Are iPods worth it?

[Kayakinboy]

You guys are nuts....

I just can't see myself carrying one around honestly. I burn cds of songs that I don't want to buy the cd of, and if I like the entire cd after downloading it, I buy it in the record store. I've got almost every Dave Matthews Band album, and if I downloaded them, it just wouldn't be the same....

What do you do if the computer crashes and the ipod has a fit and deletes everything? I guess if I put a gig card on my pocket pc I could use that, but I'd rather put porn and clips of chapelle show

You guys pay for music?!??!?!
Fight the system!

[Kenyth]

You guys are nuts....

I just can't see myself carrying one around honestly. I burn cds of songs that I don't want to buy the cd of, and if I like the entire cd after downloading it, I buy it in the record store. I've got almost every Dave Matthews Band album, and if I downloaded them, it just wouldn't be the same....

What do you do if the computer crashes and the ipod has a fit and deletes everything? I guess if I put a gig card on my pocket pc I could use that, but I'd rather put porn and clips of chapelle show

You guys pay for music?!??!?!
Fight the system!

I usually buy the music on CD to begin with. It's very hard to beat music club prices (If you keep quitting and rejoining them for the introductory offers). Ideally, you make MP3's and from there it's compatible with just about all devices and you can easily back everything up onto DVDR's. Unfortunately, in reality, this is a fair amount of work for a family man to find time for. If you buy CD's and never actually use them after ripping them once, they last a very long time.

On a side note, make sure you hook your stereo up to your video system. Not only do your movies sound great, if you burn MP3 DVD's, most DVD players make excellent Jukeboxes. Use RCA/headphone jack converters and you can play your digital device through the generally unused phonograph input.

[SuperChuck]

What do you do if the computer crashes and the ipod has a fit and deletes everything?

Duh, just store your music collection on a RAID 1+ array!

Actually, I got the RAID for my gf's photos. Now I don't need to worry about every photo of her niece vanishing into thin air because a head crashed.