There's that, and the abysmal battery lifespans, the silly touchy feeliness of many of the owners thereof, and the fact that most of the arty lefty greeny in-touch-with-feminine-sidey type prefer apple products.
The touch is cool, but just think, of having a touch in your pocket...
THey're actually dirt cheap for parts and as for the tools....but as you've not got a discount card, you'll not know will you?
An issue that's not limited to iPods - and has been totally over-blown by the media, anyway.
Now you're back to 'it's made by Apple', though.
That's why you need to pay out - to hear it above the racket.
They're useful on occasion. Mainly on Sundays or after 5pm. Other than that, the prices tend to take the piss, though the tools are alright.
The missus got an older version of
I think it's more that I'm not pikey enough. I've never owned a Vauxhall for a start...
Go to the next town's Halfords and get one!
We have a winner :)
That's obviously where you went wrong then - you have to sin before you can truly repent :)
Erm, why?
I can't be arsed with drag and drop.
Not when iTunes sorts it all out for me and all I have to do is drop my iPod into the dock.
I can't be arsed with using unnecessary proprietary software.
Having used some drag and drop things and watched the mess they make of tags and folder structures, I'll call iTunes necessary :D
I've never been a fan of picking music by guessing which "Unknown album" I'm about to hear...
RichardK (also, car head units control iPods. That is a major bonus).
i did :)
Ditto! I had the W850i and it was ideal - one device that does MP3s, radio and phone! And it was free.
Now got the K850i as I wanted the 5.0 MP camera. MP3 software is not as good (slightly different to the Walkman range) but is still more than up to the job, and I know have a semi decent camera too, so I only have to worry about losing/breaking one valuable item when I'm on the juice ;)
Do you all have wanky small music collections?
If you can't take your entire collection with you, it's not worth buying.
They only make a mess if you're a messy person, anyone who is unable to fathom an MP3 tag editor is probably best suited to using alternative software in order to make up for their mistakes.
There isn't a lot of choice at the high capacity end of the spectrum though, so no doubt I'll probably end up with one at some point if I don't find anything better.
What are the Zune's like? (apart from fecking expensive, having just looked on Amazon).
Or has too much to do to mess about with correcting tags - iTunes is VERY good at displaying errors and fixing tags, much quicker than anything (else) I've used on a PC.
Overpriced and redundant? I haven't used one, but I can sort of make a case for an Archos or somesuch over an iPod for "extra features" - the Zune just seems pointless!
RichardK
Heh. Twice. If you count the BMW.....
That's always been my view. Ages back I'd recently got into encoding my entire CD collection into mp3 and having the whole lot there on the hard drive at my disposal, but the best portable devices available at the time were those 128MB Diamond Rio things, which I totally didn't see the point in. (If iPods were around at the time, then they blissfully passed me by). I'd looked around - amongst other sites, on mp3car.com, and someone was commercially producing a standard car stereo size unit that had a 20GB drive in it ("with potential to upgrade to bigger capacity drives as they become available", or somesuch), and it cost a metric fuckload - about 700 quid or so IIRC. It was a removable thing, and USB-connectable, and I thought it sounded the canine's testicles, bar the price, but I still ideally wanted something portable as opposed to an in-car system. But I'm fairly sure there was nothing about.
So effectively, I invented the iPod.... :-P
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