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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Progmetty on February 10, 2012, 11:35:09 PM
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Did you have to go to school then college with that fragile peace of machinery? Someone was giving me the Steven Wilson treatment in regards to the iPod and being 28 having went through the transitions from the walkman with the cassette tapes to the Discman with the CDs then to the early dumb ass portable mp3 players then the iPod. And I have to say life with the iPod is so much easier.
If you had told me at any of these earlier times that I'm going to be able to go around with one device, contains all the music I like and would feel like listening to without carrying any thing other than the device itself, that I won't be carrying around a bag of CDs or extra batteries and worrying about the reading lens condition, I would have invented a time machine.
Long story short; iPods are very convenient and practical compared to what we had before. As a mean of having portable music.
The mp3 compression disadvantage is minor if you maintain the 320kb/s rips imo.
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My first car lacked a CD player, but it had a cassette deck so I bought one of those super-cool discmans with the tape converter that let you play CD's through the car's speakers. I thought it was the bee's knees at the time. Plus, it played mp3's too, so I'd make mix CD's for the road. It didn't play them well, though, it'd always flake out and start skipping but it was either my skip-man or the radio, so I usually ended up alternating between them.
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I still use my Discman everyday, since I don't own an mp3 player/ipod anymore.
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I used to walk around high school with my discman and I even got a postable cd player that played mp3 cds and I cherished that thing since I could put so many songs on one cd.
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I definitely thought it was the best thing at the time cause it made rewinding and forwarding less of the task it was with the Walkman.
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I used to use a portable CD player everywhere I went when I got my first one in second grade from my dad. Bus rides to school, car rides, waiting room at the doctors office, etc. By the time I hit 5th grade or so I had a small CD collection (2 Styx CDs, one or two Metallica, some Iron Maiden and Blink 182's "Enema of the State") which I would stategically change out each day depending on my mood. It was an inconvenience sure, but at the time my music collection was so tiny compared to now that it didn't matter.
Nowadays, oh god I don't know what I'd do.
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Yeah, walking to and from HS was better with a discman, and it was almost always SOAD playing haha.
Nowadays, my android functions as my portable music player, though I still have a 4 year old Zune still in great shape. Spotify Premium + Android = Perfect
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Um, yeah, I'm gonna stay the fuck out of this one. :tick:
Seriously though, I didn't buy a discman till I had a good portion of my music on CD's. I could carry six or so cassettes in my bag and have good variety for the day, whereas it took me a while to get up a good enough CD collection to warrant a discman. Loved it once I had one though.
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Yeah I carried one with me every where (like I do with my ipod now) and I would usually only have one CD with me a day... I couldn't make it now without being able to assemble a playlist with many artists from many albums.
And YAY NO SKIPPING
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At the time, the discman was the coolest thing ever when I got it for Christmas in 98. I really did love it, but I could only really bring maybe 2 or 3 cd's with me where ever I went. The skipping was definitely pretty lame. Then my grandfather got me this little discman fannypack thing, which I would use when I cut the grass, or did work around the house.
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It was cool for the time, but the day I got my ipod was one of the defining moments of my life. I love music, but I never had any of my cd's with me during the discman days and if I did, it was just 2 or 3. Now I have over 600 albums in my pocket and my love of music has exploded to levels I could have never dreamed.
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
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:lol
I didn't know there was a portable 8-track, thought it was just car or home.
At the time, the discman was the coolest thing ever when I got it for Christmas in 98. I really did love it, but I could only really bring maybe 2 or 3 cd's with me where ever I went. The skipping was definitely pretty lame. Then my grandfather got me this little discman fannypack thing, which I would use when I cut the grass, or did work around the house.
(https://www.usavedirect.com/images/large_images/DMB5.JPG)
It was cool for the time, but the day I got my ipod was one of the defining moments of my life. I love music, but I never had any of my cd's with me during the discman days and if I did, it was just 2 or 3. Now I have over 600 albums in my pocket and my love of music has exploded to levels I could have never dreamed.
Everything you said it almost identical to my story except fannypack. I've always been religiously dedicated to having everything in my pockets cause I hated carrying stuff that can detach from my body :D in other words; if it's not stuck to me; I'll forget it somewhere. It's a me problem.
