MP3 players forum: iPoll: Why did you get your first iPod?

It is seriously the best present. I felt a little guilty just spending a bunch of money on myself...but I really wanted one. It helps my workouts so much to download a great album and get to it. My favorite right now to run to is the new Moby cd. It has such a good beat that it makes the workout go so much faster.

Also for any misspellings you can use FixTunes to correct the song tags and album art. It's just more fun when all the albums show up so that you can scan through them and they can look great. FixTunes also takes care of the fixing process for you so that you can upload your music and albums and have FixTunes take care of assigning tags and art.

i like the little 1GB iriver units--they can record analog signals digitally and you just plug into the computer and drop and drag to manage files. EASY! FUNCTIONAL! TINY! i keep one plugged into my synthesizer to record everything i do.

~ I rarely travel in a situation that I have a use for one
~ Have media player on cell phone (but can't use on plane)
~ Have satellite radio in vehicle
~ Better toys to spend my $$$ on!

40 yrs old .. went to a ear specialist a while back (2006) with a hearing loss .. first question doc had for me is do i wear a ipod. i asked why ? his response was " so many people wear in the ear headsets and turn up the volume high enough to damage their hearing permanently over time.

according to him, many people come to him with hearing loss use earbuds or other in the ear headsets. usually people turn the volume high to drown out outside noise contributing to long term damage..

the bottom line ...

i would like to hear my music when im 80... no headphones for me...

I have Sennheiser wireless headphones that I use with the computer or CD player. I don't like walking about with headphones on out in the street, I don't even have music or the radio on in the car unless I find myself in a traffic jam. When I first bought a Walkman cassette player, I found I hardly used it after the first couple of weeks and suspect the same thing would happen with an ipod.

I've owned 3 ipods to date.

My first one was a 5th gen video. I bought it because it seemed to do what I wanted it to do. I don't expect much out of such a device. I don't expect stellar sound quality, since we're dealing with compressed audio anyway. I don't care about videos, radio, games, or whatever else. I just want something that plays music, holds a lot of it, doesn't take too long to transfer, and is generally portable.

And that's exactly what I got with the video. Except, that one was a buggy piece of crap that would constantly freeze and just spontaneously delete everything on it. I exchanged it for a new one (at no cost to me, as it should be), and used an ipod shuffle my dad won at a golf tournament. That this was awful. I can't help but wonder what was going through the head of the Apple designer who thought that thing up. "Lets design a music player with NO VISUAL INTERFACE!" Even that little shuffle could hold a bit under 100 songs. When you're looking for a particular song, and you have 100 of them to filter through, having no visual interface SUCKS.

But, once I got my new video, everything has been working completely flawlessly since.

People will likely argue that other companies produce better products with more features. I don't doubt it. But I don't care. The ipod was relatively cheap, and does what I want it to do. I'm not some rabid Apple fanboi... I've yet to own any other Apple product (though that may change, as I'm growing tired of the instability of XP, and my experiences with Vista have been analogous to playing hide and seek in a maze with a mouse, where time periodically freezes, and you have to start from scratch), but the ipod just seemed to fit my needs. If this one breaks, I'll probably buy another one.

Their format is too restrictive...and at the time I purchased my Samsung Yep, it was much less expensive and had more features.

Is it really so hard to integrate an FM radio into a portable device? Seems everyone but Apple is doing it. Since I prefer to listen to the radio in the morning during my workout, I've stayed away. Oh yeah, and the cost (like all things Apple) is too high to justify.

I've used various Sansa mp3 players until I recently picked up a first gen Zune 30. Integrated podcast support and a fully functioning FM radio are a winning combination for me.

I've never had an iPod of my own, though I'm impressed with both the current and the previous Nano. I bought the previous one for my daughter for Christmas 2006, and the new Nano for my son this past Christmas. But when it was time to get my own player last year, I ended up going for a Sansa e260, which I quite like. It had a number of features the iPods lack, and the one that mattered to me was its ability to record via a built-in microphone. I'm an actor, and wanted that as a tool to help in memorizing scripts.

