I've become a (i-)Pod Person...
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I'm not really into music like many of you out there. I have a few CDs, a few music files, but overall it's pretty meager compared to the volume that most of you write about. As a result, the whole iPod phenomenon really passed me by with nary a glance... Podcasts didn't even capture my attention much until Bruce and Julian started their Notes-based podcasts at Taking Notes. I finally decided to break down and get a portable MP3 player so I could listen to stuff without being at my desk... in other words...
I finally bought an iPod.
A black iPod Nano with 2GB. I didn't need a 30 GB video model (or at least I don't think I do at this point in time). Ian also got one for Christmas. Christmas must fall on December 13th this year, as he got the package we shipped and didn't bother to wait until the 25th to open it. :)
I must admit... It's an engineering marvel to be able to get that much stuff in so little and light a package.
Of course, Cam is now convinced I'm totally whacked because I don't have any music on there yet... just podcasts... :)
I'm not really into music like many of you out there. I have a few CDs, a few music files, but overall it's pretty meager compared to the volume that most of you write about. As a result, the whole iPod phenomenon really passed me by with nary a glance... Podcasts didn't even capture my attention much until Bruce and Julian started their Notes-based podcasts at Taking Notes. I finally decided to break down and get a portable MP3 player so I could listen to stuff without being at my desk... in other words...
I finally bought an iPod.
A black iPod Nano with 2GB. I didn't need a 30 GB video model (or at least I don't think I do at this point in time). Ian also got one for Christmas. Christmas must fall on December 13th this year, as he got the package we shipped and didn't bother to wait until the 25th to open it. :)
I must admit... It's an engineering marvel to be able to get that much stuff in so little and light a package.
Of course, Cam is now convinced I'm totally whacked because I don't have any music on there yet... just podcasts... :)
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Posted by Volker Weber At 15:52:22 On 13/12/2005 | - Website - |
Storage is cheap these days, very cheap and ripping in any 'lossless' format allows a perfect electronic duplicate to be taken. The lossless source can then be converted to any format you like, for any player, with the minimum of loss.
To use a simple analogy, imagine putting a colour document on a Xerox machine and getting a mono-chrome copy. This is your MP3. You then want to use that document on a colour player, it works, but it's only going to be black & white. Now put your B&W document on a colour copier...the copy is still black & white.
You've lost the colour forever, unless you want to re-copy all your existing documents again.
Posted by Ben Rose At 23:44:25 On 15/12/2005 | - Website - |
Go into the iTunes preferences for storage and importing. You can choose what codec to use, it probably defaults to the apple AAC format with 128kbps sampling rate.
Change it to lossless, like now. This will save you ever having to rip your music once, twice or...like me...threee times
Posted by Ben Rose At 03:18:49 On 14/12/2005 | - Website - |
Posted by Duffbert At 16:09:21 On 13/12/2005 | - Website - |
Bruce
Posted by Bruce Elgort At 18:25:55 On 13/12/2005 | - Website - |
Posted by Volker Weber At 07:00:32 On 14/12/2005 | - Website - |