Well I see no point in buying it...but I sure hope that thing is sturdy...I had to keep my Ipod in a hard plastic case because I have been known to drop things.

I occasionally drop my Nomad (actually, it usually just slides off something and lands on the floor), and every time it ends up landing on the headphone connector and ripping the jack right off the circuit board. Normally this wouldn't be a problem because I can just solder that back together, but one of the contacts is in a tiny little nook underneath the LCD, and none of my soldering guns is small enough for the job, so I keep having to pay some guys 20 bucks to get it fixed. Since it's rather bulky (it wasn't a problem before, but then I got a cell phone), it's starting to get annoying in my pocket there, so next time it happens I'll just ditch it and look for a new player, and the 60GB iPod is on the top of my list.

It's kind of embarassing, though, because I've spent the last few years ranting about how much I hate iPod people -- you know, the pseudo-intellectual crotchmunchers who sit on the bus or whatever and make a point of whipping out their trusty iPod every few stops so that everyone knows they're sophisticated and artsy and have the perfect piece of consumer electronics to prove it. You know, just in case you missed their white headphone cable, fully illuminated against their black "art guy" clothing. Or the political columnists who will literally write four editorials in a row, not about Rwanda or New Orleans or how much they hate the evil leftist teachers' union, but about their f--king iPod, how great it is, what music they put on it, and how sad it was when the first scratch appeared -- and will then deliberately insert casual references to their f--king iPod in future columns, just so you don't forget that they're hip. God damn. You know what? Screw iPods. I'm buying an iRiver.

Dude, Cy, don't even bother buying an mp3 player. Or even a discman.
Just spin a cd around your ear really really really fast, and with the right mind, you can perfectly hear the music contained on it.
Not sure if it works for DVD format, but you might just have to upgrade your ear drum.

CDs don't hold enough music -- that's the whole point of an MP3 player with a 60GB hard disk loaded with compressed audio. And trust me, even 60GB is a mere fraction of my cavernous music collection.

My only beef is that I wish the Ipod mini came in more colors. I wanted it in black and I sure wasn't going to shell out 250 dollars (I get a student discount) for the black U2 signed one, especially since I don't like U2...

I don't know what's funnier, every student at my college carrying around an Ipod or those crummy wristbands they all sport...>>

This one comes in black.

These will probably be all over my university campus by next week.

TABLE STRETCHING!!!

Back on-topic, I still have a Dell DJ mp3 player. Still have over 3 gigabytes left out of five. And I already have over 200 songs on there. o.o

Fixed.

My music collection consists of about 100,000 songs and weighs in at just under 500GB. For those keeping score, yes, I've done a bit of spring cleaning -- it peaked at over 700GB late last year.

...what's the point of having that many songs? How do you go through them all? O___O;

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o_O What? It's not like one has to listen to them all at once, now, is it?

I... wow, apparently I have over three gigs of music here.

I know...but 100,000 SONGS! That's roughly 300,000 minutes (on the basis that an average song would be around 3 minutes)! Which is 5,000 hours! Which is 208.33333333333333 days!

That's a lot of music. X_X

Wow. In black, that thing looks really nice.

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That's the exact model I have. It was a gift this past Christmas.

It's too small for me. *pulls up WMA* I've got 6.81 GB of music.

I still perfer my portable CD player. It sounds better, the battery lasts longer, and I don't have to install programs on my computer (my computer is too out of date for these programs, too) to use it. An a road trip that's a couple hours or more, nothing beats my CD player and my big-ass book of CD's. The MP3 player is more useful on the bus ride to and from school.

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It's kind of embarassing, though, because I've spent the last few years ranting about how much I hate iPod people -- you know, the pseudo-intellectual crotchmunchers who sit on the bus or whatever and make a point of whipping out their trusty iPod every few stops so that everyone knows they're sophisticated and artsy and have the perfect piece of consumer electronics to prove it. You know, just in case you missed their white headphone cable, fully illuminated against their black "art guy" clothing. Or the political columnists who will literally write four editorials in a row, not about Rwanda or New Orleans or how much they hate the evil leftist teachers' union, but about their f--king iPod, how great it is, what music they put on it, and how sad it was when the first scratch appeared -- and will then deliberately insert casual references to their f--king iPod in future columns, just so you don't forget that they're hip. God damn. You know what? Screw iPods. I'm buying an iRiver.

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I still perfer my portable CD player. It sounds better, the battery lasts longer, and I don't have to install programs on my computer (my computer is too out of date for these programs, too) to use it. An a road trip that's a couple hours or more, nothing beats my CD player and my big-ass book of CD's.

