Ipod Owners Of The World, Unite...

I love the iPod. I have it going between 2-3 hours every day, and having your music collection with you at all times is unbelievably groovy. And I have the cassette adaptor for the car, so roadtrips have gotten much better and neater.

I use iTunes so can't recommend another. What I can recommend is buying it from Buy.com. I got the 60gb iPod Photo for under $400 (I think it was $382) on a promotion, which that site frequently has going. Plus it's free shipping, no tax, and it arrived three days after I ordered it. Having the extra harddrive space is great too. I basically never have to worry about running out of room. *And* the photo aspect is cool because I have hundreds of baby pictures on it, and can easily give someone a slideshow (with music accompaniment) on their TV.

I've taken approximately 20-30 trail runs with it. It is getting jiggled, but I usually wrap it up in a sweatshirt inside a backpack so that it's not getting bounced around.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
can't comment on the iPod durability while jogging…

but if you playing on using an mp3 player to jog with, do you really need to carry thousands of songs on it? if the mp3 player is also going to be used in the car or a work instead of carrying along a stack of cds then go with a hard drive based on. if you feel the need to carry on your person vast amounts of your music collection then the ipod, etc is the way to go. if it's just to bring along some tunage for jogging save your money and get a flash player.

I agree. If jogging is the only thing you ever plan to use it for, a flash based player holding a few hours of music would serve you fine. The weight difference makes it much more convenient to use, and add that you can get a good flash based player for less than $100 makes it a slam dunk. Whether or moving parts in a hard drive based player are a legitimate concern while jogging, it's also one less thing to worry about.

i had a horrible dream that arnold schwarzenneger, as mr. freeze, fiddled with the air conditioning of this house and froze it all in ice, and i left my ipod in there and i was really pissed off so i asked jimmy fallon, who was the former president of the US, if he lost anything in the ice and he said no and i was even more mad. i woke up and realized how dependent i am on my ipod.

that said, i don't know about other mp3 players, but the ipod is pretty solid if you're not bouncin it around. mine froze up on me when i ran with it attached to my arm, but when i hold it its okay, but i don't like doing that so i just don't run with it. get a warranty. and itunes is really a lot better than i thought it'd be. i can't see what anyone would have against it, aside from not being able to import from the ipod to the computer. that does kind of suck i guess, but its rarely a huge inconvenience.

I bought my iPod mainly to go running, and I definitely regret it and am looking for a flash-based player right now (thinking about the Sonys). It's not that I *can't* run with it, but it will cut out/switch off pretty often… usually when I'm twenty minutes or so into my run (once the internal memory gets used up I guess). If I hold it really still for a while, it'll work again, but it's still a pain.