Back pack was my only except of course and that's where the small CDs bag was. I used to have it full, at least 15 CDs. Then listen to 3 or 4 a day while thinking about the easiest way to commit suicide if the CDs bag was to be stolen or lost. That's Egypt, traveling friends and relatives got me these CDs from abroad so money was not the only problem in replacing them. They were my most valuable asset :lol
I never carried spare batteries cause someone ends up begging for them and taking them away for their own discman/walkman, usually 30 minutes before my own batteries run out and I have to take them out and bite on them leaving teeth marks which functioned as battery 2 minutes boost + anger venting.
btw one of the icons of the Egyptian revolution now used to be a co-metalhead friend in high school and college and the biggest threat to everybody's spare batteries.
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Um, yeah, I'm gonna stay the fuck out of this one. :tick:
:lol
I had a walkman, It was always kind of funny when the batteries would start to die and the cassette would just slow down and stop :biggrin:
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And YAY NO SKIPPING
Yes!
I had a walkman, It was always kind of funny when the batteries would start to die and the cassette would just slow down and stop :biggrin:
There were a few minutes of uncertainty when it slows down just a little bit and you wonder if you're hearing it right then tell yourself this is how the song sounds even though you know the song very well.
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:lol
I didn't know there was a portable 8-track, thought it was just car or home.
Ask an you shall receive!! :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvVAwWv0QM
Oh yeah I rocked this walking down the street with my high tube socks!! :lol
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player
Yes! Mine had a long over the shoulder strap. Looked like a damn pocketbook! :lol
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I had a discman and it was the shit back then. I enjoyed it much more when I got my first cd burner (2x burning speed FUCK YEA!) and was able to create mixes.
When mp3's cd's hit, I was just blown away.
Now I have a 160gig iPod and I really couldn't be happier, I used to take long car trips so it was the best having my entire music collection at the touch of finger.
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:lol
I didn't know there was a portable 8-track, thought it was just car or home.
Ask an you shall receive!! :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvVAwWv0QM
Oh yeah I rocked this walking down the street with my high tube socks!! :lol
Good God. What's the mine detonator looking handle on top?
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I used to skateboard around with a discman in my jacket pocket :lol
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
I don't get the opportunity to say this often, but fuck man, you're old.
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:rollin
:lol
I didn't know there was a portable 8-track, thought it was just car or home.
Ask an you shall receive!! :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvVAwWv0QM
Oh yeah I rocked this walking down the street with my high tube socks!! :lol
:metal
And yeah, I had a Discman (still have it somewhere) and a Walkman. I was very resistant to iPods for years but yeah, it made a huge difference (in mostly good ways but some not so much).
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player
Yes! Mine had a long over the shoulder strap. Looked like a damn pocketbook! :lol
:lol OMG, I forgot about that! I always went with the next to your ear keep it at your shoulder, cool walk. :lol
And :lol at all of you. You know I rocked it back then and metty, it was the handle to carry it but damn if it didn't have A.C.M.E. on it. :lol
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
I don't get the opportunity to say this often, but fuck man, you're old.
I'm waiting to hear if you had it too, old man! :lol
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
I don't get the opportunity to say this often, but fuck man, you're old.
I'm waiting to hear if you had it too, old man! :lol
My brothers had 8-tracks in their cars, but no portables. My oldest brother was a dj at his high school radio station(he's 9 years older than me), so most of my music was on 45s "borrowed" from the high school.
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I still have many of my 45's tucked away at my parents house. I do have to say the MP# player is the greatest invention for music lovers like me.
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I also had one of those CD/MP3 CD discmans. Used to use it in junior high to listen to Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Disturbed... wow. :lol
Had the walkman too, ofcourse. I still don't have an ipod. :P
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I remember the discman era fondly. When they came out with portable CD players that could read MP3 CDs? Man!
I also remember when MiniDisc players briefly became a big deal. You could have, like, 75 songs in your pocket man! Well, not really in your pocket, but still.
Early era MP3 players are kind of hilarious in retrospect. I remember my first one. 256 MB, with no real sort function, and a tiny monochrome screen.
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Then came the Sandisc Sansa, with a whopping TWO GIGS! Not just one gig! Two!
