100 Songs That Should Be On Your iPod or Your iPod Is Crrrap

jackhammer · 04-25-2010, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

1) You can't tell the difference between the two media. AAC formatting uses the same encryption that MP3 formatting uses. The key difference being that there's a digital watermark denoting its adherence to Apple's patent.

2) You're wrong, iPods support different media. It's the iTunes program that isn't WMA compatible and that's only because Microsoft won't license it to them. My MediaMonkey player enables me to synchronize with the iPod's operating system fairly efficiently (nor have I had a single problem with it).

3) If you use a third-party OS (like RockBox) you can listen to lossless formats like FLAC on your iPod without much hassle. Something that many other MP3 players' operating systems aren't capable of.

And jackhammer, threads like these are the reason I love this forum so much. It's cheeky and a little snide but I love the title and don't see much reason for offense when the OP just made a fantastic contribution to the forum.

It may use the same encryption but a generic MP3 portable player doesn't recognise the files and are therefore unplayable. AAC files work with I tunes and compatible PC based players but MP3 players generally don't play them.

Posting a generic list of the songs we HAVE to have is the sort of topic that you love to rip apart. Just because I don't have those tracks on my MP3 doesn't mean I'm crap and I can argue that a boring cliched list of songs is the reason why I DON'T own a generic piece of hardware and gladly listen to my own collection of tunes that are every bit as good as those tunes even if people don't have the individualism to search for them instead of conforming to conformist cliches.

lucifer_sam · 04-25-2010, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

It may use the same encryption but a generic MP3 portable player doesn't recognise the files and are therefore unplayable. AAC files work with I tunes and compatible PC based players but MP3 players generally don't play them.

Posting a generic list of the songs we HAVE to have is the sort of topic that you love to rip apart. Just because I don't have those tracks on my MP3 doesn't mean I'm crap and I can argue that a boring cliched list of songs is the reason why I DON'T own a generic piece of hardware and gladly listen to my own collection of tunes that are every bit as good as those tunes even if people don't have the individualism to search for them instead of conforming to conformist cliches.

I know iTunes is shit, it doesn't take a law degree to figure that out. Which is why I don't use it, it's not exactly that difficult to switch to foobar, MediaMonkey, WinAmp, whatever you like. AAC files never even come into the picture.

The iPod, on the other hand, is a miracle of industrial design and is so laboriously intuitive that it's almost idiotic to try and write it off as a "conformist cliche". And this is coming from a guy who hates Apple (Macs are shit too, by the way).

Why try to derail a thread that's clearly productive? We all know you don't listen to sacred cows (apparently something you pride yourself on), what reason would you have to get offended by someone offering their own hundred-song list? How is this any worse than the hundred-albums list that people spread around?

In the immortal words of the OP:

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Originally Posted by Jedey

It's just a list! Songs that in my opinion are great.