No sequel for Serenity

[DonTadow]

I didn't say that having an MP3 player is dumb. I just don't get the GULLIBLE portion of the Earth's population and their fascination with the Apple iPod.



[ Yes, I'm anti-Apple since 1983. ]

I feel you on this. You pay 300 to 400 bucks for a small device that you have little control over. YOu play whatever music the company owns hte rights too, no sharing, no downloading from other sources.

Wheras there are much better machines out there at a quarter of the price or lower that do the same thing and give you more flexibility.But people buy the I-pod because of the name. I have a coworker whom just bought her 8 year old a 350 buck i-pod because of the name, despite the fact of attempting to explain how there are other mp3 players that are much more affordable.

 

[billd91]

I feel you on this. You pay 300 to 400 bucks for a small device that you have little control over. YOu play whatever music the company owns hte rights too, no sharing, no downloading from other sources.

Wheras there are much better machines out there at a quarter of the price or lower that do the same thing and give you more flexibility.But people buy the I-pod because of the name. I have a coworker whom just bought her 8 year old a 350 buck i-pod because of the name, despite the fact of attempting to explain how there are other mp3 players that are much more affordable.

Boy are YOU laboring under a misconception here. You can put all sorts of music on that iPod whether Apple sells it through their store or not. I know someone else who uses it to transport large files as well as his music since it works quite well as a portable and fast storage device.

 

[DonTadow]

Boy are YOU laboring under a misconception here. You can put all sorts of music on that iPod whether Apple sells it through their store or not. I know someone else who uses it to transport large files as well as his music since it works quite well as a portable and fast storage device.

I'm thinking legally though without cracks or hacks. Still fact of the matter is there are items a quarter of the cost that do more.

 

[billd91]

I'm thinking legally though without cracks or hacks. Still fact of the matter is there are items a quarter of the cost that do more.

No cracks or hacks involved. Most of the music on my wife's iPod is from non-Apple sources and completely legal. Same with carrying large files. A friend with an iPod does a lot of digital photography and web-based media programming. He totes files around on his iPod.

 

[Klaus]

No cracks or hacks involved. Most of the music on my wife's iPod is from non-Apple sources and completely legal. Same with carrying large files. A friend with an iPod does a lot of digital photography and web-based media programming. He totes files around on his iPod.

Ditto.

 

[DonTadow]

No cracks or hacks involved. Most of the music on my wife's iPod is from non-Apple sources and completely legal. Same with carrying large files. A friend with an iPod does a lot of digital photography and web-based media programming. He totes files around on his iPod.

From what I understand, apple still engineers its IPod so that it can only take music from the Ipod store. Not all musical downloads will play on it. My thing is, that I'd rather have cheaper device that will with confidence play anything I download and not have the engineers of the device working against me. .

 

[Arnwyn]

From what I understand, apple still engineers its IPod so that it can only take music from the Ipod store.

Incorrect.

Not all musical downloads will play on it.

That much is correct - AFAIK, it plays iTunes files (not sure of the extension - "aac", I think), mp3, AIFF, and WAV files. It doesn't play .wma files (among others), for example.

My thing is, that I'd rather have cheaper device that will with confidence play anything I download and not have the engineers of the device working against me. .

Good luck with that - I'm not aware of anything that will play all audio file types.



/hijack

 

[Allura]

Well, not all. Ron Glass ("Book") and Alan Tudyk ("Wash") can't come back after their characters are killed.

Per Ron Glass at his Q&A at ICON this past spring, if more movies are made, he and Alan ARE optioned to be in them, and Joss has assured him the characters will be in it (since I suppose you can option but not use an actor).

 

[Dioltach]

That much is correct - AFAIK, it plays iTunes files (not sure of the extension - "aac", I think), mp3, AIFF, and WAV files. It doesn't play .wma files (among others), for example.

It doesn't play .wma files, but iTunes converts them to its own format and then plays them.

I now have around 80% of my CD collection on my iPod -- perfectly legal, I just imported the files from CD. It's like recording your LPs onto cassette in the 80s.

 

[Ranger REG]

I feel you on this. You pay 300 to 400 bucks for a small device that you have little control over. YOu play whatever music the company owns hte rights too, no sharing, no downloading from other sources.

Wheras there are much better machines out there at a quarter of the price or lower that do the same thing and give you more flexibility.But people buy the I-pod because of the name. I have a coworker whom just bought her 8 year old a 350 buck i-pod because of the name, despite the fact of attempting to explain how there are other mp3 players that are much more affordable.

Dude, iPod is the new Borg, and they're assimilating Humaniti rapidly.