I've recently for the first time messed with an iPod and I never realized how cool the little things actually are. I am considering getting one, but I am wondering about one thing about em. They come with 25 minute skip protection. What does that mean? Do they actually skip or what? I don't see why they would when they are on a harddrive as files. My 128 meg MP3 player don't skip, I would figure it would work the same way. So my question basically is, do they skip and what does the 25 minute skip protection exactly mean?
-S2k
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 May 6 2005, 11:38 am
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May 6 2005, 11:50 am
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Strawgate
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It probably loads the music into the buffer, helping stop blurps in the transfer.
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If you go running with a hard drive based iPod, it will probably eventually skip. Why? Because the hard drive consists of moving parts (platters spinning around and a read head moving to different spots on the platters). At some point, you may cause a jolt that's forceful enough to bump the read head out of position while it's trying to read something. The iPod minimizes this by loading 32 MB of music into a buffer all at once. With typical bitrates, that equates to about 25 minutes of music before it has to spin the hard drive back up and read some more.
Under normal usage (non-impact), it shouldn't skip at all. If you plan to exercise with music, you might consider keeping your flash-based player for that. It's one area where they have an advantage over all brands of hard drive players. | |
Mike H wrote:
If you go running with a hard drive based iPod, it will probably eventually skip. To be clear, it's not going to skip under "normal" usage. There's nothing more skippy about the iPod than other MP3 players. | |
Deadron wrote:
Mike H wrote: Right. :) Mike H wrote: Under normal usage (non-impact), it shouldn't skip at all. | |
One of the main reasons I have my iPod mini is working out and I've never heard it skip. I go for some pretty long jogs with it strapped to my arm. I'm guessing it'd take 25 minutes of hitting it with a hammer before you'd hear it skip.
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DarkView wrote:
I'm guessing it'd take 25 minutes of hitting it with a hammer before you'd hear it skip. And by that time, it wouldn't so much be skipping as lying flat on its back, whimpering softly in time with the gentle crunch of circuitry. | |
you can run Linux on it too! someone cobbled together a mini distro with a few apps for it, and set it so that you can dual-boot either into Linux or back into the iPod system.
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Why would you want Linux on an iPod?
I get the impression that even the microwave runs on Linux over at digitalHouse. =P | |
DarkView wrote:
Why would you want Linux on an iPod? But on the other hand, why would you not? ;-P I get the impression that even the microwave runs on Linux over at digitalHouse. =P Better than having it run Windows. =D *turns on microwave* *Windows startup sound plays* NOOOOO! | |
Stealth 2k wrote:
Yeah, Windows is really buggy on toasters. Definetly do not do that. They still haven't sent me updated drivers for my four-slot. Bastards. | |
At least your chairs are solid! Putting Linux on a 5x5 block of air was a pain. I could never see what I was doing.
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Just buy it...
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