Re: OT: Musical Devices

Ride-A-Lot wrote:
So I wanted to get something for all the lonely road rides I do (not trails). I have a 60GB iPod, but it's too big and clunky for riding. I picked up an iPod Nano today. Does anyone else think this is the coolest, "how'd they do that" technology out there?


They do look pretty slick. I find it interesting they used the name Nano when Creative already has a player called that (with an FM tuner built in). Seems like lawsuit fodder to me.

I made myself a 80 GB Creative Zen Xtra with an eBay Zen 30 GB that was not working ($30) and a fresh 80 GB hard drive a coworker gave me super-cheap. You can't even buy a 80 GB player from Creative or Apple and I cobbled one together for under $100.

I also made myself a 1 GB flash player using an eBay Creative MuVo^2 shell that had it's 4 GB microdrive removed (when the players were cheaper than microdrives, people bought the players and removed the drives which left a lot of driveless cheap player shells available). Then I just put in a 1 GB Sandisk CF card. That's my "On the go" player which also doubles as a USB mass storage device. Then I can keep my whole ~10,200 track library on the XTra for use in the office, car, or wherever that isn't too rough for a hard drive.


What bugs me is they can make something so small that plays 1000 songs, yet can't make am affordable car that gets 1000 miles to the gallon.


You're joking, right? Those kinds of arguments make anyone familiar with scientific theory just cringe.
"If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they cure hemorroids?"

Anyway, it's a cool toy!



Yep.

Matt
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