Best advice of the day

[heidi]

Do not eat iPod shuffle.


Now, does anyone know if there's a way to make it *not* shuffle? Because I know someone who would love to use this for audiobooks, but if it shuffles... well, it makes for badfic-level plotlines.

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[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

I am incredibly tempted to get an iPod or an iRiver or somesuch, w/ an FM transmitter, for the drives.

I've been incredibly tempted, for months and months.

I *might* be able to borrow one this wknd to see if it makes a real difference.

It's just hard to suck it up and spend that kind of money on something that is so vastly... frivolous, and yet quasi-permanent.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

If you think of it as a backup portable hard drive, and remember what such things cost even five years ago, it's more justifiable. Sort of.

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Of course, my hard drive at home is a wee 4 gigs (currently).

Hell, at WORK, I only have 10 gigs. The idea of 40 drool-worthy gigs? Baffling! That's multiplying one of my drives by the other!

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

My laptop has five - my old desktop which is now my office computer, like yours, has ten gigs. My iPod has 20 and I have an external hard drive which holds 40. But I remember getting a 256 *card* two years ago and spending 100$ on it - it was for my first digital camera - and so the idea of getting 512 mb PLUS it plays music - all for the same price? It's mind boggling.

Can't eat it, though.

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[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Can't fly on it to see Meg, either. For the 40 gig and an FM transmitter, I could do that.

Twice.

It's a hard one.

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

But there's a world of difference in cost between a 40 and this new Shuffle d'Cute. It makes it within the zone of Impulse Buy if they sell it at a store where you have a few random gift cards & there's nothing else particularly interesting. And two years ago, airfare was more, too. A friend is coming from NY to see me next month for $120 round trip - last May, it cost me & Aaron 180 each to come up for POAIMAX - and even that was something we thought was unpricey.

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[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Eh, the shuffle is tooooooo small to actually make a difference in the current roadtripping music allotment. (Problem being: How many tunes does it take to get me from to there and back, without killing the CDs from less than ideal handling, and without numerous repeating of songs?)

(Don't distract me with facts. I fondled the 40 Gig last night at an Apple store...)

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[owlman.livejournal.com]

The smaller of the Shuffles is around the same price (UK £69) that I paid for the same amount of memory as a USB memory stick (£60) back in June. Though I did note that a 1gb equivalent memory stick is now less than £40 (memory prices are still dropping quite rapidly - that is what is allowing Apple to enter this market and put a device under the mini).

[misako.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought when I first read the description - it's like a portable hard-drive (much like the small versions you can buy at any computer store for virtually the same price for the same HD size, except it plays music.)