Butter
03-10-2006, 08:11 AM
So, let me tell you my dilemma:
I got an unexpected bonus from my work this week... just sort of a "you're awesome, thanks for everything" kinda thing, which was very nice. So, I decide to finally splurge on an mp3 player.
The Mrs. and I buy a nice mp3 player, a 2 GB flash player (a SanDisk) on Tuesday night. It's $159, a bit cheaper than the iPod nano, and it comes with an FM tuner on it, which I like, but frankly will not use... and The Mrs. claims she may use at some point, but may not. She can use it at the gym to listen to TV if she wants. I like that I only spent $150 on it, and can use the other $150 that would've gone toward a 30 GB regular iPod toward something else. I prefer a flash player, so the most I probably would've bought was a 4 GB nano anyway.
It's got a nice color screen and everything, and it is about as small as a pack of gum, but here's my problem: it essentially does not hold playlists. Sure, you can play an album by going to the album menu and selecting it from the list, but when you upload a playlist from Winamp or Musicmatch, it basically mixes the music you load in with the other music already loaded. What it does is it lists all of the tunes in alphabetical order by artist. Odd, in my opinion.
I guess this is not a HUGE deal to most, but it is to me. I may want to load playlists on it for myself or The Mrs. to listen to that I want her or I to listen to in order. I can't do it with this player. It says it supports playlists, but it really doesn't. You have to create a playlist by putting each track on a "Go List", which it promptly erases every time you sync it. It did hold a playlist from Musicmatch, but it didn't list it by name... and it was easily inadvertently erased.
So, here are my questions:
1. Does anyone have an iPod nano? Does the iPod nano come with a USB cable? I have heard it doesn't, and you have to buy one separately, which is BS for $250 if you ask me. Also, does it charge via the USB cable or does it even use rechargeable batteries? Or is it some kind of proprietary battery thing... I like that the one I bought just uses AAA. How long is the battery life, on average?
2. Does the playlist feature work fairly well? I mean, does it keep the list you load from iTunes in the same order that you load it in as... and also, can you load multiple playlists onto it? If so, how many?
3. Does the scroll wheel thing work fairly well? It seemed fairly slick when I tried it out, but it seemed like the buttons could be fairly easily worn out because they're not really buttons at all, but rather a slightly raised or touch sensitive area. Anyone have any problems with the buttons?
4. How long does it take to load music onto it?
I just want something that's going to work like I think it should, and I think the one I got doesn't work as I had pictured in my mind. The controls and the loading of songs just seems like more work than it should.
I just need to totally make sure that if I'm going to fork out the extra money, that it's going to be worth it to me... because otherwise I'll just keep what I have and work through the poor interface. $100 is a lot of money to me, so that's why I'm analyzing it to death, because this is a big decision for me.
As Dora would say: Thanks for helping!
I got an unexpected bonus from my work this week... just sort of a "you're awesome, thanks for everything" kinda thing, which was very nice. So, I decide to finally splurge on an mp3 player.
The Mrs. and I buy a nice mp3 player, a 2 GB flash player (a SanDisk) on Tuesday night. It's $159, a bit cheaper than the iPod nano, and it comes with an FM tuner on it, which I like, but frankly will not use... and The Mrs. claims she may use at some point, but may not. She can use it at the gym to listen to TV if she wants. I like that I only spent $150 on it, and can use the other $150 that would've gone toward a 30 GB regular iPod toward something else. I prefer a flash player, so the most I probably would've bought was a 4 GB nano anyway.
It's got a nice color screen and everything, and it is about as small as a pack of gum, but here's my problem: it essentially does not hold playlists. Sure, you can play an album by going to the album menu and selecting it from the list, but when you upload a playlist from Winamp or Musicmatch, it basically mixes the music you load in with the other music already loaded. What it does is it lists all of the tunes in alphabetical order by artist. Odd, in my opinion.
I guess this is not a HUGE deal to most, but it is to me. I may want to load playlists on it for myself or The Mrs. to listen to that I want her or I to listen to in order. I can't do it with this player. It says it supports playlists, but it really doesn't. You have to create a playlist by putting each track on a "Go List", which it promptly erases every time you sync it. It did hold a playlist from Musicmatch, but it didn't list it by name... and it was easily inadvertently erased.
So, here are my questions:
1. Does anyone have an iPod nano? Does the iPod nano come with a USB cable? I have heard it doesn't, and you have to buy one separately, which is BS for $250 if you ask me. Also, does it charge via the USB cable or does it even use rechargeable batteries? Or is it some kind of proprietary battery thing... I like that the one I bought just uses AAA. How long is the battery life, on average?
2. Does the playlist feature work fairly well? I mean, does it keep the list you load from iTunes in the same order that you load it in as... and also, can you load multiple playlists onto it? If so, how many?
3. Does the scroll wheel thing work fairly well? It seemed fairly slick when I tried it out, but it seemed like the buttons could be fairly easily worn out because they're not really buttons at all, but rather a slightly raised or touch sensitive area. Anyone have any problems with the buttons?
4. How long does it take to load music onto it?
I just want something that's going to work like I think it should, and I think the one I got doesn't work as I had pictured in my mind. The controls and the loading of songs just seems like more work than it should.
I just need to totally make sure that if I'm going to fork out the extra money, that it's going to be worth it to me... because otherwise I'll just keep what I have and work through the poor interface. $100 is a lot of money to me, so that's why I'm analyzing it to death, because this is a big decision for me.
As Dora would say: Thanks for helping!