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# :D
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:32, archived)
# i'm not 100% i'm on the same page as you here
but i enjoy this!
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:34, archived)
# they are mp3 people :D
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# Mp3ople?
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# *steals the creative*
he seems the nicest
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:40, archived)
# he's fucking hyper
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:46, archived)
# he's my new friend :)
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:52, archived)
# SONY ONE LOOKS THE COOLEST. BUT THE IPOD ONE ACTUALLY IS THE COOLEST.
I LIKE PICTURES.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:34, archived)
# WHERE DOES SONY'S PLUG GO?
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:34, archived)
# He's not hearing any music :C
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:35, archived)
# I used to have that Sony one,
but it went missing in France. The moral of the story is, don't go to France.
Woo
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:34, archived)
# *adheres to*
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:35, archived)
# Jacob Dyer clearly nicked it, right before his neck got burnt.
The middle one is the one I have. It's got nowhere near enough capacity to hold my music library, even though when I bought it a year ago I was like "I'LL NEVER USE UP 6GIGABYTES HOLY SHIT!"
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:35, archived)
# The bastard. And I thought Disney land was meant to be a place of fun.
I must have had the model up, I think it was 20gig. Which now wouldn't be enough for all my crap.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# Yeah, I should've got the 20 gig one.
But I genuinely never thought I'd ever have 6gb of music.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:39, archived)
# i have a piddly little 1gb one :(
i have about 30gbs of music. i'm saddened by this.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# I'm now down to my phone's music player.
I can just about squeeze on one album. I'd buy an extra memory card for it, but frankly the quality isn't good enough to bother with it.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:40, archived)
# mine a ten quid one from woolys that every few weeks scrambles all the tracks
i had a 1gb creative but the sonuvabitch broke when i walked into door with it sticking out of the laptop, gah!
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:42, archived)
# I've got about 30 gigs as well
or 15.7 days, according to itunes.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:47, archived)
# I've got 18.3 days crammed into 28.7gig.
Look at you with your high quality music.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:49, archived)
# Yeah I did this
About 40gig of decent quality files, compressed down to about 18gig of shitty quality files so that they'd all fit on my player.

I've even got a shatner/nimoy compilation album on that MP3 player, I've got that much space free.

"Hey, err, Mr Tambourine Man? Mr Tambourine Man!"
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:50, archived)
# That's a lot of choons :D
I reckon high-quality music is worth the extra space it takes up. There's nothing quite like crisp, high-quality sound through expensive headphones.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:59, archived)
# Unfortunately, I have no high quality headphones.
I might buy some shortly after getting my laptop, though.
When I rip stuff now, I normally just go for variable bit rate and let it sort itself out.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:01, archived)
# 29.4 gbs
16.3 days :)
i like the fact that i could go on holiday for to weeks, come back and still not have reached the end of my music
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:55, archived)
# 512 MB
I WIN!
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:47, archived)
# *awards wooden spoon*
i've got a 512 knocking about somewhere i think
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:54, archived)
# I've only got 2GB of music though, so it doesn't really bother much.
Plus it's an absolutely wee cube that hangs around your neck.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:55, archived)
# SIX JIG-A-BYTES? THAT'S INCREDIBLE!
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# plus, you will get your neck burnt. you won't like it.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:50, archived)
# ^^
i think i like the walkman the best.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:35, archived)
# The middle one looks best,
BUT IT DOESN'T WORK.

/hates Sony mp3 players

Also: Creative is the best.
I went through three Sonys in six months, and I've had my creative for over a year and it works just as well as it did when I first got it.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:35, archived)
# Haha, the software is a piece of shit.
Why can't I just drag and drop like with basic mp3 players :(
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:36, archived)
# Surely it's better than iTunes?
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# HAHAHAHAHAH
I think SonicStage is the only thing that is truly worse than iTunes.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:38, archived)
# The one good thing about iTunes
which I've not found on any other player -- it does random play by albums. i don't normally want to listen to individual songs, I want to listen to albums. For that reason alone I like iTunes. Don't use it because in a moment of insanity I chose to rip my CD collection to OGG, which iTunes refuses to read the track numbers for, and albums played in alphabetical order are as irritating as songs played at random from my whole collection.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:40, archived)
# Well I'm a whole-library-on-shuffle kinda guy,
so I'm ashamed to say WMP does it for me.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:41, archived)
# WMP at VLC are my faves. No shame in that.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:43, archived)
# I like VLC for watching videos,
and I have a soft spot for Winamp, but I rarely use it.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:46, archived)
# XMplay forever!
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:54, archived)
# Well that's your fault for using an awful file type.
.Ogg's are nasty things.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:41, archived)
# I REALLY LIKE OGG
Actually I do, because I'm a nerd. (The real reason is I knew the machine at work here wasn't going to be able to play MP3s and I didn't have an MP3 player at that point so I ripped to OGG. I'm fucked if I'm ripping my entire CD collection again so I'll just have to slowly and painfully convert the lot across.)

