Seeking Advice about Digital Music and Travelling

In My Humble Opinion
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I currently have a Rhapsody-to-Go subscription and regularly download MP3s onto my MP3 player. It’s not a perfect system, because I’m always having to update the tracks or completely re-download them long before my ‘‘one month’’ is up.

But hey, unlimited music for $15 seems worth the annoyances.

…Except when I travel.

If everything goes my way, I’ll be leaving one year from now to spend 6 months in Ecuador, and you can be damned sure I want my music with me. Problem is, I can’t update the tracks on the player from a location other than the computer where I downloaded them. I probably will bring my laptop to Ecuador, but I probably will not have access to internet with it.

And besides, I’m getting sick of never having my tracks play suddenly when I’m stranded somewhere for hours. I can’t even take a 10-day vacation without something going wrong (Napster isn’t any better, either, in my experience.)

So I was thinking, maybe I ought to do away with the subscription service and just purchase the tracks individually. It would take long time to build up a formidable library, and a lot of money, too… but hey, it’s not like I don’t have the time.

Has anybody had success in doing this, just purchasing tracks outright? Are there risks involved I am overlooking? Can I purchase all these tracks and then still have something go horribly wrong with them once in Ecuador? Inquiring minds want to know and all that…

Thanks,
Christy

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What kind of MP3 player do you have? I bought Mrs.P an Ipod with 160 GB on it so she can download songs, Videos whatever…We use iTunes and buy the songs outright. She loves it and it has yet to malfunction. It’s been all over the USA and even to foreign countries like Mississippi and Canada. :smiley:

I’m not as familiar with is as she is and I cannot attest to the best way to procure songs, and I am not sure exactly how she does it…but I do know she sits on the computer every other weekend and buys more songs and categorizes the ones she has. She has several hundred songs and a bunch of vids on there…I have the Ipod Shuffle and she takes care of putting the songs on it. :slight_smile: I don’t need the screen or anything, I’m fine with my 75 songs…

She’s the techy-song-geek in the familiy.

Have fun in Equador, if you get the change to head out to the Galapagos take the opportunity.

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Thanks! My husband is going to visit me at least once during my stay and hopefully we’ll get the chance to check out the Galapagos then!

My MP3 player is a… um… Phillips GoGear, yeah that’s it. I think I may have to resort to buying the songs outright, because I am just freaking sick of things not working for me!