iPods are for Bitches

I lost my beloved MP3 player (it will turn up, no doubt) so yesterday I bought one of these.

It's gorgeous. Light as a penny, lovely buttons, shiny, wi-fi for internet radio and streaming from PC, useful speaker and it tastes of parma violets when you lick it. No crappy iTunes interface; just drag files into it's mind or synchronise with Media Player. Only 16gB but takes SD cards so you can expand the memory or, I've just realised, use it to view pictures from my camera (although that's shit because the screen is about the same size as my camera). It feels like it would skip well, but I'm not throwing it into the sea I'm keeping it it's mine all mine.

I love you Zen X-Fi.

It's just said that it loves me.

Sadly I can't give it one because it's only about 4" long. I do keep kissing it though.

After recently having my laptop fixed. I've dumped Itunes and started using Windows Media Player. I'm now thinking of finally dumping my Ipod in favour of a more flexible MP3 player.

That is indeed a thing of beauty - how much?

£120 I think. From Dixons at Manc airport.

Diamond 383 wrote: It's just said that it loves me.

Sadly I can't give it one because it's only about 4" long. I do keep kissing it though.

I'm taking no more stick from Canada about me loving my iphone.

(Which is more lovely than your zenthingy, natch)

It would beat the shit out of an iphone in a fight.

Kick it's arse in while you were still fannying around with the keyguard slider.

It's tasty alright

I used to have zens (a couple different models).. now I have a zune (not the model that froze up on NYE).

They are fantastic

My iPod would kick yer Zen's fannie in

My lads 1Gb Sansa beats the bollocks off any IpOd shittle....and it were only 20 notes....digi screen...choose yer tracks.......blah, blah.......it's coooool........but WTF do I know I'm still playin me vinyl...

My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Does your walkman have auto-reverse? If so, I claim the £40.

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Does your walkman have auto-reverse? If so, I claim the £40.

Of course

Noise reduction and dolby stereo also

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

But the fact you still have a Walkman means you're old as fuck and likely to do your back in just picking it up. Step aside, Grandad.

Diamond 383 wrote: It would beat the shit out of an iphone in a fight.

Kick it's arse in while you were still fannying around with the keyguard slider.

It's tasty alright

Can the Zen find the nearest strip club and tell you where you are when you wake up in a strange bed?

Case. Closed.

LeggyD wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

But the fact you still have a Walkman means you're old as fuck and likely to do your back in just picking it up. Step aside, Grandad.

Its called being 'Retro' Dave,

all the kids are doing it

Gazman wrote:

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Does your walkman have auto-reverse? If so, I claim the £40.

Of course

Noise reduction and dolby stereo also

With a tape selector?

Diamond 383 wrote: £120 I think. From Dixons at Manc airport.

So £79.99 from a proper shop?

(I mean you've got Dixons markup, as well as the airport markup to cope with there)

Gazman wrote:

LeggyD wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

But the fact you still have a Walkman means you're old as fuck and likely to do your back in just picking it up. Step aside, Grandad.

Its called being 'Retro' Dave,

all the kids are doing it

Now, I see what's happened here. Being an old duffer you've fallen for a load of bollox from the Woolworth stock clearence salesman.

LeggyD wrote:

Diamond 383 wrote: It would beat the shit out of an iphone in a fight.

Kick it's arse in while you were still fannying around with the keyguard slider.

It's tasty alright

Can the Zen find the nearest strip club and tell you where you are when you wake up in a strange bed?

Case. Closed.

Can an Ipod/jesusphone? (I mean SUCCESSFULLY!!!!!!!)

Last time I saw a jesusphone attempt to self locate it was off by 500 metres....that's a lot of beds away, and I seem to recall that when it's proud owner tried to show the find nearest X" thing, was bringing up SCOTLAND! (possibly nearer, altough since the "second nearest" was in Belfast I fucking doubt it, but either way, no account was taken of the 15 miles of freezing water in the way).

