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2005-01-31 00:28Albers, BrianMy first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I expect to max that one ou

From:: Albers, Brian <BAlbers@premiereradio.com>
To:: ed c <echurch86@yahoo.com>, Indigo Danelions Merrygolds <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600
Subject:: RE: [idm] ipod

My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I expect to max that one out as well. I'll be travelling for the next year or so and not being able to take my 600 or so cds with me, I cannot understate how valuable these two little monsters will be to me. And I am neither a teenager or a girl.

quoted 1 line its funny how useless an ipod is to the average consumer. Yet teenage girls think they are

>its funny how useless an ipod is to the average consumer. Yet teenage girls think they are cute so somehow they have gotten >big just for that reason. not many people have 5 thousand songs on their computer anyway.

2005-01-31 01:08Kent WilliamsOn Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian <BAlbers@premiereradio.com> wrote: > > M

From:: Kent Williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
To:: Albers, Brian <BAlbers@premiereradio.com>
Cc:: ed c <echurch86@yahoo.com>, Indigo Danelions Merrygolds <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:08:08 -0600
Subject:: Re: [idm] ipod
Reply to:: RE: [idm] ipod

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian <BAlbers@premiereradio.com> wrote:

quoted 6 lines My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I expect to max that one

> > My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I expect to max that one > out as well. I'll be travelling for the next year or so and not being able to take my 600 or > so cds with me, I cannot understate how valuable these two little monsters will be to > me. And I am neither a teenager or a girl. >

Perhaps a girlyman, yes? I think the only thing that bothers me about those little thingers that hold a bajillion tracks is that the failure mode is so extreme. 1950 -- you scratch your record you hear a little click. You gouge the crap out of it, and one song doesn't play, the rest still do. You crack the record, you can still play the songs that aren't cracked. 1983 - you scratch your cd, it starts sounding like Oval. You scratch it too much, it's unplayable. 2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are gone - poof. Sure you've got those files at home, but you're in Botswana and the only music available is bad South African pop* and guys beating on logs** As storage capacity has gone up, what you lose when something goes wrong gets bigger. * I don't know anything about South African pop music, Irene, but generally where there's pop music, there's bad pop music. **guys beating on logs can be super cool: http://tinyurl.com/5yfyf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

2005-01-31 01:29Tim MooreOn Jan 30, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Kent Williams wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Al

From:: Tim Moore <Timothy@Moore.name>
To:: Kent Williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
Cc:: ed c <echurch86@yahoo.com>, Indigo Danelions Merrygolds <idm@hyperreal.org>, Albers, Brian <BAlbers@premiereradio.com>
Date:: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:29:18 -0500
Subject:: Re: [idm] ipod
Reply to:: Re: [idm] ipod

On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Kent Williams wrote:

quoted 29 lines On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0600, Albers, Brian > <BAlbers@premiereradio.com> wrote: >> >> My first 40G iPod is full. My second is is up to about 25G and I >> expect to max that one >> out as well. I'll be travelling for the next year or so and not being >> able to take my 600 or >> so cds with me, I cannot understate how valuable these two little >> monsters will be to >> me. And I am neither a teenager or a girl. >> > > Perhaps a girlyman, yes? > > I think the only thing that bothers me about those little thingers > that hold a bajillion tracks is that the failure mode is so extreme. > > 1950 -- you scratch your record you hear a little click. You gouge the > crap out of it, and one song doesn't play, the rest still do. You > crack the record, you can still play the songs that aren't cracked. > > 1983 - you scratch your cd, it starts sounding like Oval. You scratch > it too much, it's unplayable. > > 2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are > gone - poof. Sure you've got those files at home, but you're in > Botswana and the only music available is bad South African pop* and > guys beating on logs** >

Surely the home computer and maybe even a couple of extra backup disks are more portable than a turntable and record collection. You have kind of a point, but the fact that you can so easily make copies of your entire collection now more than compensates. Sure, if I gouge one of my records I can play the other side and all of my other records, but maybe the one that I gouged was my favorite rare, out-of-print track and I can't find another copy for less than the price of an iPod :-) -- Tim Moore --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

2005-01-31 04:10andrew jones> > 2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are > gone - poof. S

From:: andrew jones <liminal18@mac.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:10:24 -0500
Subject:: Re: [idm] ipod
Reply to:: Re: [idm] ipod

quoted 6 lines 2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are

> > 2004 - you drop your ipod, and it comes up SadMac, and 5000 songs are > gone - poof. Sure you've got those files at home, but you're in > Botswana and the only music available is bad South African pop* and > guys beating on logs** >

and you take out the mini-HD drive to & buy a used ipod from a guy in Sengal, Capetown, or Kenya or really any of the metropolises that spot Africa these days. You then proceed to buy tons and tons of afro-beat and pop music never released outside of Africa and sell it to Damon Albaron for millions =) one annoying thing is that the mini-hd formats aren't standardized, hence you can't take an ipod hd pop it into one of those new sony hd-players and keep rocking. it's really annoying. give it all a few years though and we'll have removable mini-hds instead of cds and they'll come with video games, and web site codes, and all sorts of wonderful things, and maybe (if we're lucky) they'll come bundled in free t-shirts. Peace, A --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

2005-01-31 15:46Irene McCHi Kent > * I don't know anything about South African pop music, Irene, but > generally wh

From:: Irene McC <substar@iafrica.com>
To:: <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:46:49 +0200
Subject:: [idm] bad SA pop + BOLA GNAYSE
Reply to:: Re: [idm] ipod

Hi Kent

quoted 2 lines * I don't know anything about South African pop music, Irene, but

> * I don't know anything about South African pop music, Irene, but > generally where there's pop music, there's bad pop music.

You're SO right :-) As I read your mail and came across the first asterisk, I automatically assumed you'd have a footnote there for me - thank you! At the moment I'm on my first magical listen-through of Bola's Gnayse which arrived here today via a very circumlocuitious route (is that a word? it sounds busy enough to get across my general meaning). My neighbour's nephew is here from England to do a one-month dentistry work-experience thingy and I jumped in with a plea for him to bring this along (never met him before). After much to and fro (I think they're strictly Celine Dion people) they managed to locate it and Sister Ray's sent it to them by mail before their departure and they arrived in Cape Town Sunday morning. I'm happy to say it was a good choice and I'm enjoying it enormously. Thanks to ALL who assisted me with my London music shop query. I've already ripped it to my MP3 player (a miserable little 128 meg affair that holds one album at a time at 192 VBR... so stop showing off about your iPod's, right?!) I * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

[idm] bad SA pop + BOLA GNAYSE