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Offline Snoopy

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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2007, 12:03:49 PM »
Absolutely correct the price does indeed indicate how many tracks you can get on it ..... but how many does one person need in their pocket FFS? 'Specially kids ~ the band they would die for today will have died by next week and they'll have moved on. Buy expensive and I guarantee they'll have it nicked.
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #16 on: October 13, 2007, 12:11:47 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on October 13, 2007, 12:03:49 PM
Absolutely correct the price does indeed indicate how many tracks you can get on it ..... but how many does one person need in their pocket FFS? 'Specially kids ~ the band they would die for today will have died by next week and they'll have moved on. Buy expensive and I guarantee they'll have it nicked.

No. It's for me for me holingdays next week.
This ancient portable tape player is a bugger to haul around, especially with 50 tapes of the 'sounds from the 60's'.
Eats the batteries too.

Don't like thse farting little ear plugs that come with these mp3 things though. noooo:
Wonder if my brilliant comfy crystal clear monster home hi fi headphones will plug into one? rubschin:
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #17 on: October 13, 2007, 12:15:38 PM »
Mine do on the kid's MP3  whistle:


The only problem is the f*cking "music" she has on it! Banghead
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #18 on: October 13, 2007, 12:20:35 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on October 13, 2007, 12:15:38 PM
Mine do on the kid's MP3  whistle:


The only problem is the f*cking "music" she has on it! Banghead

Shite? rubschin:

Can't you delete it and 'record' or wharever you call it, over it?
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #19 on: October 13, 2007, 12:27:29 PM »
Yes but I only borrowed it to try out the headphones thingy ~ wouldn't be fair to stop her from making herself deaf if she wants to now would it.  eveilgrin:
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2007, 12:38:28 PM »
I bought this one for Mr Wench last Christmas. He is a techno numpty. This one allows you to put stuff on it without using a pc. You use cables to plug it into your music player of choice and it does it from there. Don't ask me how, I have no idea. I prefer to use the pc. It also has a radio which was essential for listening to sport.  ::) Think he said it holds about 10 average sized albums.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Zen-Nano-Plus-512MB/dp/B000AMQ7RI/ref=sr_1_5/202-2120258-4691044?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1192279018&sr=1-5
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #21 on: October 13, 2007, 12:52:39 PM »
Miss Snoopy's MP3 is a very basic one, given her by her Uncle, but it holds 150 tracks she tells me.
Mrs Snoopy's, which I bought at Argos for about £30 includes a radio and also a dictaphone (No jokes about why not use her finger like everyone else 'cos I just made it OK) .... Holds up to 300 tracks and can also take "podcasts from the radio" (whatever that means) and about an hour of dictation, without loss of any tracks recorded on it.
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #22 on: October 13, 2007, 01:08:43 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on October 13, 2007, 12:15:38 PM
Mine do on the kid's MP3  whistle:




That's bloody good news. happy088

Haven't got time to order online now, so I'll meander down to 'MP3's Are Us' tomorrow, head phones in hand for a test drive of the latest models. drumroll:
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2007, 01:38:17 PM »
Quote from: GROWLER on October 13, 2007, 01:08:43 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on October 13, 2007, 12:15:38 PM
Mine do on the kid's MP3  whistle:




That's bloody good news. happy088

Haven't got time to order online now, so I'll meander down to 'MP3's Are Us' tomorrow, head phones in hand for a test drive of the latest models. drumroll:
If you want it for your hols I recommend a set of noise cancelling headphones… they basically remove all the background noise on the ‘plane – engines, screaming kids wife, etc. and allow you to enjoy the music in silence.

Pick them up at Dixons in the airport or buy on-line if you have time…
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2007, 01:45:55 PM »
www.technologyinthehome.com

They sell a device to load vinyl, cassettes and CDs to your PC and/or MP3
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2007, 06:37:10 PM »
Quote from: Barman on October 13, 2007, 01:38:17 PM
Quote from: GROWLER on October 13, 2007, 01:08:43 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on October 13, 2007, 12:15:38 PM
Mine do on the kid's MP3  whistle:




That's bloody good news. happy088

Haven't got time to order online now, so I'll meander down to 'MP3's Are Us' tomorrow, head phones in hand for a test drive of the latest models. drumroll:
If you want it for your hols I recommend a set of noise cancelling headphones… they basically remove all the background noise on the ‘plane – engines, screaming kids wife, etc. and allow you to enjoy the music in silence.

Pick them up at Dixons in the airport or buy on-line if you have time…


I've seen this mentioned by someone on here in the past IIRC. rubschin:

Aren't they horrendously expensive...a 3 figure sum? eeek:
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2007, 08:08:02 PM »
Even I own to one of these Growler my lad, and have mastered the 'CD ripping' business, so it must be easy.

I have a really cheap (£25 IIRC) Dixons 2 giggle bite one which hold all my favourites, with space to spare.

Like all personal audio things, earphones can detach one from the world around, and I suspect the noise-blocking ones even more so.

You may have guessed that I am not easily embarassed, but the sudden realisation that a group of people are staring hard at you can seriously spoil a 'private' sing-along with Gilbert and Sullivan. redface:
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2007, 08:16:30 PM »
Apparently my new phone also houses an MP3 player, but I am a mere babe. It needs a special cabley thingy to join it to a computer or something like that, but I daren't go into a shop full of spotty youths and ask them for one in case they laugh redface:
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2007, 11:07:08 PM »
Well I've just started 'ripping' some cd's, but trying to select certain tracks only.
The bloody thing WON'T stop though. It just carries on rippin' every useless track that i don't want.
What am i doin' wrong then? ::)
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Re: MP3's or Ipods?
« Reply #29 on: October 14, 2007, 01:02:29 AM »
Quote from: GROWLER on October 13, 2007, 11:07:08 PM
Well I've just started 'ripping' some cd's, but trying to select certain tracks only.
The bloody thing WON'T stop though. It just carries on rippin' every useless track that i don't want.
What am i doin' wrong then? ::)

Let it carry on and then delete the ones you don't want.

I might mention that after ripping a CD you then need to convert the HUGE CD track into a very much smaller MP3 file.
Bottom line you can store tens of CD tracks against hundreds or even thousands of MP3.

Avoid iPods like the plague. also avoid white earphones.  People think you have an iPod and will follow you home to nick it.

I agree with Uncle and place the Creative Zen at the head of the list.   That said, my PDA cost £250 and does all that and computer stuff and sat-nav as well, with a few SD add-on cards of several gigabytes you can take ALL your music if you want. They usually have a docking  station to charge them and exchange data with the computer and you can rig them to main self-powered speakers or bluetooth to your car stereo. good from my POV because with external SD cards you can mix-n-match and don't lose everything if it breaks or walks.

A domestic quality hi-fi uses .25" jacks Common Hi-Fi 3.5mm and PDA/Players usually 3.5mm or sometimes 2.5mm which is a pain. as you'd need two adaptors three inches long.  eeek:

More technical stuff if required...

Certain Mobile phones do that too but are short on battery life.
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