laceblade | Consumerism!

After 7.5 months, I have finally admitted to myself that my generic mp3 player is lost, and that it is time to buy a new one.

What I primarily use my mp3 player for: music, especially listening to songs in the car. It'd be nice to bring this thing with me and plug it in at work, or on my laptop, and listen to stuff while writing, chilling out, working whatever.

I would also like to put podcasts/downloaded audio books/podfic on to an mp3 player. Is this possible with iPod?

If it happens to have video on it (so that I can download NANA or Honey & Clover anime/etc.), that'd be cool, too.

Also, there are a few games that might be interesting (after a brief look-through at Apple.com, Spore and Star Wars: Force Unleashed jumped out at me).

But mostly, it's about music that's easy to get on the player, organize, and listen to. After that, cheapness is cool. Also, I want it to be easy to get music on there that doesn't come from CDs/iTunes. I have lots of anime music and random stand-alone stuff.

I think that an iPod Touch might be too much for me....I'd rather read LJ and news websites on a computer/physical paper. If there are things I should know about it, feel free to inform me.

iPod Nanos are cute, but you get 8 GB, versus 120 GB with an iPod Classic. Is 120 GB way too much? Is it worth the price for so much more space? I could probably live with 8 GB. I have more books than music.

I'm planning on buying whatever I get new.

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I have an iPod Touch, and I love it. I'm not sure if the games you're mentioning are for the Classic, or if they're apps for the Touch/iPhone, but there are tons of games available for the Touch via the app store, many of which are free and the rest of which are fairly cheap. If you'll use the music, video, and app functions of the iPod touch, I would consider it an economical choice even if you don't plan on utilizing the internet-browsing capabilities (which do require a wifi network anyway). Though I suppose I'm not sure how much music/video you'll want to have on there at any given time - I find that 8 GB is more than enough for me, but obviously some people will want more than that.

Yeah, I know you can also get the Nano for 16 GB, although it ups the cost about $50. I guess I'll look and see what the best deal seems to be at Best Buy, when I go.

I love my generic MP3 player, mainly because it is so darned versatile. No extraneous programs to have to load songs with. Just a simple drag-and-drop flash drive setup. It has saved me from a great many headaches in shuffling music on and off of it and my computer.

My Sansa is 2 gigs and I found that adequate to go on a road trip down to Mississippi and back without hearing the same song twice unless I wanted to. It can't carry every song I have, but it does what I need it to. And it makes up for that fact in its amazing versatility.

So, me, not a huge believer in Ipod.

I do like versatility, although when I had my generic one (it wasn't Sansa, it was a Creative Zen), I found it really annoying to make/edit playlists, which is something I'd like to be able to do, especially for writing purposes.

I'll definitely peruse the generic versions when I go to Best Buy, though, to see what all is available.

When making a purchase like that, you do need to ask yourself how much you think you're going to need, storage-wise. However, you also need to think about what you're going to do with the stuff you put on it. Are you going to put and keep everything you have on it, or are you going to only put certain things on it as suits your mood/needs at that time?

If you're like me, you're probably going to put everything you have on it, and keep it there. And that is the reason that I got the largest iPod available (which was the 80gb at the time) and I'd suggest you do the same, if you're planning on keeping everything on it all the time.

Additionally, think about how likely you are to add things to the iPod once you have that ability. Are you likely to purchase that one extra app/song/movie/tv show because you know you're paying less? Or how likely you are to buy the version of that new dvd that has the digital copy included because you can add it right to your iPod.

I would suggest getting the top of the line when you're ready to make that purchase. Because if you don't, you may end up thinking about the features you don't have, wishing you had them. Plus, it's an investment in your own entertainment, really. And you don't want to cheat yourself when it comes to your own entertainment.

My ipod touch owns my life now. I don't know what I did without it. I use it for everything, the new version of the ipod touch software even has a search function, so if you don't want to scroll through all your songs/artists/albums to find that particular song that you don't remember the title of, but you know that the word 'monkey' is in there somewhere - you open up search, type monkey, click on the song and away you go. Best. Toy. Ever.

Well in regards to anime, I'm not quite sure what your preferences are on subs vs. dubs or torrented fansubs vs. actually buying and downloading from a legitimate source, but I can tell you that the screen on the nano is way too tiny to read subtitles, unless you really, really want to squint. It's okay for non-subbed things though.

I almost always prefer subtitled anime. I like buying DVDs of my favorite shows, but I never buy a series without first having seen it via Netflix or by downloading fansubs before it has been licensed in the U.S. I'm a pretty huge fan of Funimation putting streaming anime up only days after it's aired in Japan, though. I feel that my use of fansubs will probably go way down, due to that availability.

I ended up going with the iPod Classic over the iPod Nano. At the store, we could watch the Watchmen trailer on it, and I could read all the text, even the "This preview has been approved for all ages" stuff. I'll let the Internet know how things go when I test out the anime!

I love my iPod Touch for the various organizational apps, including a calorie counter that has been really helpful. It might be too much iPod, though, and so I'd recommend a Classic if you think you'd never use the apps. Ethan has one, and watches Family Guy comfortably on the screen.

You should definitely check out the many anime podcasts, video and audio, on iTunes!

I've been checking out anime podcasts, and am so far disgusted, :( I will blog about it, though!

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