I have a 120GB Zune now, and for portable music, I don't know how I got by with those earlier players.
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:lol I had a minidisc too. Damn Sony and their proprietary media formats.
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I used to make alot of mixed cd's. Didn't like using MP3, as it left a 1 sec silence. That's all I used to carry in my school bag. With my CD player in my hoodie, love these things, making a hole inside so security won't catch you. Haha, I've gotten caught so many times, even though they'd take it I'd come back the next day with another one, so they just gave up
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Never owned a Discman, or a Walkman, and still don't own an iPod. Never really been much for listening to music away from the house in anything other than my car.
You wanna trade old fart memories? My parents had friends across the street that listened to their music on reel to reel tape.
YOU HEARD ME. :lol
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Never owned a Discman, or a Walkman, and still don't own an iPod. Never really been much for listening to music away from the house in anything other than my car.
You wanna trade old fart memories? My parents had friends across the street that listened to their music on reel to reel tape.
YOU HEARD ME. :lol
We have a reel to reel player in my basement I've wanted to bring upstairs for awhile now, seems like it would be pretty cool except I dont have any albums to use with it.
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Definitely had a discman. I never used it very much as I preferred my Walkman. I HATED how often portable cd players skipped. I would get so angry when the things would skip I'd quickly give up listening. I'd rather not hear it if I had to listen that way.
By the time the devices got skip or anti-shock protection I had really just given up on portable cd players. Cassettes on the go and CDs at home.
Was very glad to see the mp3 age for the portability alone.
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I used to use my portable CD player all the time. Didn't get an mp3 player until about a year ago (though I hadn't really used the CD player in a few years either).
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I mowed my lawn with the discman. Was very happy to downsize to an MP3 player that indeed, never skipped and was lightweight.
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I used to have a portable CD player and jeez were those things awkward to carry around.
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Yup...I remember those days. I had a discman from the ages of 15 til my first year of grad school when I got my first iPod. I used my discman namely for my paper route in HS, and walking to campus my senior year of college. I don't remember it skipping too much, so the biggest drawback for me was portability, you could take one, maybe two CDs in a Discman case, but with my 160 GB iPod classic, I have my entire music library (800+ CDs), 9 movies, and still have 60 GB of space left.
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Hasn't everyone on the forum lived through the Discman era?
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I used to have a portable CD player and jeez were those things awkward to carry around.
I used to have the Discman in the front pocket of my jeans so I suffered from the awkwardness the most, the headphone would go under the shirt I'm wearing to my head. This is the same thing I do with my iPod now except it fits easy in the back pocket.
Hasn't everyone on the forum lived through the Discman era?
Well I'd say that era was -at least for me- from 1997 to sometime in 2003. So most teenagers here wouldn't have really experienced it. Plus from the replies it seems like a lot of people dealt with the Discman that plays mp3 discs more than the original one which only played music CDs and is the one that I had to live with for most of my Discman period.
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I had a Discman for years from when I was a kid up until mid 2005, when I got an mp3 player. Best decision as Discmen wede outdated by that time.
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Yeah, I liked my discman. I still have a functioning one, actually.
As an aside, I don't have an ipod or any other mp3 player. I have about a dozen reasons why I don't like them, but I won't bore you with that in this thread.
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Yeah, I liked my discman. I still have a functioning one, actually.
As an aside, I don't have an ipod or any other mp3 player. I have about a dozen reasons why I don't like them, but I won't bore you with that in this thread.
Pretty interested in a list of reasons why, at least
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I had several Discmans (Discmen?) while I was at high school. More early 2000s than late 90s.
In my last few years at high school, I did Painting one year, Photography and Design the next, and Painting and Design the one after that. We were free to listen to music as we worked. Not only that, but my parents were farmers while I was at school, which meant a daily bus ride of an hour to and from school. So my Discman and CD wallet were with me almost every day.
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
I don't get the opportunity to say this often, but fuck man, you're old.
Fucking fell out of my chair on that one.
Never had a portable 8-track, but definitely remember the Sony Walkman. That was the shit.
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I actually used a portable CD player up until 2 years ago....took me a long time to warm up to my iPod, but now I don't know why it took me so long to switch over.
