The 300GB iPod and you
By Ryan Block 
posted March 14th 2005 5:20PM
posted March 14th 2005 5:20PM
We'll spare you the obligatory iPod pimping commentary—namely because we're sure you'd rather just let our mad-scientist sister site hackaday make the effort to see the disgusted looks on the faces of friends and family at an iPod abomination—but if you have to be the only kid on the block with a totally wacked out 300GB iPod connected umbilically to a 3.5-inch (that's desktop, size) hard drive via adapted mini-IDE cable, be our guest. 75k songs in yr "pocket," dudes!
P.S. Don't forget FoxTrot!
[Via hackaday]
I swear, this was lampooned in the "FoxTrot" comic strip a few months ago...the geeky kid made something called a "jPod", that contained no storage but had to be attached to an external hard drive to operate...
Now we're talking!
Let's start sell external hd mods...
Do the Math.
75,000 Tracks @ Itunes = $75,000.00
1,000,000 Tracks @ Napster = 14.95 a Month.
:-)
napsters service still sucks.....i stick with itunes cause i like to own my music forever.
and also be able to do more with it than jus have it on the computer and mp3 player.....
"ANd you cant burn them to cds."
Daryl: You can, just not from within Napster:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000910031543/
Finally! An iPod that can hold all of my music! (For now, at least...)
"Do the Math.
75,000 Tracks @ Itunes = $75,000.00
1,000,000 Tracks @ Napster = 14.95 a Month.
:-)"
Please tell me you don't work for Nasa..
Oh and no mention of a 300GB disk in the original article.. the guy tried it with a 6GB one. Wonder if the ipod has something of a max partition size. Not that I'm willing to trash mine to find out.
actually 75,000 songs in iTunes wouls cost $74,250, and that's if you bought no albums, just individual songs. But I think it's totally stupid to compare prices between iTunes and Napster since with Napster you never own your music,
I don't mean to nitpick, but when you guys say you "own" your music with itunes, it is all a matter of perspective. The only thing that you "own", is a license to play the music file on a limited number of computers, burn it to disc a limited number of times, and listen to it, I guess. The only difference with Napster is that you get a more limited license to an unlimited amount of music.
Yes, if you don't pay for Napster for a month, you lose the right to play your Napster tracks until you start paying your subscription again. And you know guys, you can still "own the music", you just have to pay an additional fee of $.79 per song, I think.
It's. . . ALIVE!
here is the link to the foxtrot comic strip with the jpod
http://www.naquada.co.uk/archives/jpod.gif
Who has 300GB of music anyway? 75000 songs? You probably need a year to listen to them..
That's over 400 CDs with no compression. Or maybe 800 CDs if you use Apple's lossless compression. So there is some value to a huge hard drive. Battery life must suck, though.
Go to allofmp3.com You can download the whole cd in almost any format for about a buck. I think it is 2 pennies a mg. The site is russian, but there is an english version if you click the link
"Who has 300GB of music anyway? 75000 songs? You probably need a year to listen to them.."
Umm...I just gots me a new $230 400GB
HD and even that is filling up quickly. When will you boys realize Napster/Rhapsody/MMatch etc. streaming services can be permanently owned? SeniOr hit it right on the nose.
you guyz all are crazy.
if u actually pay for msuic.. well I will spare you ridicule for actually spending money LOL!
i only believe in spending money on hardware (real upgrades with physical object), not software :-p
its the power of the people!
and btw, ipods that use only itunes sux. mp3 and wma is far > itunes and been around longer
oh and instead of ipod, get zen b/c besides all the things it can do that own an ipod, it also plays everything greater than itunes and more popular formats!
oh and u can use the hdd as a removable device (to store files).. oh and u also get an extra gig compared to the prices of the ipod :p
prob could replace the hdd 2...