ipod classic or dud?

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― aa, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud. Dud. Dud. Such jittery times I spent wanking waiting for it to assemble itself. I swear to god I dunno what an ipod is.

― ugly old person, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic. I got one a few months ago, and I use it ALL THE TIME. Love it.

― Douglas, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I swear to god I dunno what an ipod is.
Its a portable mp3 player for the Apple Macintosh. Like a Diamond Rio for "Granola Geeks."

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gave one to my wife for her birthday this morning and she seems quite pleased with it. The interface is way cool and like a lot of Apple stuff it completely satisfies the what-the-future-was-supposed-to-look-like-if-you-used-to-read-a-lot-of-science-fiction need which seldom gets satisfied at all.

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dunno about the iPod, but I just got me hands on the new Creative Nomad Jukebox 3, and it seems pretty cool, though I don't much like the new menu structure as of yet. May just be too used to the old one. The Firewire transfer to the Jukebox is lickity-split, though. Yay!

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm debating buying one of these jukeboxes but i think i've settled on the archos range (mainly due to size)has anyone had any good/bad experience/own any of these eg rio riot, achos, creative labs etc? and especially in terms of the actual portable nature of these things?

― el wanko, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Creative Jukeboxes are every bit as portable as, say, a medium- sized discman, but a bit heavier...same general size, though. The new one, the Jukebox 3, is actually more compact and uses a better battery (and has a slot for a second, but you'll have to buy it from Creative, because it's proprietary). The Archos jukebox I looked at was reasonably small, but the filing system was very very basic, and though I could have gotten used to it, I much preferred the Nomad's, which allowed you to sort through your files based on artist/album as opposed to just the folder. More on the Jukebox 3 as I get used to it.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish i had an ipod! Currently I've got a rio volt mp3 cd player (the very first edition of it, not the new ones... although I don't think there's much difference). I've yet to figure out how to make a playlist on the damned thing, so I just burn my cds in the order that I hope I'll always want to listen to the songs in.

Anyway, it's not overly portable unless you have a messenger bag or something to put it in. If you get one with a little remote that goes between the headphones and the player it's a little better- at least I don't have to dig the whole player out of my bag to skip a song. Since it just spins up for a moment to read the whole song into memory at once, skipping is not really a problem. Anyway, I kind of want to get one of the tiny Mini Yepp players to go running with, but I can't really justify owning two mp3 players, so I'll have to run in silence until my volt dies.

― lyra in seattle, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

do they make non touchscreen non nano ipods anymore? rly hate those & need a new one

― flopson, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

Just the Classic.

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

hm so you have to get 160gb?

― flopson, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

yep. worth it though. touch screen sucks.

― paulhw, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:46 (fifteen years ago)

Boy just thinking over the sheer leap between the first few posts on the thread and now...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

think ill just get another used one doesnt seem worth it, i could prob fill a 160 gb ipo w/ all the crap on my harddrive but i cultivate my ipod p rigorously & periodically delete everything on it and let life begin anew, which usually happens around 30gb. big fan of the elegance & minimalism of classic ipod interface & would feel like a massive dong if i had an ipod touch (not that i think ppl who do are massive dongs tho, just). feel like the only reason they no longer offer 80gb classic is bc it would be too affordable & then no1 would buy all this new gen crap but w/e

gotta be somewhere i can just buy like a lifetime supply dozen og 80gb ipods for v cheap? in asia??

― flopson, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

creative nomad jukebox 3!!

― flopson, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

What are the odds that for this, the 10th anniversary of the iPod, we'll get a 220gb Classic as a last-in-line release?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

Not good, according to this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/18/death-ipod-apple-music

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 26 May 2011 01:16 (fifteen years ago)

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