Ok well everyone knows about the ipod and other mp3 players and such and they're great little inventions and you can pack ever track you own onto one of these small user friendly devices. IT's great right? Well i'm here to say no, it's not so great. I think the experience of learning about and artist, going to a cd store and browsing and picking up cd's that you came there to buy and some you didn't is great! The more i think about it the more i relize how much i truelly love CD's, the whole experience is great. You get excited and frustrated opening the obnoxious plastic covering, holding the cd with care and putting it to player in your discman. It's all a great experience if you think about it.
CD players are superior to ipods because you're forced to listen to ever track on a cd, you can't decide "oh i wanna listen to this other artist for a bit and then come back." You get 1 artist telling their story in 1 consecutive manner. When a cd is new you absorb every word, every note. You think "hey i know what this artist is getting at." You take the time to enjoy their music because you're forced to. And isn't that what music is about? Isn't that what true musical artist really want from their fans? To let every word and note seep into their system, for their fans to truelly get something out of the experience of listening to their albums.
You just can't get that from an Ipod, and so even though i'll be getting a PSP soon (which can play mp3s) i'll still carry around my good ole bulky & big cd player because i don't want to cheat myself out of a great experience.
And that's a load of crap if I've ever heard it, you can skip around on CDs as well. And you can listen to an album straight through on an iPod or MP3 player. Some people simply LIKE listening to music in a random order, which is why people make mix CDs. Having an iPod doesn't force you to not listen to an album straight through, just as only listening to CDs mean that you will. You can get the same musical experience from an iPod that you can a CD player and you don't have to worry about CDs having to get lost or destroyed, and you can carry a LOT more music with you. Simple as.
yeah right and then you drop the damn thing and it chips/cracks/scratches/breaks I'm real excited. Yeah super excited about the fact that i have to shell out another twenty notes to get it repaired .
I like CDs in the sense of buying my favorite artists and having the physical DVD of just that band (I'm kind of a collector, just like I wouldn't just want Movies on my computer, I have a beautiful DVD collection). However, just because I like CDs doesn't mean that dislike Ipods (or other Mp3 players) and would refuse to get/use one. I'd just still buy a lot of CDs and put them on my computer and transfer them to my iPod and leave my CDs in my room.
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Firstly Why is everyone talking about ipods ... other Mp3 players do exist y'know.. like Creative Zen which is totally better than iPod
iPods suck!
and why do I get the impression reading your post that if you buy an Mp3 player you'll never buy a CD ever again.. you can still buy Cd's load them on your computer and rip it onto your Mp3 Player.... you still get to open them all specially and put them into something... if that's what you worry about losing...
Mp3 Players far rule over CD players as you don't have to carry around bulky cd's and because mp3 players come in the smallest of sizes they don't take up much room either...
I can put my iPod in the front pocket of my jeans (where generally I can't fit anything but some cash), and it has games on it.
One of my friends had a Creative Zen, dropped it on accident, and that was the end of it...I've dropped my iPod several times and all that's happened is it's gotten scratched.
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Aug 19th, 2005 07:47 AM
....best of both worlds 
