New iPods out

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by robostangs548

(P.S. The only need for a 160gig iPod is if you are a professional DJ, or a serious music addict. I have 12 days of music, and only fill 20 of my 30 gig.)

I was about to disagree with this statement, as I consider myself a "serious music addict", until I ran through some numbers.

I have ~100 CD's.
Each has ~15 tracks.
(1500 total songs)
Each track is ~3 minutes long.
(~4,500 total minutes (75 hours btw.)

@ 128 kb for music, a minute is about a MB.

4500 MB = 4.39 GB for ~100 CD's worth of music!

Now, 128kb bitrate quality is just my preference, but at this rate my 30 GB Zune can hold plenty more than I need.
Makes sense I guess, unless I buy some converters, and throw on some DVDs or other videos.

For a real world example, 2,007 songs (random number I know, but that's what it is) only take up about 3-3.5 GB on my player now. Not a bad deal. I have some 30 second songs, and some 12 minute long ones.
But still not so bad.

[robostangs548]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I was about to disagree with this statement, as I consider myself a "serious music addict", until I ran through some numbers.

I have ~100 CD's.
Each has ~15 tracks.
(1500 total songs)
Each track is ~3 minutes long.
(~4,500 total minutes (75 hours btw.)

@ 128 kb for music, a minute is about a MB.

4500 MB = 4.39 GB for ~100 CD's worth of music!

Now, 128kb bitrate quality is just my preference, but at this rate my 30 GB Zune can hold plenty more than I need.
Makes sense I guess, unless I buy some converters, and throw on some DVDs or other videos.

For a real world example, 2,007 songs (random number I know, but that's what it is) only take up about 3-3.5 GB on my player now. Not a bad deal. I have some 30 second songs, and some 12 minute long ones.
But still not so bad.

See what I mean...... Do you really need the other 155 gigs?

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by robostangs548

See what I mean...... Do you really need the other 155 gigs?

You could always use it for other things--I once entertained the notion of a 160 GB iPod Classic acting as my backup hard drive on top of being my music player.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by robostangs548

See what I mean...... Do you really need the other 155 gigs?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Billfred

You could always use it for other things--I once entertained the notion of a 160 GB iPod Classic acting as my backup hard drive on top of being my music player.

Exactly. Also, I don't know how large DVD's would be when formatted and compressed for use on an iPod or in my case a Zune. Never tried it yet.

Also, don't limit yourself on music or videos only for the iPod. You have it usable as a hard drive as Billfred stated. Why not use it as that. There are a lot of documents you need as the Robot season goes by. Why not put them all on the iPod, as well as all your Team pictures to share with potential sponsors if the need arises.

Bottom line is the largest iPod today is 160GB. In a few years, you will be complaining that 160GB is not large enough, and Apple will bump up to a larger capacity just in time. Apparently at this time (with most users it seems) they have raised the bar as far as capacity before the common user needs it.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by Billfred

You could always use it for other things--I once entertained the notion of a 160 GB iPod Classic acting as my backup hard drive on top of being my music player.

A lot of people do that, actually, even with the ones less than 160GB. They use maybe 8GB for music, and the rest as a backup hard drive.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Billfred

You could always use it for other things--I once entertained the notion of a 160 GB iPod Classic acting as my backup hard drive on top of being my music player.

I use it as a portable hard drive. It works well especially when backing up programs or holding ISO files for future use or whatever it may be, and I only have a 30.