I've been infiltrated.
I don't know if Apple specifically planned it that way, but a covert agent has been working on me, trying to get me to buy an iPod.
And it almost worked.
I got to thinking - 160 GB would be pretty cool - I could put all my music on it at a pretty high bit-rate. And even some movies. And the new ones have a battery life that a lot of people are pegging at 40+ hours on a charge for music. And there are programs other than iTunes that you can use now to manage the music you play... meaning you can actually move it around however you want, without Apple telling you which computers you're allowed to use to listen to it.
And then I started to read.
It turns out that Apple has changed a few things with the new ones (called iPod Classic, or sixth generation/6G). They have a new algorithm that they're using for the digital/analog conversion. And the hardware has changed, too - the DAC is coming from another manufacturer. And in the hi-fi community, people are not happy.
Turns out the sound is, to a critical listener, nowhere near as good as it was for previous incarnations - less natural, less punchy and vibrant, with harmonic overtones missing. Which is all I need to know for now, until either a firmware fix or a version with better hardware (or both) is released.
Whew.
Close call.
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They will get you yet. They always do.
What's so bad about iTunes, by the way? It's better than WinAmp. And the fact that it installs an Outlook plug-in for no apparent reason doesn't scare me that much.
What I want to know is, what color does it come in?
What's so bad about iTunes?
1. I don't want to buy music from you. I'll let you know if I do, but until then, assume I don't.
2. I prefer not to have my songs ripped in proprietary formats (AAC) that no one else can read by default
3. Bloatwear - I hate quicktime, and can't don't see why I would need it to load songs onto an iPod
4. The reason I want my music on a portable device is so that I can take it to different places. Part of why I want to take it to different places is to put it on different computers, and I don't need Apple telling me that I have to choose my favorite three.
Granted, I've only used it for about 15 minutes (and then spent 3 hours trying to get it all uninstalled). Maybe if I used it more, I'd get used to it. Or, maybe I'd end up finding 4 things I didn't like every hour. Could go either way.
I have a personal theory that everyone should be allowed one thing that they are irrationally emotional about. I figure Apple may as well be mine.
And Ni, you may be disappointed. It comes in silver and black; since I'm a man, I'll get black, if I do get one. But none of the funky shuffle/nano options...
Crap, that math thing again. Should be 4*4 (that is, 12) things every hour.
fussy.
'nuff said.
I hate to point out that math thing again, but 4*4 is 16!!!
If there's one thing I'm fussy about, it's my music.
But there's probably not just one thing. Oh well. I'm still fussy about my music.
And, Mom, it would have been funny if you could have seen my face. I promise.
I'm fussy about my music too, just in a different way. Must have only one version of Handel's Messiah, for starters. There is only one that properly interprets it. And James knows that I have a VERY short "A-list" of women I will sing with in our band - first criteria being "not catty" and second criteria being "can actually come up with some good harmony". The local A-list has only 3 people on it. And James, bless him, respects it. I'll try anybody once - and then they're on or off the list.
Plus I don't have the attention span to know too much about computers and how all that works (which is why I am content to sit and wait for you to tweak my photography...) Fuggedaboudit. Geniuses like yourself are free to be fussy with PCs and all their details. For me, pass the Mac, please. Face it. It's sexier.
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