iPod Jukebox @ St. Ex roll-call

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by The Cricklewood Massive:
  Hey. I'm one of the people who runs the night.
 

Welcome to the forum, stick around we are a lively bunch of loons...
 
 Do you know if Saint-ex has a wi-fi hotspot?  Hookup a laptop at the club and with my reactived my Live365 broadcasting account we could stream the event on the internet.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  kosmette wears the ipod in the relationship... i have a cd/mp3 player which i'm thinking about upgrading. but probably not to another iPod.  the Rio Karma has an interesting feature set plays FLAC and OGG files, but it's failure rate seems a bit high for what it costs.

Just my personal experience:  I bought a Karma about a year ago and it was a total lemon ... died on me after a week or so ... but it has a cool design, RCA outs on the body, and really good compatibility for lossless formats like the ones you mentioned ...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
   

Originally posted by The Cricklewood Massive:
  Hey. I'm one of the people who runs the night.
 

Welcome to the forum, stick around we are a lively bunch of loons...
 
 Do you know if Saint-ex has a wi-fi hotspot?  Hookup a laptop at the club and with my reactived my Live365 broadcasting account we could stream the event on the internet. [/b]

interesting idea......

[bellenseb]

Rios do have amazing feature sets. It's a shame they have such a bad reputation for quality. Apparently they are using new Seagate drives in the 5gb Carbon that are much better suited to portables. It may be worth a shot if you're in the market for a mini player.
 
 It looks and feels great, and has a killer feature set. It's got what all mp3 players should have: it shows up as a drive, you can drag and drop in Windows Explorer, and best of all the player will build the id3 database itself, so no software is needed at all.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  Rios do have amazing feature sets. It's a shame they have such a bad reputation for quality. Apparently they are using new Seagate drives in the 5gb Carbon that are much better suited to portables. It may be worth a shot if you're in the market for a mini player.
 
 It looks and feels great, and has a killer feature set. It's got what all mp3 players should have: it shows up as a drive, you can drag and drop in Windows Explorer, and best of all the player will build the id3 database itself, so no software is needed at all.

my house-mate has a carbon and he loves it ... but i really look at mini players as form over function ... i mean, does the smaller size really make up for an incredibly high memory/price ratio (as compared to 20 or 40+ GB machines)?

[kosmo vinyl]

Yeah it's a shame that the bleeding edge feature set can't be backed with reliable technology.  Commnets about Tthe units dying so quickly was one of the reasons I shyed away from at least the Karma this time.  It would appear that the Napster-To-Go support isn't in the offing either. Rio has a reputation for abandoning support on older products.  But also have really fanatical customer base.  Including reverse engineering sw which allows the Karma to connect to OS X or Linux box, via the ethernet port.

[Fico]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  Yeah it's a shame that the bleeding edge feature set can't be backed with reliable technology.  Commnets about Tthe units dying so quickly was one of the reasons I shyed away from at least the Karma this time.  It would appear that the Napster-To-Go support isn't in the offing either. Rio has a reputation for abandoning support on older products.  But also have really fanatical customer base.  Including reverse engineering sw which allows the Karma to connect to OS X or Linux box, via the ethernet port.

Kosmo, I know you told me once but I forgot...can you either post or pm me your blog's address?

[bellenseb]

Some people really don't have more than 5gb of music they want to carry around, and the Carbon is a stylistic wonder, IMO - much more attractive than the iPods, tiny, light, smooth sleek finish and shape.
 
 Me, I'm waiting for decent 80gb players (or someone to teach me how to hack my RCA) so I don't have an ever-growing stack of CDs that won't fit on my 40gb.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  Some people really don't have more than 5gb of music they want to carry around, and the Carbon is a stylistic wonder, IMO - much more attractive than the iPods, tiny, light, smooth sleek finish and shape.
 
 Me, I'm waiting for decent 80gb players (or someone to teach me how to hack my RCA) so I don't have an ever-growing stack of CDs that won't fit on my 40gb.

very true ... another way to go about it is just keep your digital library on a hard drive, you can have 100s of GBs if you have the music ... have all your songs rated, then only put top-rated songs on your MP3 player ... and if you have all the music categorized by genre, etc, you can have some really dynamic playlists with your favorite songs out of a big collection ... i don't think i'd ever want my whole music library on my MP3 player, there'd be way too much indecision when it came to what i was going to listen to....

[bellenseb]

I do create playlists of my favorites, but I'd like everything on there for a few reasons...
 
 1) Sometimes I like to listen to everything on shuffle, and the bigger the shuffle pool the better. If I just have my favorites on there, I'll never discover new favorites via shuffle.
 
 2) I want to have a backup of all the music on my hard drive. Hard drives fail all the time and I don't want to spend hours and hours reripping.
 
 3) Sometimes you just want to hear that one song or album, and who knows what it'll be.

[jkeisenh]

yeah.  i actually had my mp3 player (nomad jukebox zen xtra 30gb) somehow refuse to recharge one day, and i had to scramble to back it up before the battery went dead, which almost worked.  luckily the friendly creative nomad folks sent me a new one for free, but i still every now and then have a hankering to listen to some obscure song only to realize it was on my old player and didn't make it to the new one.
 
 i, on the other hand, really hate shuffle.  i mean, if you pull up a genre and shuffle it, that's fine.  but something about weird war -> miles davis -> le tigre -> heavy d -> erasure -> brahms just doesn't cut it, and ends up pissing me off.

[kosmo vinyl]

http://www.micropop.net

[bellenseb]

That's basically the  playlist of the new MPR radio station...minus the Brahms. I love it, though.

[jkeisenh]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  That's basically the  playlist of the new MPR radio station...minus the Brahms. I love it, though.

woah.  ok, so they are many great songs on that playlist, but they don't belong together at all.  
 
 perhaps i'm the only person left that thinks that sometimes i'm in the mood for slower, emoer and sometimes i like oldschool punkrock, but i never mix 'em.  never.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  I do create playlists of my favorites, but I'd like everything on there for a few reasons...
 
 1) Sometimes I like to listen to everything on shuffle, and the bigger the shuffle pool the better. If I just have my favorites on there, I'll never discover new favorites via shuffle.
 
 2) I want to have a backup of all the music on my hard drive. Hard drives fail all the time and I don't want to spend hours and hours reripping.
 
 3) Sometimes you just want to hear that one song or album, and who knows what it'll be.

i agree with all of the above, but when I went through the process of rating every song I have, I found that for many albums I would only want to listen to maybe half of the songs again (sometimes less), so I rated them 4 stars, and the mediocre ones 3 stars, and the rare gem 5 stars (2 stars go to rap "skits" and musical segues, 1 stars go to repeat songs I have from compilations and albums) ...
 
 that way you can just put your 4 and 5 star songs on your mp3 player (which ends up being a lot of tunes) and do a huge shuffle of tons and tons of songs, and you know you actually want to hear everything that comes up ... if you rate something lower than the 4, you just realize that you don't want to hear it again, unless you're listening to the whole album ...