talk to me about iPods

[rm]

I had a generation 3 silver chiclet before the theft.

I loved it. It was light, but I could still feel if I had it or not, and it didn't have a touch screen (I hate fucking touch screens).

The chiclet no longer exists, having been replaced by some little tiny touchscreen thing that I find confusing. The shuffle is a no go. I hate the iTouch (and dude, if I'm going to go there, I'd get an iPhone which doesn't work on my carrier). So do I need to go with the Classic? Is there any benefit to ordering an old chiclet and a slightly reduced cost.

I feel like I get so much more bang for the buck with the new models, eventhough they are all bigger and heavier than I want or have the scary touch screen factor.

Weigh in?

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Why are touch screens yuck?

I have a new generation square Nano and really like it.

N.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I have an iPod Touch. It's my third iPod (I had a mini and then a pre-touchscreen Nano) and I love it, but if you don't like touch screens you would probably hate it. (Though I will say that I love reliable touch screens, which the iPod is--it's phone touch screens that I despise, although my horror is based on early experience with phone touch screens that were buggy and awful, and they are probably much better now.)

You do get a lot more bang for your buck with a new model. There is also the thing that the old ones tend to fall off support wise, so if something happens to it you still need to buy a new one. I think you'd be surprised by how negligible the weight tends to be; I'm very used to my Touch.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I have trouble understanding the logic of the menu flows and they often don't seem to respond to my hands (or I'm doing the wrong thing because I don't understand them).

[random-girl.livejournal.com]

I am a huge fan of the Sandisk Sansa MP3 players--they get relatively good reviews as MP3 players, even thought they're considerably less expensive than most touch screen models.

I LOVE being able to feel the buttons for play, pause, etc. without having to look at it.

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Clip-Player-Black/dp/B002MAPS6W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1309457316&sr=8-2

I have a hand-me-down shuffle from the husband (with the buttons) I keep in the car and then this one I keep in my bathroom for listening to the radio or comedy or music in the mornings/while showering (when I don't always have my glasses on).

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Check out the iPod Shuffle. It might be what you're looking for:
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

I have two Sansas. I have the Clip and the Fuze. I like them both. Neither are touch screen.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

I can't help with the first thing, but with the second, I know that if even a little tiny bit of a finger that is not the navigating finger is touching the screen, you can't get anywhere.

And I know that you can rearrange the icons on the screen to fit your own logic. I do it all the time.

Good luck!

N.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I have an embarrasingly large number of iPods. I am also speaking as me, and not as a company spokesperson.

I have a classic, several generations of nanos, two shuffles, an iPhone and an iPad. Eliminating the last two, what I use most is my fifth-generation Nano, which I think would fit your specs. It's not touch-screen, it's small, it holds a lot.

If you want ALL your music with you, probably a Classic is a better fit. I personally find that I rarely use mine because lugging that, a phone, and an iPad around seems like actual work.

They're still readily available on eBay though they have been discontinued.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i may still have an ipod shuffle that i am no longer using anywhere. not sure which generation. if i still have it somewhere, it could probably use a new home.

fair warning-- i'm off to convergence tonight, so i will not be home to look for it until at least monday. so if your ipod needs are immediate, this is not a good option.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

One idea, and your are fine to dismiss:

But there's a large resale market for ipods...if you really loved that model, why not see if anyone is selling it on ebay or similar? I'm sure there are a number of resellers that are at least somewhat trustworthy.

I'm a pack rat. I love my 120 GB Classic. When it dies, I will likely upgrade to a 160.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

The thing to bear in mind with the Classic is this: that monster actually has a spinning hard drive in it, NOT flash memory. Much higher risk of turning it into a worthless brick if you drop it.

(Whereas with flash memory--well, my ex washed his nano accidentally, but after allowing it to dry 100% it started right up and he didn't even have any data corruption. That's my iPod now, he gave it to me when he got a Touch.)

Also, why the touchscreen hate? I get not liking a glitchy touchscreen but I have an iPhone and it's been 100% reliable, so was the ex's iTouch on the rare occasion he let me play with it.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Someone who has more iPods than I do - I'm impressed...

I've also got a really old classic (32G - wow!), a pre-camera touch, and a new Nano. I like the touch myself, but if you don't need the wifi internet part of it, it really is overkill as a music player.

My newest Nano I bought on a whim, with Dave and Busters tickets, as soon as I discovered I can get a wrist case that lets me wear it like a watch. It's a little larger than a typical wristwatch, but there is no watch quite so geeky as that. The icons can be changed around with relative ease as well, so everything you need can be on the front screen.

That said, I have to agree with the recommendation for the 5th generation Nano - the one that comes with the video camera. Decent size, decent form factor, and, as mentioned, a video option, because you never know when you might want it.

I occasionally find myself carrying both my classic and my touch when I'm travelling, because my car adapter doesn't reliably play from the touch (it took a while for stereo manufacturers to catch up to Apple), but I don't find it especially inconvenient. The form factors on both of them are actually quite reasonable.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I carry an Android phone and an iPod touch. I curse the touch screens on both of them, learned new words and endured the learning curve.

I still carry both of them. And I'm doing fine.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

I like Shuffles for audiobooks, though now I'm mostly reading e-books, I still have a lot of them. Set them to play in order and they work well for audiobooks.

The classic isn't big, but more than once I've made the mistake of thinking I had my phone with me when it was really my iPod. It's smaller than the phone, granted. It's just that I'm carrying around a lot of stuff.

My personal favorite of the Nanos are the earlier squarer ones as they fit nicely in credit card slots in wallets. I have three of those.

Eventually, when I find them all, I should get a gallery of my iPods because I have many of the models from the third gen original on. My first gen original I gave to my mother, then to my husband, and unfortunately it was stolen from him at work one day.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Until I got on thyroid meds, the touchscreens were a little iffy for me because my fingers were too unreactive. Now they're fine.

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry the Shuffle is a no go for you! I love mine! So wee and full of wonderful music. I hope you find something that works for you. Music is so personal, and so very necessary.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Wait, talk to me about this. What makes touchscreens work?

Does it have to do with body temp? If so, there's my problem -- celiacs have terrible circulation as a rule and the things just don't like me.

[laura47.livejournal.com]

all i can say is that i got a new "classic" two years ago and have always been happy with it. except i hate that audibooks are listed under music, when other things like podcasts aren't.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It seems to have the heft of the old Nanos but the push-buttony goodness of the Shuffle. The only thing it doesn't have is a screen.

(And 'tis true that the 6th generation Nano isn't for everyone. My skinnyfingers can just about handle its touchscreen GUI but it's still a faff.)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I think most modern touchscreens no longer use body temp recognition but either pressure or conductance of skin (IDK if that last is also a problem for celiacs?).

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

In my case, I think it was body temp -- getting my thyroid in range raised my body temp by 3/10 of a degree.

But yeah, us celiacs do have lousy circulation.

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

My first mp3 was a Sansa Sandisk Himself bought me half-off when Circuit City went belly-up. I got the iPod classic when I filled up the Sansa (I still have it and keep it as a backup).

I will say that it took me a bit of a while to get used to the iPod "feel" after having gotten so used to the Sansa.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but people with low body temp also may have capacitance issues. I certainly seemed to.

[fleur.livejournal.com]

Also, the batteries do have a finite lifespan, and if you're not sure where you are in that time line, you could end up with something that needs to be charged multiple times a day.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

My first MP3 player was a 32 *meg* player from Diamond. Those were the days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300