Speaking of Ipods (or iPod) ...

Following my winter time rants about having no use for them (whatever they
are), Mrs.E decided to get one for me.
I have to admit, it seems to be well made ... bright shiny back with the
Apple logo and a nice looking black front panel and screen. Heavy little
thing too.

Problem is .... I don't have a clue what you do with it. Somehow I turned
it on and couldn't shut it off until I sat down and read the manual. I was
looking for where you put the batteries, but the manual says it charges an
internal battery from the USB port on the computer .... except it warns you
to only use type 2.0 USB ports or something bad might happen. What the heck
is a 2.0 USB port?

I assume once I figure out how to hook it up to a computer I will need to
spend hours downloading music from CDs or something to use this thing.
Isn't it easier to just bring the CD to where ever you want to play it? I
just don't get the concept

RCE

RTFM, but you're already learning that...

Isn't it easier to just bring the CD to where ever you want to play it?
I
just don't get the concept

One disc, 12 tracks. Twelve discs, 144 tracks and a CD wallet the thickness
of a phone book. My iPod has 7,200 tracks on it.

Sure, I had to load up the tracks from CDs but that's a one-time deal. I
found using an older program called "Audio Catalyst" was very handy at doing
them one after another. I'm sure there are more recent ones. I generally
dislike the way iTunes handles it.

You may want to consider adding an external or other drive to your desktop
computer and use that to hold all the audio tracks. I've always found the
192k bitrate to be about the best balance between space savings and
fidelity. There aren't many tracks where that rate isn't sufficient. And
since I own the CDs I can always re-rip the rare track or two that needs
something higher.

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
t...
RTFM, but you're already learning that...

Isn't it easier to just bring the CD to where ever you want to play it?
I
just don't get the concept

One disc, 12 tracks. Twelve discs, 144 tracks and a CD wallet the
thickness
of a phone book. My iPod has 7,200 tracks on it.

Do the songs HAVE to be compressed, or can you transfer them to the ipod at
CD quality?

Do the songs HAVE to be compressed, or can you transfer them to the ipod
at
CD quality?

HAVE To? No. But it's often quite a bit more desirable to use compression
as it takes considerably less space. For what's arguably a wasted amount of
"better" fidelity. There's just not enough difference to hear on the
headphones or in a vehicle/boat. Sure, the audiophiles will make all sorts
of arguments about 'quality' but they're largely talking outta their ass.

I'll trade the choice of faster loading, putting more on the device and
having decent fidelity over any so-called purist arguments any day.

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
t...
Do the songs HAVE to be compressed, or can you transfer them to the ipod
at
CD quality?

HAVE To? No. But it's often quite a bit more desirable to use
compression
as it takes considerably less space. For what's arguably a wasted amount
of
"better" fidelity. There's just not enough difference to hear on the
headphones or in a vehicle/boat. Sure, the audiophiles will make all
sorts
of arguments about 'quality' but they're largely talking outta their ass.

I'll trade the choice of faster loading, putting more on the device and
having decent fidelity over any so-called purist arguments any day.



In other words, you're deaf.

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
t...
Do the songs HAVE to be compressed, or can you transfer them to the ipod
at
CD quality?

HAVE To? No. But it's often quite a bit more desirable to use
compression
as it takes considerably less space. For what's arguably a wasted amount
of
"better" fidelity. There's just not enough difference to hear on the
headphones or in a vehicle/boat. Sure, the audiophiles will make all
sorts
of arguments about 'quality' but they're largely talking outta their ass.


Yabut, their asses have big woofers.

RCE

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