Portable jukebox

[pokester]

I know it goes against this site but does anyone owns a Ipod or somthing better, any help?
any recommandations?

thanks,




just looking for something a could bring to work... and lots of storage gb's

[Nick Cope]

I wouldn't say these sort of things are evil, Pokester. Can iPods freely transfer music in any direction now? As in iPod to iPod, iPod dump back to Mac etc etc?

[sermad]

You can hack one to xfer ipod->ipod. Havent tried it myself.

They are very cool if well expensive. The good exchanged rate £->$ means you get one waaaay cheaper from the states. So buy it on ebay or preferably get someone over there to send one over.

I would recommend it - They don't like pc's so much (firewire is well dicky - get the usb cable just in case) and itunes isnt the greatest software. But the sound quality is phenomenal.

[theeman]

ipods, despite looking great, aren't that robust. we've had two out of four total in the office break within 14 months of purchase (hard drive failures), plus another one's battery died and they ain't easy to replace. the (very) high cost doesn't justify such a high failure rate. like sermad, i'd get one from the US.

personally i would NEVER buy a jukebox that uses a hard drive - a piece of kit which is highly movement-sensitive after all. much better to go with a decent card-based storage system that never skips and is unlikely to fail in the medium term. they also use much less power compared with moving parts in a hard drive - so you get either longer battery life or need fewer batteries (if they're external).

these days you can get some pretty funky multimedia gear (see the archaos multimedia jukebox for example) with a colour screen and massive hard drive that allows you to watch movies etc as well as play music, for the same price or less than an ipod.

there was a good thread on soulstrut a while back on this subject.

[pokester]

thanks alot guys for the info ....