Come on guys, whats the best Ipod and why?

i need to get with it and look at finally getting one!!! Feel old

 

iPhone 3gs, i've not touched my ipod since i got it.

 

i pod touch 32gig or 16 gig gen 3 awsum. features internet, photos, find the album covers 4 u also got genius so it will set a album of certain songs.. say u like john lennon all albums that u have on ur i pod.. it will convert songs that are simalar to a john lennon track and make a album 4 u clever shit and u can play it through ur car stero with a bluetooth lead or the i phone is pretty good but with the advantage of calls

 

why? because youve the Iphone?

 

the i phone 3g is a i pod but with a camara and phone call feature

 

If you dont wanna be a another Geek with an iphone then the Touch is the one for you.

Lol

 

looking at touches now.....

where best place?

 

prices dont really range with Ipods mate.

Dunno how apple do it, its the same with the macbooks and iMacs. No real difference in price anywhere you go.

 

i noticed that mate?

 

If it is purely for music you cant beat an Ipod classic.

120gb, does music, video, and photos. costs about Ł160-180

 

Iphone 3gs.

The free internet and the usefull apps make it worth its weight in gold.......and you have the bonus of full IPOD capability thrown in with a properly sexual touch interface that you wont want to change from once you've used it

 

Ipod Photo 60gb has the best DAC in it so the best potential for sound output to a hifi. Then once you have it send it to redwineaudio.com for modification to sound as good as a CD player, sell your CDs, get rid of your CD player and love the sound.

Charlie

 

Hold off buying anything until Thursday, new iPods are being launched tomorrow afternoon PST, so should be available to buy on Thursday.

 

Depends what you want from an iPod. Do you want one that costs you a subscription every month? Then get an iPhone. But if you want one just for playing music, get a Classic.

I have an iPhone and an iPod. Why? Cos my iPhone only contains a couple of albums (for the rare times I'm on a train or something) and is used for phone calls, texts, internet, email - all the stuff you associate with a phone.

My iPod is a 60gb iPod Video, and is used purely to carry around the majority of my music collection so I have it all in one place wherever I go. The battery on the iPod lasts longer than that of the iPhone - using an iPhone as an iPod constantly, the battery will be dead in less than a day!

So weigh up what you want. Large capacity? Don't get a touch. Long battery life? Don't get a touch. Just for music? Don't get a touch. Want loads of other features such as apps, games, internet, email (wifi only) then get a touch. Not fussed about large capacity? Get a touch.

 

cant see how u can say batt dont last mine will go for 2 days music on all day also 32 gig is massive for any music fan is it about 8000 songs work that out as albums say ten to a album good if u just wanna watch a film on the train or sumwhere so ur 60 gig must be huge at storeing things dont think i,m av,ing a go cas i,m not m8

 

Thrush's advice is spot on.......but i guarantee once you've had an iphone or touch you wouldnt want to use the normal ipods, unless you want a nano for jogging etc

 

Just want it for all my music ect so i can ditch CD's! Going to buy a Bose for the living room with docking station, so i can ditch the old unit too, and for transfering to the car when im out or at work ect.......

Just want the best for what i need if you know what i mean?


Thanks guys tho!

 

Wait till tomorrow, new one due to be launched on Wed

Should be in shops by end of month

 

the Bose is the way forward

 

ive just bought a touch so will tell you when it comes

 

Well I use my iphone, and it's internet and email features a lot, and it needs charging almost daily. If I was to add music playback to that, in between using it as a communications, it would be doing something for virtually every minute of every hour for 10hrs straight. No way would the battery last that long.

As for my iPod. 32gb is nothing. I rip all my music to fairly high quality (at least 320k MP3, but some of it is in lossless WAV format) and at home I have over 500gb of music. 8000 songs on a 32gb iTouch means each of your songs must be about 4mb, or slightly less, each, which isn't a lot for a song. Must be a pretty low bitrate, 128 or lower I'd say...

I downconvert music onto my iPod at 192k as there's no need to go any higher as an iPod and headphones do not convey fidelity higher than this, and even at 192k, I've filled my 60gb iPod with just under 9,000 songs. Ideally I need to change up to a 160gb Classic to get the rest of my music collection onto it.

I don't bother watching movies or TV shows on it - mainly cos I'm driving most of the time, but also, even the iPhone has a tiny screen it's just not worth it. Far better to download a few movie rips to a laptop if I'm going on a plane or train.

 

As for making CD's redundant, thats one of the reason's I got mine. I was a big Minidisc fanatic, as CD's in the car and out mobile are shit : minidisc gave all of the functionality with none of the drawbacks. But I tired of constantly copying CD's to MD's, erasing, copying again etc.

So getting into MP3, I could load all of my music (well, nearly) onto one little device, alf the size of a pack of cigarettes, and take it anywhere, any place and any time. At home I mostly use a Media Centre for music and movie playback, but for those times I just can't be arsed to boot a computer up, plugging the ipod into the dock next to my amp means I still have full control of my music collection without the hassle of choosing and changing CD's.

Ok, so some might like the tangible aspect to CD's, and some have expensive CD players and like to listen to it in "full" glory (bear in mind that even CD's are compressed, just like DVD's and BluRay films are compressed from the original tape real recordings), but for ease of use and day to day convenience, MP3's far outweigh CD's!

 

think ill go for a basic ipod classic then? Just a decent memory

 

o k thrush would u say that there is a massive dif in sound quailty downloading at 192k to wot i,m downloading at then if so how many songs would my 32gig hold at 192k cheers

 

Keep going to get one and get with the times but keep not bothering. It wont replace the CD and vinyl purchasing though. I just cant imagine only have music as a file and not hard copies

 

we're both behind the times mate!!!!

mind you we are giffers!

 

Difference at 192k compared to what? What bit rate are your songs at now? 128? 96? Either way, yes there will be a difference. At 128k there is highly noticeable clipping and compression noise, and music at 96k is virtually unlistenable! I notice a difference between 320k and 192k when playing back at home, cos I have a half decent amp and fairly good speakers. I also notice the difference between 192 from the computer to amp (optical connection) and the same song : 192k from my ipod to amp (cheap analogue cable). However, my amp isn't super dooper high fidelity, so I notice very little difference in 320k rips from PC to amp, than the original CD from my DVD player to amp. One of the few I do notice it on however, is Rage Against The Machine's self titled debut. Play that back @ 320k from PC it sounds fine. Play the CD down a good pair of analogue RCA's from the DVD player and it sounds superb. But then, it is one of the best recorded albums ever!

As for how many your ipod will hold, I couldn't tell you. But my 60 is is filled at about 9k songs @ 192k (some are 128, can't be helped sometimes), so halve the capacity, halve the amount. So 30gb would be 4,500, add a few for the extra 2gb, maybe 5000-5500? Depends entirely on the lenght of the song to be honest. 100 songs at 30 seconds each won't take up anywhere near the room 1000 songs at 10mins each will...

 

Only in body mate, still young in my head

 

Haha... I keep telling myself that!