Mp3 players: who needs them?

[ICB]

yep, me too. i don't like being cut off from everything around me as i walk or bike about the place.

Quite, I find it easy enough to drift off into the dark recesses of my mind if I want to withdraw from reality for a bit

 

[radiohead]

i have a cd/mp3s player thingy - it plays cds and cds with mp3 files on it.. it's awesome.. withstood a LOT of abuse.. charge lasts a week solid and the batteries charge inside the thing itself.. i use it less now than i did cause i do less wandering now than i did.. but it's been my best friend throughout a lot of shitty times

 

[MBV]

As another poster has said it is nice to shut off from the world during certain times of the day. On the train in the morning I will listen to some eno or stars of the lid to help me snooze and at lunchtime and going home I'll listen to some more music.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i have a CD player that is MP3 compatable so i can walk around with 700mb of mp3s ... which to be honest will last me a day or two so 3 or so cds in a case will have me sorted longer than the battries will last


that being said i would like a video compatable portable player ... i'm just not prepared to pay the kind of prices they are

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I used to listen to my iPod on the train before I passed my driving test; now I just play the radio in the mornings. Although all the decent stations have woeful reception here, so if there was a way to plug the iPod into the car stereo I probably would.

if the car has a cesette plaer you can get a normal headphone plug to fake tape device that you can plug into your ipod then use as a cesette tape

 

[geminisnake]

I love mine. I like to be able to shut out the world

Are we related?? I love my mp3 player and the ability to totally ignore those around me

I don't worry about people sneaking up on me coz there's not many people where I live
It's also handy for in the car if I have 'misplaced' the face of the car stereo.

 

[DeadManWalking]

Other - I have just been given a brand new Sony one to put music on for a friend living abroad, unfortunately I will have to give it back in a few weeks when someone will take it out to her. It's a nice little gadget (that I can't afford and am stuggling to work out how to operate).

I have portable minidisc player that you can download music to which does me. I can't say I use it much anymore as you can't store much on the discs I find I overplay music that I'd prefer to save and really enjoy. I also like to be aware of my surroundings but do have a portable radio that I use a lot but mainly listen to speech radio but am tempted to get an Ipod type thing for podcasts type things

 

[Kid_Eternity]

My view couldn't be more opposite I find having pretty well any tune I want to listen to, anywhere, any time, completely brilliant. I don't know how I managed all those years without one. Plus which I'm a bit of a geek so carrying round large amounts of file storage space is a bonus.

Pretty much sums up my love of my MP3 player!

 

[Chz]

Other.

I couldn't justify buying an MP3 player all on its own, but I could afford a 1GB MMC card for my mobile and play an awful lot of music that way.

 

[kained&able]

I basicly can't walk anywhere wihtout my music(if by self) so i need tuneage lots and lots of tunage.


dave

 

[RaverDrew]

My mp3 cd walkman does me fine. Cost next to nothing, holds about 10 hours of music per disc, battery lasts around 60 hours. sorted.

 

[Iam]

I've got an mp3 car stereo (although the car itself is bruk atm), and my bus journey is dead short at the moment. I'd probably use one loads, but I've just never got around to buying on. I quite fancied the iPod mini, but they don't make it any more, and the nano is a bit too small for my tastes.

 

[Dolly Dimple]

I love mine. Not only can I shut out the toe-rags chewing gum or yapping away on the bus, but it means I'm actually listening to stuff that I always forget to listen to when I'm playing music at home. I'll just put it on to shuffle and have a wee doze, so I'm always rediscovering things that I'd forgot I'd even put on there.

 

[EastEnder]

I've got a diddy little hard disk based mp3 player - a nice Sony jobby, not one of those Morphy Richards iPod pieces of crap.

Only got it for when I go to the gym. My gym doesn't bother with piped music, it's piped radio. And not just any radio - fucking Capital FM!!!!!!

If there's one thing that'll put me off me push ups, it's that's intensely irritating surplus wank stain Tarrant.....

 

[Dubversion]

you. go. to. the. gym?



ROFLSSIF

 

[EastEnder]

Where else can you ogle nice girlies in lycra without being arrested?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I don't have one...I wouldn't mind one, but I'm not likely to die a grisly premature death without one. I don't tend to listen to tunes on the move anyway and don't feel that transferring MP3s to CD is a gruelling ordeal.

 

[Onket]

I've only got a broken cassette walkman on which only the play button will work. When it gets to the end of the side I have to remove the cassette and wind it on with my fingers because it can't play past where the tape changes from clear to brown.

So I'd like one.

Plus I can only listen to old music at the moment because I've not been able to record onto a blank cassette for years and years.

I need a new phone though so I might get one with mp3 capabilities.

I probably won't be able to work whatever I do eventually get anyway.

 

[Blagsta]

Had one, got it nicked and miss it. Not enough to justify the expense at the moment though.

 

[Dubversion]

Had one, got it nicked and miss it. Not enough to justify the expense at the moment though.

shit, didn't know that. bad luck

 

[Blagsta]

I used to listen to my iPod on the train before I passed my driving test; now I just play the radio in the mornings. Although all the decent stations have woeful reception here, so if there was a way to plug the iPod into the car stereo I probably would.

Get one of them CD to radio cassette converters.

 

[gentlegreen]

i find riding my bike is a nightmare with headphones on. when i tried it, i was constantly wary that i might miss something and cause a hazard by swerving or whatever when a car comes up behind me.

It takes a little time to get used to it, you have to use your sight more obviously and be more aware generally, but deaf/hard-of-hearing people ride bikes too that's the way I look at it.

Yep - I've been doing it for nearly 20 years - what I have done is buy relatively open-back headphones - I couldn't cycle wearing the supplied in-ear phones.

Sennheiser PMX60

 

[zenie]

I basicly can't walk anywhere wihtout my music(if by self) so i need tuneage lots and lots of tunage.


dave

That's because you're stoned all the time

I've only got a broken cassette walkman on which only the play button will work. When it gets to the end of the side I have to remove the cassette and wind it on with my fingers because it can't play past where the tape changes from clear to brown.

That's about the saddest thing I've heard this year

Do you listen to it though?

 

[Onket]

That's about the saddest thing I've heard this year

Do you listen to it though?

Yes, it's the only portable thing I've got.

Told you I wanted that CD player!!!!!

 

[zenie]

Yes, it's the only portable thing I've got.

Told you I wanted that CD player!!!!!

Well I might be in the mood for karma if I can get this charger to work for the MD player.

You'd need a CD burner though?

 

[Onket]

You'd need a CD burner though?

My computer does that.

Not that I know how to work it!

 

[EatMoreChips]

I'll probably end up getting one for taking on long runs one day, but I'm not really sure how to go about putting tunes on them. I suppose they come with instructions though.

 

[Skim]

I like having access to lots of music, but I wouldn't buy an iPod again – it's stuffed up a couple of times for no apparent reason and I've had to wipe everything off the disk and start again I used a Sony MiniDisc for years and it never went wrong once.

I like having music on the move. If I don't wear headphones on the bus, then I have to listen to other people's crap music from their tinny bud headphones.

 

[zenie]

I like having access to lots of music, but I wouldn't buy an iPod again – it's stuffed up a couple of times for no apparent reason and I've had to wipe everything off the disk and start again I used a Sony MiniDisc for years and it never went wrong once.

Someone recently reminded me of MD's and the fact you can now get 1gb cards (about 7 quid) for them so I'm trying to sort mine out now but the effing charger wont work.

and you can put a mic in them and record jamms

MD's rule and you can swap disks with your mates - but no-one had them anymore

 

[Onket]

I nearly bought a minidisk player once.