I'm an old fashioned kind of gal and not technically inclined at all, so I can't get down with downlowading songs. It's too time consuming, plus with cd's, I like having the inlay with all of the credits, art work etc...What do you guys think? Enlighten me!

Ipod type MP3 players are great for portability. U can easily transfer 400 plus albums on to them (40G ones) if u have the time. Ripping CDs can be quite time consuming, I can only manage about 15 in an hour. I too like to have all the art work, inlay of credits etc. so I rarely download songs if I can buy them. But it's great to have all your music in one place and still have the CDs. I always play CDs if I'm at home because the sound quality is still superior.
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I don't have the time to be sitting and downloading music. It's worth the money to just walk in the record store and buy the CD without the wait or hassle.

ipod hands down bcuzu dont have 2 worrry bout buying batteries evry other day like i did

I'm fine with my Minidisc

vainandy said:

5/10/15 minutes to download a WHOLE album to me is no hassle !

i love, love, love, love, love my iPod!!! at this moment, i can carry around every prince, bowie, u2, stones, madonna, michael jackson, janet jackson, tori amos...well, actually, at least half of my entire music collection is on my iPod and i still have about 8 gigs left! i don't have to carry around disc cases anymore...i can create my own mixes (just like mix discs) and store them in my iPod...i can shuffle songs by album, artist or genre...honestly, i don't know how i ever lived without one!

sallysassalot said:

but how much time do you spend on downloading music and don't you miss having the art work?

dancerella said:

well...do you carry the artwork around with you when you're listening to it? i still buy music but now, instead of carrying around a case of 100 cds in my bag only to realize the one i want to listen to is at home, i have almost all of it on the iPod...and it weighs about half a pound, lol. as far as time spent downloading...when i buy a disc i just go home, stick it in my laptop and click ok (there's an automatic prompt to import the tracks). in about 5 minutes the entire cd is in my computer so in the time it took for me to grab a snack or brush my teeth, i've got new music on my computer. it takes the same amount of time to load the music tothe iPod and i usually do that before i go to bed so i'm not even aware of the five minutes it takes.

I had a portable CD player. Then a protable CD player that played data discs. Then a ipod.

They were all overated and pretty crap.

My Archo media player it the only device I've found that actually lives up to the hype. Leave all the other so called MP3 players standing. The whole data and video thing is just the icing on the cake.

sallysassalot said:

no i don't carry the art work with me but i just like having it. i guess i just can't break away from the cd's yet. maybe one day but not now. i remember it took me ages to finally get a disc player after dealing with tapes for so long. i'm always slow when it coems to these things. bring back the 8 track damnit!

JANFAN4L and the iPod commitee vote: iPod.

Check out my spiel in this thread: http://www.prince.org/msg/8/123479

I'll be the first in line to audition, if they ever make infomercials.

ABeautifulOne said:

Yeah, I got sick of that sh*t. I saved all the money I spent on batteries over 2 years with the price of this thing.

iPod. Hands down the best gadget I have ever owned.

CD players were great in their day, but in retrospect, they need batteries all the time, even the best ones were prone to skip and freeze, and if you wanted to listen to more than one CD you had to lug them all around, and perhaps scratch them up pretty good.

An iPod enables even heavy music buyers to store virtually every CD or song you ever owned. indexed, and organized into about as many playlists as you want. It is pretty user-friendly. For such a young product it is relatively free of errors.

And dag, y'all iPod haters are hard to please!!!!

I still like my turntable. I suppose an MP3 is a bit different. I wonder what will be next?

you're on a computer, why not hook another hard drive to it with music? the ipod works like a hard drive when you're putting music on it. Think about how long it takes to copy any 3 - 5 meg file

i pod people make me laugh. Its become this whole protected fashion thing.

I had an i pod for a year, and it was ok.

But the next gen players leave i pod standing. From video playback, photo and data storage, better batteries, to WMAs, everything has moved on and ipod is looking very old indeed.

Usually, the people that jump to i pods protection have never used better machines but protect blindly anyway.

I had one, enjoyed it, and moved on when something a lot better and cheaper came along. The i pod is great, but is now strictly for the fashion victim.

SquirrelMeat said:

Can you provide me with information regarding something that is cheaper yet better than ipod
I need one

SquirrelMeat said:

Couldn't have said it better. I totally agree with everything u said.

I wish I had an IPod but dayum those things r expensive!
so I choose CD player untill someone buys me an Ipod knockoff or sumthing

vainandy said:

really? you can be downloading music while you're on the org. and just think of how much time you have for THAT even the average orger spends entirely too much time on here. time that could also be spent simultaneously downloading stuff.

SquirrelMeat said:

you know what kind of people make me laugh? the kind that jump to conclusions and make assumptions about people because they may or may not have an opinion different from your own.

there are a ton of options out there. people get what they like and what works for them. my friend loves her dell digital jukebox. personally, i would never buy anything from dell again but that's my own personal experience. some people love the rio mp3 players...cool...it works for them.

try not to make such sweeping generalisations based on the mere difference of opinions concerning, um, electronics.

thekidsgirl said:

well...batteries for your disc player must be at least 5 dollars a week. at the bare minimum, you're spending $260 a year on batteries. that's almost the cost of a 20 gig iPod. plus, if you're a student you can show you're school id at any apple store and you'll get 30 bucks knocked off the price! that was a big deciding factor for me because i was torn between the rio and the iPod. with the discount, i got the iPod for less. and my boyfriend has a mac while i have a pc...we can share the iPod between us whereas the rio would not work with a mac machine.

sallysassalot said:

those are either expensive batteries, or a power-sucking CD player. my sony discman only uses up 2 AA batteries a week, and that's when it's getting used a good 40-60 hours. 2 AA's don't cost $5.

Why not buy an external hard drive or an mp3 player ?
That's much cheaper !

GrayKing said:

really? wow! my portable cd player would need new batteries pretty much every other day. now, i walk everywhere and have music on at all times so maybe i use up a lot of battery time but i don't think my discman got more than 8 hours of battery life. i would have loved a 60 hour battery life discman!

GrayKing said:

he/she meant a pack with about 4 batteries not 2 but some r like that with 2 for 5

sallysassalot said:

when i'm working, i'm listening. and often (especially in spring and summer), that adds up to about 60 hours a week.

ABeautifulOne said:

i have NEVER been called a he/she before!!! how dare you!



nah, i used to by a four pack for 4 something or an 8 pack for 8 something. i always had to buy more than one pack of batteries per week. maybe my player just sucked i know i used the esp option all the time since i was usually walking while listening and that probably sucked the life out a little but i've never had a discman that lasted longer than 8 hours of battery life. oh well. whatever. the point is, no batteries to purchase. add that to not carrying around a hundred discs and not scratching my discs up. the convenience...i loves me some iPod!

I my iPod. But it does have its drawbacks. I'd rather listen to side 2 of Abbey Road on vinyl any day.