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iPod This forum is depressing
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It's as if you're stuck in 2004!
I get 120mbps cable at home and 40mbps on my phone!
Good for you. I pay for 2mbps and am lucky if I get 256kbps at home. And that is from the only broadband supplier that covers our area. It does suck living in the countryside.
Preach on! I almost always have my nano nearby. It's my primary music player, even though I also carry an iPhone 5.
I read recently, (would post the link if I remembered it but Google is your friend), that the lightning connector supports 192KHZ digital audio output. Not sure if that is the just the 2013 iPhone and iPod Touch models or older ones too.
Might need some hefty DACs and speakers to appreciate it
I don't know why connection bandwidth has any part of this argument. Streaming services like Spotify allow you to cache music on the device. So you can listen to your music without an internet connection.
Spotify doesn't have even 40% of my music anyway.. The music collectors don't have time for labels, musicians to upload their music on Spotify. I see it is sometimes a problem even with bigger artists from time to time.
Spotify is just great for people with those ~ 10-20GBs music collections.
Spotify is just great for people with those ~ 10-20GBs music collections.
I love my nano! I use it at the gym and I found an awesome armband/cover for it; the whole setup is so much smaller and lighter than what I'd have if I used my phone for music. All of my music fits on it easily and that saves me a ton of room on my phone, where I only have 20-30 songs.
I thought the iPod nano was awesome when it first came out, then I realized that it sucks compared to a regular hard drive based iPod. Apple needs to release an improved version of the Classic that uses high quality audio circuitry and supports more than just AAC, WAV, and MP3. And forget about video playback. Sell a device that is just an uber audio player.
This is my problem too. Especially when it comes to singles. And this is also why DRM was REALLY bad.
Labels will push out singles during radio airplay, and then remove them from all outlets once the album releases so it pushes people to buy the album and not the $3 album with the single, a b-side, and a remix. There are some artists and bands that have GREAT b-sides and remixes, and while they'll be there for three months on Spotify, they'll vanish once the album comes out and you won't be able to listen ever again unless you find a copy on eBay or get an illegal download of it.
And nowadays CD/vinyl pressed singles go for about $50 a piece because no one buys them anymore, at least with the really big bands.
You will always be able to convert your tracks to new formats, but Spotify won't always be there.
I still stream mine, but I do it from my computer. I curated it myself, there's not some ad agency seeing what I'm listening to so they can advertise me stuff I don't want/need, and I have playlists.
Hang in there! VW only just last month stopped making the Transporter bus after 50 years. The iPod isn't dead yet. Just like that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I still use my iPod (Video, not Classic) in my car. It holds just about all my music and Podcasts. It works pretty well. I figure when I get word that Apple is finally discontinuing the Classic, I'll pick one up for when mine finally dies.
But, yeah, having done the math, Apple could still make money by switching the Classic over to SSD. Maybe use a simplified iPod nano interface so they could update it without costing much.
But, yeah, having done the math, Apple could still make money by switching the Classic over to SSD. Maybe use a simplified iPod nano interface so they could update it without costing much.
$50 per CD. Wow that sounds like a lot (about £30
). Have you ever taken a look on Amazon? You can get most CDs on there for under £10 including postage. I bought Eminem's entire discography for about £8 on there once.I'm thankful there is still an independent CD shop still running in town. The owner loves to haggle too which is a bonus. £5 is probably the most I usually spend for a CD, but occasionally I do push the boat out to £15 tops, depending on how new it is and what it is. More times than often I spend less on CDs than I would downloading from iTunes.
Oh and I never ever bother with singles. Albums only in my house.
Wow
Alot of you guys have been members since '05. Makes me epic late to the party lol. The iPod was the first big Apple product, then came the computers popularity, and the phone, and the tablet, and the TV. So its still awesome but has been over-shadowed.
Alot of you guys have been members since '05. Makes me epic late to the party lol. The iPod was the first big Apple product, then came the computers popularity, and the phone, and the tablet, and the TV. So its still awesome but has been over-shadowed.
Imagine what the classic would look like if Apple still updated on a yearly basis. A high-res touch screen....Wifi for AV streaming......Hi-quality music streaming through third party apps.....an APP STORE where you could download games.........maybe even a larger amount of storage (250 GB).
Now look at the iPod touch and it has 4 out of 5 of those things listed above. What Apple needs to do is make the iPod touch's maximum capacity higher and we will be all good. I wouldn't doubt seeing Apple produce a 128 GB model at around sometime next year.
I think you guys are asking for the wrong thing. You just want to have higher capacity of storage, not a full-blown new iPod. Because if you think about it, the iPod touch is basically the same as an iPod classic, but just with the disadvantage of storage.
But then we move on to what an iPod touch is. Basically a stripped down iPhone. So here's the plan. 128 GB or 256 GB iPhone 6 with awesome audio converters built-in and you'll be good. Get a pair of headphones with a flat range and play around with the digital eq and you are in tech heaven.
Now look at the iPod touch and it has 4 out of 5 of those things listed above. What Apple needs to do is make the iPod touch's maximum capacity higher and we will be all good. I wouldn't doubt seeing Apple produce a 128 GB model at around sometime next year.
I think you guys are asking for the wrong thing. You just want to have higher capacity of storage, not a full-blown new iPod. Because if you think about it, the iPod touch is basically the same as an iPod classic, but just with the disadvantage of storage.
But then we move on to what an iPod touch is. Basically a stripped down iPhone. So here's the plan. 128 GB or 256 GB iPhone 6 with awesome audio converters built-in and you'll be good. Get a pair of headphones with a flat range and play around with the digital eq and you are in tech heaven.
We all have our reasons for loving the classic; personally, an iPod nano would hold all of my music. But, I'm not a fan of touch screens and/or iOS, so the nano and Touch are out for me. The Shuffle is too limited to be my full time music player. What's left? The Classic, with it's wonderful clickwheel and oodles of storage space for expansion.
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ipod is a beautiful machine but the reasons not much going on in this forum probably are:
- ipod touch is a a thing of the past. For the price its better to get an iphone.
- ipod classic and nano are perfect for people with music needs but u cant run apps on them, cant upgrade them so there isnt much to talk about.
ipod is a beautiful machine but the reasons not much going on in this forum probably are:- ipod touch is a a thing of the past. For the price its better to get an iphone.
- ipod classic and nano are perfect for people with music needs but u cant run apps on them, cant upgrade them so there isnt much to talk about.
All this sounds great, except one thing.
iOS 7 killed the music app. It's absolutely horrible for anyone that doesn't have Apple's perfect vision of what a music library should be (smallish, with only complete albums), and only listens to music in a certain way (basically random).
The iPod isn't the only one being affected.
For what it's worth, I like my 80 GB iPod video, but the audio quality on it is too poor for me to enjoy.
I remember when the pod forum used to be abuzz with topics and people posting pics of iPods at every release, discussing colors, etc.
Now it's just a forum to talk about the inevitable death of the classic or to show pictures of iPods sealed in boxes.
Obviously few people care about iPods anymore, but damn.
You, Sir, need an iPad (Mini).
I too miss having my whole music library on one device. Not a fan of swapping out my music on my 16 gb iPhone.
It really doesn't matter if the iPod classic is going to be updated or not. I mean its not a smart phone. It plays music, and thats pretty much it. Other than videos and picture on that tiny screen. But it has a huge hard drive and fully functional interface. Does all it needs to do, and all it ever will. It plays music. I don't see how it could do that better than it does now. Apple still sells it, and they will continue to. I mean, iTunes still downloads actual files. Its not all cloud just yet
wha? apple was making great computers before they are thought of the iPod. It was hardly their first big product.