ipod nano vs. ipod shuffle...plz help

[dorfman]

I havnt posted on the forums in ages and thats becouse its summer and i have a summer job and im making tons of money off my unicycle skills...im making nearly 200 dollars a week and im saving up for a vespa scoote (i know not a uni but i need faster transportation)...(this will all eventually reach the topic i promise) the job is a unicycling billboard and i have been gaing clients...and while working i have been using a cheap sport radio on an armband and nothing is worse than getting into the music rythm while unicycling and then a comercial....so i thought i need somthing else so i came to the coclusion i need an ipod and 1 gb(240songs) is plenty for me and i found on amazon a pretty good deal on both an ipod shuffle with a sport case lanyard thing that will protect the shuffle from damage/rain/ect...and an ipod nano with and armband thing...and the shuffle bundle is $124 and the nano is like $154 so theres not much money between the to and both prices are managble definatly its just i dont know wich one would be best for unicycling with cases/armbands aside....i need your help and if you have any experience wiht either product and how they are with unicycling please tell me

i appologize for my horrid grammar and lack of puncution and spelling im in sort of a hurry typing this thread

im always horrid when it comes to deciding between products to buy ...so it would be nice if you could give me the pros and cons of each reffering to unicycling with them

( i did a search on this and got nothing just so no one plays that card)

warren

[Jerrick]

Get the nano. The shuffle, does that, just shuffles through your songs, so unless you like to always listen to a random song at all times, you can get the shuffle, as for me, I like to be able to choose the song and play that, so I would buy the nano.

[trials_uni]

You can put the shuffle on order mode too.

I would get the shuffle personally. Its a little smaller and there arent as many parts to break or screwup(like a screen). Plus when your riding you just want some pulse pounding music to get you going, so load up your shuffle with that and ride all day, you'll never hear the same song twice!

[darchibald]

The nano is a much better product and if you are only paying a little bit more go nano. For what you want to do they will both do the same job but thats not the only time you are likely to use it. I have a shuffle (got for free in some kind of promotion) and its pretty basic. It has the basic playing functions and can play in order or shuffle them thats all. You can only find your songs through knowing them alphabetically which is sometimes annoying. Like I said go nano.

Where do you live? Is it highly populated? How much do you get paid and what do you do? Basically tell me about your job.

I'm gonna check out amazon for a nano for myself now.

David

[maestro8]

Look into a Creative MuVo. A 1 GB MuVo will only set you back about $70 and its got more features than the Nano... you can listen to FM radio, record with the built-in mic or the line-in port, you get awesome battery life out of one AAA battery, and it'll also work as a memory stick!

You don't even have to load any software on your computer to interface with the MuVo, just plug it in and drag'n'drop, and you're set! The MuVo is super small (smaller than the nano), light, and comes with a protective rubber case and an armband. I've been riding with mine and have dropped it onto the cement repeatedly with no ill effects.

IMHO, Apple's iPods are just overblown fashion accessories. They're overpriced, underbuilt, then marketed to zombie consumers. Sure, the thumbwheel is nifty, but other than that, they're nothing special...

[dorfman]

Originally Posted by darchibald

The nano is a much better product and if you are only paying a little bit more go nano. For what you want to do they will both do the same job but thats not the only time you are likely to use it. I have a shuffle (got for free in some kind of promotion) and its pretty basic. It has the basic playing functions and can play in order or shuffle them thats all. You can only find your songs through knowing them alphabetically which is sometimes annoying. Like I said go nano.

Where do you live? Is it highly populated? How much do you get paid and what do you do? Basically tell me about your job.

I'm gonna check out amazon for a nano for myself now.

David

i live in jacksonville, florida, its the biggest city in the country but only by area ...its highly populated... I work on wednesdays fridays and saturdays and on wednes day i get paid 10 dollars and hour and on fri-sat i get paid 16.50 an hour...

[johnfoss]

Originally Posted by maestro8

IMHO, Apple's iPods are just overblown fashion accessories. They're overpriced, underbuilt, then marketed to zombie consumers. Sure, the thumbwheel is nifty, but other than that, they're nothing special...

So how come they far outsell all the other kinds put together? Oh yeah. They're easy to use! Drag & drop works great for people who like to organize their media files manually, but if you have tons of them and want an interface that makes it easy to deal with them, iTunes works pretty well.

Based on the prices you qouted above, the choice seems pretty obvious. The Nano is a lot more player for only a little more money. The only downsides are that it might be a little more scratch & break-prone, and it's a tiny bit bigger. But they're both very small. Plus the Nano has the best sound quality of all iPod models (not that this should matter in your work environment).

Plus you can still play the Nano in shuffle mode. That's what I do with my regular iPod most of the time in the car. I created a playlist called All Regular Songs, that includes almost everything, but filters out a few things that I usually don't need to hear.

[underdog]

I've had a Shuffle for about a year now and really like it but, I do sometimes wish I had a way to pick and play a particular song. I usually just leave it on shuffle for totally random play. The only other mode is sequential, which plays the songs in the order you loaded them. There is a skip button but unless you've got a photographic memory and know that the song you want to hear is 12 songs after the one you're currently listening to...well, you just can't get there from here. If I had it to do over again, I'd get the Nano.

One other thing about any of the MP3 players out there. I'd suggest spending some big bucks on quality ear phones. I dropped a hundo on some Shure E2Cs and these are about the bottom end of the 'good' quality phones. I kinda wish I'd gone a little higher end. The E2Cs still sound a little tinny to me. I use them on my motorcycle and they do work well at cutting out the ambient noise so I can listen to my music. There's no way I could do that with the standard iPod phones. The wind noise alone was enough to cancel out the music.

[swarbrim]

Doesnt this look like a great buy???

Mike

[gkmac]

Originally Posted by swarbrim

Doesnt this look like a great buy???

Yes, excellent value for money for a 2Gb device. The Cowon iAudio 5 I bought last month was more expensive, and it's only 1Gb! But at least mine runs on standard AAA batteries instead of expensive proprietary Li-on rechargables that, when worn out, usually have to be ordered specially and cost an arm and a leg. If my last battery runs out I can just nip into a shop and buy another one.

If you rip your own CDs onto it, it might be worth looking for one that has Ogg Vorbis audio support, like both the Samsung and Cowon players linked above. Ogg Vorbis is a little known codec, but it offers far superior compression than MP3. To my ears, Ogg Vorbis quality 3 files (average 112kbits/sec) sounds just as good as 192kbits/sec MP3 files!

And smaller files means you can store more good sounding music into the same space. But as I've said, virtually no music downloads can be found in the Ogg Vorbis format, so it's just as well those players can play MP3s as well!

[mornish]

I have the shuffle, and It's great. It holds more songs than I will put in it for a long time to come(I have the 240 song version) and It has a very long battery life. If you have enough money though, I would say get the nano, because screens are very useful sometimes.

[zippy]

for uni get the shuffle it's more durable and you can get a durable plastic cover for it, the nano will break easily.

[mornish]

also the shuffle ways less than 5 pennys

[Radical Reed]

get the nano, thats what I have and I love it, I've droped it a few times and it hasn't broken, just make sure that the plastic thing stays on the screen or else it will get scratched. those rubber cases are also nice to have

[b2bivy]

I own the Nano while my wife has and prefers the shuffle. I can't wear either when I Muni, but on the Coker with a leather carrying case that looks like a wallet, the Nano is my choice. Plus whenever you are not riding the nano is better due to all the added features - my vote Nano...