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? ;-)

I'll jump in here The only reason I subscribe to XM is to hear the Red
Sox games while out on the water. That alone is worth the price of
admission...to me. I'm in california and WEEI doesn't quite make the trip.
The music isn't bad either.

Do you *really* have control over your music with an ipod? If you have
10,000 songs on that thing, how long would it take you to find a
*particular* song? Sure, I know you can make playlists, but that's done on
the computer. If you're out on the water with no computer, is it really that
much different than one of the commercial free sat services (other than
cost)? I have a dozen or so CDs with about 110 mp3s on each that I keep in
my boat. I find it difficult enough to find a song on a cd with 100+ tunes.
I couldn't imagine what 10,000 would be like g.

--Mike

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"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 use two programs from Anapod to store all my tunes in proper categories
on a hard drive and to "manipulate" files in all manner of interesting
ways. Reloading songs from one hard drive to the hard drive on my iPod is
quite fast.

Itunes is pretty fast and easy also. The program will generally import an
entire CD in less than a couple of minutes. I like the way the files can
then be edited, as well as the ability to make playlists as well as to be
able to group songs in various folders.

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? ;-)

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.