School Me on IPods

[David]

I am emarassed to say I don't have a clue about these things. I am looking for something to put some music on to listen to while cutting our 2 acres.

Have been checking out the Apple IPods on the circuit city page.

I assume I just save any wanted music to my hard drive on my computer and then sync it onto the ipod?? Any special programs needed or is it as easy as what I just said?

Confused in Virginia,
David

[indyrob]

You need i-Tunes to get it going right. There are easier ones to use, one's that act like removable storage. Those are just Drag & Drop, iPods are a bit different.

[David]

You need i-Tunes to get it going right. There are easier ones to use, one's that act like removable storage. Those are just Drag & Drop, iPods are a bit different.

What would you suggest for the application I described? Something user friendly to put a couple of hundred songs on?

Also...I am i-Tunes illiterate also if anyone want to explain that.

[joshua]

Well if you put your CDs or other music into itunes it will be drag and drop. You should go ahead and install itunes right now and play around with it. It stores your music in a library so you really don't worry about files once they are in there.

Then if you decide you want an ipod you have to choose which model. The ones that play video and hold a bunch of songs have hard drives in them which you can't take running all the time or such. If you don't have a lot of tunes it might be overkill. The shuffle is tiny and you just put songs on it and it picks them at random for you. The nano is in the inbetween model with a screen, but still tiny.

Using itunes lets you easily do things like add podcasts (theres several cigar ones out there now) so they get automatically downloaded and then put on the ipod when you plug it in.

iTunes site: http://www.apple.com/itunes/

[David]

The shuffle was the one I was looing at...the 512mb and 1 gig. The 512 holds 120 songs and the 1 gig holds 240.

i-tunes is free?

[indyrob]

This is the one I had
http://www.rcaaudiovideo.com/Cultures/en-US/ModelDetail.html?PCI=Lyra+Hard+Drive+Players&ProductID=RD2762&PrevPage=ModelList
It's small-ish and pretty good on price vs. capacity.

I never installed the software, plug & play device and it shows up in explorer as an external drive so it's drag & drop. It's easy on the brain...plug it in, put stuff on it, listen to it.

[joshua]

Yeah iTunes is free, and all the podcasts you can search for are free. You can also buy legal digital tracks and if you have a CD burner burn CD versions of what you buy.

So if you just want something small then the shuffle if you don't mind a screen, or the 1GB nano if you want to see what you are listening to and scroll through tracks etc.

[David]

k...another stupid question. Doesn't matter if I have a PC and go with the apple ipod?

[indyrob]

I have a pc and an ipod.

[joshua]

If you plug it into a PC when you buy it, it will be formatted for PC (which the mac can also read)

[David]

Is the sound quality good enough to be heard over a riding lawn mower?

[cvm4]

Is the sound quality good enough to be heard over a riding lawn mower?

If you juke the ear receivers in your ear good enough and have the sound up loud enough :widemouth :rofl:

[David]

Now Cliffy...I'm just basing that question on the portable CD players (walkmans) from my age. Not sure if they would have been able to output enough sound to hear the song over the mower engine.

[cvm4]

They put out enough sound for me (judging by my g/f's ipod). But then again I haven't really mowed wearing an Ipod.

[David]

lazy ass

[joshua]

They come with earbuds, which might not drown out the sound completely. If you wanna get fancy, a pair of noise cancelling headphones or some bigger over the ear cans would help.

[cvm4]

lazy ass

Bite me :widemouth ...It's not my Ipod :stickbeat

[David]

Just got back from Circuit City. Went with the 1 Gig IPod shuffle. Sound seems like it will be more than plenty from testing it out inside.