[darktruth]

Maybe it's me but lately I've noticed more and more people listening to music (or maybe just fm radio lol) while they're on the train, tram or bus whenever I'm heading to uni or just going out. I'm really curious to see if the iPod is decreasing in popularity in my area because I'm seeing more and more people listening to their music on their mobile phones than an iPod.

I'm one of those people that listens to music on their mobile phone (my Gold Dolce & Gabanna Motorola RAZR V3i complete with a stereo headset XD) but I always wonder if it's worth it to get an iPod or Creative Zen since my mobile only has a 64MB memory card installed, and that means I can only store around 14-15 mp3's max at 128kbps. I often have to delete songs so I can replace it with other tracks that I like listening to at the time whereas if I have an iPod or Zen then I don't need to do it.

I guess I should get a 1 gig microSD memory card for my mobile and that should solve my problem for a while lol but even with that, I'm not like those people who listen to music for hours on their iPod or mobile phones or switch songs every 20 seconds. It's also funny that I haven't seen anyone with a Creative Zen player at all but maybe that has something to do the iPod's marketing strategy.

So which do you guys prefer? Listening to music on the iPod, Creative Zen or your mobile phone? Or maybe some you guy still use a CD walkman lol.

[Lynk Former]

I have a 20GB Creative Zen Touch... it's an older model that has been discontinued. I got it cause it had a 24 hour battery life. All it does is play MP3s, nothing more, nothing less.

[kyubichan]

I've definitely noticed all the MP3's/4's/blahblah of my schoolmates. My aunt even gave my dad an MP3 player for his birthday. Maybe I'll get an iPOD someday, but right now I'm not so much into little gadgets. My celphone is a Nokia 3350, which I bought with my allowance waaaay back, years ago. I still have it, and I only use it for SMS.

Edit: Oh I still have a CD walkman. LOL. Even if it's not "in", as long as it still works, I use it.

[Blue Confusion]

I have a 2GB mp3 player that holds enough songs for a month or so before I switch them out for something else. No idea what the brand is, but part of the appeal is the size--it fits perfectly inside my clenched fist, so it's easy to keep out of sight. Can't be bothered with mobile phones for music, the people with those are 13 year old baby chavs/morons who blast out teeny bop as they strut down the street and trip over the kerb. My mobile phone is some Nokia dinosaur that I'll use until the day it breaks. Forget trendy, I'll take old-fashioned and cheap!

Yes I'm a stingy git XD

[darktruth]

Oh I still have a CD walkman. LOL. Even if it's not "in", as long as it still works, I use it.

LOL, I really do wonder seeing some person using that down here in Melbourne in this day and age, I bet the people who see that will probably smile/smirk or laugh or possibly think inside their head "Geez, get with the times" XD.

Can't be bothered with mobile phones for music, the people with those are 13 year old baby chavs/morons who blast out teeny bop as they strut down the street and trip over the kerb.

XD, then you can point and laugh at them as they run from their embarassment lol.

[Kiai]

I've got an Ipod but my eye has really been on the new Zune-that big ass screen is to die for!

[Lynk Former]

Too bad Zune isn't much better than Ipod.

[Chimasterwang]

Dont get iPod XD
I wont be getting a iPod a while back i got a 3GB Phillips MP3 player, has other things to like voice recorder XD
Anyway ive like used it 3~5 times since i got it XD
Btw i think you have to use iTunes to put music on a iPod even if you can just put music off your comp into iTunes =P
Using a CD player nice, i mainly use my comp to play music XD

[kyubichan]

LOL, I really do wonder seeing some person using that down here in Melbourne in this day and age, I bet the people who see that will probably smile/smirk or laugh or possibly think inside their head "Geez, get with the times" XD.

I bring it with me outside the house. I'm not into music that much.

[MadMax]

Zune is a Microsoft product and therefore has to be ridden with bugs and plastered with warning messages! Stay away at all costs!

Seriously, I'm still using the same iPod mini (on a Windows PC, no less) 4 GB in blue that I got two years ago. It recently fucked up once and lost part of its file system, but I think I have it back under control. The design, ease of use and sound quality are factors why I stick with the iPod. Up next could be a larger-sized Nano or a big 30 GB iPod, however the 4 gigs I have now are enough for weeks if not months unless my musical taste changes.

[PJ-Animation]

I use my PSP for music. Sadly, I only have a one gig memory card for it, so it can't hold too much music, but it works for my purposes.

[Lynk Former]

20gig... I don't need to change out my music XD It's all there when I want it.

[Analog]

Either my car stereo, work laptop or AIPTEK IS-DV video camera/MP3 player. I keep the music on flash drives or memory cards and change out the music whenever I get tired of it.

[Maverick]

my celphone is a nokia 1100 that doesn't work and I merely use as alarm clock, Winamp suffices for my music needs

[Blue Confusion]

my celphone is a nokia 1100 that doesn't work and I merely use as alarm clock, Winamp suffices for my music needs

Snap! I have that phone too. So does everybody else o_O I'm starting to think there must be a rule somewhere, saying that students here have to own a 1100. Also use it for an alarm clock, since it's the only one I can't turn off in my sleep.

My mp3 player is royally buggered up right now. I never realised before how much I rely on music to drown out annoying background noise... lectures have never dragged so much!

[darktruth]

You'd find that very handy when it comes to taking public transport and there's a baby crying XD or those weirdos that shout out random things.

[Laughing Man]

I hat a Ipod Mini for about 2years before the click wheel broke on it, and I beat the hell out of it, now i've been using my PSP for music, I've been looking into getting a Zune over the past couple weeks, I think that may be the next for me....

