RIP Ipod T_T
So my Ipod shuffle finally bit the dust today after over four years. I don't know what the normal "life span" of an Ipod is, but considering that's longer than some of my COMPUTERS have lasted...
Well, recently it had been acting weird, like only letting me add one song at a time before having to disconnect and re-connect it, only charging half of the time, and within the last couple of days, only playing music out of one speaker most of the time.
I think what ultimately killed it was the fact that I accidentally washed it with a load of my laundry. xDD
So I've been looking into what's out there for other Ipods/MP3 players/etc. Of course I can't afford the shiny spiffy kind of Ipods my roommates have. I liked the Shuffle, my one complaint was that I had to physically listen and skip through the songs to find one if I wanted a specific one, but that was my only complaint. It was small, simple, and while it didn't have the space for 40 billion songs, I only ever want to listen to at most 30 at a time anyway (usually it's closer to 10-15), so the small amount of song storage space was a-okay.
Ipods and generic MP3 players are alright, but if I'm going to buy something (my old Ipod was free, I won it from a promotion literally a week into the semester my first year at USC) I'm going to want to buy something that has more than just a "music player" function. Ideally I'd like to get something like a PSP or a DS. I'm leaning more towards a DS just simply because there are a TON of DS games I want to play and my laptop can't handle ROMs of them. I glanced through the list of DS games today and found at least 20 I'd want to play.
The problem is, the DS doesn't have a (legal) music player option. Fortunately it does with homebrew/hacking. I just need to figure out if I'd be willing (and, well, able) to pay $70-80 for a (used) DS, $20-30 for the homebrew mod and around $10 for a microSD card.
Funnily enough, that's about the price of a good amount of Ipods according to the Bestbuy website. xD Well, the good ones, anyway.
If I have the money, I think I'll go for it. I want a DS anyway, and if it can function as an Ipod on top of being able to play games on it that I've been itching to play for a while now - why not?
Well, recently it had been acting weird, like only letting me add one song at a time before having to disconnect and re-connect it, only charging half of the time, and within the last couple of days, only playing music out of one speaker most of the time.
I think what ultimately killed it was the fact that I accidentally washed it with a load of my laundry. xDD
So I've been looking into what's out there for other Ipods/MP3 players/etc. Of course I can't afford the shiny spiffy kind of Ipods my roommates have. I liked the Shuffle, my one complaint was that I had to physically listen and skip through the songs to find one if I wanted a specific one, but that was my only complaint. It was small, simple, and while it didn't have the space for 40 billion songs, I only ever want to listen to at most 30 at a time anyway (usually it's closer to 10-15), so the small amount of song storage space was a-okay.
Ipods and generic MP3 players are alright, but if I'm going to buy something (my old Ipod was free, I won it from a promotion literally a week into the semester my first year at USC) I'm going to want to buy something that has more than just a "music player" function. Ideally I'd like to get something like a PSP or a DS. I'm leaning more towards a DS just simply because there are a TON of DS games I want to play and my laptop can't handle ROMs of them. I glanced through the list of DS games today and found at least 20 I'd want to play.
The problem is, the DS doesn't have a (legal) music player option. Fortunately it does with homebrew/hacking. I just need to figure out if I'd be willing (and, well, able) to pay $70-80 for a (used) DS, $20-30 for the homebrew mod and around $10 for a microSD card.
Funnily enough, that's about the price of a good amount of Ipods according to the Bestbuy website. xD Well, the good ones, anyway.
If I have the money, I think I'll go for it. I want a DS anyway, and if it can function as an Ipod on top of being able to play games on it that I've been itching to play for a while now - why not?