whats ur fav. mp3 player....?
Jan 2, 2002 at 8:21 PM Post #19 of 27
iTunes & iPod!

Simple aih? If I were a pc user I could try all this exotci using stuff, but Steve Jobs tends to choose for its customer: whatever Apple chooses to do itself kills the competition in a blast
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BTW, I sell Macs for a living. since the rise of MP3 player si sold just a handfull of hardware MP3-players, but I sold dozens of iPods in just a few weeks! Apple's Digital Hub concept really works, but they've gotta do it themselves!
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Jan 3, 2002 at 9:41 PM Post #21 of 27
I once ordered a nomad II from creative. Everything was fine till they called to verificate at 5 in the morning and my mom answered and there was no signal so she hook up. Next day i got an email saying they cancelled the order cus woman rudely hung up during the converssation!!! Damn creative pieces of crap they are....
 
Jan 16, 2002 at 8:18 PM Post #22 of 27
iPod and iTunes all the way
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I used to think iTunes sucked before and I used SoundJam MP but when I got my iPod I had to use iTunes and its not that bad. Getting everything organized was really easy but editing all the id tags took mad long. The iPod is one of the greatest inventions ever, I just wish the HD was a little bit bigger.
 
Feb 1, 2002 at 8:42 PM Post #23 of 27
iPod and iTunes here too.

One thing that's really impressive is that, unlike the Rio Volt, the iPod has an ultra low noise floor, even when cranked all the way; you can really tell when listening to a clean, quiet aif or wav. With an mp3 that soft whine in the iPod's mp3 decoder spoils it. I'll be really glad when Apple comes out with a patch for that. It's not too noticeable with the iPod earbuds or Sennheiser HD 600's, but with Etymotic ER-4P's it's really annoying. iPod owners: If you haven't done it yet, find an ultra clean CD track with lots of quiet or dead air (i.e. a slow solo) and rip it to .aif (or .wav), then encode that file to mp3, load both to your iPod and compare. The aif or wav has no whine.

Also, I'll be glad when Apple comes out with a patch that allows you to sort on the iPod by "Genre->Artist->Album->Track" instead of just "Artist->Album->Track".

The guts of iTunes is SoundJam MP. I still use SoundJam for rip/encoding because it gives more control over some encode parameters. And although I use MP3 Rage for most tag tasks, the Album Manager 1.8.1 plugin for SoundJam offers two indispensable functions that really save a lot of time when needed -- the "Tracks" command & the "Pull Track Names from File" command.
 
Feb 18, 2002 at 5:49 PM Post #26 of 27
BMW of MP3 players? I don't know about that. As a BMW driver I can tell you that I am indeed a little snobbish, moderately affluent, slightly anal, brand conscious and above all willing to pay far too much for a neat toy

...but nowhere near as much as most Mac owners.
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P.S. 2000 BMW 323Ci Convertible sand/forest green FS SF Bay Area - I'm moving to Manhattan, where a car is about as much use as a Nomad jukebox.
 
Feb 18, 2002 at 8:28 PM Post #27 of 27
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Originally posted by aeberbach
I can tell you that I am indeed a little snobbish, moderately affluent, slightly anal, brand conscious and above all willing to pay far too much for a neat toy

...but nowhere near as much as most Mac owners.
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Yawn... those good ol' 1995 PC'isms... welcome to 2002
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