Also, though I would love to carry around my whole collection, when was the last time I listened to Thomas Dolby.
In my case, a couple days ago...
On my recent trip I used my PPC with a radio transmitter to provide tunes for car rides. I have a 512MB CF and a 256MB SD card in my Axim. I had 3 directories of music. One for just me for on the plane and airport<->hotel driving, one for listening with my former boss and co-workers, and one for classic rock, leaning towards prog rock (Hendrix, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, etc).
I put on the classic rock for a drive with some colleagues that were of the classic rock era. That was a big hit.
If the trip were any longer, though (it was 4 days) or there was a lot more driving, I would have wanted more space.
Of course, I had most things encoded OGG at 160. So I probably could scale that back a few notches and fit more stuff.
My setup is exactly the same.
Although I love "Golden age of Wireless" (how prophetic)
I rarely listen to my whole collection at any given time. (Cocteau Twins, Gary Numan etc.).
1 - 4 gigs is more than enough for me to swap out my new tastes for old every couple of weeks.
Example; My fiance only listens to her new favorite albums (Dido or Norah Jones) and I imagine many people are very similar.
15 gigs is way too much space for her and the many like her.
Doesn't mean their bad, just strange.
craig
p.s. I secretly crave a huge disk player, but being honest with myself, it is just not how I listen to music.
Jupiter said digital music players with capacities of 5,000 songs will provide too much space for most people."
I'm sorry.....I only have a 64Mg MuVo and haven't really investigated the HDD type devices, but: don't these devices also allow for portable data file storage? I carry my MuVo not just for music, but for grabbing data and carrying it around for later use on another machine.
If I was just going to store music, then yes, I probably wouldn't have more than a 1,000 songs (but that's me). However, I would still want to have as much storage as possible for pictures, books, data files, etc....
My point: you can never have too much storage capability....only too little.
Well, for anyone who's curious, I just bought the 4GB Microdrive OEM off of eBay (I'm pretty sure it was removed from a Muvo2).
The device has been fantastic in my hp2215. No battery drainage while my device is idle (tested over 5 hours of idle time) and playing an 1.5hr DivX movie on PMVP (w/ caching activated to max 12MB), the battery only went down to 46%.
I previously was employing a 512MB SD combined with a 512MB CF and was itching for more room for my videos and music. This Microdrive should hold me over for a little while longer.
Interesting comments! Sounds like some of you might be well served by Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform when it debuts later this year. :wink:
why does everyone on these boards think they are a "normal" person. :wink:
I completely agree with you. We're all the weirdos of the consumer electronics world. We can't stop wanting space.
Personally, my collection is around 7.3GB at 128kbps. So my trusty 2 year old iPod is a perfect fit. I'm waiting for the day that the iPod minis get more space before I upgrade.
why does everyone on these boards think they are a "normal" person. :wink:
We are, in our peergroup. I'd like to think we're a few levels above your average normal human - the ones out there still without PPC's and MP3 players and WiFi networks (in other words, those still living in the dark ages )
I have a 10 gigabyte Archos Jukebox Recorder. I've got hundreds on there, even audio books, but still I've only used up... oh 3 gigs thereabouts. I took it with me on holiday to the Czech Republic last year - it's close to an 8 hour drive, and we spent two weeks there. I never heard the same song twice unless I wanted to.
When I buy a new device, it's going to be one of those all in one players, that plays movies and can show pictures too. I'm taking a long hard look at the archos 320 and that Iriver pimp thing. You can never have too much space. Physically iimpossible.
Indeed, not only do we need space for songs, multi megapix images and video, some also need to carry other large files as well; like PPT presentations, databases, etc.
Remember these devices are advertized as portable HDD as well, not only MP3 or multimedia players.
So the more the better, and that's well above a few gigabytes.
Someone made a good point on here. We are well above your average consumer. My dad bought a new stereo for his van and it can play MP3's burnt on to a cd. I tried to talk him through installing my favorite ripper on the pc, CDex. He had all kinds of issued with the ASPI drivers. He finally got it installed, and I bet he has not ripped a cd yet. Other programs like iTunes go to far for people like him as well. They need to learn how to organize files first, then they can use programs like iTunes to help.
I think it is a real good point to point out that we are not the average consumer. Yeah we need space and I agree that WE can never have too much space but WE are not the average Joe from down the street.
Yes it is nice too be able to store your fotos, powerpoints, excels, videofiles etc etc but wake up, 'normal' people don't do this... (yet). A lot of people are still at the stage where they are happy if they can turn on and use a computer and figure out how to put some songs on their portable mp3 player! :wink: Let's face it most people see an ipod like a walkman and they want to listen to their latest Britney Spears, Eminem, Dido and Blink182 Albums and that's it! They are not going to rip their entire cd collection for days on end just to put them in the ipod. Also the average Joe doesn't go on business trips for several days on a regular basis.
Now I'm not saying that it isn't nice to have a 100.000 songs to choose from and not hear the same song twice during a trip or something but for a normal person it isn't an unbearable situation: Turn on the radio (not a good idea :mrgreen I bet you'll hear the same songs more than twice! Joe from the block just wants things to work an be happy, he doesn't want to do special re-encoding for videofiles and stuff like that. Joe just wants to drag and drop and listen and when he's tired of it he'll just toss it and get some new stuff. (you wouldn't want to listen to 'old'/passé music would you :roll
WE need the space because we know our stuff or like to experiment and learn... they don't, 4GB right now is more than enough for THEM.
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I'm waiting for the day that the iPod minis get more space before I upgrade.
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