MP3 players - sure beats the Walkman I had!

[Mark42]

My daughter turned 8 yrs old this month. She had been saving her money (birthday money, chore money, etc) to buy an " i-pod". She finally got enough to buy one so I did some research on what they do and which ones are rated good, etc.

Ended up getting a Creative brand 2gb mp3 player (not an apple ipod brand). Gee, the non-apple stuff does so much more for the money, and often better! Holly Molley! The sound is great! This model has a 5 band graphic equilizer, FM radio, Video playback, and records audio with built in microphone. All that and it holds about 1000 or so songs and plays them back too! I can't even name a 1000 songs, let alone have the time to listen to them. Its smaller than a buisness card and it has a screen! At least it comes with ripper software so we can load it up with music from our own CD collection. Don't feel like paying a $1 a song to fill that thing up.

This one cost about $75, probably equal to the cost of a Sony Walkman back in the late 1970's early 80's. I know my walkman would not fit in my pocket, sucked batteries dead in a couple of hours, and only played (maybe recorded) cassette tapes. No digital technology, just good old Dolby noise reduction on an analog signal. Oh, it had a TONE control. No fancy equilizer.

Gee, kids get all the cool stuff now.

 

[Bass Man Bruce]

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All that and it holds about 1000 or so songs and plays them back too! I can't even name a 1000 songs, let alone have the time to listen to them.

Just put "Louie Louie" in there a thousand times and enjoy!

 

[Fish n Geer]

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I am so behind on the new toys.I am still using my Philips mp3 player with fm radio and recorder.It holds like a 120 songs.

 

[wildmaninal]

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My oldest niece has an ipod mp3 player, it isn't that old but I believe the battery went dead on it or it may of been abused but either way. My niece updated her cell phone to a chocolate 2 after her other was stolen and it has a built in MP3 player on it so she has it all rolled into one. My brother said he is going to take the ipod over to see what he can do with it. Maybe he can get it fixed. I also seen that they have battery booster packs to back these MP3 player up when the battery goes dead say like on a camping trip or whatever.

 

[Mark42]

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.... My niece updated her cell phone to a chocolate 2 after her other was stolen and it has a built in MP3 player on it so she has it all rolled into one......

My son had that too. He returned FOUR of them because they keep locking up and losing data, messages, etc. The phone store keeps replacing them no questions because they know the Chocolate line has a big history of problems. He is so fed up with the Chocolate that the last time he returned it he wanted a different phone, but they wouldn't let him switch. So he paid the cost of a different phone just to get away from the chocolate.

Beware the Chocolate!

 

[captain zac]

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just got an iphone
I had the I T guy install a docking station on the boat
when I get to the boat I put it into the docking station and I am able to play from a list of over 2000 songs. All organized into different typs of catagories
it has bluetooth so if the phone rings it turns off the stereo on the boat and allows me to answer the phone from anywhere up to 30 feet from the phone. the bluetooth also allows me to select a new song if I want to skip the one thats playing.
Now heres the good stuff
I have marine weather on the phone with live weather radar all you have to do is put in the lat and long. If you don't have the lat and long then you can go to the aviation weather site and type in the closest airport and get the radar and weather from there. The aviation site also has all of the IFR charts stored. this might not mean much to you boaters but because of this tech. we are told that the next thing is that they are adding marine charts.
and yes the phone has a GPS.
Now this is neat


Harry

 

[rogerwa]

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I stayed away from the IPODs initially because I felt they were overrated the overpriced. And I think for the basic music player, they are. However, i saw the IPOD video and all the available content and it opens a whole new world for my bus ride to work everyday..

I now own an IPOD Video 30GB. It has all my digital pics, my music on it.

One neat thing I did was to build a video podcast channel on my Mythtv DVR which allows me to record my favorite TV programs, convert to the IPOD video format, and then download into ITunes. Acutally this is just a standard RSS feed and could be used my any number of RSS reader programs that can handle media. So now I can watch my recorded TV programs on my 1 hour busride to and from work.

I just bought my wife one of the new IPOD nano 8GB videos.. in green for xmas. I will be a hero when she starts using that podcast..

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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I am so behind on the new toys.I am still using my Philips mp3 player with fm radio and recorder.It holds like a 120 songs.

I'm still using my boom box that I carry around on my shoulder.

OK, so maybe I don't carry it around on my shoulder. But, I have it in the boat with some of my cassettes. No use risking loosing my 10 or 12 CD's. Those are expensive and my cassettes have paid for themselves. Sometime during the last 30 years I've owned them.

Wish I hadn't thrown away all my 8 tracks.

 

[dirtyoldman]

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I'm still using my boom box that I carry around on my shoulder.

OK, so maybe I don't carry it around on my shoulder. But, I have it in the boat with some of my cassettes. No use risking loosing my 10 or 12 CD's. Those are expensive and my cassettes have paid for themselves. Sometime during the last 30 years I've owned them.

Wish I hadn't thrown away all my 8 tracks.

I still have an 8 track player in my garage.....

Anyway, remember all the batteries we used to have to use to go on trips in the car somewhere? You couldn't plug in the cigarette adapter from the back seat!

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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I still have an 8 track player in my garage.....

Anyway, remember all the batteries we used to have to use to go on trips in the car somewhere? You couldn't plug in the cigarette adapter from the back seat!

When we went in trips in the car with the old man he ran the AM radio and nobody else got a say in it. I had a under dash 8 track in my moms 68 Impala when I first got my license. But, my parents didn't approve of stuff like that so I put it under the dash with wing nuts and had to mount and remove it every time I took the car out on Saturday night to the roller skating rink.

