How many iPods or mp3 players do you own?
 

The reason I am asking the question is the result of my desire to buy 2 new iPods in addition to the players I already have. I wanted to know if anyone else own's or desires to own a ridiculous amount of mp3 players. :rolleyes:

Ok, so I already own 3 iPods. I own a 3rd generation nano that I use mostly for pop/dance music. The nano is best for me when I go to the gym, so usually I keep really high energy, uptempo music on it. My second iPod is a 160GB video/classic, which I use for larger files like movies, youtube videos, podcasts, and music videos. The music that I store on that player usually consists of rock'n'roll and full albums, since I have the space. My third iPod is the first generation classic. I don't use it because I've had it for 5 years and it's pretty much crap now, oh well.

So, anyways post what you have and your purpose for it. Like I said I'd like to buy 2 iPods (the 5th generation nano and the lastest iPod touch) which I know is over-the-top but what is life without a little indulgence?:beer:

I have 3 iPods that I don't use. The last one just came free with the laptop.

These last few days, I've been plugging my laptop to my car with a Jack. I grew tired of burning mp3s every week, and I can never squeeze my whole library into these tiny players.

Tho an iPod was essential when I didn't have a car. Now it just doesn't make any sense.

I understand the smaller one for the gym etc. but I can't relate to the need to have to hold your entire library on these devices. I used to have an ipod nano which I gave to my brother and use an 80gb ipod classic. I have much more music than it can hold but I know I'm not in the mood to listen to everything thing on my ipod everyday. I'm fine with taking music off to add others depending on what I'm feeling like listening to.

one disproportionately small (2gb) creative

I have my 120 GB Zune that I use to tune out the world while I walk or drive then I have my slightly broken 2GB Sansa clip that I decided to save for when I get a gym membership after Christmas. There's also a broken iPod shuffle that I somehow managed to turn into a little 1GB hard drive that can't actually play anything. Then there's my long dead 20GB Creative Zen I got back in like 2004. Honestly that was my favourite mp3 player up until my Zune, but it had a loose headphone jack so unless it was held in a specific position, only one headphone would receive sound. There's also 3 of my CD players sitting on my desk somewhere, two just regular CD players and the 3rd a CD player that could play MP3 CD's. All in all, far too much ****.

Unless you have a top-of-the-line sound card, the sound quality from an Ipod will be much better when played through your car's speakers than the sound quality of your laptop when played through them.

I have 1 working iPod but the headphone jack is coming loose... I really need to get it fixed. It's an 80 GB, so to be honest I don't feel a need to have more space. It holds more music than I really need on a trip, and 80 GB is enough that I can have a little of everything. Works fine for me. I had two at one point but my 60 GB broke.

just the one, an old 30gb ipod. it's miserably small compared to the size of my music collection. i almost got a new 160gb while visiting the US last month, but for some reason i opted for a new digital camera instead.

of course, it is quite a big step up from my very first mp3 player - a Diamond Rio PMP300. 32mb of storage, and it cost a whopping $200 back in 1998. it had this huge adapter that plugged into a parallel port, then the cable for the player plugged into that. it took forever to transfer music, even though it only held like 12 songs (128 kbps was the norm back then)

Rio PMP300 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I feel the same way. Currently I just have one 8GB Nano, so I use it for everything. I could use more space as I'm having to rotate stuff out every day, but it keeps me focused on what I want to listen to that day rather than being overwhelmed and potentially shuffling instead.

I really don't get having more than one that's similar in size/capacity.

I've gone through numerous ipods and quite frankly I'm tired of buying them. Right now I have a CD player and a car stereo, and thats really all I need when I'm not with my laptop.

I have two, one old 8gb Nano that I don't really use anymore, and one even older 60gb iPod video that I use now. I'll probably sell the 8gb but the 60gb I'll be keeping for a long time

I have three MP3 players. My first MP3 player is a 2GB ILO that I got back in 2007 but it's broken now. My second MP3 player is a 2GB Sylvania that I got in 2008 but I'm thinking about getting rid of that since I don't like it too much. My third MP3 player is a 2GB Magnavox that I got this year and I only use it for my collection of 80's music. Other than MP3 players, I also have an old Sony compact CD player that I've had since 1996 and it still works great.

My first mp3 player was a 512mb itronics which i got in 2004. The sound reproduction was piss poor and i could only fit about 7 albums on it. My current is an 80G ipod classic which i've had for the past 2 years.

A Sony Walkman phone with an 8gb card which does me fine. If I had anything bigger I would be constantly shuffling and not finding anything to listen to! I did replace the earphones with a more expensive pair though as the ones they provided with the phone lacked in many departments.

My main Ipod is a 16 gig touch that's maxed out and has had a loose headphone jack for the last 2 months only allowing me to listen through one ear. I've also got a 3rd generation (I think?) nano that I don't use anymore, a shuffle that use on occasion and an old Ipod mini that holds 2 gig lying around somewhere.

It's a pain in the ass having to sync my ipod and put on the certain songs I want all the time so I'm most likely going to get an Ipod Classi for my birthday.

I do it every day...it's part of the hobby/addiction. ;) But that's not to say I wouldn't mind something bigger with everything accessible...I just fear indecision with too many choices. I shuffle a lot when I'm at home in front of about 200GB as a result. Especially on weekends. But there are benefits to shuffling on occasion.

