Flying Music -- iTunes PIREP

"Tom Fleischman"
Welcome to the wonderful world of Apple. It's *ALL* this nice when you
use a Mac :-)
I have an iPod for Windows because I'm a Windows user. My buddy has an iPod
for MAC because he is a Mac user. They both work great. The Mac setup is
friendlier, more integrated but you have to be a Mac person. The PC setup
works fine but you have to do more than say, "Computer..." Actually the PC
is bit more flexible. I can find just about any music for free or fee. My
buddy gave up trying anything beyond iTunes.

Hey, I wish I flew behind a Garmin 1000 in a Cirrus but I have a Garmin 300
in Maule for a fraction of the cost. My buddy listens to his iPod on the
interstate in a SUV. I listen to mine a mile up.

I love having 2500 songs on my iPod to chose from while I fly.

Yes, I do too. One trick control and access to 20megs of music.

The iPod is not only nice to the touch... hell, I almost wanted to save the
packaging. High quality design and packaging has a beauty all it's own.
The new ones are even nicer.

In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
iTunes Music Store ("ITMS" in the vernacular) and Bob's your uncle. I've
got 2660 songs on this one (and some of those are long classical pieces).
I think that translates into something over 1000 hours of music.

Wow -- that's all on ONE disk?

Or doesn't an iPod use disks?

The iPod has a single hard disk. You plug in into your computer and use
iTunes to copy tunes onto it.

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is someone's lifelong obsession. And he has a website.
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
iTunes Music Store ("ITMS" in the vernacular) and Bob's your uncle.
I've
got 2660 songs on this one (and some of those are long classical
pieces).
I think that translates into something over 1000 hours of music.

Wow -- that's all on ONE disk?

Or doesn't an iPod use disks?

The iPod has a single hard disk. You plug in into your computer and use
iTunes to copy tunes onto it.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/

Wrong. "RAM" type memory.
--
Jim in NC

In article , Morgans
wrote:

Wow -- that's all on ONE disk?

Or doesn't an iPod use disks?

The iPod has a single hard disk. You plug in into your computer and use
iTunes to copy tunes onto it.

Wrong. "RAM" type memory.

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried:

http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html



First thing under "capacity":

Capacity
- 4GB, 15GB, 20GB or 40GB hard disk drive
- Holds 1,000, 3,700, 5,000 or 10,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format
- Stores data via FireWire or USB 2.0 hard drive


That took me all of 10 seconds to research.

--
Garner R. Miller
ATP/CFII/MEI
Manchester, CT =USA=

In article 2004012909433416807%newsgroups@larryandjennynet ,
Larry Fransson wrote:

On 2004-01-29 07:37:31 -0800, "Jay Honeck" said:

When you find a song you want, just click on "Buy this song" and it
downloads in MP3 format.

It's not actually MP3 format. It's AAC (Advanced Audio Codec). That
difference might be lost on most people, but it's important. Playing from
your computer (using iTunes) or burning to a CD is no problem. But if
you're planning to transfer your tunes to a portable player, you'll want to
make sure that it supports AAC. A lot of manufacturers are going with the
"Microsoft Standard" of WMA, and excluding AAC.

One way around that is to burn the tunes to CD and then rip them to
whichever format you need. Audiophiles will howl (because you're adding
losses upon losses), but the rest of us probably won't be able to tell the
difference.


But the iPod itself commands 25% of the market, and it plays AAC great..

"Garner Miller" wrote in message
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In article , Morgans
wrote:
Wrong. "RAM" type memory.

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried:

Oh, come on. Give him some credit. Surely if he *tried* he could've been
more wrong. After all, at least many digital audio players do use some form
of RAM to store music, even if the iPod doesn't. He could've said something
*really* outlandish like "bar codes" or "punch cards" or something like
that.

Pete

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:hoeSb.51691$U%5.285585@attbi_s03...
I suppose there must be a way to convert it to MP3 format? For me this
is
a non-issue, but I can see why it would be critical from your end...

As Larry said, one easy way is to just burn the music to an audio CD and
then reencode it to whatever new format you want (e.g. MP3 or WMA). Use a
CD-RW to avoid wasting blanks.

Software exists to do similar conversions between various audio formats, but
they will all essentially wind up doing the same thing: decode the one
format into raw audio and reencode into another format. They may do it at a
higher quality than CDDA (16-bit, 44.1Khz) but anyone exposed to airplane
noise on a regular basis would never notice the difference.

Pete

"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
It is not needed. They make iPods for Windows. But they were designed
for Macs and everything, including the iPod, works better on a Mac

Really? Please elaborate on the differences between how an iPod works with
a Mac versus a Windows machine. In particular, in what way does it work
better on a Mac, exactly?

Pete

In article , Garner Miller
wrote:

Capacity
- 4GB, 15GB, 20GB or 40GB hard disk drive
- Holds 1,000, 3,700, 5,000 or 10,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format
- Stores data via FireWire or USB 2.0 hard drive

the 4Gb model is the new "mini-iPod". It is slightly smaller than the
15/20/40 Gb iPods, comes in different colors, and is the lowest priced
of the models.

"Larry Fransson" wrote in message
news:2004012909433416807%newsgroups@larryandjennyn et...
One way around that is to burn the tunes to CD and then rip them to
whichever format you need.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Just googled for it. Converts AAC to MP3 in software.

Paul