[idm] iPod, therefore I am ...a worthwhile human being!
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I too would be worried about wiping out my music collection, if I had
transferred it all to iPod and got rid of the originals. I have heard of
people who have done the latter and I'm just waiting til they do the former
(i.e. drop the iPod!) :-S I couldn't countenance that risk!
However, one big question I have is this: I'm 39 - I have a lifetime's worth
of casually (i.e. non-obssessively) bought vinyl and CDs - thousands of each
in fact. But... for me to convert it all to MP3 would surely take me the
rest of my natural life!!! So what I want to know is how are all you
iPod-owning, £200-to-blow-on-Mac's-latest-pretty-little-gimmick boys and
girls converting your record collections? Are you living off inheritances
and thus have 100% free-time, or are you getting your wives and servants to
do it for you?!?
;o)
But really - how??? I'm fascinated!!!
Clive
Card-carrying member of "the Lottery classes" and proud!!!
----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] ipod
quoted 50 lines On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Kent Williams wrote:>
> On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Kent Williams wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
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