I just picked up a 4GB iPod mini for $199 at a local shop. I was hoping to get an employee discount… but… no. I would have only saved $20, which would cover the taxes in my area… but enough about that.<\/p>\n
The iPod mini is sweet! After having a MiniDisc I was very skeptical about these MP3 like players. With my MiniDisc I had the options to move discs out when needed… This meant that I could just rip my CDs to MiniDiscs. Well, Sony’s UI for the MiniDisc (JukeBox, Sonic Stage, RealPlayer) just sucks. I used my MiniDisc player on an almost daily basis for three years, until I dropped it right on the headphone cord\/jack. The fall, err landing, broke one of the PCB layer connections to the audio amplifier. I got mad and melted the DSP chips with my soldering iron. It makes a mess. Anyone need a NZ-707 skin\/body\/cover with a working LCD and buttons?<\/p>\n
Back to the iPod mini. Apple spends a LOT of time, effort, and money to make the player and its packaging look very sleek and nice. Simplicity at it finest. The package comes with a belt clip, a usb 2.0 cable (used for transfer and charging), and headphones.<\/p>\n
The mini is slightly wider (X), shorter (Y), and thinner (Z) than my Nokia 6230. But, it’s about the same size.<\/p>\n
iTunes is has a great UI… Go use it!<\/p>\n
The only problem I have had so far is syncing the newly ripped music to the mini… sometimes it won’t transfer. Unplugging and plugging it back in seems to work just fine.<\/p>\n
The UI in the iPod is great… You can sort by play lists, artists, albums, songs, genres, composers, and audio books.<\/p>\n
The iTunes store, while a bit disconcerting that I can one-click-download-music, is really great. Really fast too. It takes longer for a CD to spin up than it does to play a sample from iTunes. A lot of the really odd and hard to find songs are in the store… but not nearly all of them. A lot of good German techno bands haven’t made it there yet… or the French Hip Hop artists…<\/p>\n
So far, I think that I have spent $199 on the player and about $25 on music in the first hour of attaching it to my laptop. I think I’m going to have to monitor my one-click-download-drain-my-bank-account activities…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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