[GG Mora]

With the new iTunes, you can choose how your music library is displayed: the old list view, or grouped by album (w/artwork), or with a flip-style scroll display at the top, where each song or album is represented by the cover art...sort of llike flipping through your album collection. To get the artwork, you have to sign in to an exisiting iTunes Store account, or create a new one, and iTunes will automatically download the artwork.

Cool.

[Maurice Naughton]

Thunk just explained iTunes to me. Why?

[GG Mora]

Maurice Naughton, on Sep 18 2006, 11:58 AM, said:

Thunk just explained iTunes to me. Why?

I don't know. You'd have to ask Thunk.

[Melonious Thunk]

M/Assuming you really are sincere in your question....

I have a small object I slip into my pocket, abut 1/2" thick, 2" x 4". It is an iPod. With it, I can listen to any of pehaps 5,000 albums of music of my choice in reasonable sound quality. I can select what I want to hear, by track or passage even, and play it over my car audio system, or through a pair of ear buds that block out 98% of extraneous noise on airplanes, or through my audio system at home, or through a small pair of battery operated speakers about the same size as the iPod.

iTunes is a system from Apple with which I can, for a fee, "download" individual tracks or whole albums from a vast selection of music of every genre, onto a "library in my computer. I can organize this library into indexed lists that the computer (or the ipod) will access at my command. So I can call up "Frank Sinatra" or "Emil Giles" or three versions of a Beethoven piano sonata, or .... ??? I have a collection of nearly 4000 CDs, and I am slowly transferring my favorites onto my computer iTunes library and then onto one of two or three iPods. I also have bought some 100 albums and compilations from the iTunes "store," music that would have taken me hours to locate at a store. Mostly for $8.99 per album of 15 or 20 tracks.

The system is easy to operate, inexpensive, reliable, and provide high quality audio for most listening venues.

For someone who enjoys music and has eclectic tastes and demands decent quality sound, this is very good technology. I do not use it walking down the street, or riding a bus, but when I want to hear music. My car is now capable of providing me with an almost unlimited variety of music choices without changing discs or listening to inane radio announcers.

Any questions?

[Steven Dilley]

What device do you use in your car, Thunk? I borrowed a small iPod FM transmitter from my sister and had a difficult time picking up the signal in my car.

[Rose]

Many new cars have a way to connect the ipod directly into your car speakers. All you need then is a male/male connection to replace your earbuds.

[Blondie]

Steven Dilley, on Sep 18 2006, 02:02 PM, said:

What device do you use in your car, Thunk? I borrowed a small iPod FM transmitter from my sister and had a difficult time picking up the signal in my car.

My car doesn't have an ipod input, but I get decent sound using a Monster cassette adapter. Oddly, it never worked in my Explorer, but is fine in the Volvo.

I gave up on FM transmitters because I could never find a clear channel. FWIW I found the AirPlay worked far better (and more simply) than the iTrip.

[mongo_jones]

and while blondie's itrip worked fine for me for a while it required constant movement to avoid static (our car has the antenna painted onto the rear windshield). and then i dropped and almost broke it. patched it up but rattling around in ladakh for 2 weeks was the end of it.

need to get a tape adapter soon.

[Melonious Thunk]

Steven Dilley, on Sep 18 2006, 02:02 PM, said:

What device do you use in your car, Thunk? I borrowed a small iPod FM transmitter from my sister and had a difficult time picking up the signal in my car.

I just bought a Monster iCarPlay Thursday. It is an FM wireless tranmitter. I am experimenting with stations. I have very clear reception sometime in some areas on one station, then it get some hissing, probably from a local sigan. I think I shoul dbe able to fine a coouple of stations that will work. My CD player transmits through FM 89.1 and it has no static at all. My cassette player feed the wrong way to use a cassette connector, which would be my preference.

[rancho_gordo]

Melonious Thunk, on Sep 18 2006, 11:47 AM, said:

My cassette player feed the wrong way to use a cassette connector, which would be my preference.

My cassette adaptor feeds all along the cassette so it can work in any postition. And is was a cheapie too.
No luck with the FM thing.

[mongo_jones]

rancho_gordo, on Sep 18 2006, 01:14 PM, said:

Melonious Thunk, on Sep 18 2006, 11:47 AM, said:

My cassette player feed the wrong way to use a cassette connector, which would be my preference.

My cassette adaptor feeds all along the cassette so it can work in any postition. And is was a cheapie too.
No luck with the FM thing.

brand please?

[rancho_gordo]

mongo_jones, on Sep 18 2006, 12:17 PM, said:

rancho_gordo, on Sep 18 2006, 01:14 PM, said:

Melonious Thunk, on Sep 18 2006, 11:47 AM, said:

My cassette player feed the wrong way to use a cassette connector, which would be my preference.

My cassette adaptor feeds all along the cassette so it can work in any postition. And is was a cheapie too.
No luck with the FM thing.

brand please?

It's in my van. I'll check when I get home.

[omnivorette]

Our car stereo doesn't take cassettes - only ÇDs. This means we would have to get a new car stereo in order to accomodate an iPod adapter?

[rancho_gordo]

omnivorette, on Sep 18 2006, 12:19 PM, said:

Our car stereo doesn't take cassettes - only ÇDs. This means we would have to get a new car stereo in order to accomodate an iPod adapter?

Or try the FM thing. It seems to work for some.

[GG Mora]

omnivorette, on Sep 18 2006, 03:19 PM, said:

Our car stereo doesn't take cassettes - only ÇDs. This means we would have to get a new car stereo in order to accomodate an iPod adapter?

No, you need to get a new car.