[Colonol Dekker]

<Unessecary Imagary>So now the Subspace chicken is gonna be bent over Prescotts desk.........</Unessecary Imagary>

[aldo_14]

<Unessecary Imagary>So now the Subspace chicken is gonna be bent over Prescotts desk.........</Unessecary Imagary>

Actually, they took the subspace chicken because it was the one thing Prescott couldn't shag.

[Colonol Dekker]

Ahahhhhh, Now it makes sense, What about dave the chaeleon though.......
The chicken might be at risk rom him in the Houses of Parliament.

[Ferret]

Ah more unnessesary iPod hate.
I have an iPod and love it to death. When I went to buy my MP3 player I know I wanted one with a very large capacity and that was cheap, I opted for a 20GB iPod Photo and now I can't even leave the house with it. It's speed and battery life are just awesome, the only problem I have with it is that it destroys sound with high bass levels, but that's just audio compression for you anyway.

Also for anyone that likes that kind of stuff, the iPod development and third-party software in the form of iPod Linux is nothing short of brilliant.

All of these people saying the iPod is a fashion statement and that's why it sucks need to kiss my arse. I personally couldn't give a **** what using an iPod says about me, when I'm listening to it, it's hidden in the bottom of my bag and all you can see are these headphones coming out of the corner. (Not the original ones.)
Come on, mobile phones are way more fashionable and mine is about 5 years old still bleeping away with it's monochrome screen. If it sends and recieves calls it's good enough, hence why when I bought my iPod I wanted a music player with a large capacity. Even though I'm about a couple of GB from maxing it now. =/

As for iTunes, what the hell is up with iTunes? I've not once bought a single song using it and I class the syncing  feature as nothing short of a godsend, it's so easy to categorise my music exactly how I'ld want to using it's library. On my PC it only serves as my iPod syncing software, I don't use it for playing music and it's never doing anything else. Plus if you don't like iTunes there are scores of third-party syncing software.

The most ridiculous arguments I've heard are from people who go all "Oh Mac sucks I hate Apple." Oh yeah, that really has a lot to do with the iPod. Both products coming from totally different deptartments of what is a huge organisation, gimmie a break.

Anyone else?

[Colonol Dekker]

and now I can't even leave the house with it.

Realy, why is that?

[Ferret]

and now I can't even leave the house with it.

Realy, why is that?

Because music is such a huge part of my life that I have to be listening to it for most of the day and my iPod is a million times easier to use than my MP3 CD player ever was.

[aldo_14]

and now I can't even leave the house with it.

Realy, why is that?

Because music is such a huge part of my life that I have to be listening to it for most of the day and my iPod is a million times easier to use than my MP3 CD player ever was.

I'm guessing you mean to say 'leave without it'?

[Turambar]

ive got a nice iriver

its small, its got 1gb of flash memory, it was $80, and i havent even filled it up.  it plays .ogg files, so i recompress everything, and everything works very smoothly.

i'd never get any sort of ipod, mostly because the engineering is on a par with dell laptop hard drives and american cars.

[Ferret]

and now I can't even leave the house with it.

Realy, why is that?

Because music is such a huge part of my life that I have to be listening to it for most of the day and my iPod is a million times easier to use than my MP3 CD player ever was.

I'm guessing you mean to say 'leave without it'?

Ppssshaaaw I typed it all fast, meanies! T_T

[Colonol Dekker]

LOL Sorry dude, It was banter 

[aldo_14]

I'm guessing you mean to say 'leave without it'?

Ppssshaaaw I typed it all fast, meanies! T_T

Ach, you know you love it.

[Nuke]

the main reason i go with an ipod is its interface, how else am i gonna navigate my 5000 song archive, thing also has enough space to backup everything of importance on my computer. of course they lie their ass off about the things capability to hold 15000 songs, if i didnt use it for backup i could probibly cram in another 4000 songs on it, for a total of 9000. i also didnt like that they didnt put on any new games, the text file reader still only supports 4k files, and the video playback isnt what i had expected. also with a bigger screen they couda displayed more tag information, like release year, i discovered it could read the lyric tags, which is nice.  itunes is even crappyer than before. its slow and ineffietient compaired to winamp (hopefully in the future it will support 5gen ipods). the real reason i went with the ipod: the evil you know.

[Ferret]

I'm guessing you mean to say 'leave without it'?

Ppssshaaaw I typed it all fast, meanies! T_T

Ach, you know you love it.

Who told you?!

[MatthewPapa]

Ive had a 30 video ipod for about 2 months now and I have been thrilled to death about all of its features. I have 5 gigs of music and piles of videos (simpsons, family guy, southpark, scare tactics etc) that i converted with Videodora and they work great. The video format is similiar to Xvid, so the movie sizes are small and you can fit a literal metric ****ton of movies on it. I was yet even more amazed when i found out you could plug the ipod into your TV via A/V cables and stream movies from there.
       About Itunes: i think it is more than sufficient for sorting and sync-ing my music. The check/uncheck system works great.
       Itunes store: I pretty much ignore this except when I want to buy seasons of TV shows and its easier to pay 10$ than spend hours finding, downloading and converting them off of bittorrent.

[Deepblue]

OT: Why did BlackDove get monkeyed?

OnT:

iRiver Clix is the best flash based mp3 player out right now. Too bad it's only 2GB though, but it still is about as small as a nano, though thicker, has video playback capabilities, and a bigger screen than the ipod video. It also has FM radio, recording, etc. All features Apple seems really reluctant to put in...

[Ferret]

recording, etc.

Yeah that's a weird one, iPod Linux can record, why Apple wont put it in thier firmware is beyond me.

[Nuke]

you have to enable recording through the options menu, but then you gotta spend $30 bucks on a $0.50 microphone in $1 piece of molded plastic with a $2 proprietary ipod connector on it to use it.

[Ferret]

Fukc that.