 

[dirtyoldman]

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When we went in trips in the car with the old man he ran the AM radio and nobody else got a say in it. I had a under dash 8 track in my moms 68 Impala when I first got my license. But, my parents didn't approve of stuff like that so I put it under the dash with wing nuts and had to mount and remove it every time I took the car out on Saturday night to the roller skating rink.

Charlie, you really are a caveman!!

Wingnuts - that cracks me up! Kids these days wouldn't think of something like that. Of course, they wouldn't need to, since their cars already have CD players, auto windows, air conditioners, auto dimming mirrors, automatic transmissions, and 6 way power heated seats.

My first car was a 1970 Impala with the 400 fuel mizer engine. I actually got 15 MPG or so out of it. I wish I had never sold it. It had an AM radio in it as well.

 

[wildmaninal]

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My son had that too. He returned FOUR of them because they keep locking up and losing data, messages, etc. The phone store keeps replacing them no questions because they know the Chocolate line has a big history of problems. He is so fed up with the Chocolate that the last time he returned it he wanted a different phone, but they wouldn't let him switch. So he paid the cost of a different phone just to get away from the chocolate.

Beware the Chocolate!

Appreciate that info Mark, I'll half to warn my brother about that because they bought my niece the equipment to use the MP3 player part of the phone for Christmas. I assume you mean the chocolate 2 updated phone also has this problem correct? Again appreciate the input.

 

[kmk_7110]

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Charlie, you really are a caveman!!

Wingnuts - that cracks me up! Kids these days wouldn't think of something like that. Of course, they wouldn't need to, since their cars already have CD players, auto windows, air conditioners, auto dimming mirrors, automatic transmissions, and 6 way power heated seats.

My first car was a 1970 Impala with the 400 fuel mizer engine. I actually got 15 MPG or so out of it. I wish I had never sold it. It had an AM radio in it as well.

I'm 17 now and my first car was my grandmas 85 impala with the v6 it is the bare bones car, but now I have my ford escort of which i paid for myself parents don't help pay for anything to do with the car. If i want it or "need" it they tell me to save up. My car only had a cassette player which I removed and added my CD Deck which plays my 30gig Video Ipod. I don't have auto windows, or 6 way heated seats in my car. I work at Walmart after school and earned my car and my stuff in it and all the media fun things I have. Its the one thing that makes me mad is that since older people (older then myself) see one kid with a 10k car that ma and pa bought they think every kid my age has one.

 

[wildmaninal]

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I'm 17 now and my first car was my grandmas 85 impala with the v6 it is the bare bones car, but now I have my ford escort of which i paid for myself parents don't help pay for anything to do with the car. If i want it or "need" it they tell me to save up. My car only had a cassette player which I removed and added my CD Deck which plays my 30gig Video Ipod. I don't have auto windows, or 6 way heated seats in my car. I work at Walmart after school and earned my car and my stuff in it and all the media fun things I have. Its the one thing that makes me mad is that since older people (older then myself) see one kid with a 10k car that ma and pa bought they think every kid my age has one.

Don't take it personally kmk_7110. I started out with a hand me down escort and swapped it for a 79 model 3/4 ton GMC truck, then at one point I had 2 cars along with the truck all older models. I was 16 in 96 and drove a used cars for 4 years then I got a new one in 2000. You'll get there one of these days just keep that good credit up, keep saving money for a down payment or pay in full and you'll be in high cotton, bad credit won't help you in anyway trust me I know.

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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I'm 17 now and my first car was my grandmas 85 impala with the v6 it is the bare bones car, but now I have my ford escort of which i paid for myself parents don't help pay for anything to do with the car. If i want it or "need" it they tell me to save up. My car only had a cassette player which I removed and added my CD Deck which plays my 30gig Video Ipod. I don't have auto windows, or 6 way heated seats in my car. I work at Walmart after school and earned my car and my stuff in it and all the media fun things I have. Its the one thing that makes me mad is that since older people (older then myself) see one kid with a 10k car that ma and pa bought they think every kid my age has one.

The one thing that I hate is the stupid parents that buy there kid a 10k car.

Keep plugging away kid you'll make it eventually if you keep working at it the way you are.

 

[rogerwa]

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My daughter, who is 14, says to me a couple weeks back: Dad, when I drive I think I'd like something sporty.. Like I'm just waiting to hear what she wants to drive.. If she drives.

I told her I thought she would drive that skanky Ford expedition out in the driveway with the rust on the door and the 165,000 miles. I will the one driving something sporty.

 

[dirtyoldman]

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My daughter, who is 14, says to me a couple weeks back: Dad, when I drive I think I'd like something sporty.. Like I'm just waiting to hear what she wants to drive.. If she drives.

I told her I thought she would drive that skanky Ford expedition out in the driveway with the rust on the door and the 165,000 miles. I will the one driving something sporty.

It's all about perspective. Just let her know what the options are:

 

[wildmaninal]

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It's all about perspective. Just let her know what the options are:

That would be a great on gas, oh you wouldn't half to worry about gas lol, but you would half to put up with smelling it instead of burning it.

 

[Caveman Charlie]

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It's all about perspective. Just let her know what the options are:

Price of gas goes up to much higher and I'm considering getting something like that to go to work.

 

[woodrat]

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Gee, kids get all the cool stuff now.

hey, you could get one too you know!

My wife has a 8 gig ipod and my 11 year old has a ipod shuffle. They are really, really cool. When we got my wife a new car stereo, I got an Alpine that the ipod can plug into. Say goodbye to space consuming disc changers, huh?

For my car stereo alone, I've thought about getting an ipod myself, so I don't have to carry all those discs around and change them out so often.