iPod - Basics and Buying

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 iPod - Basics and Buying

Do I hear the sound quality is not great. And 'true?

Sometimes audiophiles turn up their nose on your iPod and other digital music player because the sound quality is too hot. It 'true that - with the default settings - the sound is slightly worse than CD, but probably not well known (or any) difference if you have a careful side-by-side comparison of a decent home stereo. In any case, this sound quality is not fixed. When you import songs from a CD (orrecord from vinyl), you can choose from a variety of options, until full CD quality. The only problem is that better quality recordings up more space, which means fewer songs on your iPod. However, the trade-off between quality and quantity enough for you to decide.

What happens if my computer dies?

Hard crash from time to time, in which case the only option for the content is always very expensive data recovery process. EOf course, computers to perform many other bad purposes: theft, lighting, spilled coffee and so on. If this happens and you lose all your music on your Mac or PC saved on the hard disk, can be a real pain. But with a little 'know-how you can move all your music from your iPod back to a new hard disk or on a computer (Apple usually keep this relatively quiet, as it is very easy to illegally distribute your music collection your friends' computers do). Obviously, however,Are only able to transfer to your iPod at this moment, so if you do not hold your entire collection on your computer and your iPod, it's certainly worth backing up your hard drive.

Is not this all just another fad out of the money grabbing music industry?

The extraordinary variety of music formats that we had in the century and a half - on vinyl, cassette, CD, DAT, MiniDisc, SACD - has often been described as a cynical move by the music industry and electronicsus, but more and more devices and several copies of the records themselves. Whatever your view of this, digital music players like iPods are qualitatively different. To begin with, were certainly not dreamed of the music industry: in fact, the music industry is trembling in his boots music with computers, because the world of digital music "makes it incredibly easy to illegally share copyrighted material - both on the Internet or simply copying,say, 500 albums from a friend's computer in minutes.

Like other iPods, if not necessary in the fashion consumer electronics industry, is a matter of debate. Even if they are subsequently bought expensive equipment and designed by wealthy Western and manufactured in a repressive regime in which workers 'rights' are poor. The same is true for many electronic devices. But from an environmental perspective, at least you can make a pretty strong case for a device that deal withMusic as pure digital data download, compared to buying CDs, no, vans and no more unnecessary packaging. One weighs iPod, after all, only up to two CD box, but can keep the same amount of music in 2000.

iPod - Basics and Buying