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Pool: Do you own a smart phone? MP3 player? both?

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What do you own?

  • I do not own a smartphone or mp3 player

  • I only own an mp3 player

  • I only own a smartphone

  • I own both a smartphone and mp3 player

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KeithTalent said:
I never know what I feel like listening to at a given time. Segregating everything thing into a multitude of cards is a waste of time when I can just have nearly everything in one spot. How is smaller better with respect to not overplaying songs? I have my library with me and can listen to anything, with an SD card I ony have the small number of songs available on that card.
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No need to listen to anything you want at any given time. Doing so just cheapens it like the radio stations that play the same song 10 times a day. What you do need is to listen to something you like at any given time. Having a 4GB SD card with a couple thousand songs is sufficient. Or go bigger if you really must, but a couple thousand songs is never a "small number".

Have all your favorites on every card and then a random selection of whatever else you like on the others. Then you can listen to any of your favorites at any time and be surprized with what else comes along (remember you like it all since you put them all on). I just like keeping things fresh.

A great example is in December. I have a $2 SD card with my favorites, all my Christmas music, and some random other songs that I like. I listen to it in December. Why would I want those Christmas songs with me in March? That is just more crap to scroll through and get in the way.
 
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dullard said:
No need to listen to anything you want at any given time. Doing so just cheapens it like the radio stations that play the same song 10 times a day. What you do need is to listen to something you like at any given time. Having a 4GB SD card with a couple thousand songs is sufficient. Or go bigger if you really must, but a couple thousand songs is never a "small number".

Have all your favorites on every card and then a random selection of whatever else you like on the others. Then you can listen to any of your favorites at any time and be surprized with what else comes along (remember you like it all since you put them all on). I just like keeping things fresh.

A great example is in December. I have a $2 SD card with my favorites, all my Christmas music, and some random other songs that I like. I listen to it in December. Why would I want those Christmas songs with me in March? That is just more crap to scroll through and get in the way.
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I have no idea what you are talking about there.

I have everything with me, I listen to whichever song or album I want at any given time, or I can listen to a playlist, or even a random Genius mix or something. I am listening to hours and hours of audio every day as I work, walk to and from work, and workout. Going through and separating out nito myriad little disks is a complete waste of time, it would make more sense just to divide everything into playlists, then I do not need to actually carry around little cards to swap out.

Your system is very strange and just makes for more work and crap to take care of. I was happy to move away from mix tapes/CDs to where I now can have my entire library with me, why the hell would I want to effectively go back to mix tapes?

KT
 
I have an Android phone an a Sandisk MP3 player. When I bought the phone I planned on using it as an mp3 player too, but the battery life is too horrible.
 
dpodblood said:
I have an Android phone an a Sandisk MP3 player. When I bought the phone I planned on using it as an mp3 player too, but the battery life is too horrible.
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What phone do you have? I have the droid 1, and I can easily listen to music all day ~8 hours at work, streamed from Pandora or Slacker, and still have about 70% battery when driving home
 
No smartphone for me. I plan to get one soon (eventually).

I use a sansa clip for working out, but beyond that I don't use an MP3 player. My car has SD card slot, and I listen to most of my music from the computer.
 
dpodblood said:
I have an Android phone an a Sandisk MP3 player. When I bought the phone I planned on using it as an mp3 player too, but the battery life is too horrible.
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I can certainly identify with this, my Sansa seems like it would go for weeks without charging (just using it to drive to work) but the Droid must be charged daily and that's all there is to it. However, the convenience is well worth the trouble of charging it, and with the dock on my dresser that allows me to also use the Droid as an alarm clock, charging happens all the time anyway unless I sleep somewhere else.

Heck, if you had an Evo or something you might need to charge it twice a day.
 
OOBradm said:
What phone do you have? I have the droid 1, and I can easily listen to music all day ~8 hours at work, streamed from Pandora or Slacker, and still have about 70% battery when driving home
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It's a Samsung Galaxy i7500. It's a terrible phone overall. From the things I have read though Battery life on most Android phones comes nowhere near the Iphone, or dumbphones.
 
just a smartphone... I'm home everyday so I don't need an mp3 player... if I did, I'd just use the phone.
 
Well I still own an MP3 player, but I never use it after getting the HTC Desire and a 16GB uSD card. It's much more convenient when you only have to deal with one device.

Listening to MP3's doesn't use that much battery, as long as you keep from browsing the web or doing other stuff at the same time. It doesn't last for weeks like my mp3 player, but I charge it every night anyway so it doesn't really matter.
 
Few phones are good at playing music. I mean sure it can work in a pinch, but for most the features, user interface, battery life, etc. aren't even comparable to a dedicated device for playing music. It seems like modern phones cram in a ton of functionality, but none of it is very good.
 
frostedflakes said:
Few phones are good at playing music. I mean sure it can work in a pinch, but for most the features, user interface, battery life, etc. aren't even comparable to a dedicated device for playing music. It seems like modern phones cram in a ton of functionality, but none of it is very good.
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streaming internet radio from ANYWHERE + music stored on phone > dedicated device for playing music
 
KeithTalent said:
I never know what I feel like listening to at a given time. Segregating everything thing into a multitude of cards is a waste of time when I can just have nearly everything in one spot. How is smaller better with respect to not overplaying songs? I have my library with me and can listen to anything, with an SD card I ony have the small number of songs available on that card.

Also the battery is a bonus for the MP3 player. My phone battery drains quite quickly when I do anything more than normal texting/e-mailing for an extended period.

KT
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Agreed, thus why I have just an iPod for music. Although it's only 20GB and old as fuck, so I'm hoping to get a 160GB model for Christmas.

I have an old flip-phone for just calls and texting. I don't plan on getting a smartphone so I can get raped on data plans (Canada mobile provides suck my balls).
 
frostedflakes said:
Few phones are good at playing music. I mean sure it can work in a pinch, but for most the features, user interface, battery life, etc. aren't even comparable to a dedicated device for playing music. It seems like modern phones cram in a ton of functionality, but none of it is very good.
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Yep, agree with this.

KT
 
Both. While my Droid is fully capable of playing any music file I throw at it, taking it running is really a bad idea.
 
i had a 30GB 5th generation ipod which stopped carrying a charge, and later got a 16GB 2nd generation ipod touch, which i sold because i ended up getting an iphone 3GS 32GB (and now an iphone 4 32GB).
 
bb(driod something soon) and I have 2 mp3 players(zune and the later zen credit card sized one, had a zen stone till I washed it on accident)

I have very little music on my blackberry, for when I want to listen but forgot an mp3 player, and of course I can run pandora
 
I own an MP3 player I bought years ago but I don't use it anymore. I bought my smartphone for work. Since I do a lot of driving, its nice to be able to call the office, use GPS, and listen to my own music collection. All on the same device. Owning a dedicated MP3 player just seems redundant.

I do have a tablet computer, which I use a lot for media.
 
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