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
I don't get the opportunity to say this often, but fuck man, you're old.
Fucking fell out of my chair on that one.
Never had a portable 8-track, but definitely remember the Sony Walkman. That was the shit.
Hef, I had the JJ Walker endorsed 8-Track player. No Joke.
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I never had a portable one, but my first music player was an 8track. The first portable device I had was a cassette player. I resisted CDs when they first hit, then whe I finally caved in and started buying them, I resisted the Walkman portable disc players because I was so used to just making copies of my cassettes to carry with me, that I kept that going by making cassette copies of my CDs.
It wasn't until I got married that I started sometimes using a portable cd player, and by then MP3 players were hitting the scene.
I resisted those for a while too. But these days I have an iPod and I'm not sure how I lived without it.
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I didn't even know they released a portable CD player that could play MP3 CDs.
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I didn't really start listening to music until iPods were out so I didn't have to deal with CD players very often.
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Walkman yes....Discman no.
CDs were too valuble for me to be carrying around when I could just record them and not worry about them getting lost or stolen.
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I definitely thought it was the best thing at the time cause it made rewinding and forwarding less of the task it was with the Walkman.
Yeah, but the problem was, the slightest movement or vibration would often make them skip. So in the car, they were okay but not great. And forget about trying to use them in the gym. At least with a walkman, you could run with it or wear it while lifting or whatever.
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Yeah, I liked my discman. I still have a functioning one, actually.
As an aside, I don't have an ipod or any other mp3 player. I have about a dozen reasons why I don't like them, but I won't bore you with that in this thread.
I don't have an iPod either man! And I still use my discman everyday! :omg:
When it breaks though... eBay here I come.
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I definitely thought it was the best thing at the time cause it made rewinding and forwarding less of the task it was with the Walkman.
Yeah, but the problem was, the slightest movement or vibration would often make them skip. So in the car, they were okay but not great. And forget about trying to use them in the gym. At least with a walkman, you could run with it or wear it while lifting or whatever.
I remember I had the cassette adapter for my car and I would velcro my discman to the dashboard!
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Lived throug? I'm still in it! :metal
I'm serious. I listen to cd's everyday on my way to work.... :biggrin:
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I definitely thought it was the best thing at the time cause it made rewinding and forwarding less of the task it was with the Walkman.
Yeah, but the problem was, the slightest movement or vibration would often make them skip. So in the car, they were okay but not great. And forget about trying to use them in the gym. At least with a walkman, you could run with it or wear it while lifting or whatever.
I remember I had the cassette adapter for my car and I would velcro my discman to the dashboard!
Hot damn I did the same thing! :lol
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I remember those good ol' days. I used a walkman until I borrowed a discman from a friend which was cool because it could read any kind of CD and I wasn't very keen on having original CDs bouncing in my back pack while I went to school or the university so I just made copies. I still have that discman though it doesn't work anymore.
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I had a Discman but I preferred using the walkman mostly because at the time only cds that I'd borrow from friends could be easily ripped to cassettes to make my mixes.
Anyway I spent a several amount of time of my life making those fucking mixes and then came first the cdr and then mp3s, goddamn life savers.
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Never had an actual Sony Discman, just as I never had an Sony Walkman, but I did go through a couple of cheap portable cassette players and later a couple of portable CD players, the last of which could read CD-Rs full of mp3s.
Skipping was never really an issue with the CD players, because by time they came around, I'd been driving for a while. The CD-R player sat at my desk at work, hooked up to some PC speakers. Nothing beats having tunes at work.
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My first car lacked a CD player, but it had a cassette deck so I bought one of those super-cool discmans with the tape converter that let you play CD's through the car's speakers.
I still do that. I even just bought a new Sony portable cd player earlier this year.
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Visiting my parents and I found this in my old room:
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That full shock detection didn't protect it from me accidentally dropping it on to a pavement D:
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Is that from the 70's? It has a prog button!
:splodetard:
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I DON'T GET IT
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THAT'S FUNNY
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It was an option on some CD players for a while. You press the PROG button and it makes whatever you're listening to sound like Prog. It used a very sophisticated algorithm that, sadly, did not prove cost-effective, and you don't see it very much anymore.