I'd like iTunes too, if it liked OGG. But it doesn't. Bad iTunes.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:47, archived)
# Oggs are great unless you actually want to play them because the codecs seem to slow things down considerably.
Game developers use them loads because you don't have to pay for the rights though.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:53, archived)
# Never noticed any slowdown
even on my old AMD 500Mhz machine which played them fine through Winamp. The support on MP3 players is wank though, I think iRiver are still the only ones with support out of the box and apparently that's crap. If I could rip my collection again though I'd do it to MP3.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:57, archived)
# That would be the main reason for my hypothesis that it slows the fuck out of things.
Because otherwise why would mp3 players not support it when it's open source?
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:01, archived)
# I've got no idea at all
I did come across some firmware patches for a load of different players that gives them OGG support, though, so it's far from impossible. Doesn't work for mine, unfortunately.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:07, archived)
# market "penetration"
mp3 was around long long before ogg

and people is used to it, and folk is used to paying and blaa blaa

and if you make a media player these days, it has to play mp3, there's just no way around that everything else is pretty much secondary
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:20, archived)
# I <3 ITUNES!
LEAVE ITUNES ALONE!
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:41, archived)
# ITUNES IS SHIT.
GET OVER IT.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:42, archived)
# its easy to use
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:43, archived)
# So's windows media player, and WMP doesn't say
"OMG THIS MUSIC IS MINE ALL MINE FUCK OFF OTHER COMPUTERS" does it?
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:45, archived)
# Neither does iTunes. Unselect copy protect you dolt.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:46, archived)
# hahahahaha
the word "dolt" is underused in the English language today. Thank you for keeping our heritage alive. :)
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:51, archived)
# I try.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:56, archived)
# I was referring to synchronising, actually.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:02, archived)
# yes, it can do that
:)
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:47, archived)
# The visualiser on itunes is awesome.
Much better than the media player one. I could sit there watching it for hours.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:50, archived)
# the best one (and worth downloading winamp for) is milkdrop
download it now, thank me later
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:56, archived)
# I shall take a look for it.
I discovered a game called Audiosurf the other week. You upload your mp3 files and it creates a racetrack based on the volume levels, so you get a big swirling neon track that builds and drops and pulsates in time with the music. You can buy it for about ten dollars through Steam. It's awesome :D
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:05, archived)
# thats sounds ace
i'll download it when i get home :)
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:21, archived)
# I had the record on some Velvet Revolver song
and an ACDC song for nearly 2 weeks

before someone improved on my score by an order of magnitude...
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:39, archived)
# at least iTunes actually fucking works.
I assume. I've never used iTunes. But seriously, SonicStage is a temperamental fuck that works only when it wants to and not when I want it to :(
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:41, archived)
# You can on some of the new ones
they point out at length how this "feature" works and that you never have to use sonic stage as if people would be devastated at never having to use a piece of software that crashes every third song.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:39, archived)
# Are they still in ATRAC?
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:40, archived)
# I agree
I got given a Sony walkman as a gift a while ago. It's worth about 80 quid but I can't use it as it needs Windows to work. Silly Sony.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:18, archived)
# creative you can
you just have to let windows rape your MP3 player
(, Sun 27 Apr 2008, 1:17, archived)
# Pffft! YES!
Creative ftw.
*cleeks*
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:35, archived)
# ace!
especially the Sony one
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:37, archived)
# :3
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:48, archived)
# Yep Sony one's the best.
It's because he's nonchalant.
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:38, archived)
# he aint got no music
but he aint mindin'
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:48, archived)
# This is fantastic :D
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:42, archived)
# :D
(, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:48, archived)