All that carry on is what EEE-PC's are for, just run google earth on it, it works. My ma, who's 62 is having a great time with her Xandros Linux based EEE-PC (not having used windows, she does not erroneously believe everything in linux is "wrong", and when I showed her one that DID run windows, she was as lost as....well as a 62 year old technophobe faced with an OS where you click "start" to make it stop). Oddly, my O2 broadband modem which states it only runs on XP or VIsta (wonder how much they were paid for that lie), runs like SHITE on my mate's windows EEE-PC, like SHITE on my laptop under windows, sort of tolerably on the laptop under Gentoo Linux, and like a total dream on me mum's EEE.

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote:

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Does your walkman have auto-reverse? If so, I claim the £40.

Of course

Noise reduction and dolby stereo also

With a tape selector?

Doesn't need one, he's a Scot, the most miserably tight fisted race of cunts on the planet, he's NEVER bought a CrO2 tape in his life and Metal ones are RIGHT out (besides, you can fiddle with the bias/eq setting all you like, metal tapes will still file the tape head flat in about 6 weeks on a walkman) The tape selector on PLAYBACK is fairly pointles anyway, it only pops a high pass filter in to take out any audible harmonic artifacts caused by the higher bias frequency and amplitude required by other tape types. For recording, naturally it sets the differing bias freq/amp....and that's quite importand because the bias signal for an Fe tape will barely affect a CrO2.

(bias for those who need to know, is a thing which....well, did you ever do the experiment in school where you poured iron filings on a bit of paper and held it over a magnet, and nothing happened, until you tapped the paper, and they filings all fell into the lines of magnetic flux aroud the magnet.....well bias is an electrical version of tapping the paper, it's a high freqency signal added to the audio, which magnetically excites all the particles on the tape, allowing them to more easily "move" (more accurately, "move to a new level of magnetism"), into the pattern required to record the audio.....these little science moments are getting hard for me these days, I mean, you can all fuck off and check wikipedia to see whether I'm bullshitting or not )

Doctor? wrote:

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote:

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Does your walkman have auto-reverse? If so, I claim the £40.

Of course

Noise reduction and dolby stereo also

With a tape selector?

Doesn't need one, he's a Scot, the most miserably tight fisted race of cunts on the planet,

Been over this before Cambo,

Its called being frugal

LeggyD wrote:

Gazman wrote:

LeggyD wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

But the fact you still have a Walkman means you're old as fuck and likely to do your back in just picking it up. Step aside, Grandad.

Its called being 'Retro' Dave,

all the kids are doing it

Now, I see what's happened here. Being an old duffer you've fallen for a load of bollox from the Woolworth stock clearence salesman.

Mock away Mr Legge,

In 6 months time,you'll be using one

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote:

Jiphy wrote:

Gazman wrote: My walkman still plays tapes, its heavy as fuck, and if brought down on one of yer poofy Ipod/Zen thingys would smash it to feckin pieces

Just gimme the £40 the now

Does your walkman have auto-reverse? If so, I claim the £40.

Of course

Noise reduction and dolby stereo also

With a tape selector?

Pfft!,what self respecting walkman doesnt have

Jiphy, Just got ahold of Gazs Walkman picture to answer all your other questions, seems too old to have all the gadgets he states:

But low and behold, it just might...

I'l take that £40 now

:D :D

I use a Nokia N95 8GB. Everything crammed into one device . . .

but one of my mates just got an ipod touch . . .

I want it.

I want it now.

*stamps feet*

I've got one of those N95s. Best phone I've ever had.

I don't like using it as a music player because it knackers the batteries and upsets the air stewardesses.

The sat nav is just silly though. Someone I know has the newer model and it looks much better.

if you haven't done so, i recommend a firmware upgrade for it. Massively extended the battery life on mine (somehow..?) and made it run faster.

How do you do that?

Diamond 383 wrote: How do you do that?

VERY carefully.

(unless you have a passion for really expensive paperweights/bricks)

You mean my iPod isn't cool anymore?

Diamond 383 wrote: How do you do that?

you can download some software from the nokia site, back everything up, set if off and 15 minutes later its done. Easy.

