Honestly, why would anyone want forty thousand songs in their pocket?

why does anyone need access to all that netflix or hulu etc provide?....silly question ,I personally had thousands of CD's and listen to music constantly and love the access to anything I want to sample or listen to...

 

What's an iPod?

 

I generally cannot listen to music either at work (cannot stream, and am not allowed to put outside disks into computers), or commuting (that's by choice, need to listen to traffic reports). I never walk around listening to music, something about being aware of what's going around me. With a son, nowadays I only really can listen to music later in the evening or sometimes on the weekends.

The one thing I have found the 40000 songs in your pocket to be good for, is when traveling on a plane somewhere, either nearby or overseas (takes up very little space). It's especially nice when you are in a place where you don't speak the native language, are by yourself, and want to stay in.

 

Today, I wanted to listen to "Pet Hate - The Bride Wore red" (Heavy Metal Records from 198..something) And it was available on Spotify!!
Sounded like a vinyl rip, loved it anyway, and it was instantly available! To those not familiar with this groundbreaking album, I could not recommend it more.
Useless post above, please disregard. Still can't answer why anybody wants X tracks via phone etc. Just realize anything you do from now now on will be publicly available, unless you choose to live buried beneath a stone.

 

On the other hand, I like digging in record stores. I'd allocate time for that in a heartbeat.

 

Which is why I did it 3 to 5 CDs at a time. Even with the thousands of CDs in this house, it didn't take that long to amass an enormous digital library that needs minimal effort to back up and which I can do whatever I want with wherever I am. It's not for you, we get it. But it is for some of us.

 

I get that too. I don't begrudge anyone who wants to do that. I'm just making the point there are valid reasons for not doing it.

 

I enjoy it as well but it's time management these days.

 

Apple produced it as a device to store music digitally for playback mostly through earphones, but for other uses as I said such as into the sound system of a car, or for that matter other sound systems. It's smaller and lighter than most phones.

 

Or even 40.

 

find yourself an old Ipod Classic and you have those 40,000 on one device

 

I think people who thinks it streaming vs cds are missing the point.

I listen to music on streaming services, often allowing me to listening to bands I wouldn't necessarily care enough to buy their music but would happily listen. My CD collection is a carefully curated collection of music I care enough to buy, sometimes second hand sometimes new, that I really enjoy listening to. It's physical and I can hold the CDs in my hand, read the liner notes; that doesn't mean I'll never listen to a song on spotify. I grew up as CDs were starting to be replaced by Spotify so I've always had to live with both; I've never been able to give up CDs entirely and don't think I ever will. Many people I know have, happy with digital collections of CDs they've now sold and/or spotify with millions of songs at their fingertips; and occasionally that is useful for me. I listen to music on spotify, I collect CDs. That's the difference.

 

Oh I have one of those... and I upgraded it with two 128GB SD cards!

In all fairness, for the last year I've used it less and less, preferring to carry less music on my phone, and for a good few months I was trialling Spotify and Deezer (and definitely enjoyed them for ease of listening to new music legally!)

 

Because if I happen to need them they are there. If not, no harm...no foul!

 

IMO having access to 40,000 songs (even 10,000) is like having access to 40,000 meals; I'm never going to eat every meal, nor do I want to, because I would never have time for my favorites … and looking through all the choices to decide is a colossal waste of time.

 

This is precisely why we still have stinky guys at every record show in America to this day.

 

Shuffle Mode is your friend.

 

Absolutely nothing stopping you from enjoying the music like you did in 1969. There's nothing actually to miss. For others, they'll consume the music the way we want as well now that there are more options. Not seeing the problem.

 

Aside from iPods (mine broke), which portable mp3 players have the largest storage space?

 

Why do we have libraries in every major city and town in the civilised world?

So that people have access to the books they want to read.

Same reason to have a lot of music on a portable.

 

Many players these days work off Micro SD cards, and I'm reasonable sure some will accept 128Gb or 256Gb cards. Some will take two cards.

You can get credit-card sized holders which will take 8 SD cards, so potentially you could carry the player and have a total of 9 cards available, hardly noticing the extra 8 cards were there.

If you still have the iPod, why not fix it?

 

Thanks. I wasn’t able to fix it myself. No idea if someone else could do it.

 

What were the symptoms of failure? Is it an iPod Classic, and do you still have it?

 

I created a thread about it here a while back:
iPod emptied itself. Help!
I still have it but think it’s corrupted in some way.

 

Because it’s lossless quality and if I want to hear something on a whim, it’s there. Plus when I’m driving alone in my car I like shuffle. I rediscover music and it’s fun. Plus my car doesn’t have a CD player.

to each their own though.