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Subject: Does anyone here have an ipod cuz people don't talk a lot abou...
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Poll: Does anyone here in the forums have an ipod?  [closed]
Yes:  34%
(10 Votes)
No:  31%
(9 Votes)
I want one so bad:  10%
(3 Votes)
I don't care:  24%
(7 Votes)
I hate music:  0%
(0 Votes)
Total Votes: 29

?? I do.

  • 01.02.2005 4:47 PM PDT

i hate ipod for some reason

  • 01.02.2005 4:51 PM PDT
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I have one, too. They rock. I love my iPod to death.

  • 01.02.2005 4:53 PM PDT

._____Metal
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I.X....X.I..... Jets: Check
.T_V_T......Chargers: Check
...****........Colts: -blam!- them....

I hate IPods. All they do is get kids to download music for 1$ instead of supporting their band. I'm with Metalica--down with Napster!

  • 01.02.2005 5:52 PM PDT
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IPods are useless. I can't imagine a person with 20-40GBs of music that they like.

  • 01.02.2005 6:36 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

I was just forced to install all the iPod software for my sis on her comp and I can only say one thing: What a -blam!-. iPod is useless. I like my Dell digital DJ tons more.

  • 01.02.2005 6:37 PM PDT
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I heard that you have to send the battery to apple to recharge it, is that true?

  • 01.02.2005 6:49 PM PDT
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Get one. I love my iPod. If it was a woman, I'd -blam!- it.

  • 01.02.2005 8:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Riddick10
I heard that you have to send the battery to apple to recharge it, is that true?


No! Where'd you hear that??

It comes with a recharger. It's also a lithium-ion batter that's supposed to last for a long time. You do need to send it back to Apple when and if it dies to get a new one in, but that's it.

Goth Guy:
I hate IPods. All they do is get kids to download music for 1$ instead of supporting their band. I'm with Metalica--down with Napster!


Yeah, maybe if you're an idiot and actually want to pay for it. I also need to add: iTunes licenses its purchaseable music from the people who made it, so they do make some money off it. iTunes is also fairly incomplete; there's a lot of music missing from it. Instead, you can rip CDs onto your iTunes. In fact, all 400+ songs I have so far are either off a CD or off of LimeWire.

Also, buying the CD doesn't support the band so much as it does the record label. Most of the band's money comes from touring. Plus, charging 15 bucks for something that cost about 10 cents to make is complete and total crap.

[Edited on 1/2/2005 9:25:09 PM]

  • 01.02.2005 9:19 PM PDT
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DO NOT GET AN IPOD.

if you're going to get an mp3 player, check this thing out.

http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213& ;subcategory=2 14&product=9288

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.

[Edited on 1/2/2005 10:49:21 PM]

  • 01.02.2005 10:48 PM PDT
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I hate iPod. Here's why.

  • 01.03.2005 2:21 AM PDT
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That link doesn't really say anything except that eventually you will have to replace the rechargeable battery. Which is a given with any rechargeable battery.

Although I haven't got an iPod (i'm saving for one - rent over luxuries), I'm more than happy to fork out the extra dosh over other mp3 players, mainly because

a) I own a Mac, and the integration is seamless.

b) They simply look better than anything else on the market. Almost the perfect combination of form and function.

  • 01.03.2005 3:19 AM PDT

No. I have a phone. With bluetooth headset. Much better.

  • 01.03.2005 4:44 AM PDT

-S

I have the original iPod. I listen to it on the way to and from work every day. Best purchase I couldn't afford at the time ever!

  • 01.03.2005 9:57 AM PDT
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I don't own any mp3 players, the only reason I would buy an Ipod is becasue you can hook it into your car cd players and since I listen to 99% of my music in my car and have over 150 cds, getting all my music on one thing would be cool.

If any of your have any info on this that would be appreciated.

  • 01.03.2005 10:58 AM PDT
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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]

  • 01.03.2005 1:50 PM PDT
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i'll stick with my CD player thank you very much!

  • 01.03.2005 1:51 PM PDT