GemZombie wrote:I'm at 41 gigs of music on my external drive right now (that's around 12,000 songs), so an ipod won't even hold my entire collection.
Two comments:
1. You may not necessarily need all your tunes on the iPod all the time. YMMV.
2. There's a 60Gig configuration available, although it's a bit pricier. See:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
But the point for me is that I use an external hard drive to store all that (and it's usb powered which is a huge bonus)... and I prefer DJing from my laptop. I don't want to have to store my mp3's on two different devices in order to play from my laptop efficiently... (are you sure it doesn't do a conversion when you copy the files to the iPod, this was what I was told?).
There's no conversion of the files -- they're just MP3s (or whatever format you decide to store tham as.) Including header information, etc. They're not visible when you mount the device as a disk, however. That may be what you've been told? In any case you can easily move, synch, or copy the MP3s. There's definitely no conversion involved.
I'm sure it's a wonderful portable device, but i'm still looking for the "everything" device that i can use as a portable drive, and an mp3 player, yet has some of the advanced playlist features that I hear are so great about the iPod... also, not a fan of iTunes on the PC.
A couple of things here. First, you don't have to use iTunes to use an iPod. You can use anything that can see an iPod (Apple used to distribute MusicMatch for the PC, I believe). There are several options from what I hear. Second, you really do need to decide whether you are going to use this device to actually DJ from. My own experience was that I DJd for a couple of years using only the iPod, and found it very useful and simple, but when I got myself a light enough laptop (12 inch Powerbook) I never looked back. The number one advantage of the Laptop is fast searching. Number two advantage is being able to preview tracks.
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