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Post by Zi on Nov 15, 2023 10:32:49 GMT
Is that a gadget. Not sure. My husband said he'd like a (new) MP3 player as the old one has died. I offered to get him one as a stocking filler as he said he wanted a seriously cheap one and told me what seriously cheap was. Must admit, I thought I'd misheard or he'd misread but no - the technology has arrived as it's now small enough and cheap enough to stick in a Christmas cracker...
However, while I was looking at them I found out that Apple have abandoned the iPod without my realising... Where have I been? So, what do people now use on the trains and tubes? Is it all tablets? or is everything on the mobile phone or what?
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Post by keff on Nov 19, 2023 16:36:41 GMT
Not sure if I ever knew iPods existed. I do think that smart phones are taking over. In the hotel we recently visited I could connect our smart phone to their Wi-Fi but not our laptop because to do so you had to read a QR image.
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Post by Zi on Nov 20, 2023 10:15:08 GMT
I don't use my mobile phone for anything other than verification so recently I changed to an extremely dumb phone with massive buttons and effectively a yes and a no button. It's brilliant. It hardly ever needs charging and cost next to nothing. I really struggle to understand anything people say to me on the phone and on a mobile they may as well be speaking in Martian. I'm not a laptop person either. I have to have a huge PC that takes a lot of the desk and the lights dim over the village when I switch it on or I don't feel that I have a real computer...  I've tried the laptop/tablet thing and I associate them with chemo so it's better this other route. However, I did like my iPods. They kept me company when I was doing the long commutes. |
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Post by pavane on Nov 26, 2023 13:58:08 GMT
Mrs P and I both had iPods (the old fashioned ones that still had controls that made some sort of sense) but they died some time ago and they had already stopped making them by then. I bought a little dedicated MP3 player that took an SD card so you could put lots of music on it, but it was fiddly to use and for some reason would only play tracks in the correct order if you loaded the album by title, chosen from the list of every album it could find on the card. That was awkward, but the easier way (for me) of going via genre/composer always played the tracks in random order which would annoy me with any album I was familiar with but was hopeless for classical. Now, I just use the phone. I have a cheap basic one, stays charged for 3 days, and also takes an SD card, so I have a huge quantity of music available all the time. Mrs P's iPhone is useless because it's virtually impossible to store music on the phone, it has to be streamed from some sort of iCloud thingy, so no music if you're out and about. Most phone apps for playing music are pretty irritating though - it took me a while to find something I could live with.
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Post by Zi on Nov 28, 2023 12:52:54 GMT
I can't get on with things on a card - I like the artwork on CDs - a hangover from LPs I guess... I can never find anything on cards either. And it's not the same as looking through a stack of CDs. There's nothing to make me think: Oh, I fancy listening to that... it's just words words words...
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Post by pavane on Nov 28, 2023 20:40:38 GMT
I agree - we only use music on the phone if we are away. I think part of the thing about vinyl is the covers: because they are so much bigger, you can get some good artwork on them, and shuffling through a pile of them and thinking "haven't listened to this for a while..." is a nice thing to do. At home, we still mostly buy CDs and have hundreds of them, and it is good to browse through them and pick something to listen to. Regarding LPs, I realised there is also that little bit of anticipation you get with them. With CDs, you put them in, press a button, and after a period of complete silence the music starts. There is no way I'd switch back to LPs given the huge range of glitches they are subject to, but that thing of dropping the stylus onto the record, and the thump as it finds the groove, then a bit of hissing etc and a moment or so of silence (maybe!) and then the music starts, it's more like the conductor taking to the podium, a bit of blah blah with 1st violin, maybe a bit of tapping, audience shifts around a bit, everything settles, and then the music starts. There's a performative aspect to the whole thing that CDs don't have.
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I've tried the laptop/tablet thing and I associate them with chemo so it's better this other route.