I am going to buy an iPod today - my gut it to buy the regular 20gb one. Any thoughts or suggestions otherwise?
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msbelle - Jun 09, 2005 10:37:47 am PDT #3283 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
§ ita § - Jun 09, 2005 10:43:23 am PDT #3284 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How many CDs do you have, and how many do you want to carry around with you?
msbelle - Jun 09, 2005 10:45:23 am PDT #3285 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am not exactly sure how many I have, maybe 400-500? I certainly don't need them all with me, like not the Holiday songs.
Fred Pete - Jun 09, 2005 10:50:45 am PDT #3286 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
msbelle, sounds like you have -- let's say 5000-6000 songs you'd want to download, at most?
I have 9500+/- compressed to radio quality, taking up about 18.5GB on my 40GB iPod. So 20GB might be pushing it, especially if you want CD quality and/or hope to add more in the future. Because, at least with the version I have (purchased summer '03), it's very, very difficult to erase songs.
tommyrot - Jun 09, 2005 10:52:33 am PDT #3287 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, it depends on how anal you are about sound quality. At the "standard" 128 kbps sampling rate you should get about 400 CDs onto a 20 Gig model. I insist on using a higher sampling rate (average of about 196 kbps) so the 40 Gig model just barely contains my music (gonna have to buy a 60 Gig model in the next few months or so).
msbelle - Jun 09, 2005 10:53:44 am PDT #3288 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the 40 and 60 gb are "photo" iPods, right?
tommyrot - Jun 09, 2005 10:54:44 am PDT #3289 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The 30 and 60 Gig are "photo" iPods. There is no longer a 40 Gig model....
msbelle - Jun 09, 2005 10:57:12 am PDT #3290 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ah. The more I think about how much music I have, the more I think a 20 will be fine. There is no way that I'll want every song off every CD. It'll be a start.
I might eventually have to get different ones for my different types of music as I have thought all along.
THANKS.
Dana - Jun 09, 2005 11:47:30 am PDT #3291 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I've just told my boss that I'm fairly confident there's a javascript function that will allow one to show/hide certain sections of a webpage. For example, if I wanted to have a menu that acted kind of like a tree that I could explode at will (right term, right? clicking on the plus sign to view everything one level down), javascript could be used to put in a toggle kind of behavior, couldn't it?
tommyrot - Jun 09, 2005 11:54:48 am PDT #3292 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've just told my boss that I'm fairly confident there's a javascript function that will allow one to show/hide certain sections of a webpage. For example, if I wanted to have a menu that acted kind of like a tree that I could explode at will (right term, right? clicking on the plus sign to view everything one level down), javascript could be used to put in a toggle kind of behavior, couldn't it?
I don't know if there's a single function that does this, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. If you do a search you can probably find code that someone's written to do this.
maybe this? [link]
google "javascript tree menu" (without the quotes)