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1000 Songs - Just Right?

aricher said:
With 13132 Songs on my HD - 95.97 GB - 44 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 19 seconds - methinks that an iPod mini is way too small :D

And that's not even counting my collection of audio books and "This American Life" shows.

I just convinced my ex-IBM'er mother to buy an iPod - this is the woman who when I saw the first Mac in 1984 said - "yeah I've heard about those things - basically an etch a sketch with a fancy screen."
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And I thought I had a lot. I just hit 4000 tracks the other day: 10.4 days' worth. Which means of course that it's definitely time for Mac OS 10.4 to be released (next Tuesday?!?). :D
 
autrefois said:
And I thought I had a lot. I just hit 4000 tracks the other day: 10.4 days' worth. Which means of course that it's definitely time for Mac OS 10.4 to be released (next Tuesday?!?). :D
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Sorry man, but I still got him beat! Check out my post #37 (I think) on page 2 - over 100 GB of just BBC Radio One Essential Mixes, let alone the hundreds of my other CDs and tunes! Kay, I'm done bragging now... ;) :p
 
Sorry for the tone, but -

[rant]

I honestly dont get whats the point in showing off as if you're absolutly right for everyone, mainly the "I have million GB of songs muahahah glad I dont have that mini-not-for-power-users-moi device", but I'm not surprised, since it fits a very specific type of group in society. Sorry I come off like that, but this just gets me. :confused:

Come on now, do most of the ipod owners in here really REALLY listen to more than 1000 songs EVERY DAY? or every few days? or even every week, that they just cant stand the minis? I mean, is it some sort of a trend to store more if not all songs in your iPods just in case you get stucked in the desert, or your iBook got stolen? I also dont really think that an answer such as 'you might have larger choice of songs ready any time given', can be really satisfying, cause its not that true for the common user, the majority. A need for backup storage is a completely different story, but it didnt seem to me that most of the users here saw that as a major reason for their purchse of a larger capacity iPod, but more kinda like a need of "just in case", I am in a traffic jam from LA to NY, maybe I truly gotta listen to all my songs otherwise I'll snap, or I gotta show off/compare it with others.

I also have more than 1000 songs, A LOT more, and I wouldnt resist a 15gb iPod at all, however I just dont get the point behind acting clueless towards the minis. I cant even imagine myself listen to more than half of what I have in a week. When you drive your car, hang out, jog, play basketball or work, how long can you matrix yourself to it, if at all? I would most likely listen to my many favorite songs along with hundreds of extra good enough ones (just for diversity), but definitely not use EVERYTHING in my HD, not to mention I'm home almost half the time anyway. [/rant]

Have a nice weekend yall.
 
Kurt Cobain said:
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I honestly dont get whats the point in showing off as if you're absolutly right for everyone, mainly the "I have million GB of songs muahahah glad I dont have that mini-not-for-power-users-moi device", but I'm not surprised, since it fits a very specific type of group in society. Sorry I come off like that, but this just gets me. :confused:

Come on now, do most of the ipod owners in here really REALLY listen to more than 1000 songs EVERY DAY? or every few days? or even every week, that they just cant stand the minis? I mean, is it some sort of a trend to store more if not all songs in your iPods just in case you get stucked in the desert, or your iBook got stolen? I also dont really think that an answer such as 'you might have larger choice of songs ready any time given', can be really satisfying, cause its not that true for the common user, the majority. A need for backup storage is a completely different story, but it didnt seem to me that most of the users here saw that as a major reason for their purchse of a larger capacity iPod, but more kinda like a need of "just in case", I am in a traffic jam from LA to NY, maybe I truly gotta listen to all my songs otherwise I'll snap, or I gotta show off/compare it with others.

I also have more than 1000 songs, A LOT more, and I wouldnt resist a 15gb iPod at all, however I just dont get the point behind acting clueless towards the minis. I cant even imagine myself listen to more than half of what I have in a week. When you drive your car, hang out, jog, play basketball or work, how long can you matrix yourself to it, if at all? I would most likely listen to my many favorite songs along with hundreds of extra good enough ones (just for diversity), but definitely not use EVERYTHING in my HD, not to mention I'm home almost half the time anyway. [/rant]

Have a nice weekend yall.
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Yah, I agree - as for tunes on iPods, it amazes me how people have their 40 Giggers completely full! I have a 20 GB iPod and I have about 7 GB of music on it, and this is more than I really even need on the thing, even for long road trips! As you can see from my post above, I have a ton of music archived, but there's no way I could ever listen to it in my lifetime! ;) My iPod has my favorite albums stored on it and enough music to last me quite a while when I'm away from my Mac - with room left over for portable storage. :cool:
 
I have 358 songs in my library, so the iPod mini is fine for me. But even if I had over 1000 songs, the mini's size is far more important to me than fitting all my songs on it.
Price has nothing to do with it. If I had 5000 songs and the iPod mini was $100 more than the 40 gig iPod, I'd still want a mini, though I couldn't afford it...
 
at the end of the day its horses for course really - there are many who will be happy with 1,000 songs - be it teenagers just starting out and see 1,000 songs as a huge collection, or people who don't necessarily want their entire collection - the post earlier about the smart playlists was a cracking idea.

then there are the people who are really into their music and have been adding to their collection for many years. i'm only just at the stage where i'm about to get an i-pod. i've always loved my walkman - i don't drive, so walk everywhere (locally at least), and for the last few years my md walkman has served me well. i've always loved sony kit, but when their mp3 players came out they just seemed ludicrously priced for the memory on them - and, compared to the iPod, they screwed up royally with the memory stick walkman - very sexy bit of kit, but a how much for a blank tape/md (ie memory stick)? stupid money for the storage you got. so for quite some time i was fine with my minidisc.

then i went and got my powerbook. and started using i-tunes. i don't know what the hell it is about it - well, the great interface and ease of use i guess, but i just find that i use it all the time while i'm working away now - something i never really did with wma on the pc.

so now i've been moving all my music to i-tunes and have gotten up to that 1,000 song mark pretty easily, will probably have 3-4,000 songs in there by the time I finish. and if we ever get ITMS it'll be a great way of getting old music i currently only have on blank tapes - so i can see it growing.

for that reason, the current plan is to get a 40GB iPod (but damn them to hell if they bring out their AL 4G iPods a week later!). i know you don't need to carry around your entire collection, but i think you're just as well to if you can. thats the one downside to the MD - faffing around trying to decide what to grab just before i head out the door, or not being able to listen to the thing that just pops into my head that i'd like to be listening to.

to be able to have your entire collection with you all the time is ultimate solution, which is why its finallly time to retire the MD player.

Iain
 
Ipod Static

Any truth to the rumors of staticy ipod minis? Mine is supposed to be delivered on 4/29. Thanks. :)
 
I have 1398 songs, and almost all at a higher bitrate than 128 (mostly 160 or 192 depending on how important it is), so 6.11GB. But I still bought a mini. I think it fits my needs just right. I don't NEED all my music with me, 750 songs or so is qute adequate. The iPod mini is smaller, it's made of metal, and most of all it's PINK!
 
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