[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 47, Issue 28

[Martin Nichols]

Listmates,

In the case that I get an Ipod for Christmas, just how easy/difficult is it to put
one's cd library on ? I think I have the needed equipment, a PC with CD player installed.
Any one able to make it a few simple steps? Sorry if someone already did here and I missed it
or lost it.
Marty Nichols
http://myspace.com/freemarty


-----------------------

Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:00:00 +0000
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: Fw: Are iPods just a passing fancy?
    (wasmp3s and allthat stuff)
To: kay2840 at yahoo.com, dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Message-ID: <BAY101-F173FFAF9EA28BCC8F389B8BEF60 at phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed

Hi Kay, and all . . .

I think your posting to the DJML about your iPod is as good an endorsement 
for embracing the technology which is carrying us into the future of music 
as I could wish for.

New young listmate, Marc Bolin, also is a walking testament to the fact that 
we'd better get our CD files into mp3s and on to the internet and the sooner 
the better!

Time's a-wastin' -- saddle up and move 'em out!

Bill "Yee Haw" Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com


>From: Kay Spencer <kay2840 at yahoo.com>
>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: Fw: Are iPods just a passing fancy? 
>(wasmp3s and allthat stuff)
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:46:31 -0800 (PST)
>
>I've also had an iPod nano for a few months.  It makes music transportation 
>so EASY. I've had iTunes on my laptop for sometime, but transfering files 
>to the iPod now means I can listen whenever I want.  It is virtually 
>idiot-proof.  I have podcast subscriptions (free) from iTunes that include 
>jazz, brass band, classical, etc, etc, plus my own CD's, plus stuff 
>transferred from vinyl to CD to computer. The updating is pretty much 
>automatic and is effortless. I can use a FM transmitter and listen to the 
>iPod on the car radio or use portable speakers (which sound better) or just 
>use simple earphones (which sound better yet) when I'm at my desk at the 
>office.
>
>   Last August I went up to the Sacramento jazz camp at Sly Park for the 
>weekend concert.  Jim O'B had gone up there for the camp and his group was 
>going to play Emperor Norton's Hunch during the evening concert. Before the 
>concert I plugged the iPod into to the speaker and could immediately play 
>the 6 or 8 versions of Emperor (Turk etc.) that I had on the iPod. Even if 
>I had been home with the CD collection, it would have been a major hassle 
>to locate the various CD's and records that had been the source of the 
>recordings.
>
>   Will iPods be a passing fancy?  You bet.  Because something with more 
>storage and more innovative features will come along.  Will the iPod 
>"concept" disappear? Not likely.  An iPod (or lookalike) already costs less 
>than a digital camera or a high end mobile phone.  Doesn't even come close 
>to the cost of those big HDTV's that we're seeing in the electronics stores 
>these days...
>
>   Kay in Gilroy
>
>
>