"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:57:26 GMT, Mys Terry
wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:35:54 -0500, " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT
comREMOVETHIS wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Mys Terry wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:52:30 -0500, Wayne.B

wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:09:10 -0500, "RCE" wrote:

I was always an electronic gizmo and gadget nut, but for some reason
the whole appeal of Ipods and the like is lost on me.
I don't have an Ipod but sort of understand the appeal since I've
been
collecting MP3s on my PCs for more years than I can remember. It's
sort of like having an on demand juke box of all of your favorite
tunes. If you get the sampling rate high enough the quality is not
all that bad and certainly a lot better than the gear that most of us
had back in the 50s and 60s.

The problem with these things is the time involved in loading them up
with all
the songs in the first place, and then the things are designed to fail
after
about a year and you get to buy a new one to start loading all over
again. Do
you really want to sit here like an idiot and load 100 albums into the
damned
thing? Get XM or Sirius and leave all that stuff behind.

I will pass on XM or Sirius. Do you really want to sit there like an
idiot
and pay for a music service yet have no control over the exact songs they
want to hear? ;-)


It's $10 bucks a month for cryeye! Take out a loan if you have to. For the
situations where I would want a very portable device, It would be fine.
Selecting a channel playing exclusively a particular type of music would
fufill
the mission nicely, and I could even listen to something other than music
if I
wanted to. I don't have to hunt around menus looking for that particular
album
out of the hundreds I loaded on a device and then 45 minutes later look
around
for another album whose name I can't quite recall when the first one stops
playing.

When you watch a movie do you think you are an idiot because you paid to
get in
and then can't control the order of the scenes? Really.


I enjoyed playing around with Itunes over the past few days and importing
and organizing my music from my CD's. Not much other things I had to get
done on a rainy Saturday and Sunday.


If you didn't spend the whole weekend programming your stupid ipod, you
could
have read a really good book while listening to hassle free, higher
fidelity, XM
or Sirius radio! LOL

I have Sirius and love it.

Will pass.