@ 36 / Thill : "Then why the hell do you always have to chime in when there is an iPod article on this site??? If you are so happy with whatever crappy player you have then why are you so obsessed with hating the iPod so much?
I really do not care which friggin player you own or how great you think Napster/Yahoo/whatever is. Great. Use it and be happy. I honestly could care less if Apple had 1 million or 100 million iPod users out there, I did not buy the player for its popularity, I bought it for its simplicity, ease of use, and functionality. I own several differnt players and have found the iPod to be the player that offered the best overall experience.. Looks like I am not the only one..."
More vacuous accusations courtesy of Thill.
Do I always "chime in" every iPod article on Engadget? If you're so happy with your wonderful iPod, why bother commenting on (what you consider) "crappy" players (which you also claim to own)? Is there an obsession with what everyone else *doesn't* have or *doesn't* use, or in your opinion "secretly desires to own?"
If you don't care, why bother with your post in the first place? Post 29, made by you Thill, was all about what other people use (or don't use), yet you claim not to care. Honestly enough, I wouldn't even have addressed you had it not been for post 29 (as you noticed I didn't address post 21, as the theme in that post is completely different to post 29.)
@ 37 / tommyboy : "Mind sharing with the group what MP3 player you use and how you put music on it (music service, CD's, etc)?" According to Thill I use a Microsoft MP3-WMA player with Microsoft's subscription/rental/download service, and the reasoning behind this is because I may or may not own an iPod which I may or may not use with iTMS.
@ 40 / I.P.Freely : "WRONG! I wasn't talking about 64kbps vs 320 kbps. I was talking about 128kbps iTunes Music being burned to CD then re-ripping that and then worrying about quality. . if your concern is quality of sound, don't buy any downloaded songs to begin with.
WRONG AGAIN... Etymotic ER6 Again Mr. Peabody... WRONG... Can you stop making assumptions??? you are making ass out of yourself. If you have already settle on download service, then you get what you pay for. I make that choice on my own, but for the CD's I own, I usually use Apple Lossless to encode... so Mr. Know-It-All STFU. No one needs your help , so stop trying to sound like you know anything.
"...and once again, it's not your song; never was, never will be." Yes it is. you can do what you want with it. I have the ITMS songs, guess what, I can burn a CD or re-rip it. But since I wasn't starting out with Filet Mignon, I'm not going to complain when I get White Castle out of the deal.
Sorry, but if you own Ety's (even the lower end ones) and you are comfortable with 128kbit aac (a LOSSY format) and decoding it to CDDA, then re-encoding it to MP3 (or any other LOSSY format), you've pretty much embarrassed yourself, and lost any credibility you could've had regarding audio quality; then again, you did say "you can't tell the difference once something has been digitized." Maybe you should go back to stock earbuds, as you seemed to have wasted your money on Ety's (since 128kbps aac -> cdda/wav -> mp3 makes no difference to you, nor does 128kbps aac in general (your beloved White Castle which you probably do mistake for filet mignon.)) ...and no, you still don't own the music; you might want to look up how the record companies work in regards to "owning" music and your "rights," hint, it's similar to the movie studios and software companies. Post again I.P.Freely, as you'll do most of the work for me, don't forget to contradict yourself by mentioning Apple Lossless.
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@ 36 / Thill : "Then why the hell do you always have to chime in when there is an iPod article on this site??? If you are so happy with whatever crappy player you have then why are you so obsessed with hating the iPod so much?
I really do not care which friggin player you own or how great you think Napster/Yahoo/whatever is. Great. Use it and be happy. I honestly could care less if Apple had 1 million or 100 million iPod users out there, I did not buy the player for its popularity, I bought it for its simplicity, ease of use, and functionality. I own several differnt players and have found the iPod to be the player that offered the best overall experience.. Looks like I am not the only one..."
More vacuous accusations courtesy of Thill.
Do I always "chime in" every iPod article on Engadget?
If you're so happy with your wonderful iPod, why bother commenting on (what you consider) "crappy" players (which you also claim to own)? Is there an obsession with what everyone else *doesn't* have or *doesn't* use, or in your opinion "secretly desires to own?"
If you don't care, why bother with your post in the first place? Post 29, made by you Thill, was all about what other people use (or don't use), yet you claim not to care. Honestly enough, I wouldn't even have addressed you had it not been for post 29 (as you noticed I didn't address post 21, as the theme in that post is completely different to post 29.)
@ 37 / tommyboy : "Mind sharing with the group what MP3 player you use and how you put music on it (music service, CD's, etc)?"
According to Thill I use a Microsoft MP3-WMA player with Microsoft's subscription/rental/download service, and the reasoning behind this is because I may or may not own an iPod which I may or may not use with iTMS.
@ 40 / I.P.Freely : "WRONG! I wasn't talking about 64kbps vs 320 kbps. I was talking about 128kbps iTunes Music being burned to CD then re-ripping that and then worrying about quality. . if your concern is quality of sound, don't buy any downloaded songs to begin with.
WRONG AGAIN... Etymotic ER6
Again Mr. Peabody... WRONG... Can you stop making assumptions??? you are making ass out of yourself. If you have already settle on download service, then you get what you pay for. I make that choice on my own, but for the CD's I own, I usually use Apple Lossless to encode... so Mr. Know-It-All STFU. No one needs your help , so stop trying to sound like you know anything.
"...and once again, it's not your song; never was, never will be."
Yes it is. you can do what you want with it. I have the ITMS songs, guess what, I can burn a CD or re-rip it. But since I wasn't starting out with Filet Mignon, I'm not going to complain when I get White Castle out of the deal.
Sorry, but if you own Ety's (even the lower end ones) and you are comfortable with 128kbit aac (a LOSSY format) and decoding it to CDDA, then re-encoding it to MP3 (or any other LOSSY format), you've pretty much embarrassed yourself, and lost any credibility you could've had regarding audio quality; then again, you did say "you can't tell the difference once something has been digitized." Maybe you should go back to stock earbuds, as you seemed to have wasted your money on Ety's (since 128kbps aac -> cdda/wav -> mp3 makes no difference to you, nor does 128kbps aac in general (your beloved White Castle which you probably do mistake for filet mignon.))
...and no, you still don't own the music; you might want to look up how the record companies work in regards to "owning" music and your "rights," hint, it's similar to the movie studios and software companies.
Post again I.P.Freely, as you'll do most of the work for me, don't forget to contradict yourself by mentioning Apple Lossless.