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2/1/13 at 10:19pm
I would love a 512GB but then again the cost would escalate.......just dreaming..........*slap slap*
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post #242 of 244
2/2/13 at 4:45am
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It isn't actually necessary to have any music when on the go, but it is desirable. For you a choice from 125 hours is sufficient, for me it isn't, and I don't understand why anyone would question what I feel is sufficient for me. I have no need of an iPhone; you obviously do, but I don't question that.

I don't need an iPhone. I have one because I like it. I'm not pining for one that holds twenty times as much because it doesn't hold my terabytes of media. My iPhone is also three years old. I don't feel a compulsion to get a new one just because.

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I go on a number of holidays each year, sometimes for three or four weeks at a time and I really don't see the point in leaving most of my music at home for up to 3 months every year.

Let me put it this way: Do you bring everything you own on your trips? You have to leave something behind no matter what, in this case, you'd be leaving something behind that you wouldn't be able to take advantage of having it anyway. During any given trip, how much of the music are you actually going to listen to? For a four week trip, are you actually going to listen to more than 200 hours of audio? And is listening to the same track twice in three weeks really so awful that you desire to take 400 hours of audio, the extra 200 hours of it you're clearly not going to listen to? With the method I described, the tracks on your audio player would be changed out when you get back home to sync, so the next vacation you would be listening to all new audio. So it's not as if the remainder of your library always sits abandoned. It just strikes me as odd that someone would think it's worth replacing a fully functional iPod to carry along 1280 hours of audio instead of "just" 960 hours of audio (160GB at approx. 256kbps). 960 hours is eight and a half weeks of continuous playback without repeats, for every waking hour. Sure, it's your money, but the justification strikes me as insanity when a simple smart playlist simulates the same thing and you'd probably never notice the difference.
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post #243 of 244
2/2/13 at 5:17am
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So speeds aren't sustainable at 8MB/s since the minimum is 10MB's? See what I'm getting it. The Class of the SD is in relation to the device it's designed for. You use Class 10 when the device requires a minimum of 10MB/s but a Class 10 SD card is sustainable at lower speeds than 10MB/s if the device it's used in is slower.

You're thinking about it too hard. OK, let's try different words. For class 10, 10MB/s is a guaranteed sustained speed. Generally a card is faster than its class rating, but the card can sustain at least that write speed even in adverse writing circumstances. The class rating isn't an indication of peak speed, and it might even take a sustained speed higher than that. It's a way for a user and device to make sure the card is fast enough for the device's needs and make sure it doesn't mess up a recording because the card choked doing a bit of housekeeping along the way.
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2/2/13 at 10:33am
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I don't need an iPhone. I have one because I like it. I'm not pining for one that holds twenty times as much because it doesn't hold my terabytes of media. My iPhone is also three years old. I don't feel a compulsion to get a new one just because.
Let me put it this way: Do you bring everything you own on your trips? You have to leave something behind no matter what, in this case, you'd be leaving something behind that you wouldn't be able to take advantage of having it anyway. During any given trip, how much of the music are you actually going to listen to? For a four week trip, are you actually going to listen to more than 200 hours of audio? And is listening to the same track twice in three weeks really so awful that you desire to take 400 hours of audio, the extra 200 hours of it you're clearly not going to listen to? With the method I described, the tracks on your audio player would be changed out when you get back home to sync, so the next vacation you would be listening to all new audio. So it's not as if the remainder of your library always sits abandoned. It just strikes me as odd that someone would think it's worth replacing a fully functional iPod to carry along 1280 hours of audio instead of "just" 960 hours of audio (160GB at approx. 256kbps). 960 hours is eight and a half weeks of continuous playback without repeats, for every waking hour. Sure, it's your money, but the justification strikes me as insanity when a simple smart playlist simulates the same thing and you'd probably never notice the difference.

I don't bring anything on my trips, but I do take as much as weight restrictions allow and a 160GB iPod is the same weight as a 120GB.

I currently have 1096 hours of music, as much of it, transferred from CD many years ago, is at 128kbps. But it isn't a question of how much of it I actually listen to on holiday, or anywhere else away from home, it's more about having access to exactly what I want to listen to.  We obviously enjoy our music libraries in very different ways; I don't want iTunes or my iPod to dictate what is available to me. If I want to hear a specific Donald Fagen album, then that's what I want to hear, or if I'm in the mood for Kate Bush, Prince, PSB or Frank Ocean, then I want every album of theirs I own available to me, no matter how often I've played them in the past. To be able to do just that for less than 10p per day strikes me as eminently sensible, and a bargain to boot. 1smile.gif

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