11-09-2007, 04:50 PM
If you do get an iPod or other MP3 player, you can use a cassette player adapter to connect to your car stereo. This provides better audio than the FM transmitters which broadcast locally on an un-used frequency (often hard to find in major metropolitian areas).
My big error when I got an iPod was that I immediately started ripping my all of my CD's at both too lower a sampling rate and in Apples own format AAC, which doesn't have as many player options.
Now anything that I rip is always MP3 so that I can play it through the computer or Wi-Fi device that allows me to play MP3's from my computer through the stereo in the other room.
The great thing about my iPod is that it allows me access to all of my music while freeing up the space that a few thousand CDs occupied. Unfortunately this whole debate about formats and the fact that whether MP3 or AAC, unless I rip everything in a lossless format (and there still is no clear standard winner there), the CD is still better quality. So for now I am keeping all of my CD's, they are just locked away in storage.
Oh, my two issue with buying music from iTunes or other online sources are that they are not the same quality as getting them for CD and that you can't just move them from one system to another, one player to another. If I spend the money to "buy" something, I want the control of were is goes since all of these systems, harddrives, players will eventually break.
My big error when I got an iPod was that I immediately started ripping my all of my CD's at both too lower a sampling rate and in Apples own format AAC, which doesn't have as many player options.
Now anything that I rip is always MP3 so that I can play it through the computer or Wi-Fi device that allows me to play MP3's from my computer through the stereo in the other room.
The great thing about my iPod is that it allows me access to all of my music while freeing up the space that a few thousand CDs occupied. Unfortunately this whole debate about formats and the fact that whether MP3 or AAC, unless I rip everything in a lossless format (and there still is no clear standard winner there), the CD is still better quality. So for now I am keeping all of my CD's, they are just locked away in storage.
Oh, my two issue with buying music from iTunes or other online sources are that they are not the same quality as getting them for CD and that you can't just move them from one system to another, one player to another. If I spend the money to "buy" something, I want the control of were is goes since all of these systems, harddrives, players will eventually break.