Is IPOD an important thing in your life?

[Trance]

Lately in a few car reviews that read and watched, ipod port availibilty in the vehicles made the big part of the reviews. The morons who have done the reviews gave a big importance to that little white stupid device. I for one don't care if a car does not have ipod compatibilty or not and can't stand the morons who demands it as if its a necessity.
Have a read this 2008 VW R32 review from a moron.

[mandc]

The morons who have done the reviews gave a big importance to that little white stupid device.

From what I read, the reviewer was bitching about the fact that the ipod integration removed the cd .

"The first--and most bizarre--thing we noticed was that the car had no CD player. The option sheet pointed out that, with the iPod option, the six-CD changer wouldn't be present. Apparently there is also no single CD slot when the navigation system is present. With iPod integration,CDs are unnecessary "

Having it as an extra is ok but removing stuff to put it in is nuts. I would rather have the cd that handles mp3's and have a usb plug to add another 4G or so of mp3's

[Art]

There's nothing stopping anyone from installing a new head unit.
I hate Ipods, but if it were important, I wouldn't use it as any criteria for a motor vehicle purchase.

[Devil^Boy]

Don't own one, never will own one. Don't even own an mp3 player. I think they are one of the most overrated peices of technology available.

Rather spend my money on something useful that doesn't make me ignorant to whats happening in the world around me

[vampyre]

I hate Iplop's as well.I just got this t-shirt to show my disdain...
Sorry if I shouldn't have posted the link but it is kinda appropriate.


Vamp

[RHCP]

I was given an ipod for xmas. Up until then i had only owned a 256mb mp3 player / radio.

I don't understand how anyone can fault it technically - the size, playback quality and the way you select items and transverse the menus is excellent. I was quite pessimistic about itunes, but after 10 minutes i found it to be quite pleasant.

Yes they are excessively expensive.
I think for their price they should have a built in AM/FM radio!!!!
I do hate the whole 'ipod' commercialised culture...usually i try to be a little different...now im just another happy sheep. I dislike the 'zombie' people who are always listening to their ipods, i only use mine while walking.


Cheers, RHCP.

[therufus]

I'll never own an iPod or any other garbage of that ilk. If I want an mp3 player in my car (which I have, a Pioneer mp3 head unit, hooked into amp, subs, splits, 6x9's, etc), I'll buy an mp3 player. If I was going to buy another one, there is a JVC one that kicks major ass. It plays dual layer DVD's full of mp3's and also has a front USB port.

But my next project in my next car will be one of those mini-ITX boards from VIA behind the dash with a touchscreen to control it mounted into the dash (replacing the OEM screen).

But thats just me.

[astro_boy]

I cant stand the poor quality that the ipoos put out and there shitty round headphones.

Though, i love my 20gb creative zen, sounds awsome on my massive creative headphones, cant go wrong.
Even the standard earbuds that come with it you could tell they were a quality product.

Also i only use mp3 cds in car.

[astro_boy]

Edit; dbl post..

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[Art]

I actually didn't mind the output of the iPod Nano I had for a while.
It's more the other reason like on the T-Shirt
I knew it was a getter-ridder-offer when it tired to excersise control
over stuff, and didn't look in common storage space for mp3s.

[me_ashman]

Does anyone use cdr's these days? I dont own an ipod but I use my phone(w580i) in my car. So I guess I'm bit like the other wankers using ipods haha. I just hard wired a fm modulator($20) in and made it easy.

Mine only has 2 gb and it's hold enough albums to listen to....too many choices makes life difficult.

[Padre]

anythingbutipod.com is a good site to hed to if ipods arent your thing. Aside from DRM and licensing issues, not to mention Itunes flooding ur system with crap, there are many alternatives available out there which not only improve on the technology, but also offer many more features.

Ipods are not the be all and end all... Sandisk make a great range which also allows for miniSd card, mp4 playback which CAN be tweaked to suit your storgage capacity, not ot mention a decent EQ.

the funny thng is, is that before ipod, we had portable cd players. I really dont understnad this masive jump on the bandwagon aside from convenience where one doesnt have to carry a tone of discs with them...

