thoughts about the iPod

[lauralh]

(or, why I only have a 1G mp3 player)

Let's estimate, if you are anal about quality, that you have 100MB per full album that you encode. So that's about 10 albums per gigabyte of hard disk space. The smallest iPods are now at 30G but started at 10. So that's between 100-300 albums at the low end. Average album is about 60 minutes, so let's say you can listen to your iPod all 16 hours of your waking day. You can't, of course, since you need to talk to people and shit, but let's just assume you can. Two hundred albums would take you close to two weeks to listen to. Let's try the more reasonable assumption that you only want to listen 8 hours a day, and we get the more reasonable 25 days, almost 4 weeks. Well, you get the idea.

Now for some people this is great and totally awesome, but I personally only listen to mp3s on my player typically on the way to and from work, no more than 2 hours a day. I figure this is when most people use theirs, or while walking/at the gym. So that's more like two albums a day. Or three months to get through your collection. But who wants to do that? If I like an album, I want to hear it at least once a week, right? Until I get tired of it and want to take it off my rotation. And I certainly know people who just listen to the same album or playlist over and over and over and over and over. Having more than 4G for these circumstances just seems like a hassle.

Comments

[chris.livejournal.com]

the advantage for me is situational music. there's new stuff that I listen to frequently, but I like variety. there's stuff I listen to in the morning and stuff I listen to on the way home, and stuff I will listen to in the car or at work. I just like having it all handy and not having to shuffle it around much depending on what I'm doing. and like, once every couple of months i'll still go listen to Daydream Nation or some old shit like that that I dont hear very often.

I've got an older 20 gig and i hover at around 16-17 gigs used on it. every once in a blue moon I'll look at stuff I have not ever listened to or dont listen to anymore and will remove it to make room, but I've probably only done that a handful of times since owning the thing.

[henry.livejournal.com]

yeah ditto