[guidogodoy] Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:39:53 PM
The iPod "Classic" is the 6th generation from what you describe = 160GB. WAY too heavy for demanding physical activity. What do I have against it? Nothing except that it is too heavy and expensive for what you get. Exactly the point I was trying to make with the new iteration of the iPod Shuffle. All can hook up to a car with the right know-how (whether hard-wired or wireless) so that is a mute point. Battery life and weight are my two biggest cons to a 6th gen. "Classic."
Then again, that is from someone who refuses to get a cellphone. BTW, a proper rip from a CD should sound no different on any type of iPod. Rip to AAC - lossless.
I only suggest the iPod Classic because of the GB's. You mentioned 4 GB's. My classic has 160 GB's. I definitely
would not reccomend it to runners/joggers because it is a little bulky and heavy. The wife and I walk and it's not too bad to carry
it with me. The number one reason I bought the Classic was for my vehicle. I bought a stereo with a USB port on the front just to have
an iPod in the car. Yes CD's sound better but the iPod is just so damn convenient. I'd rather carry the iPod to the car than have to
constantly change up the cd's in it. I also worry about theft and I keep my iPod with me and never leave it in the car. I can't do that with
a bunch of discs. Just because I'm clueless, other than too bulky, what do you not like about the classic? Is there something better out
there that can hold this much music? I have 11,000 songs on this and room for at least 6 or 7 thousand more.(maybe more than that)
guidogodoy wrote:
Sorry to hear that, Bud. I have a couple of programs that would have helped a ton there. Change the firmware so you can read and write to the iPod is one of many solutions. Doing so can check the song data sum against an international database.
As for getting a classic iPod? Nope. I don't agree. The iPod Mini is a bargain and swapping out the battery takes minutes. Sound is identical to the classic iPod (I assume you mean the big 4GB). The TRUE sleeper was the iPod Shuffle. It was made for runners or anyone else into physical activities. That is why they brought them back from the great beyond. Clip and run. Of course it takes some trickery to get it to follow playlists and such but, look online, it came back for a reason.
I still prefer the mini. Has a screen, can do playlists on the fly, sound is better than the Shuffle and has all the goodies like car hookup / wireless / contact list / EQ.
My two cents on old hardware. Beats the hell out of the new, though, and I fix iPhones, iTouch+ all the time. Try running with an iTouch! LOL!
Budred wrote:
I (finally) finished importing all of my cd's to iTunes. That may not sound like a difficult task but I've had hundreds
of disks that when popped into iTunes came up unknown artist and no track titles. I had to type (peck) the song title,
artist, album title, genre, and sometimes year for thousands of songs. I've been doing this for about a month.
Over a thousand cd's and 11,000 songs and I still have over 60 gigs for any new music. Anyone that doesn't already have
an iPod, buy the classic. This thing has to hold about 20,000 songs or more. It's not as cool as the touch as far as features
go but if all you care about is the music this is the way to go. Peace!
