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    Posted: April 03 2011 at 21:57
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

There's nowt wrong with an Archos.
 
Once you have a 250Gb harddrive and a lithium battery to power it you are looking at something approaching the same size as a Archos 5 anyway.
 
In fact my Archos-5 is actually smaller than my WD-250Gb Passport external harddrive.

Thanks to your suggestion I’ve just brought an Archos 70 250gb and It’s perfect. Finally I have a device where I can fit all my music in it. I hate deleting albums from my iPod; it really has become a survival of the fittest with it. I’m living proof of natural selection!



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Jay, your avy is so EVAL!
Not many people know this but his avatar can also be used as a large capacity MP3 player. Tongue
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Devy or Anakin?
 
Darth Townsend.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Jay, your avy is so EVAL!
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Thanks, I gathered what's your answer LOL I see what you mean and I agree. 
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Exactly.

RE the password, I only paid for one CD in the case of each album I bought, but my girlfriend also hears them, and my guests too (when I have). Should I be chaged extra?
  logic has never entered into the equation. The back of every CD, tape and vinyl I've ever bought clearely says "unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording is prohibited."


I know, I was having that in mind. Which one of those would the cloud-streaming breach IYO?
All of them and none of them - the disclaimer was produced back in the year dot when even copying was harldy something an average Joe could do in the discomfort of his own home, and while Internet storage, (Meh, I hate "the cloud" - what a contrived marketing tool that is... spit!.. it's called the Internet and we really don't need another name for it until the fifth thursday of 2112, just after lunchtime (indoors if it's raining)), is not broadcasting I'm sure the fleet of overpaid corportate lawyers will spin it that way and rope-in copying, lending and hiring and public performance to confuse and confound a befuddled judge who is convinced that wax-cylinders will steal your soul and Mr Edison should be shot a dawn.
 
 
sorry, what was the question?
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Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

I have a 120 GB iPod Classic and it's only about 2/3 full and I have trouble managing it in the car.
 
For those using streaming...is your phone reliable for that? For instance, on my phone when using last.fm, I'm fine in wifi but on 3G there are often enough delays to make it unusable.

AudioGalaxy is quite reliable - they also recode the audio for optimum performance. 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Exactly.

RE the password, I only paid for one CD in the case of each album I bought, but my girlfriend also hears them, and my guests too (when I have). Should I be chaged extra?
  logic has never entered into the equation. The back of every CD, tape and vinyl I've ever bought clearely says "unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording is prohibited."


I know, I was having that in mind. Which one of those would the cloud-streaming breach IYO?
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Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

I have a 120 GB iPod Classic and it's only about 2/3 full and I have trouble managing it in the car.
 
For those using streaming...is your phone reliable for that? For instance, on my phone when using last.fm, I'm fine in wifi but on 3G there are often enough delays to make it unusable.


Depends on how good my 3G connection is, but I usually have no issues.  Subsonic basically downloads all the songs in your queue to your phone while streaming, so once the downloads are complete you're basically not streaming anymore.  I do sometimes like to have the first song buffered before playing so I don't have to deal with a data starvation scenario.

Alternatively, if I'm headed out I'll quickly download an album over my home wifi as I'm out the door.

The other nice thing is you can set a reasonably large cache size (I have mine set to 10 GB) so your downloaded albums are stored - when you want to listen to something again, it's there, no streaming needed.

I also should mention there's a web interface for Subsonic such that I can access the server from my laptop at the office, and listen to all my music that way.  My wife does the same at her job.
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Exactly.

RE the password, I only paid for one CD in the case of each album I bought, but my girlfriend also hears them, and my guests too (when I have). Should I be chaged extra?
  logic has never entered into the equation. The back of every CD, tape and vinyl I've ever bought clearely says "unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording is prohibited."

Edited by Dean - April 01 2011 at 10:04
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I have a 120 GB iPod Classic and it's only about 2/3 full and I have trouble managing it in the car.
 
For those using streaming...is your phone reliable for that? For instance, on my phone when using last.fm, I'm fine in wifi but on 3G there are often enough delays to make it unusable.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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^ Exactly.

RE the password, I only paid for one CD in the case of each album I bought, but my girlfriend also hears them, and my guests too (when I have). Should I be chaged extra?
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^ depending on whom you give the password to ... or in other words, depending on how many people can access stored files simultaneously. But of course the music industry tries to throw a wrench in there regardless - their knee jerk reaction is "wait - isn't this something we should charge extra for?".

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http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Amazon-Cloud-Drive-Sony-Music-Cloud-Player-Amazon-MP3,news-10680.html

What??? As far as I know "streaming" is included in copyright jurisdiction as a public broadcast, and listening to your MP3s that only you have access over the internet is hardly a public broadcast.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

I have a 240 gb ipod from these guys that pretty much suits my needs. But it was refurbished and it doesn't look like they sell my kind anymore. It also has an improved sound chip so it's a pretty good deal.
I remember the good old days when a 1 GB hard drive was considered huge.


That's still valid for me. Embarrassed The best player I have is still the 500MB no-name I got back in 2006! Big smile
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

I have a 240 gb ipod from these guys that pretty much suits my needs. But it was refurbished and it doesn't look like they sell my kind anymore. It also has an improved sound chip so it's a pretty good deal.
I remember the good old days when a 1 GB hard drive was considered huge.


Why have 1 when you can have 240?
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Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

I have a 240 gb ipod from these guys that pretty much suits my needs. But it was refurbished and it doesn't look like they sell my kind anymore. It also has an improved sound chip so it's a pretty good deal.
I remember the good old days when a 1 GB hard drive was considered huge.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by crimhead crimhead wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

If you're jonesing for a better player, it pays to hold out as long as you can because something better will likely come along for cheaper.


In the case of the Zune, nothing newer,better will be coming out. It would be nice if the price would drop to make them move affordable.
 
Not sure if they will drop much, the latest ZuneHD's are flashdrive based and not HDD like original models. That and along with the Nvidia Tegra chip and OLED touchscreen keeps the cost up there, I have a ZuneHD 32GB and that's more than enough space......Every couple of months I will wipe the device clean and reload it from scratch. That forces me to relook at my collection regularly. They do make a ZuneHD 64GB...
 
Or you can get two iPod320Gb and duct tape them together.....LOL
I think Tim meant with Microsoft pulling out of the portable media player market that the prices of existing models might drop to clearance prices.
 
Thank you sir for that point....and a good one as I have already kept my eye on pricing as I would like to get a few extras, couple to use a 1-2 to keep for potential value increase.
I personally feel it is one of the best music media players on the market.....its very cool!
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I have a 240 gb ipod from these guys that pretty much suits my needs. But it was refurbished and it doesn't look like they sell my kind anymore. It also has an improved sound chip so it's a pretty good deal.
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