New shiny

[bellinghman]

Following autopope's suggestion, I have now replaced my creaking-at-the-seams, bulky and battery-dead MP3 player with a smaller, lighter and more capacious model from Apple(!), namely a second hand 80GB 5th generation iPod.

I've now loaded 50+ GB of music onto it (thank you, Media Monkey - no iTunes will be allowed on this machine).

I have to say, it's pretty cute for its generation.

The reason for going for that is that the new generation of models from Cowon and Co. look very nice, but I think that what I really, really want isn't quite here yet. Namely, a flash-based one that understands the SDXC flash format, and that can head for the 128GB mark. So I'm going with the iPod for now. If I get a few thousands hours of listening out of it (which I reckon I did with my previous one), I'll be happy.

(One of these days, I may total how much an hour I've been paying to listen to music on MP3 players. The previous player amortised at about 5p/hour. The earplugs have been more than that - they're newer - but they show no sign of giving up yet.)

Comments

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Where did you get it from? My mum has offered to buy me a bigger MP3 player for xmas, I currently only have a dinky iPod Shuffle, which worked fine as a Walkman for train journeys, and the like, but now I'm using it in the car, I want something a bit beefier.

FF

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. I lost my 32Gb iPod Touch and my 40Gb iRiver is big and chunky and the disk is failing. H'mm... clickety...

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

You can further remove that nasty apple taste by installing Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) on it. This will allow you to play Oggs on it too.