What year did you get your first Ipod ?

**MAJOR METAL** · #1 10-13-2011, 04:56 PM

What year did you get your first Ipod ? I was late to the party, I was still walking around with a discman till the summer of 2010 before I got one.

MatticusMania · #2 10-13-2011, 04:58 PM

I have never owned an iPod.

GregC · #3 10-13-2011, 05:00 PM

2005.

OTOH, MM, you were much earlier to the boutique bass party than I was.

elgecko · #4 10-13-2011, 05:01 PM

I've never owned one...my phone works just fine and I don't have to haul around a second unit.

bass12 · #5 10-13-2011, 05:07 PM

I just got my first yesterday from a fellow TBer. I wanted one mainly so that I can listen to the songs I'll be playing at the gig (to refresh my memory while waiting for the show to start). Sometimes I don't have a lot of time to learn songs and being able to listen to them between sound check and the show can help a lot.

MatticusMania · #6 10-13-2011, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elgecko

I've never owned one...my phone works just fine and I don't have to haul around a second unit.

+1

My Droid Incredible does the job, before that it was my Verizon Voyager, and prior to that a Chocolate Pelican, I mean phone.

RonGillman3 · #7 10-13-2011, 05:12 PM

I got my first one 2009 then sold it off in 2011 as I never used it and didn't like it.

Selta · #8 10-13-2011, 05:30 PM

Why do you always put a space between the last word and your question marks?

James Hart · #9 10-13-2011, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

Why do you always put a space between the last word and your question marks?

Why don't you put a space before your question marks ?

iPod... what year is hell freezing over ? I've had a flash drive media player since about 2002 or 03. Now I use my Android phone to stream tunes from my Subsonic music server.

**Horny Toad** · #10 10-13-2011, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

Why do you always put a space between the last word and your question marks?

Subscribed to learn the answer to this. I've wondered the same thing for years.

tplyons · #11 10-13-2011, 05:48 PM

February 2006, 2nd Gen. iPod Nano. Bought my Macbook not too long after that. Been 100% Mac ever since.

Lost it in 2008, replaced with a 4th Gen.

Got my iPhone 3G a few months later, and don't use the iPod very often.

Summer 2010, I got my iPhone 4.

cracked_machine · #12 10-13-2011, 05:49 PM

I got a iPod Classic around 2005. But a few years later it started crashing during the iTunes sync (which infuriatingly kept corrupting the music contents). In the end I gave it away to a friend. I was glad to see the back of it. Nowadays I use my Android phone and have never looked back.

spade2you · #13 10-13-2011, 05:53 PM

Got a shuffle in '05 or '06. It doesn't seem to be able to hold a charge for very long, but still enough for bike rides. I think I picked up a 16 gig iPod in '08 or so, only to realize that I have more than 16 gigs of music. I might get another that holds more music some day and perhaps replace the shuffle. I mostly use my Android for Pandora. I don't mind keeping my phone and .mp3 players seperate.

i_got_a_mohawk · #14 10-13-2011, 05:57 PM

About 3 months ago. 4th gen iPod touch. It does the job, sort of. But I'm not a huge fan.

It's neat all the extra things that it does, but I don't like the lack of buttons (this is more a touch screen thing I guess). I like being able to hit the skip track button in my pocket. I like being able to pick the next song that's going to play too.

I got my first mp3 player in 2003/2004ish, an iRiver H340. It may have been a bit of a brick, but man, it's lasted! These days it lives in my lab. The battery is knackered, I could (and probably will) replace it, as I did a few years back (I think the battery bought on ebay must have been a dud).

But wow, that was an mp3 player. Played a greater range of file formats than the touch, nice and easy to use buttons you can use in the pocket too. Plus the optional in-line controller and it sounds better (or at least you had a greater control over the EQ). Not to mention the ease of use when connected to a PC, pops up as another hard drive, drag and drop folders over and you are done, plus everything keeps the file order, so you don't need to worry about it not having ID3 tags.

iPod Touch, may be nice, slim and do a thousand and one things. But as a music player, it's a bit lacking (IMO).

Darkstrike · #15 10-13-2011, 05:58 PM

Uh, 4 years ago, maybe 5 ?

Only one I ever had and practically use it every day since, never a moments trouble, rolled over it with a tractor lawnmower the other day, song that was on didn't even stop.

fdeck · #16 10-13-2011, 05:59 PM

I've got a couple of these:

You wouldn't believe how bad the user interface is. Yet my kids figured them out in 2 seconds.

Jay2U · #17 10-13-2011, 06:32 PM

There's no Ipod here.

We've got several simple MP3 and MP4 players. For recording purposes we use a simple straight forward Line 6 BackTrack (this thing really works).

sandmangeck · #18 10-13-2011, 06:37 PM

Never owned one.

Quickie · #19 10-13-2011, 07:07 PM

I never got an I pod. Still have my Sony discman. That's the shinny, spinning thing for you young-uns.

GeneralElectric · #20 10-13-2011, 07:20 PM

I got my first this summer. It was the 32gb touch. I mainly got it because I liked the touch screen and I liked the idea of being able to go online and not have to pay a dataplan on a cellphone. I am restricted to where I can get free wifi, but it comes in handy more often than you think. Especially here in NYC, you can get free wifi pretty much anywhere.

I've got a pair of creative zens that I've had for years. They're made of metal and are probably 15 years old. I've owned them for a few years and never had any problems and they get abused a lot. I remember when my friends all had iPods and we'd go out into the freezing cold, or go something where the going was tough and bumpy (like mountain biking, running, etc) and the iPods would freeze. My zen's never had any issue. The main drawback is the relative scroll slowness compared to the iPod and the fact that its several times the size.