[OT] Apple users

On 24/02/2011 3:55 PM, Steve Pope wrote:



My experience in this neck of the woods is that it is hard to find good
CDS. The good music stores are all gone or else they have diversified
to selling T shirts and DVDs and devote only about 25% of their shelf
space to CDs. The CD selection is extremely limited. The alternative is
to order them online, which involves sending your credit card
information and paying shipping. When it comes to music I have always
been more of an impulse buyer. Online sales does not appeal to me.
 
Goro wrote:



I really thought it would be more fun and easy to use. I got it
done but it was kind of tedious, and next thing I know I have
iTunes bugging me all the time.


Gotcha.


Coming from the Walkman, you can imagine I was really taken
with the small size, not to mention that it was actually a beautiful
object.


Now that I think back, it might have been flashing green and orange.
Googling gave me the idea it wasn't worth fixing, how much would
that cost.


Heh, that's just how I remember it.


It just seemed like here I just want something to play tunes so
I can walk (dang my feet gain 10 pounds each if I don't have music
to walk to) and all of a sudden I'm loading iTunes onto my pc and
being asked a million things I don't understand ... afraid to say Don't
ask me this again? (laugh)

I didn't like that experience of being hooked into something like
that. And when I got the Sansa and found it did everything the
shuffle did and more, only way easier, it was a breath of fresh
air for me. Operating phrase being 'for me' as I'm happy you like
your iPods and I have no quarrel with that.

nancy
 
blake murphy wrote:





I think that's what I just said.


The issue is the iPad's predecessor product was the iPhone (same
OS and same app's), so it is odd they left that functionality out.

Steve
 
On 2011-02-22, dsi1 wrote:


Is it that the "geeks" are not interested or the users are not
interested?

I've been using linux for 10 yrs and have had few problems. It does
what I want it for and does it better than the others. Otherwise, why
would I choose it. I couldn't care less if the majority of computer
sheep don't find linux ready for prime time. Besides, seems damn
silly to make one OS behave just like another. Pretty much defeats
the whole point of providing a choice.

You seem to throw around that geek term like it's a bad thing or only
applies to linux users. Sorry, but geeks are the ones who cobbled up
your precious windows and osx and even your hardware. Linux is merely
another choice.

BTW, most geeks know how to use a text editor to trim absurdly long
articles.

nb
 
Steve Pope wrote:

Yeah, and I guess this format they use is why it takes so long to
load music from your cd/whatever, because it's reformatting it.
Compared to just putting it into my mp3 player directly which
takes no time.


I like CDs, I load a handful into my car once in a while and if
that makes me an old fart, oh well.

nancy
 
On 2011-02-23, Goro wrote: > > Netscape was bought by
AOL.

Netscape Navigator lovers can still find a Netscape clone, namely
Seamonkey.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

.....which is based on the old Netscape source code. I prefer it for
several reasons, but must admit I have found it to be an occasional
impediment to a couple websites I use, so have to fire up Firefox to
get that particular website to render properly. OTOH, this is very
rare, only two websites, out of the hundreds I visit daily, requiring
me to abandon Seamonkey. I'm sure that these particular configuration
aberrations could be overcome if put my mind to it, but too easy to
jes fire up FF for a few mins (yes, I'm incredibly lazy!).

Seamonkey eschews most of the bloat and updates one of you was
mentioning and also provides more granular user control. FF seems to
be adopting your favorite anthem, ease of use, over user control, so
default settings are assumed rather than made a conscious user choice.


nb
 
On 2/24/2011 10:55 AM, Steve Pope wrote:

My guess is that highly compressed music is that only thing that will be
available in a future of downloaded music and no CDs. Gather ye CDs
while ye may.
 
On 2011-02-23, Nad R wrote:


So, any PC can run the same thing and has been able to for almost 10
yrs. I do it on an 8 yr old PC that cost me $40.


Amen.


Likewise, my linux.


Not having either, I have even more time. ;)

nb
 
dsi1 wrote:

Not sure about that; FLAC (uncompressed) seems to be increasing
in availability. Minor artists selling music through Bandcamp
and similar tend to make FLAC available. Sometimes, the MP3's
are free and if you want to buy the music, you get FLAC.


Steve
 
Dave Smith wrote:


We still have good local CD stores. One of the advantages of living
in the big city.

If you get past the negativity of online ordering, I recommend
alibris.com as a good place to find private/minor sellers of CD's.
I have never had an unresolvable issue with them.

Steve
 
Nancy Young wrote:


This morning we transited from being a single-car household
to a zero-car household, when the trusy old Nissan presented
with what proved to be a burned valve -- meaning it's totaled.

The silver lining may be that the next car actually has a functioning
CD player.


S.
 
Hell Toupee wrote:




I should point out that I was talking about bit-rate compression, whereas
this is talking about dynamic range compression.


Steve
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:53:59 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Steve Pope) wrote:

Are you buying used or new? Buying a new car isn't what it used to
be! DD bought one last week. Everything was done online/by phone and
then they went to the dealership to sign the papers and drive it home.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
sf wrote:




Probably recent but used. We'd already been thinking about this,
and we think we are looking for a Versa in the 2009 to 2010 model
year range. There seem to be some available locally that are former
rental cars, so we may go with that.


Steve
 
"Nancy Young" wrote:

I did not say ONLY available. ITunes has more music in one location that
anyone else for downloading. I am sure one can goto multiple sites and find
music that may not even be on iTunes. So far iTunes had every song I looked
up.

--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
Nad R wrote:
-snip-

You're mistaken on that. I've downloaded mp3's [3-4 of them] from
itunes because nobody else had them. They are mp3's. They work on
any mp3 player. They cost more, and involve a giant hunk of software
to get downloaded- but they are still the same as the mp3s I buy on
Amazon and elsewhere.


Playing them while still on itunes might be something I can't do - but
I wipe itunes off my drive as soon as I'm done downloading anything.


I wish some youngster would speak up-- but for me, I've only felt the
urge to dip into Apples trough a handful of times in 4 years. I have
about 50GB of music covering classical to rap & a dozen genres in
between.

Jim
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:23:37 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Steve Pope) wrote:


Or a bunch of them- the 'We are the World' for Haiti relief was an
itunes only release. That was the last time I
installed/downloaded/uninstalled itunes. [it is on Amazon now for
..99]

Jim
 
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