As for connectability to car or home system, heres the thing.. with an MP3 player, you dont need to lug around a myriad of CD's this is a good thing, however, consider this..
A decent car sound system would set you back abotu a grand to 2 grand. With a set of subs, 6x9's (do they make 7x10's anymore? Damn shoulda kept mine then..) this connectability defeats the purpose of this speaker array.
How?
Well have a look at MP3 compression and teh limited capacity on these fixed storage mp3 players. The highest you can go is 320kbps. What does this mean? Well any audiophile will know where im going, but put it this way, your low end rumble is cut.. usually around the 120hz mark maybe even lower... then you have you high end peaks also being shaved.. literally.. so your high end tsk tsk tsk hihats endup being a shhh shhh shhh mush of sound.
Your "boom" ends up being a low end thud

Instead of moving into quality, were moving to quantity and sadly these compromises do nothing to enhance the listening experience. I think its funny when i see these huge amps with kick ass outputs, set up with $10k speaker systems, then having that sound fed from an ipod. I laugh everytime i go to a store when i see this becuase sadly its the knobjockeys who think they know quality who end up paying for shit which wipes the purpose of what theyre wanting to achieve. Its a marketing tactic used to sucker in the uneducated, gullible and egotistical morons who think they know everythign there is to know about anything.

That and teh fact i hate anything to do with Apple

[big mick000]

i have an old JVC quadraphonic system i got off my aunty. shits all over my sharp system, and vinyl has a certain raw quality about it i love, but it is kinda hard to have that on the bus. never had an iPod. never will. Sony mp3 player is all i need, as it seems to have enough power for my behringer headphones. all my music is at a minimum of 256 kbps. personally, i use AIFF or m4a on the PC, and on my phone, but JVC turntable and amp with HMV speakers, is just a tops combination.

now, about what padre said, with the high and low peaks, like the hihat, and low end rumble, i find that with a song playing @ 256 kbps upwards, in itunes, on a mac G5, with harman/kardon speakers, it sounds pretty sweet. same as 320 kbps bitrate on a sony walkman mp3 player, with behringer headphones, not too bad. i have some trouble with windows media player on my XP computer, i have tried a sharp amplifier, and a NAD amplifier, and it's just no go, si in goes an alternative to the onboard sound. then i realise i'm using the old Sharp speakers all the time, so in go 2 HMV surround speakers, and 2 yamaha front speakers, and she's all sweet on both amps.

--->IMO the speakers/headphones have alot to do with the sound, than most people think.

for example, someone i know had a set of five speakers from the warehouse for $50, and a sony 5.1 amp, and wondered why the sound was crap.

[Art]

the funny thng is, is that before ipod, we had portable cd players. I really dont understnad this masive jump on the bandwagon aside from convenience where one doesnt have to carry a tone of discs with them...

Antiskip and long battery life with solid state players are pretty good bonuses
over disc players. Also smaller is better for the gym.

[Padre]

Art what i mean is, would someone with an ipod never have considered a portable cd player in the past??

U know whats even funnier.. back in 2000 or so, Panasonic released an SD card player which was smaller than a keychain... it cost over 900bux. Noone bought it coz they didnt understand how it worked. mp3s were virtually non existant and encoders were something you paid for...

Its amazing how a marketing machine can coz quite a global stir though... in this case, if it wasnt for ipod, apple would be defunct and out of business. i kid u not. the OS had stagnated, Intel Imacs were a welcome fad, but a fad nonetheless ,albeit a late one... but aside from that, apple didnt have much going for it, cosnidering the main basis for apple is Graphic Design and music production and video editing. There is no real reason for anyone to need ot use a mac over a PC and the market at the time knew this. The only thing before ipd which kept apple alive was its contracts with the education depts throughout the world, and the die hard anti Windows producers.

In any case, theyre here to stay

[jmc96]

Yeah I wasn't gunna be caught up in all the expensive Apple hype, till I had the chance to buy a broken 40g colour one for $20. All it took when it arrived was a technical tap on the kitchen benchtop to free-up the HD heads and hasn't stopped since.
I'm finding I'm using it more and more in the car with free podcasts that I can DL and sync the night before. I can scroll between them, audio books, music, and anything else I care to copy over. My stereo has an ipod adaptor that controls and charges the ipod, and yeah, we're getting on just fine.