thoughts about the iPod
Apr. 19th, 2006 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
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Date: 2006-04-20 07:53 am (UTC)i don't listen to music that way (a series of albums that i rotate through, or a playlist that i listen to over and over.)
i have issues with routine. when i commuted to work, i had to go a different way all the time, even though i'm terrible with directions, just because i would get irritated if i kept going the same way and felt confined.
when i get up in the morning, i don't do things in a specific order (ie eat breakfast > check email > wash face etc.) if i go to a restaurant, i have to order a different thing than what i got last time, even if it means eating something that i don't really like that much. there are distinct disadvantages to NOT following those kind of routines but for whatever reason i avoid them. so it's the same thing with music... even if i love a song/album/playlist etc, i generally don't keep it on rotation.
i do agree that most people who have an ipod with that much space probably don't use all of it for music though. but mine is continuously full :/
some people do use it for transporting files also. i did that at work for files which were big enough that it was faster to put them on a hard drive vs. emailing/ftp'ing them.