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It just added keyboard solo's and lyrics about hobbits to everything.
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Well, it was the 70's. What would you expect?
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I had at least 5 portable CD players over the years. My dad did buy the original disc man model or whatever, and my first official I bought was a Sony discman with skip protection, after I broke the discman without skip protection.
The ways to carry varied. At first, I had about a 20 CD case that would store the entire case. Then a 24 CD wallet, I did the car visors mostly, and at some point I tried briefly a 200 CD case.
Interesting to see the responses of those who swore of MP3 players for years. Seems like most who eventually try them swear by them after awhile.
I wouldn't have it any other way now. 320 kbps is enough for me.
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I held off getting an iPod for several years. At first, it was because they were expensive and the early models didn't hold enough. After a while, it was more of a rebellion against the trend. They were so ubitquitous, they actually started including iPod interface in car stereos and boom boxes. And the prices never came down. And they still weren't big enough.
When they finally came out with the 160GB model, this was the first model that even had a chance of holding my entire collection. I didn't want to figure out which albums or artists to put on and which not to, so it had to be big enough to hold everything. Also, I bought it with bonus money from work, so I wasn't really spending my own cash. I thought of it as the company buying me an iPod. But I've had it for years now (since whenever the original 160's came out) and man, I love it. It was free, and it's big enough, so what the hell.
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I have the 160 G iPod. Last week, two nights before we left for Disney, I accidentally erased the whole fucking thing! :facepalm:
I still have a full 30G model so I was OK for the trip.
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How did you accidentally the whole thing?
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How did you accidentally the whole thing?
Well, I was adding 4 albums onto it when I got an error message. Then I clicked on the Restore button which it recommended. Then I got a warning message that if I continued I would lose all data, so I clicked Cancel, figuring I was stopping it. I unplugged it, and all was gone!
What sucks is that apparently, I cannot transfer from one iPod to the other without buying a program, which I'm not going to do.
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It sounds like when the error came up, something had already been corrupted. If you Cancel out of the Restore operation, it should have just aborted and left things alone. Your file system was probably already hosed by that point. Rebooting got your operating system back, but the hard drive contents were toast.
I use a free third-party program called SharePod. It allows you to back up your iPod contents to your PC. In general, it's nearly impossible to do manually that because everything on the iPod is "coded". The titles are all hashed, supposedly so that you can't just copy contents from one iPod to another because of copyright protection blah blah blah.
Anyway, SharePod has a range of options and settings, so what I do is have it automatically create subfolders for Genre, with Artist within that, and Album within that. Files saved to the hard drive can be named by any combination of Title, Track Number, Artist, etc., so I just go with Track Number and Title, since they're already in folders by Album. This also makes it really handy to play tunes from the PC, or (ta-da!) transfer tunes to another iPod.
I'm not sure if sharing the website for it is okay here, but I'm sure a Google search would turn it up pretty quickly. PM for more, if you need it.
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O, I downloaded it and it's currently running. Like an idiot, I should have tried copying 10 songs, but I'm transferring the contents of my 30G iPod back into iTunes. I'll see if it all went through when I get home from work tonight.
Thank you very much!
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No problem. I've been using it for years now and love it. The interface is a bit funky, but I can work with it, and for what it does, the price was certainly right.
You're right in that you might have picked a few tunes to back up first, make sure you know how all the options work and that it'll create the folders the way you want, but hey, it's a learning experience.
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I had a 8-track mono speaker portable player before the cassette player then the CD Walkman. Yeah, It was "DYNOMITE!!"
Old Farts will get that joke.
I don't get the opportunity to say this often, but fuck man, you're old.
Fucking fell out of my chair on that one.
Never had a portable 8-track, but definitely remember the Sony Walkman. That was the shit.
Hef, I had the JJ Walker endorsed 8-Track player. No Joke.
Was that the one Rerun got busted bootlegging the Doobie Brothers with.
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:lol
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Hey O, IT WORKED!! Thank you very much. At least I got 30gs of the basics onto my iPod. Still a lot of work to do to get it filled where it was, but I'm OK with that.
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Cool, I'm glad it worked. And now you have a tool to back up your iPod.