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revenge of the pod people
Friday, 9 May 2008 10:13 amRight, so this is the bit where ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mac1235 gets to gloat a lot. I've been joyously bouncing around my gym routine to the strains of David Bowie from an Ipod for the last year and a bit. At the start of this process I professed myself happy with the Ipod and the functions it performed. This contentment has, alas, eroded over time, until I am Officially Not Happy. This is for various reasons:
1. ITunes. The assemblage of geeks who roasted me for my professed ITunes contentment was, alas, correct: the way that ITunes locks up your music is unacceptably fascist. I'd like an MP3 player to be a viable way of porting music from home to office without me having to rip each CD twice. Phooey.
2. Size. While I like the robust metallic finish of the IPod, it's actually too large for convenient gym portage - it lives in my pocket, and at intervals yanks out the earphone plug with the sadistic panache of a practical joker. Tchah.
3. Angst. Said IPod doesn't actually belong to me, it's a loan fromdragonroost, and it's a tossup whether he recalls it before I accidentally drop it into the pool at the gym and have to flee the country. Oops.
So, for extra credit, and writing on one side of the paper only, please specify and outline the features, pleasing or otherwise, of your recommended MP3 player for mainly gym use, with reasons for your choice. Topics may include, but are not limited to, interface, software, price, size, style and availability. Extra marks for dissing ITunes.
Last Night I Dreamed: weird SCA dreams, including a beautifully-costumed event held by my local Shire on a tennis court in Harare, and a subsequent sea voyage on a tall ship crewed entirely by hairy SCA fighters. Awoke strangely exhausted.
mac1235 gets to gloat a lot. I've been joyously bouncing around my gym routine to the strains of David Bowie from an Ipod for the last year and a bit. At the start of this process I professed myself happy with the Ipod and the functions it performed. This contentment has, alas, eroded over time, until I am Officially Not Happy. This is for various reasons:1. ITunes. The assemblage of geeks who roasted me for my professed ITunes contentment was, alas, correct: the way that ITunes locks up your music is unacceptably fascist. I'd like an MP3 player to be a viable way of porting music from home to office without me having to rip each CD twice. Phooey.
2. Size. While I like the robust metallic finish of the IPod, it's actually too large for convenient gym portage - it lives in my pocket, and at intervals yanks out the earphone plug with the sadistic panache of a practical joker. Tchah.
3. Angst. Said IPod doesn't actually belong to me, it's a loan from
dragonroost, and it's a tossup whether he recalls it before I accidentally drop it into the pool at the gym and have to flee the country. Oops.So, for extra credit, and writing on one side of the paper only, please specify and outline the features, pleasing or otherwise, of your recommended MP3 player for mainly gym use, with reasons for your choice. Topics may include, but are not limited to, interface, software, price, size, style and availability. Extra marks for dissing ITunes.
Last Night I Dreamed: weird SCA dreams, including a beautifully-costumed event held by my local Shire on a tennis court in Harare, and a subsequent sea voyage on a tall ship crewed entirely by hairy SCA fighters. Awoke strangely exhausted.