[Moelman]

I got an iPod mini 2 years ago but the battery is completely dead now. Besides battery life I was completely satisfied with it.

[GabeXorn]

I have this. Discontinued before it's release, it eats batteries (supposed to last 15 hours, lucky if you get 4) and if not using it solely to listen to MP3's, is impossible to work (play button can also start voice recording, radio is hard to find, let alone use).

My previous music player was a $150 Discman that played MP3's that was much loved and cherished, which didn't survive it's journey to the concrete one christmas eve

[Laughing Man]

Anyone thinking about the ZUNE hold off

NEXT GEN ZUNE!!!

[darktruth]

Just got a funny idea if a portable vinyl player was ever made it'd be pretty interesting XD. I know Rove made a joke out of it on Rove Live once calling it the "Vinyl-o-pod" which was an old fashioned alternative to the iPod lol.

P.S. Does anyone here still use an FM walkman? XD

[GabeXorn]

Just got a funny idea if a portable vinyl player was ever made it'd be pretty interesting XD. I know Rove made a joke out of it on Rove Live once calling it the "Vinyl-o-pod" which was an old fashioned alternative to the iPod lol.

P.S. Does anyone here still use an FM walkman? XD

I saw something like a portable record player the other day in a doco I think.


I had a walkman until it was dropped down a large flight of stars (A lot of my stuff gets dropped)

[Geass]

5.5 gen 30 gig iPod, the possible last of its kind before the iPhone with its music player fucntionality, renders my iPod moot in technology aspects.

I keep music, some converted AMVs and comercials along with random vids and lots of pictures. And I am one fo the few people that use the contacts and calender funcitons on it, works like a charm. I have the FM tunner accesory for it, works nicely compared to what my radio garbles in static, and on terms of accesories, I only get what I need, so I don't see the need for voice recording or a lazer pointer (friend has one) frankly they seem sorta gimiky, since satellite radio seems very in right now, especially those that want FM tunners with them. I need to get the photo transfer dock, becasue I can definetly see a use for those when it comes to digital cameras.

But if there is one thing I can say that is possitive about the Zune, I like the Back button, you can go back forever and not get stopped by the begining of the the UI. So much fun. I can't stand having to click my way through everything though, even if I tried my best and most open with a trial unit.

[Stormfalcon]

I have a silver iPod Nano, with over 99 songs downloaded onto it. XD

The unfortunate part is that it sometimes glitches/freezes. When that happens, I can't turn it off. So I have to wait for its battery to go dead before I can recharge it.

[darktruth]

I STILL use my phone to this day to listen to music whenever I'm going out XD. Got a 1 gig microSD memory card for my phone as a present from one of my friends and wasted no time in filling it up with lots of songs and albums, before that all I had was a 64MB memory card where I could only fit a max of 15 songs if they were encoded at 128kbps in mp3 format.

Still not fazed on getting an iPod or an iShuffle despite the price drops for it although I have started looking at buying a lot songs from iTunes Japan.

[Geass]

I have a silver iPod Nano, with over 99 songs downloaded onto it. XD

The unfortunate part is that it sometimes glitches/freezes. When that happens, I can't turn it off. So I have to wait for its battery to go dead before I can recharge it.

Oh oh oh! I know tech support for this!

What you do is press and hold simultaneously, the center button and the menu/back button. This resets the iPod without having to plug it back in or waiting for the battery to die down. When you do this, the little silver apple will come up and stay on for about 10 seconds or so and you will have your machine reset, just without how you had your menu set up, but your music will be perfectly intact.

I some times encounter that on other user's iPods but rarely on mine, be sure to keep it up-to-date as well, iTunes can always check for you when your iPod is plugged in to iTunes.

[Lynk Former]

Damn.... it's hard finding a good mp3 player. Everyone buys iPod just cause it's the most well known, but for someone like me... hardly any mp3 player is worth buying. Mostly because most of them have such short battery lives but most importantly because most of them have really bad audio quality. The only two companies which I've been happy with in terms of audio quality is Creative and iRiver.

...but it's not like I need to replace my Zen Touch, it may be old, but it gets the job done.

[Moelman]

I still have the iPod mini mentioned earlier in this thread. Replaced the battery, works like a charm.

[Damatee]

At the moment I have an I-scream MP3 its only 256MB so around a hundred songs at the most depending on file size.

Meh I need to upgrade to one with a bigger memory

[Geass]

At the moment I have an I-scream MP3 its only 256MB so around a hundred songs at the most depending on file size.

Meh I need to upgrade to one with a bigger memory

I'm going to hold back since I am a fanboy of Apple

[Maverick]

I wanted to buy a player but I didn't find any that can reproduce ogg format.

[Lynk Former]

Yeah, when it comes to mp3 players you're not gonna find any that support ogg or flac...

[Maverick]

there are ogg and flac capable players around, is just that they don't always advertise it as such ...

[Lynk Former]

there are ogg and flac capable players around, is just that they don't always advertise it as such ...

Isn't that because those players can be updated with unofficial firmware?

[Chimasterwang]

Cant you just format convert OGG to MP3 or does OGG have some feature that you like? XD

[Maverick]

Isn't that because those players can be updated with unofficial firmware?

nope, most Cowon iAudio media players can play ogg, some flac, but I can't find those here, there are also those players "made in china" that can play ogg but isn't specified anywhere.

Cant you just format convert OGG to MP3 or does OGG have some feature that you like? XD

mp3 is proprietary while ogg is open source, so using mp3 with GNU/Linux is somewhat annoying, mp3 is getting obsolete and ogg has better quality/file size ratio ... and aac is uber crap.