Is an iPod in my future? Maybe!

I buy things I think are cool."

I am not saying that is the only reason. I am sure many people have weighed the pros and cons and settled on one iPod or another. But come Christmas time, it is amazing the people who will tell you they want an iPod, and then cannot tell you why. If you want something for no reason (other than "buzz") then you are a dork. A few episodes of South Park will teach you that. Cartman is a dork who hounds him mother to buy him status symbols.

I NEVER WANTED AN IPOD!
Well the first ipod i got was a defective unit that my buddy bought from bestbuy, he called apple about a clicking noise it made before it shutdown. Sorta like what the zunes were all facing before they went over to solid state storage. So he called apple and they refused to honor the warrenty and told him it would be like 150 to fix it, so frustrated he got and a piece of junk ipod i got. >.> i was like whoopdi-doo. So i tried my hand at it, well long story short i got apple to honor their warrenty and take mine aswell as ship a replacement all fer free. LOL well i was surprised that from the time mine left the house till the time i got the replacement it was only like 3 days. By this time my friend got an OLD creative brick offa ebay. he still uses that 20 gig brick of lead today LOL. Well i turned around and sold it ( 2nd gen 20gig ) right away to purchase an m:robe ( 5gig ) So, technically speaking, i later got 4 ipods in the exact same way ( m:robe battery leaked a few days after i bought it, returned under warrenty ) Got the ipod back from the guy i sold it to, he couldnt get it working on his pc, so off and on i kept selling the free icraps i kept getting. UNTIL i got a psp, remained my mp3 player till i got the Creative Zen Vision: W. Which i have, will keep, and protect like a chunk of gold. LOL Ipods, outdated and overrated/overhyped, gimmicked. T.T *passerby: dude you dropped yer ipod! *me: thats ok, i never liked it anyway.

I got my first ipod "free" with the purchase of a Macbook. I used it no stop for the first 6 months I owned it and haven't touched it sense. It's been almost a year.

The 1st one I got was the Mini. It worked great for a long time, but I eventually abused it to death. While I had that one, I got a Shuffle for camping, hiking and my wife running. That one worked great, but as with the Mini, the construction left a little to be desired and we eventually wore it out, too.

Currently, my wife uses a newer (metal case) Shuffle, and a year later, it looks brand new. I got a 3rd Gen. Nano just before Christmas, and it is awesome!

Some people complain about the proprietary nature of iTunes and Apple's products. I'm certainly no fanboi (in fact, I can't stand their computers and their commercials just tick me off!), but I heartily recommend the iPod (any of them, really) as a good, all-around mp3 player. Sure, if there's a special need you want (FM Tuner, etc...) you may find a better player, but for my money, and my standard needs (I just want a good player, with decent features, which is easy to use and doesn't cost a fortune) my iPods have worked great!

I've always carried my digital stuff on my pda. With the HTC Mogul being my constant companion, I have access to music and all my movies at home via Orb. No need for any ipod. I don't carry a big purse around, just a phone wallet that hold my phone and bank card. The world is always at my fingertips with my All-in-One phone-pda.

I received my iPod touch 16gb as a Christmas gift, as I hinted to the gift-giver that I wanted it. If I hadn't received it as a gift I would have bought it because of the features. Before the Touch came out, I would NEVER have bought an iPod, because they lack so many features that other, cheaper players have, but this was the only player available that was just the right size w/ a nice touch screen and WiFi, plus it has one of the best, if not the best interface for a portable device on the market. I am, however, somewhat upset about the recent update, as the new units being shipped from the factory include it, as do all iPhones for free, and Macs come with great software included. If you just bought a Mac, you don't have to pay to get iLife, and iPhones include everything you need when you buy them. Please send emails to apple/Steve Jobs to maybe get this price changed. If there were changes in pricing, or removal of update cost entirely as a result of emails, This would make, I'm sure, a lot of early adopters (like myself) very happy.