- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Mitchell
My nephiew has a mini ipod, with 4 gb and it cost him $300. my brother has the creative Zen Xtra it cost him 250$ and has 40 gb! also it is much eaiser to move music into it, and has REALLY good quality. mp3 players are much much better than ipods, they cost less than an ipod, have more room than an ipod, and you dont have to pay to download music. it's win freakin' win, do not ever buy ipods, the only reason people do is that they dont know about Creative.
Not true. The 20 gig costs 300 (it's actually 270 at the BYU Bookstore...you can order it online from there). Correctly used, iPods use AAC encoding, which actually compresses smaller than an .mp3. They're also much easier to load songs onto, assuming you have iTunes (which you need, but it's free and it's better for audio than WMP). All you do is hook it into your computer and it automatically updates the music. You need to occasionally update the software, but a prompt will come up and all you have to do is click "update" and then plug it into a charger to flash-start the memory.
All you people who say iPods are hard to use have never used one, apparantly.
Also, you don't need to pay to download music. AT ALL. You can still use all your filesharing programs or bit torrents to get free music, and then you just import it into your iTunes. That's what I do. I've never bought music from Apple, and I probably never will.
And then the sound quality...did you know that the thing that derives the sound quality the most is the quality of its encoding? That the player has nothing at all to do with it? If the song sounds like crap, that's probably because it's 64kb or 96kb. There actually is another factor that controls quality of sound--headphones. Speaking from personaly experience of having gone through many a pair of headphones, I can say that the ones that came with the iPod are the best I've heard so far.
[Edited on 1/3/2005 1:54:45 PM]