for creative zen's and the like because they didn't want to follow the crowd or something. All but one of them has an iPod now! :D
Fancy leaving it on the train you daft ha'peth! ;)
Timbo, I thought just like you til I got one - they are great because you can store so much music on them, it's like taking all your music with you, and it's so light...
Llewtrah - an ordinary one you say - and cheaper - hmm - do you have a brand name, for example?
Adrian - right, longer batteries mean nothing as a selling point to a stupid person who will leave it on the train anyway.
Matt, I hadn't heard of SanDisk Sansa, off to Google it right now.
Violet, okey dokey, will check out the Creative Zen. It plays videos! And has a radio! Wooo! (I did switch my headphones you know. Now I'm left with the headphones but no iPod.)
Rad, I'm laughing because I'm so easily swayed - I was nodding at everyone's comments and had made up my mind to get Violet's recommendation when I read your comment, now I'm back to square one.
Yes I am a daft ha'peth - kicking myself as we speak...
You are the lady version of Indecisive Dave from the Fast Show and I claim my five pounds. :D
Oh, and welcome back mate.
My Creative Zen has never left the house as I always fall asleep on the trains. The only thing I have trouble with is recording songs that have the same name and are the same track number (e.g. track 1 - intro, track 7 - the passenger) and it stops recording to ask you if you want to replace the track you have already, which is annoying. I don't know whether ipods have the same problem. Also, is an ipod a backup to the music on your laptop - can you transfer the music from the ipod to the laptop? If you can, then stick with what you know.
By the way, I am a technological fool so there are probably ways around everything.
You can transfer music from an ipod back to a computer but you have to use 3rd party software to do it.
The radio is pretty much what made my mnd up about the zen. It was such a wrench for me to give up my cassette walkman when it finally died after 14 years, I felt I needed some kind of old-fashioned technology on my new piece of modern tat!
I have to say I find the software that comes with the zen annoying and kind of patronising, but I think that about pretty much everything from Windows XP up - the way it tries to second-guess you and do everything for you! The way it's geared up not to let you do anything remotely technical in case you get scared and wet yourself or something! The way it thinks you want your hand held through everything! Ooh.
Er, the zen software is fine and easy to use once you get used to it though, and figure out how to do the things you want fairly speedily by not doing it the first way they tell you to. But I am a contrary bastard.
Oh no! I sympathise - mine has recently disowned me by suddenly having a mind of it's own. It won't play what I want but will play something else and refuse to be prompted on to next track. It won't keep it's charge and is generally suffering from ipod alzheimers. I had a moment of rage and wanted to beat it with something rather heavy and terminal but then realised I need to find some way of getting all the tracks off it first. Slightly losing the will to live as you can imagine and have been browsing ebay for a new one of late. You're not still feeling ill are you? Lots of love xx
Oh, my. The thought of an orphaned ipod all on its own. Heartbreaking.
Geoff, Violet - oh no, you've opened up a whole new area that I hadn't thought about. Software...
Thanks RoMo - I feel more human today than I have for a while. I know what you mean, I wanted to jump up and down on mine when it broke before. I do think it's mental that mp3 players are so expensive yet they seem to have a shorter shelf-life than a good old plastic walkman.
Hi Clarissa - don't worry, I'm sure it's gone to a good foster home somewhere...
The problem is with ipod supporting s/w when ripping songs for use on an ipod (it's all to do with the protection). To get it back to normal portable mp3 you have to burn to audio and re-rip. mp4 is fraught with protection and only a few devices play mp4 files (even unprotected ones). I was given some demo tracks as mp4 and had to find a converter so I could play them.
I have a 1GB iitronics mp3 player (Billy has the same make, but 2GB) which does the job very nicely. I also have mp3 players in the car and around the house.
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