ipod Touch

[david-avfc]

HeathfieldRoad1874 - 16/6/2013 21:51

To be fair Beefy, if that's what you want, then an iPod is hard to beat. You can get loads of great MP3 players, but if you want a dock, then they all have limited options.

Much as I dislike Apple, an iPod sounds your best bet. Just be aware you will need to use iTunes to get your stuff onto it (I think that is still correct, but no doubt someone will correct me if they have changed).

You still need iTunes, but its a free and easy download. iPod is the best specialist MP3 player, but the iPhone is just as good and is a phone...
Don't bother with other Mp3 players, you never know how good they will be, they could be crap especially as Apple has the majority of the market anyway.

 

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Beovilla - 16/6/2013 20:00

Bought an ipod classic (160 gig?) about 5 years ago. I now have it in the car happy as Larry that I have thousands upon thousands of songs to listen to when driving around. In the home, I was exactly as Saurat is above until a few months ago (Flac only). I needed a new cabinet or something for all the CDs and, as I like to keep my place as minimalist as possible, I wasn't too keen on the idea. So I went out and bought a Cambridge Audio Network Music Player and stream from a nas drive. The latter is 2 TB and all music is stored as flac or wav files (occasionally 320 kbps if that's all I have). Quality is absolutely fantastic through my system (actually sounds better than the Technics CD player I was using before) and I now have more space in the living room. Also love the internet radio on the network player as well as all the podcasts you can get. Not the cheapest option by far, but I decided to plan a little longer term (if that is possible these days?!).

Thing is I love having something to look at and read, I love having the cover artwork, title listings, personnel and recording dates, etc. It's a vital part of my listening pleasure. I arrange them as I want using design software, print them out on high-quality paper and cut them to fit the cd case. As for space, I actually prefer the slimline cd jewel-cases which is barely thicker than the cd itself. There is no 'side' to read the name of the album, but I pretty much know where everything is anyway! You can get twice as many cd's on a shelf :)

 

[Beovilla]

Saurat - 17/6/2013 18:51

Beovilla - 16/6/2013 20:00

Bought an ipod classic (160 gig?) about 5 years ago. I now have it in the car happy as Larry that I have thousands upon thousands of songs to listen to when driving around. In the home, I was exactly as Saurat is above until a few months ago (Flac only). I needed a new cabinet or something for all the CDs and, as I like to keep my place as minimalist as possible, I wasn't too keen on the idea. So I went out and bought a Cambridge Audio Network Music Player and stream from a nas drive. The latter is 2 TB and all music is stored as flac or wav files (occasionally 320 kbps if that's all I have). Quality is absolutely fantastic through my system (actually sounds better than the Technics CD player I was using before) and I now have more space in the living room. Also love the internet radio on the network player as well as all the podcasts you can get. Not the cheapest option by far, but I decided to plan a little longer term (if that is possible these days?!).

Thing is I love having something to look at and read, I love having the cover artwork, title listings, personnel and recording dates, etc. It's a vital part of my listening pleasure. I arrange them as I want using design software, print them out on high-quality paper and cut them to fit the cd case. As for space, I actually prefer the slimline cd jewel-cases which is barely thicker than the cd itself. There is no 'side' to read the name of the album, but I pretty much know where everything is anyway! You can get twice as many cd's on a shelf :)

I fully understand what you say; very much the same myself. It was a dilemma (!) I thought long and hard about beforehand. But, firstly, I welcome the extra space and, secondly, I no longer find myself constantly printing and cutting out artwork etc. So now, when listening to music I often find myself being dragged to Wikipedia and finding out a lot more than I used to with just the covers.

 

[Beovilla]

I 'found myself' a lot in that last post. Amazing what a new music system can do!

 

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Looks a great bit of kit that Cambridge Audio, Beovilla. I love nice bits of shiny kit!! But I couldn't do without the covers. I'm an artist-designer, so that whole thing about laying it all out, cutting out the image and slotting it into the jewel case is a joy for me, not a chore. Spend a fortune on paper and inks though! Also I listen mostly to jazz from the 50's and 60's, when the record covers were often works of art in themselves.

I'd love to be able to afford the original vinyl and the audiophile equipment to go with it, but those records go for hundreds, sometimes thousands of pounds now. Even cd's can't approach high-end vinyl sound. But I'm not in that league, so I stick to free flac downloads!