{"id":35,"date":"2004-09-21T22:46:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T22:46:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T07:21:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:21:15","slug":"i-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/09\/21\/i-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"I, iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have wanted an MP3 player for a while, and my upcoming UK trip forced the issue \u2013 I do not want to get on another freaking plane without some portable tunes.  I will cover this in more detail later, but I decided on an iPod 4G 40GB unit.  Pricy, but ultimately super user friendly, simple to use, extremely portable, and ultra-sexy.<\/p>\n<p>I just started using the iTunes software to burn my CDs and upload them to my trusty new iPod.  I have not even touched the surface of my collection yet \u2013 I have only used 1.10GB of storage space (at 128 kbps using built in AAC Encoder), which comes out to 289 songs, good for 20.5 freaking hours of music.  Holy f*c^!  That is a lot of damn music.<\/p>\n<p>I have to hand it to Apple for making everything so damn easy.  From the word go you know that you are dealing with a stylistic, easy to use product.  From the square box, with plenty of \u201cMade by Apple in California\u201d imprints, to the iPods jog wheel, to the extremely small and light-weight design, the iPod is made for ease of use.  I guess sexy is also the operative of the day \u2013 Apple makes the whole process of getting up and running, using the iPod, and using iTunes to sort and upload your music library a complete breeze.  Sexy rules.  Easy of use is what drives adoption, and Apple looks to have this digital music thing figured out.<\/p>\n<p>I am really impressed with the iTunes software \u2013 it allows me to easily convert my CDs to uploadable formats and of course upload to the iPod.  This process is fairly quick and easy.  What is really cool is that I can put my own rating on each song (1-5 stars) and use that to help determine my play lists.  I have read that I can create my own play lists, but I have not played around with this feature; I assume it will be as simple as everything else has been with my iPod from the word go.  The iTunes software also tracks the number of times a song has been played, and when a song was last played.  All in all, very impressive stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to venture into the world of downloading music from the iTunes music store \u2013 it seems too damn easy to drop a ton of cash in a hurry.  I do not know about you, but $0.99 songs will pile up on my credit card quickly.  As with the rest of the iPod world, the story is also stylistic and easy to use.  You can quickly search for songs by artists, title, and more.  I have always loved \u201cVoices Carry\u201d by \u2018Till Tuesday, so I did a search by song title and found two different versions of the song in no time flat.  As I said, this can get expensive in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to go on a tangent, but I like to \u201cown\u201d stuff, and I do not illegally download music.  It is a subject for another debate, but $0.99 per song should be low enough for anyone to afford.  It will be interesting to see if any sort of trends will be able to identify if cheap digital music slows down music piracy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll update more about my iPod later, but for now let me say that my iPod absolutely rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/nucleus\/images\/reviews\/ratings\/rating_buy.gif\" alt=\"Buy\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have wanted an MP3 player for a while, and my upcoming UK trip forced the issue \u2013 I do not want to get on another freaking plane without some portable tunes. I will cover this in more detail later, but I decided on an iPod 4G 40GB unit. Pricy, but ultimately super user friendly, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/09\/21\/i-ipod\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I, iPod<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}