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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... 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 om... 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. |
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