It has to get to your ear somehow

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We're a bit lacking in poll action without Mr Ewing around so let's have a quick nose at everyone's listening habits!

[Poll #748512]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I will probably be the last person in civilisation to acquire a young person's mp3 playa.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

by the time you do they will be being marketed as FLAC playas!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Fun Love And... C0ck playas?!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

It's a lossless compression thing - i.e. all the quality of a WAV with a file size somewhere about 60%-70% of a WAV rather than 10%-15% of a WAV which is where mp3 is at. A WAV here is what would happen if you took the digital information straight off the CD and saw how much disk space it took.

Did you really want to know? :-)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

By the time we get round to this they will be New and Better and we will have the Last Laugh.

I couldn't even tick 'CD player' as mine refuses to play any CDs - I have to plug my discman into it to listen to music at home!

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

I will use this post to ask then: I need a new young person's mp3 plyer as mine has just died. Which one should I get? I am aware of iRivers and iPods, so what else is good/bad? I want a 20gb+ one, with as many extra toys (esp recording) as poss. Choice of colours is also welcome, as is being as cheap as poss.

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

I've had one of these (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000E3U4JU/qid=1150383575/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/203-7401915-1802312) for the past few weeks. I'm pretty happy with it so far although the touchpad control's a bit fiddly. The reviews suggest there might be some software issues but I've had no problems syncing via Windows Media Player. Other colours are available (but only on the facia, the rest of the thing is white).

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Do you have to use special software to put stuff on it? Can you not just plug it in, and it mounts as a hard disc that you drag and drop files onto?

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

Never tried TBH. I may investigate tonight.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Don't get an iPod. They suck (http://www.bythom.com/apple.htm). Whatever they claim the battery life to be, you can expect it to be roughly half that, sometimes even less. I've heard mostly good things about iRivers although darkpigeon's one has recently broken, and he's had to send it to Germany to get it sorted, which is a pain.

daniel_hill had has a 20GB Creative Zen since February 2005 and he seems pretty happy with it.

Other than that, I don't know what to recommend. A PSP? Music player with added extra features like Pro-Evo, fillums, etc.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

had no probs with my ipod personally but then before that i had an Archos Jukebox with a battery that ended up dying after just 20 minutes - if it could be bothered to charge at all.

[darkpigeon.livejournal.com]

the customer service is also non existent. am praying it returns soon

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

My computer tick = mp3s sneakily at work, but not even that often.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

My lack of computer tick = same reason! (Also I regarded other people's shared files as not being "my music")

Other caveats:
- I don't have mp3 player as such but my old person's portable CD player can play mp3s burned onto CD

- I do have a cassette deck wired up to the scifi hifi but don't use it "regularly" (i.e. at least once a month), hence no tick

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i invite bands to play for free IN MY EARDRUM*

*ie my real one, not the little ones attached to my "head"

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I started listening on my computer when I started downloading mp3s, which were my escape from a limited world of radio and videos, and only got an iPod several years later. I don't have a good hifi where I'm living at the moment, so I'm not sure exactly how much I'm losing in quality. But now I'm at the point where an actual CD seems so limiting -- only 10-20 songs, often by the same artist -- seems so limiting. I have to imagine that even with a good setup, I'll just end up plugging everything into my latop and playing from there.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Despite having a new fangled MP3 player, I much prefer me old persons portable CD player. It's just more fun picking a handful of CDs to take to work in the morning, than having access to thousands of songs.