Is An iPod Worth It These Days?

[Zebruh]

Honestly, I have a 160gb iPod Classic strictly for the whip.

I have all my music in my iTunes in my iTunes Match too, but sometimes the data signal fails and shyt won't load/play, so I decided to whip my old iPod out and not deal with that. Helps save battery life on my phone a bit too.

 

[Why-Fi]

If you get Spotify premium you can play all the music you want directly from that app without downloading and waste no space. $10/month. Unless you want to have the physical files and keep music separate from your phone.

$5 a month student discount...

 

[BasedPrime]

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

If you get Spotify premium you can play all the music you want directly from that app without downloading and waste no space. $10/month. Unless you want to have the physical files and keep music separate from your phone.

What you mean? MP3...it's all on my pc, uploaded to google music, therefore I have my music on my phone and any other device without taking up any space

Yeah but you're using your data plan to play the music. That's the only downside.

 

[B86]

Yeah but you're using your data plan to play the music. That's the only downside.

I have Sprint, it's unlimited. But yeah, never thought about that issue

 

[Brooklynzson]

I mentioned that I didn't want to take up space on my phone with music. Also, it would really conserve phone life if I played all my music off of it. Iono I'm starting to think it's useful . I'm probably bugging though

put your music on google play music & have it in the cloud. I got like 10,000 songs on there . Dope thing is that it takes seconds to pin an album so that it downloads it to the phone incase you want it on your phone. I do that for my playlists or w.e mixtapes i'm listening to a lot at the time. That way if I don't have signal or something i'm Gucci

I still use a Zune when I go to the gym.

Mostly importantly b/c w/ a touch screen phone, you have to take it out your pocket to change songs, etc. With my Zune I can still push volume, frwd/rewnd buttons thru my pants.

So yeah, an og Ipod is still prob worth it for some ppl

I do that with my phone and if its not part of apart of your rom like it is mine, apple & android have apps to enable it.

 

[Jone2three45]

A dedicated digital audio player is worth it.

Phones are one thing that can do everything, but there's nothing like having a dedicated dap purley for listening to music and not being interrupted by phone calls and messages.

Streaming music is sketchy and all the audio formats that you stream are in lossy format. Plus you have to factor in getting and keeping a good signal just for streaming.

Research lossless audio file formats. They take up much more space than lossy formats but are worth it just for the higher audio quality. Since you you have a dedicated audio player taking up space shouldn't be an issue like it is for your phone.

 

[Deafheaven]

Google music uses data tho

 

[FlyRy]

Yea u right, I was thinking bout something else, I dont like relying on the internet for music, and the quality is not as good to me and it has space limits of I remember correctly, and damn nikka why u dont turn that shyt off

breh the files can be up to 200 gig each so you can upload FLAC files if you want

you can store up to 20K songs in the google music cloud.

though mine always tops out at 19992.

it does suck when youre on a road trip and have spotty signal but if you've played the song/album recently google caches it..and you can also pin it as other dude said to have it downloaded to your phone/sd card

 

[FlyRy]

Google music uses data tho

dudes ain't on unlimited these days?

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

breh the files can be up to 200 gig each so you can upload FLAC files if you want

you can store up to 20K songs in the google music cloud.

though mine always tops out at 19992.

it does suck when youre on a road trip and have spotty signal but if you've played the song/album recently google caches it..and you can also pin it as other dude said to have it downloaded to your phone/sd card

So how do you listen to music from your computer/Google Play to your device? I wanna make sure I'm going this right

 

[FlyRy]

So how do you listen to music from your computer/Google Play to your device? I wanna make sure I'm going this right

Breh you upload music from your pc to your play music. you can use the music manager or if you use chrome browser simply drag/drop the files

then you can listen on the play music app on your phone/tablet.

at work I listen to my entire collection from the browser since they haven't blocked play music at work yet

you can also cast it to a chromecast if you have one which i do if im in the other room

 

[Jone2three45]

dudes ain't on unlimited these days?

Depending on your area you can drop from LTE to 3G in an instant. That can cause trouble for streaming your music like loading times, unless you have Wi-Fi or live in a good area with great signal.

Google Play Music highest streaming rate is at 320kbps, I think. So no matter what file format you upload to it whether it be lossy or lossless, it still converts it strictly to what it wants. Same goes for iTunes Match with it's 256.

A dedicated Digital Audio Player can hold multiple formats in lossy and lossless with still room to spare. No loading or connection problems either.

http://www.marcurselli.com/2014/03/...g-vs-play-music-by-google-vs-rdio-vs-spotify/

 

[Auger]

Yes they are useful if you only want a dedicated Music player.

fukk wading through phone menus to reach the Music app

fukk horrible battery life.

fukk a phone call or text interrupting your music.

 

[Illuminatos]

No

Just get Google Play and stream it from there.