I’m 35 and have bought a vast array of albums, CDs and downloads, and there’s just no way I could have 30 gigs of MP3s I’d actually want to listen to. More than half of all songs that get loaded into my iPod are deleted after one listen.
IMO you’re too quick to judge. Case in point: Pink Floyd. I couldn’t get into their albums for a long time, but when I did I was glad I saved the whole things instead of just songs like Wish You Were Here and Money.
I don’t delete anything. I’ve got Backstreet Boys and Celine Dion on my computer MP3 collection forcristsakes!!
I don’t have, nor am I going to get, the iPod Touch, simply because I have the iPhone. The best part about these devices (and there is a lot of good stuff)? Straight Dope in the pooper. Worth every penny.
I know exactly what you mean. I look forward to the bathroom these days.
I have a Pocket PC (a Dell Axim), and it does audio and video with limited storage, internet browsing, and a whole lot more. (I use it mostly for work.) It was more expensive than the iPod Touch, though, and I don’t think they’re making the Axim anymore.
What I really need is something that plays music and has a shit-ton of storage, since my mp3 collection is at 130GB and I like to have it all with me when I do my radio show. (Right now I pack up the laptop and an external HD.) I will almost certainly be picking up a 160GB iPod Classic in the intermediate future.
According to this review, the Archos 605 plays MPEG-4, AVI, and WMV.
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The problem with avi is that it’s actually just a container format, not a codec. Sometimes when devices say they play avi files, it’s not clear exactly which ones they will and won’t play. Some, for example, will play DivX but not XVid, and vice versa.