New Apple Lust Objects

People buy iPods for the same reason people shop at the GAP. It doesn't mean there is some inherent "I would like to use AAC encoding and purchase things at Apple Music Store" situation going on. Anyone who is actually thinking about this enough to think about THAT realizes they could easily convert the damn files back to MP3 format (including purchased ones, cos I've done it for someone). Just because they've got the stranglehold on the market doesn't excuse them from releasing a crappy product with no fucking screen on it that only comes in the world's ugliest color besides, say, brown, anymore than market stranglehold excuses Starbucks for that "drinking chocolate" nonsense they've suddenly started in with.

I would purchase an iPod if it came in any colors besides "el gayo" though, that's really my problem with it.

xpost hahaha Mod J you know I'm bitching about this to prevent myself from the horror of actually going walking around DC.

(sorry ally)

I hear this a lot, but I run with mine (20gb) all the time and have never had a problem. What supposedly happens?

A KVM switch (Keyboard, Video monitor, Mouse). I have no idea what they cost. For a high-speed internet connection and network, a router wouldn't hurt either.

I was thinking about this, too.

Soulseek's popularity among the human race is really kind of exaggerated on ILM/ILX. And its popularity among Mac users is even less.

Soulseek's popularity among the human race is really kind of exaggerated on ILM/ILX. And its popularity among Mac users is even less.

I dunno, I've used it for over a year with no real problems.

I disagree with this in theory; I mean as far as I can tell as long as an end user has iTunes then they're not going to notice if they've downloaded an MP3 or an AAC file, for example, unless there one of the handful of people who have affixed $10,000 speakers to their computer and use it as proof that MP3 is a vastly noticably inferior product. The main problem that would back up your theory and refute mine though is the AAC doesn't seem to be supported by several popular music players, though that might've changed in the past year-ish.

xpost proving my point about the $10k speakers. Tom, you realize that on iPods, ie what you are saying is the selling point of this sound file type, the sound difference basically disappears? Or like at my house, without really nice speakers, the sound difference isn't noticable?

MY POINT HERE: 99% of iPods purchasers don't give a shit about file type/benefits/et al. As ModJ says, who wants a Dell MP3 player. That is all.

that'd be the garbage mp3 codec that apple bundles with itunes then? you don't get this kind of artifacting with lame mp3 vbs. and ed i'd switch to ogg in a heartbeat if more portable players supported it, apparently it's too memory-intensive a codec to support.

Those white earbuds SUCK, though.

I agree, btw, that for many intents and purposes AAC is a superior codec but I don't think the actual practical sonic difference between the two is enough to make most people actually give a shit, particularly for the usages most people are going to have for these files. Main tangible benefit seems to be it's a smaller file, IIRC without looking at iTunes right now to double check.

jesus christ Tom, xpost, why don't you marry an iPod.

*raises hand*

:(

for burning to cd, i think you have to look elsewhere, but this works for playing "live"

But when you're using it on its native machine, it's a whole different deal. On Windows, its only advantages are the way it organizes the music and edits ID3 tags. Other than that, it eats memory and processor by using QuickTime (yuck!) and works spottily with some PC hardware configurations (in my experience). But on a Mac, it's so seamless. You can't imagine using anything else.

xxpost:
I remember using macamp, which had a similarly small footprint.