{"id":298,"date":"2005-09-11T10:16:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T10:16:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-11T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T10:16:53","slug":"time-to-eat-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/09\/11\/time-to-eat-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Eat Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am man enough to admit when I am wrong.  And folks, I was wrong about the iPod.  Two key events in the past few weeks caused me to start copying my CD collection this weekend using the Apple lossless codec.  Once that is finished, I\u2019ll be purchasing a 60 GB iPod Photo.<\/p>\n<p>What caused such a transformation?  My parents purchased an iPod 1GB Shuffle for my oldest daughter (birthday present) and I was very impressed with the design.  Sure, it feels like a memory stick with audio controls, but the little device looks nice.  I visited my local Best Buy and re-examined the iPod (after my many month use of the Creative Zen XTRA) to find that I really liked how the device worked and felt compared to the Zen.<\/p>\n<p>The second and final nail in my Zen XTRA\u2019s coffin came when I discovered that the geniuses at Creative decided than the Zen would not work with any lossless codec except for WAV files.  The sound quality, even at 320 Kb realaudio AAC, just isn\u2019t up to my standards for compressed audio files.  I can particularly tell the difference on any bass heavy tunes.  I thought I would just re-record my CDs in lossless format, suffer with my Zen\u2019s poor design, and life would be good.  No such luck.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s off to Best Buy in a couple of weeks with my hat in hand to eat a big old plate of crow and join the iPod revolution.  Very late, but late is better than never in this instance.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>Well, I am man enough to admit when I am wrong. And folks, I was wrong about the iPod. Two key events in the past few weeks caused me to start copying my CD collection this weekend using the Apple lossless codec. Once that is finished, I\u2019ll be purchasing a 60 GB iPod Photo. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/09\/11\/time-to-eat-crow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time To Eat Crow<\/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=\"https:\/\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}