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That's precisely why I got an MP3 Player-
I was sick of carrying around an akwardly-shaped bulky walkman that won't fit in a normal-sized jeans pocket and a CD wallet the size of a moon of Jupiter to get the same amount of music I could fit onto my MP3 player.
And my Walkman doesn't play videos.

Hmmm...
I suspect, if I had an MP3 player, I'd mainly just end up using it as a memory stick.
So instead I'm getting one of those.

Well...Heh, mines already been shipped, got one in black. I had some extra money to splurge with, and decided I needed an MP3 player. Not that I need SO much space, I should have got a 2 GB, got a 4GB one instead. I'm like in the minority in my grade not having an MP3 player, and I found an article on the Nano, so I said what the hell, and bought it.

the black nano is hawt =3

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I have an iRiver. My first player was a SANdisk however....

-and yeah, the nano looks good but.... I loathe iPods as a whole.

I Know...but 100,000 SONGS! That's roughly 300,000 minutes (on the basis that an average song would be around 3 minutes)! Which is 5,000 hours! Which is 208.33333333333333 days!

1) SO I don't have 30,000 CD's lying around my house
2) So I can have music from every genre, as well as music from a shireload of videogames that I love
3) So I don't have to worry about remembering which CD a song was on
4) So I can always remember a song if I have a part of it stuck in my head .

That's why I'd need that much music. . I'm nowhere near as extensive as Cyk yet {I just have 3 100 GB hd's that need to be filled though >>...after I install them >>... Or is it 4?} But I've still to rip all these Motown CD's my mom has. Love the oldies ..

Last I counted before I left for 2004 {haven't really been home since}..that Motown collection of hers went up to 600 >>. So i know I have alot of work to do.

I must say though, I do agree with the iPod desecration you've given there Cy-that stereotype is what made me jaded toward them in the first place >>.

I know, but how are you gonna remember em' all? o.o

I'm sure, in your mind right now, you probably can remember over 2,000 songs.

If you play a tune right now, like pat a drum solo on a tabletop, you can equate that rhythm to about 20 songs . They probably ar all songs you equate to some point in your life, no matter how miniscule

My point is, I don't actively remember songs to a t-but I remember the instances I equate the song to.

This discussion about the merits of iPods reminds me of a post I made that was eaten by the hack... but you can read its contents here.

Anyway, I decided against iPods a while ago and got a Creative Zen Micro, which I loved until the headphone imput started malfunctioning. So, now I have a semi-working player that is fine under the right conditions.

If you want an iPod, though, get one. It's your money.

I had a 20gb iPod named Yamato. He was cool, but then the menu button quit working. Took him back to Best Buy and got another one, whom I named Digi, because this new one vibrated like crazy. O_o Digi works fine.

The pro of having an mp3 player is that I don't have to cart around a huge CD case. I was always worried about it being stolen or bent, especially since all my (actually real, not pirated) video game soundtracks are in there. X_X

If anyone is all "meh" because of the lack of colors, there are those neat little skins that HP sells. My Digi is currently green and happy.

I think the Nano is too long. The screen doesn't look proportionate.

I Know...but 100,000 SONGS! That's roughly 300,000 minutes (on the basis that an average song would be around 3 minutes)! Which is 5,000 hours! Which is 208.33333333333333 days!
Actually, it's 102,098 songs from 1823 artists, at a total of 255 days, 5 hours, 52 minutes and 48 seconds. It weighs in at 499 gigs and is stored in its entirety on my 1.2TB media server, Nexus2. (Nexus3, which I plan to build sometime next summer, will feature a projected 3TB or more of physical storage, gigabit networking, a multi-core processor, and 3GB of RAM.)

Anyway, I decided against iPods a while ago and got a Creative Zen Micro, which I loved until the headphone imput started malfunctioning. So, now I have a semi-working player that is fine under the right conditions.
Nomads have a reputation for headphone jack problems, even though they produce better sound than any other player.

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Actually, it's 102,098 songs from 1823 artists, at a total of 255 days, 5 hours, 52 minutes and 48 seconds. It weighs in at 499 gigs and is stored in its entirety on my 1.2TB Nexus media server.

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Can't say I'm a massive fan of iPods myself.

I personally just have a little 128MB mp3 player that was very inexpensive but does the job nicely. I've only got a small selection of my music collection that's either a) in a format that's readable by it or b) that I listen to regularly and want with me on the move. I'd convert more of my tracks to listenable format but... eh, I'm lazy, there's no other way of putting it.

And another thing: yeah, I agree with Cyke on those people who think they're "cool" because they have an iPod. I think you can only look cool with an iPod if you're middle-aged, and then only because it shows you're in touch with modern times.

And one last remark, which a good mate of mine made which I think is very true: "Nothing says 'mug me!' like a distinctive set of white iPod earphones!".

~LightStrike!