ipodclassic
I had one of the 2nd or 3rd edition ipods which I used for quite a few years, monochrome lcd and about 10gb if i remember right. when I got my first walkman phone I flogged the old ipod on ebay and never looked back. it seemed like having a gb of music in my phone was enough to get by and it meant I didn't have to carry another device around. bonus. last year Em bought me a shuffle which I still use on the rare occasions I do any non water based exercise. the shuffle does my head in though. it's got enough room on it to put 10 albums on it but if I want to listen to album 9 and I'm currently at album 1 I have to click through all the songs. grrrr. that may not be the point of the shuffle but thats how I listen to music - I dont listen to one song, I listen to an album.anyway, recent experience with my new nokia music phone drove me bonkers (5310, nice phone but reboots randomly when playing mp3 - but it's a music phone?) and I decided it was time to get myself a new fangled mp3 playing portable music device. so I checked out the market and looked for something big enough to get all my music on - shockingly it turns out that there isn't much choice of mp3 player with a big hard disc. you can buy an ipod or .. well nothing really (you could buy an expensive archos media player but who wants one of them?). so I plumped for the whopping 160GB ipod classic. a good choice I think, it rocks. more space than I could ever use, better sound than any music phone or indeed my old ipod. and as for coverflow! as I said before I listen to music an album at a time and being able to flick through and pick an album by cover is reminiscent of flicking through lps - it really is a nice way to interact with your music collection. I've listened to it pretty much everyday since I bought it and this morning I realised how nice it is to have all my music with me everyday again. who knows when I'll feel the urge to listen an early 1970s Genesis gig?
posted by nic @ 10:19 AM
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