Listen kids, take an advice of mine:

Don't go around with your headphones on all the time. I know I used to listen to New Order, Joy Division and the Sex Pistols in my cassette player for many years all the time - in underground, streetcar, and lost my hearing for high pitch sounds in my right ear.

Time, said Biginoil, for a Guardian link!

Interesting piece about hearing loss.

I don't listed to mine loud at all. This is because I think people who play their music so loudly that other people can hear it are social inadequate, irresponsible half-wits. I normally set the volume and then ask people sitting closest to me whether they can hear it and ask them to let me know if it bothers them.

If my singing bothers them they can fuck off.

Diamond 383 wrote: Time, said Biginoil, for a Guardian link!

Interesting piece about hearing loss.

I don't listed to mine loud at all. This is because I think people who play their music so loudly that other people can hear it are social inadequate, irresponsible half-wits. I normally set the volume and then ask people sitting closest to me whether they can hear it and ask them to let me know if it bothers them.

If my singing bothers them they can fuck off.

Naaaah it just means they are too dim to buy decent headphones, half of them are probably using the ones bundled with their device...YUK!

I found that hearing loss was MUCH easier to achieve by offending our trombonist, my left ear has been fuckered ever since I called him a "pretty boy nova bandit" while in horn range.....he placed the bell end of his bone right against me ear and blasted it for all he was worth.

(do I win £40 for the wonderfully unexpected inuendo?)

That's assault, you should have called the police. I hope you broke his fucking nose anyway. What a cunt.

I'm all angry now. Where does he live? Are you still in touch with him? Tell him I think he's a bastard.

Then break his nose again.

Diamond 383 wrote: That's assault, you should have called the police. I hope you broke his fucking nose anyway. What a cunt.

I'm all angry now. Where does he live? Are you still in touch with him? Tell him I think he's a bastard.

Then break his nose again.

Well, I was blind fuckered drunk, so couldn't care less at the time, and even if I had, we were in Jesusland, and I hadn't won the lottery so I couldn't have gone to a doctor. It's only about 1-2dB overall attenuation on the left ear, but with a fair bit more loss in the higher frequencies.

Worst thing was the gig the next day, with me on the far right of the stage, left ear all but dead....thank fuck the only important thing for a plankist to hear is the kick drum.

You were in America???

Well you have no excuse for not shooting him in the face.

Diamond 383 wrote: You were in America???

Well you have no excuse for not shooting him in the face.

Well, not having a gun would be a SORT of excuse, but I suppose I coulda bassed him.

Doctor? wrote:

Diamond 383 wrote: You were in America???

Well you have no excuse for not shooting him in the face.

Well, not having a gun would be a SORT of excuse, but I suppose I coulda bassed him.

But you were in Jesusland. You coulda got one in five minutes from the SevenEleven round the corner.

I think their gun "laws" only apply to Jesuslanders. Then again, with my accent I coulda said it was for blowing some guy's brains all over his kids in Belfast, and they'd have given me a free M16.

I like the Sonys at the moment - best battery life, by far the best headphones and sound quality, and now they've dropped crappy sonic-stage they work with drag-and-drop and WMP.

Also no volume limiter. Apparently only French law makes them compulsory but Apple put them on all EU models, Sony (and others?) only put them on the French models. Admittedly the downside is in 20 years time only the French will be able to hear anything. When the rest of the world calls the EU we'll have to rely on the French to tell us what they said.

But this Zen looks quite nice I admit, being 32Gb - more than the highest capacity Sony.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-ZEN-32GB-MP3-Player/dp/B00132ASE2/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1231704048&sr=1-1

Something about Apple just annoys me. They sometimes seem more like a religion than a company.

Diamond 383 wrote: I've got one of those N95s. Best phone I've ever had.

I don't like using it as a music player because it knackers the batteries and upsets the air stewardesses.

The sat nav is just silly though. Someone I know has the newer model and it looks much better.

there is a very catchy song about ashley cole and an N95...