Apple mp3 Player
Ipod Classic – Apple iPod 20GB 3rd Generation
Apple iPod 20GB 3rd Generation
The Apple 20GB iPod lets you circularize and easily care most 5,000 songs in the region of your hand. The enthusiastic organisation of the iPod features an all-touch programme for enhanced permanence and sensitivity, and a 2″ grayscale LCD pass with diode backlight. Using the included iTunes software, you crapper add newborn music, care your existing penalization by genre, artist, or medium and physique your possess playlists. Music and playlists designate apace and automatically from a Mac or PC to the iPod. Features a humble cut for cushy system and charging. Plays MP3, WAV, AIFF and AAC files; and includes hardware power for non-music files. Also features a calendar, games, occurrence list, rest timer, backlit buttons, customizable scripts, a connected far curb and a ca
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Ipod Classic
aaronlws
November 5, 2014 at 4:01 pm
title for my review,
main advantages of the iPod:
small and lightweight,
looks friggin cool,
intuitive and very easy to use menu’s,
can sync outlook contacts, appointments, notes, etc…
can be used as a hard drive,
iTunes is a good program (for ripping, burning, playing music and organizing the iPod),
scroll wheel is amazing.
disadvantages:
price,
doesn’t come with non firewire cables (if you don’t have a firewire card, you need to purchase another cable ($20) to use the iPod (with USB – either 1.1 or 2.0),
“on the go playlists” – you can build a playlist on the iPod while you are out and about, however, you can’t save it on the iPod. you can save it with iTunes when you sync, but only if you are using “automatic sync” – which i don’t(so no spur of the moment playlists which can be used again for me). note that you can create as many playlists as you want on iTunes and save them to the iPod.
overall i am very happy with the iPod.
compared with the Zen –
Zen is bigger and heavier (while still small overall, compared to the iPod it is significantly larger),
Zen is sooooo much cheaper and for more memory,
Zen has much better “on the go playlist” functionality (i.e. it lets you create a playlist on the unit and save it, create another one, save it, etc…).
Zen has a que of songs that can be added to, changed, etc… on the fly – the iPod does not
i would reccomend the Zen as well, as a much cheaper alternative, with superior mp3 playing functionality (que and “on the go playlists”), though you can’t sync outlook information, it doesn’t have games, is heavier and larger overall and is certainly not nearly as cool looking.
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|Gary
November 5, 2014 at 3:47 pm
Small, stylish and large capacity,
Pros:
(i)Synchronizing. Songs transfering in the first time might take longer time, but after that synchronizing is amazingly fast (only with iTunes; MusicMatch is pretty slow compared to iTunes). Songs are screened through and only modified songs are synchronized. take bout 2 seconds per song)
(ii)Useful Playlist. With iPod and iTunes, u can create a wide range of playlists (songs that u rated 5 stars, songs that u never played before, songs that u’ve recently played, christmas songs..etc)
(iii)Easy navigation. User interface is easy to use. iPod has cascading menus that provide easy navigation. In addition, the touch-sensitive buttons are really ‘cool’ to use.
(iv)Small. Really small and light. and it’s really good looking (See others and u will realize 🙂
(v)Songs organization. iTunes organizes my songs pretty well according to artist and albums. I only have to name then once in iTunes and iTunes does it all (creating folders for artists/albums, arranging the songs, deleting them when I delete them in iTunes)
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Cons:
(i) Battery life. One of the reason i chose iPod was it can last for 8 hrs (which is the longest in last summer). However, recently more mp3 players could provide up to 16hrs and some PDA can play mp3 up to 35 hrs too.
(ii) File transfering (using iPod as hard drive) is not convenient for Windows user. Calendar, text notes function can only be used with Macs.
(iii) No recording & radio. Most mp3 players today has built in mic for recording and Radio functionality.
(iv) The ear buds provided has pretty good quality but not excellent. Hardly heard low range notes when commute. Would prefer headphones.
(v) Expensive. with the same price u can get another mp3 player for 40Gb or more.
(vi) Couldnt play WMA files (but, do u care?)
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I would still give 5 stars because this is what I want for a mp3 player : Small, Stylish, user friendly and large capacity. Personally, I don’t think I would need recording, radio, WMA.. functionality for my mp3 player. Several other mp3 players like Creative Zen NX is pretty good too (from what I heard), with larger capacity and better price, but if u have the money, go for iPod, u’ll definitely LOVE it!
P/S:
(i) Don’t buy the 10Gb iPod, as it comes without remote, leather case, docking, and docking cover. These things costs about $100 so go for either 20Gb or 40Gb if possible
(ii) Apple.com has FREE laser engraving recently, which costs $19 previously and it’s not available at amazon.com
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