Me got iPod!
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:01 pm
I got an iPod yay! 160GBs of gloriousness. 7 hours of video playback or 40 hours of music playback on a single charge. £239.
I had a Zen before, only 20GB and 6 hours battery, no video. I cost around £200 when I bought it, so things have definitely moved on. But despite all those cool specs about the iPod I have to admit the main reason I went looking for a replacement for my Zen was the fact that it wouldn't cope with compilations; my artists list was filled with hundreds of artists containing a single track. I spent hours making amendments to the ID3 tags so that I could achieve some kind of decent findability and the drivers were dodgy, I'd plug it in but it appeared no-one was actually informing the operating system of that fact. Companies really need to learn from Apple, they make sure "just work" and until others are prepared to put the necessary effort and budgets in place for achieve the same nobody is going to be able to compete and that's a shame because I don't particularly like the fact that I just spent 239 quid on a cliché.
I had a Zen before, only 20GB and 6 hours battery, no video. I cost around £200 when I bought it, so things have definitely moved on. But despite all those cool specs about the iPod I have to admit the main reason I went looking for a replacement for my Zen was the fact that it wouldn't cope with compilations; my artists list was filled with hundreds of artists containing a single track. I spent hours making amendments to the ID3 tags so that I could achieve some kind of decent findability and the drivers were dodgy, I'd plug it in but it appeared no-one was actually informing the operating system of that fact. Companies really need to learn from Apple, they make sure "just work" and until others are prepared to put the necessary effort and budgets in place for achieve the same nobody is going to be able to compete and that's a shame because I don't particularly like the fact that I just spent 239 quid on a cliché.