Heroes: them new fangled MP3 thingies

[ojiveojive]

Well I have finally entered the world of the MP3 via a miniature piece of technology from Sony, a Christmas present from my fabulous squeeze, Mrs Ojive.

What can I say? Fan-bloody-tastic ;D ;D ;D. I can now carry two dozen or more albums around in my shirt pocket (I haven't managed to fill it up yet), although I must be careful having caught a reflection of myself grooving away in the bus shelter on more than one occasion!

I know you young people won't be interested but so far I have ripped and synced:

The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Lost In The Ozone Again
Bob Weir - Ace
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
KC and The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
Grateful Dead - Skull And Roses
Jerry Garcia Band - How Sweet It Is
James McMurtry and The Heartless Bastards - Live In Aught-Three
The Good Old Boys - Pistol Packin' Mama
Stoneground - Stoneground
Country Joe McDonald - Tonight I'm Singing Just for You
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Grateful Dead - Wake Of The Flood
Kaleidoscope - When Scopes Collide
Van Morrison and Linda Gail Lewis - You Win Again

[medibot]

They're brilliant things. I've had one since they were new fangled and crazy and people didn't believe you when you told them what it did

Now my music is stored in my phone and if i want i can watch TV and Films, surf the internet, text, phone, organise my life etc all from a little box.

For somebody who was left awestruck by the fan effect on the RM Nimbus version of paint back when people hadn't worked out why you actually needed a computer and certainly had no use for a mobile phone, i still find it amazing how quickly things have changed. I'm only 20 and yet my 15 year old little brother had a totally different childhood to me

Got to love progress.

[ojiveojive]

YessireeBobindeedy. The first one I had was actually some time ago and a freebie but it was only 64K and quite honestly I couldn't see the point, so I threw it in a draw and forgot about it. Mrs Ojive and the daughters have all had two or three but as a fan of analogue music, I stubbornly ignored the advance in digital technology. What I really like is setting it on shuffle and just going with the flow - it's like having your own radio station playing only stuff that you like!!!

[peekay]

I only have a 1GB one but I at the time I had to find one that was compatiblr with Windows ME on our old steam powered computer. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be compatible with our new one so I think I'm stuck with the same tracks until I can afford a new one.
Won't be for a while though as I have a rather spiffy holiday to pay for first!! ;D ;D

[ambersalamander]

Wish I had the money for that sort of stuff really- I can't afford CDs and my PC isn't good enough to cope with music, so my music collection basically consists of the radio and about four clapped out CDs and some 15-year-old cassette tapes

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

An excellent choice by Mrs Ojive to get you a Sony. Last Christmas we scraped the pennies together to get my son an i-pod nano. J-u-u-u-s-t as it got past the warranty, the click-wheel went down. If you take the thing to an Apple shop, they want about £130 to fix it, not far off what it cost in the first place. The cheapest guaranteed repair i can find is £50.

When i researched on the net to see what could be done, i found no end of people complaining that they had bought an i-pod seemingly programmed to self-destruct within days of the guarantee being up. There is something like a 30% failure rate on clickwheels.

For my part, i will never, ever, EVER purchase anything from Apple again and would strongly advise anyone else considering their products to wait a while after they launch and do exhaustive research into other people's experiences before laying out any readies.

[medibot]

Two of my brothers got those Nano things for Xmas, you plugged them in, synced it all up (which takes forever if all your music has been ripped from CD's to WMA and mp3 format cos you had a Sony Ericson mobile before, now you have to make them all Apple files) and then it offered an update to the software. This update duly killed your shiny new i-pod and had no way of fixing it.

Delightfully the Apple helpline/messageboards were JAMMED full of HUNDREDS people with exactly the same problem and they no doubt lost a lot of custom.

Why on earth you'd release an update at xmas i don't know, one flaw in it (as there clearly was) and everybodies Xmas pressie is useless.

Everybody raves about them being great pieces of design but if they break then they are not got design, good aesthetics, not good design.

[DazaB_WCFC]

I got one for Christmas.
Being a humbug and having not used one before I duly annoyed everyone by calling it a 'mini juke box'
I do have Ojive's problem though, I caught myself humming pinball wizard on the train last week

[malxscfc]

ojiveojive said:

I can now carry two dozen or more albums around in my shirt pocket (I haven't managed to fill it up yet),

Big pockets.


Must tap you up for a pint if we ever meet!

[bh]

I got a 80GB one for Christmas, and reckon i'm never going to fill it. Loads of photos, albums and even a pod thing. (Don't ask me, one of my lads put it on!! Great fun!!

[ojiveojive]

I can fully recommend the Sony, which incidentally I also refer to as my jukebox. The model purchased by Mrs Ojive is the NWZ-S515, in deep electric blue, which will store and display photos, too. This is the bottom of the range 2 gigabyte version and there are other versions that play videos, walk the dog, make the dinner and even fornicate when one's too tired or has a headache, I believe. I'd heard about the problems with the nano box and although friends happily own them, they probably haven't uploaded the update. As for 80 gigabytes, well I guess size matters . That's the size of the hard drive on the laptop I've just bought for number three daughter!

Malx, Big empty pockets, but you will be welcome to a pint if you find ourselves drawn against each other in the Trophy or Cup - I can't see us ever joining you in the big boys conference.