I've just got the one (120GB iPod classic).

It's pretty much full capacity at the minute though, so it's got to the stage where I have to delete an album to put a new one on. It's not the best situation but I do have a lot of junk on there that could do with culling, so I guess it's healthy as well. It does put a ceiling on my music collection though, and I think in an ideal world I'd have endless space.. roll on the days where terabytes of storage aren't so damaging to pocket!

I had a two gig shuffle which broke down quickly. Now I use the one gig space on my phone for music.
I'm saving up for an iPod classic though, I'm tired of only being able to fit a gig at a time on my phone.

Far too many Ipods in this thread :(

Even with so much space on the Ipod I can still make playlists in which I can choose how many songs I want to be able to shuffle.

I don't have anything. Just a computer. I know, I'm a geek.

my 4-year old nano was one of the cheaper old models when i bought it, and it still works poifictly. It has more than enough memory for long coach journeys, long battery life, you barely even notice it in your pocket (all those years walking around with CD walkmans stuffed in coat pockets, i would have killed for something like this)... so you can go about your business without having to listen to the inane blabber of jukebox/iphone/blackberry/shuffle-wielding muppets

why on earth would you have more than one unless by accident? and why would you have anything bigger than a nano unless on a long haul flight perhaps? these things are like sports cars. the age of plenty (arse)

Ive got 2 iPod's 2 of which are broken. I have a 2nd generation nano 4gb which is beyond repair, and is why I got a 16gb iPod touch which was in my suitcase and my shampoo bottle burst, and got into my iPod, and its been getting repaired since the 28th of september... Still haven't got it back. Postal strike. I'm going insane :(

I've got three. I've still got the Diamond Rio PMP300 that I bought in 1998 (with a capacious 32MB worth of memory) on a shelf, a battered Goodmans MP3 diskman that I bought a year later and this little 2GB 'no brand' thing that I've had for about 5 years now that is never out of my coat pocket.

The latter is probably one of the best things I've ever bought as it was really cheap and it's just plug-in USB and 'drag and drop' - which I greatly prefer - rather using any kind of software or docking mechanism. It's rare that I need to listen to it for any more than a couple of hours at a time so I can't see the sense in getting something with a humongous drive and, for the length of time it takes to drag a few albums across, it's hardly a genuine inconvenience. Besides, I'm normally brushing my teeth and putting my shoes on anyway so it's not like I'm sat there glowering at the screen and drumming my fingers on the desk impatiently.

i love having a huge amount of music with me. my 30gig is always full, and i wish it were bigger. i never know what i'll be in the mood to listen to when i hop on the tram to go to work, so i need to be prepared for anything!

I upgraded from a 4GB nano to a 120 gig iPod a few months ago. I probably didn't need a new one but I was getting tired of having to delete music every time I added something new. Now I can sync without worrying about that.

I have a 4GB Samsung that I absolutely love, but it just doesn't have enough space on it. So I "upgraded" to a 30GB Zune, which still doesn't have enough space on it, and it's a bitch to load music on. Takes forever to sync with the computer, and sometimes the Zune program just decides it doesn't like it, and I have to disconnect and reconnect it multiple times to get it to recognize it.

If Samsung made a player with more capacity, I would buy it in a heart beat. Best MP3 player I ever had, and you could load music on it from any computer that had WMP.

I had a 4GB nano that I loved dearly but one day, under great frustration, I yelled "why can't you hold more songs, you stupid thing?!?!" and I tossed it onto my bed. When I came home later that evening it was gone and I haven't seen it since. :(

I don't know about other people, but I like to keep my music on my 120 GB as a backup should something happen to my external hard drive. Lets say I download a malicious virus that wipes out my hard drive, at least this way I've still got a copy of most of my music on my Zune that I can move back to my computer once the problem has been dealt with.

I have my iPhone 3GS 32GB - that thing is my lifeline and I use it constantly. I keep essential playlists on there to listen to in the car or wherever. I also have an iPod Touch 8GB that I mainly use that for video and games (but I might sell it; got it as a gift) and I have a Ipod Classic 120GB that I keep most of my music on - that helps when traveling and you don't want to schlep the laptop around + I may want to recommend a random song for someone at work, it happens. Thinking about an iPod Shuffle for working out, but not in a rush to get one. I follow the cult of Mac... but we also have one PC for video editing that for whatever reason, can't be done on final cut.

I've had 3 nanos, (2g, 4g, and 8g) and a classic (80g). The first one lasted thoughout my first year of highschool, but I soon discovered that 2gs don't really hold that much. Then came my second, and that failed after a few months (same goes for the third). My classic has been going 2 years strong, and I couldn't be happier with the damn thing. I really need to get a picture of my current pod hahaha, it looks as if it has been though a ****ing war.

Well now I don't have anything, I went to put in my iPod to listen to while I was raking leaves. I caught the wire with the rake and instead of pulling the headphones out, the clips on the headphone jack broke and it pulled right out of the iPod :( My insurance on the ****er just ran out a few months ago too... Probably going to get a 160 GB classic now.

I've officially got 2 ipods, although one of them is pretty much dead (battery life has expired)

The other one's battery is also reaching its end :(