Do you have an mp3 player?

[zaire]

I do, i have an ipod.

 

[foo-oswald]

I do, i have an ipod.

Me too...I got the U2 Special Edition one from Santa Clause. I'll never go back to CD's...

 

[AlecEiffel]

No. I may get one in the future, I dont feel like spending the money right now though. The batterys run out so fast though. I have a feeling I'll be getting one in the next year or so, its like making the switch from VHS to DVD, I fought it will all my might at first, but the change was painfully swift, and now I will never go back to VHS.

 

[FatBurger]

Nah, I don't have any place I would listen to one. I have my MP3 collection on a server at my house, and MP3s burned onto CDs in my car, then a smaller MP3 collection on my work computer. I'd just never have a reason to use an MP3 player.

 

[Nienor]

i just got an iPod, but even though I'm having some problems I really like it

 

[london boy]

I have an MP3 too - but I have an IRiver H120. Got it over a year ago.

 

[LondonsBurning]

I have an MP3 too - but I have an IRiver H120. Got it over a year ago.

I have an IRiver too. Gotta love that color screen!

 

[JesusWasn'tWhite]

I'm not a fan of MP3 players. For some reason, I think it takes away from the CD experience, as well as the album art, the sequence of tracks that sometimes make an album great (that is, if you have it on shuffle instead of like.. by artist&album).
Sure, it's uberportable, but I think the sacrifice outweighs the convenience.
It's also probably just a trendy technology thing that will go away or minimize with time.
Not to mention, not worth the money, at least for me.

 

[something from the fridge]

I'm not a fan of MP3 players. For some reason, I think it takes away from the CD experience, as well as the album art, the sequence of tracks that sometimes make an album great (that is, if you have it on shuffle instead of like.. by artist&album).
Sure, it's uberportable, but I think the sacrifice outweighs the convenience.
It's also probably just a trendy technology thing that will go away or minimize with time.
Not to mention, not worth the money, at least for me.

CD's take away from the vinyl experience which took away from the experience of actually going out to listen to music.

There is no sacrifice. Album art is available in digital format, by using a "playlist" you can order the tracks in the way the artist originally intended them to be ordered.

As for just being a fad and trendy technology, what were CD's 15 years ago?

 

[TheDandyMan]

No, but I do have an xm myfi, which, although it has a monthly fee, I feel would be better than an mp3 player. That's because what's played there is a lot like a local listener-supported jazz station: they take any song from any record, which means you aren't hearing the same few scores of sugary songs that are playing on every other station (or so it seems). Plus, the people that are running the stations (Russ Davis of beyond jazz comes to mind) that are extremely passionate about the genres they love, which leads to me discovering a lot of artists I never would have ran into otherwise (ulu, athlete, and the decemberists come to mind). It also helps that the music never runs out.

 

[wgjones3]

I've got a Pannasonic mp3/CD player. I like it because I can pop the disks out, and feed them into a car CD/mp3 player. Plus it was dirt cheap compared to the "real" mp3 players on the market.

 

[Maynard Keenan]

Sandisk 1 gig. Pretty tiny. I love it, and I'm a big fan of whole albums, and listening to songs in the intended order. I usually put a whole cd on there. I don't download much so most of them are cds that either I have or my friends let me borrow to rip.

 

[mnphysicist]

2 of them sort of.... My Palm plays mp3's, as does my phone. Both use a SD cards, of which I only have one, so its not really one, nor really 2 mp3 players.

Ron

 

[invisible trousers]

Sure, it's uberportable, but I think the sacrifice outweighs the convenience.
It's also probably just a trendy technology thing that will go away or minimize with time.

Should I carry around 200 cds with me, or something the size of a deck of cards? Tough choice.

MP3 players aren't going away. Flash players are going to be where it's at. I have a hard time seeing downsides to a small music device with no moving parts that stores hundreds of gigs of music and has a 30 hour battery life.

edit: duh. i have a 20 gig ipod with a wasabi iskin and itrip fm transmitter

 

[crimson_dragon]

No, unfortunately. I really really want one though but I have other things which I have to spend my money on, like saving up for the rent when I get my own place soon

 

[something from the fridge]

I've got a Pannasonic mp3/CD player. I like it because I can pop the disks out, and feed them into a car CD/mp3 player. Plus it was dirt cheap compared to the "real" mp3 players on the market.

i am onto my second cd based mp3 player. when i got the first one a few years back, my entire mp3 collection could be put on 3 or 4 cds. now i am looking at about 70 cds to do that!!!!

they are great, they are cheap so fairly disposable. and they do play normal cd's if you need to.

 

[Oh No!]

yes

 

[foo-oswald]

Sure, it's uberportable, but I think the sacrifice outweighs the convenience.
It's also probably just a trendy technology thing that will go away or minimize with time.
Not to mention, not worth the money, at least for me.

What's inconvenient about having 500 or 600 albums' worth of music in the palm of your hand? Yeah, there's no album art, but man, the convenience is just sick. That's no sacrifice to me...

I don't think mp3 players are a trend that will go away. That'll never happen with the world rushing headlong towards a "utopia of convenience". Everything's getting smaller and cheaper: cellphones and laptops as well as mp3 players. TV's are staying the same, I suppose, but they are getting thinner, with plasmas and stuff. But, you see what I'm sayin'? Mp3 players will continue to get cheaper, and more people will start scooping them up. Mark my words.

I'll admit that I was reluctant to spend the $$$ on my iPod, but now that I've got it, I'll never go back to carrying around a CD case! The audio quality is spot-on with CD's as long as you download files that are at least 128-bit. I usually look for 160-bit or better, though.

If you wanna use your player in your car, there are two easy solutions: If your car has a tape deck, you just use a CD-to-tape adapter. But, if you don't have a tape deck, you can go the route I went with my wife's car. Her's has a CD player only. No tape deck. So, I bought a device called an auxiliary converter ($50). You just plug it into the CD-changer port on the back of your head-unit. Then, get an A/V to 1/8-inch cable ($6.00 @ Radio Shack) to connect your mp3 player to the converter, and you're ready to go.

Sometimes it takes a little effort to reach the "utopia of convenience"...

 

[elenas_flickaby]

i have a zen micro. it's fantastic i would definately recommend it especially if you're thinking of getting the mini ipod. the zen micro is cheaper, holds more, and isn't as common, and the battery life on all my mates' mini ipods is rubbish

 

[otter272]

I think mine is a Coby. I can't remember. It's a cheap one I got through a bonus program here at work. It works though, that's all that matters to me.