Comments on: Oi, Fatty!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:34:49 +0000

Thanks! My blog hiatus went on a little longer than initially planned, but I decided to make a comeback :p

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:41:13 +0000

Wow, Andrew! Would you believe I only just deleted Cage of Monkeys from my Google Reader subscriptions the other week. Seemingly as soon as I did that, you resurrected it! Good to see it back.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:03:59 +0000

I’m truly old-school. I have a 20 gig Creative Zen Nomad from about 2002. It looks like a big silver brick, but has always done the job well and has stood up to all the abuse it’s received over the years.

Unfortunately, in order to transfer music between computer and player, you have to use a piece of truly godawful Creative software. And being so old, it doesn’t work with Windows Vista and Creative are no longer offering support for that particular player. So I guess I’m now in the market for a new mp3 player too…

By: Ryan Morrison

Ryan Morrison — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:25:55 +0000

I’ve got a first gen Mini and first gen nano as well as a second gen shuffle and I love them all – although I prefer the first gen nano to the second gen version – the second gen one looks too much like the mini for me.

However, I think this new fat nano will suprise people – I think it will end up joining the ranks of apple design classics – it will be a LOT better in the flesh than it is on the computer screen.

Don’t forget it’s tiny – not just fat but actually VERY small.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:21:50 +0000

Always browse the interweb before making any purchases!

I have a 1st generation Nano and it is fine size-wise but I think the 2nd generation version is too thin and slippery to the touch for my liking.

I think the newer version will grow on people, it’ll probably look better “in the flesh” than it does on the net – at the moment people associate it with a squashed down version of the old one rather than a whole new design.

Personally I think the iPod Touch looks rather nifty – I don’t really want my phone and music player to be in the same unit, but as you say I think it’ll be a better proposition once they bring out one with more storage capacity.

As for Starbucks, they play the worst music ever so that feature is never going to be a winner until they can spread it to other stores – like HMV or Virgin, etc.

By: ali

ali — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:32:26 +0000

“One more thing… Pffrffrfrt!”
I spent the last four years with a couple of beret-heads (serious ‘artists’, maan…) and they were exactly like that – manys a time was spent debating the merits of one brand over another and they were just blind as to anything else.
For my part, I don’t *think* theres many things that can be done on a Mac that can’t be done on windows/linux although admittedly there are things that Macs make easy for you – in my experience though, anything requiring serious audio work (apparently more suited to Macs) can be done equally well using other equipment that doesn’t require posing..
Maybe I just never understood iTunes (its now forever connected with trying to make my CDs play in the studio in the middle of the night when I had a uni project to finish in the days before my MP3 player, never a good thing), but the whole iPod thing has passed me by, I think probably the same argument as above could be applied to that as well.
Well held off on your purchase though, I guess sometimes indecision can work for you!