OfficeWoman

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I'm going to have to bring some CD's in this afternoon, cos her whiny, pathetic voice is doing my fking head in.

 

 

[CANV EFM]

get yourself one of those ip thingys from apple mine arrived yesterday no idea how to work it yet but it looks the bollox and can hold 5000 odd songs.. dosent skip when your on the move either

[Colin Zeal EFM]

What was the damage??

 

 

[SteveP]

You can pick up an ipod for about £250, but you need to have a decent MP3/WMA player on your PC/Mac. I've discovered the Windows Media Player, it is the nuts, you can get near CD quality sound and store loads of music, I've got about 5gig worth on the hard drive at home, and there's hours worth on there, great for CD compilations and playlists.

 

Have a look at these:

 

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=497

 

or

 

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=636

 

Mind you the apple ipod looks cooler.

[CANV EFM]

mine came with a c.d with something on it for that i think.. i must admit i only glanced at it last night.. ill try to get it working tonight.. or go down the pub n get trashed

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

The i-pod is wicked, but quite expensive. Apparently Bang and Olsten do one as well for about £500 and that, as you'd expect, is the nuts!

[EFM's Librarian]

Zeal - an I-Pod would be perfect for you, I reckon you could get almost all of your collection on one. People keep saying how great they are because you can put all of your songs on, put it on random play, and remind yourself of loads of songs that you would never otherwise hear.

 

Presumably money is no object?

[CANV EFM]

IPOD

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

£398 for 10,000 songs isn't too bad really, I'm seriously thinking of splashing out especially if i buy this software that'll mean i can put all my vinyl onto MP3.

[SteveP]

This 10,000 songs thing may be slightly 'over selling' it. Here's for why..

 

The Ipod and the other mini jukeboxes that you see covert music in to data and in that tracks get compressed, from 192kpps, which is virtually the same as CD down to 64kpps,which,er, isn't! So you have decide upon the quality of sound that you're going to get, the lower the quality the more you can store. So the song is no longer measured as 2 minutes or 10, but in megabytes, so a track could take anything from 2 meg to 15 meg.

 

I don't go for Ipod because it does not take WMA files and the windows player is the best you can get if you have a PC. If you have a Mac the Ipod is better (there's a longwinded reason behind this, it's something called AAC files).

 

But it might be that 40 gig only holds 6-7000 tracks, not 10k as advertised, still you can have fun finding out!

[EFM Trev]

Hmmm. We use Winamp as an MP3 player, and WinMX for the acquisition of MP3 files. Toot, and indeed, toot.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Excellent change of name, Trev! This is really starting to catch on now!!

 

 

[EFM Trev]

I rather thought so myself.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

All you need to do now is change your location to half way between the cool of Camden and the [***!!***] of kings X