Free shipping on laptop bundles!MP3 Insider 119: Mobile music mishmash
Donald and Jasmine tease the iPod Nano vs. Microsoft Zune Prizefight and discuss a variety of portable audio accouterments, including a pair of headphones, a portable iPhone-compatible speaker, and the best MP3 players for audiobooks.
Also, hear some gab on the new Zune software, and find out who won last week's contest.
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Prizefight: iPod Nano vs. flash Zune:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4370-6490_7-569-101.html
Zune 3.0 software review:
http://reviews.cnet.com/music-and-recording/zune-3-0/4505-3669_7-33310114.html
Klipsch Image X5 earphones:
http://reviews.cnet.com/headphones/klipsch-image-x5-earphones/4505-7877_7-33244694.html
Best MP3 players for audiobooks:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6490_7-6547912.html
Hands-on with Pandora for Chumby:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10061357-49.html
JBL On Stage IIIP portable speakers:
http://reviews.cnet.com/portable-speakers/jbl-on-stage-iiip/4505-11313_7-33318677.html
Giveaway
In the one of Donald's iPod Classic videos, he uses a White Stripes song to demonstrate the Genius feature. The name of the song is "Death Letter."
Prize winners
- Fernando Cardillo: iSound TimeTravel speaker + alarm clock
- Andy Sexton: Snowflake Portable Professional USB Mic
- Oscar Magante: BlueAnt BlueSonic Bluetooth portable speakers
Donald Bell is CNET Reviews' senior editor for MP3 players and portable audio, and one half of the MP3 Insider blog and weekly podcast. He also likes getting his hands dirty with digital audio tools for musicians and DJs.
Donald Bell is an electronic musician, a veteran record store employee, and a fearless hardware hacker. He's also CNET's Senior Editor for MP3 and digital audio.
Jasmine France is CNET's resident digital audio doyenne, writing and editing product reviews, crave blogs, and feature stories on all things MP3. And if you need advice on headphones, she's your girl.
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Top. 1 | Cucusoft iPod Video Converter + DVD to iPod Suite
I think this all-in-one iPod video Conversion solution is best, because I can convert both DVD media and video file media to iPod video/iP and it' s speed is far faster than others.
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User Rating: 7. 5 | Popularity: 7. 5 | Feature: 8
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I love this all-in-one easy-to-use iPod MP4 video conversion tool, because it can help me rip DVD and also perfectly convert almost all popular video and audio formats such as AVI, Divx, FLV, DAT, XviD, WMV, MPEG, MPG, RM, RMVB, MOV, ASF, FLV, etc. to iPod MP4 (MPEG-4) H.264.
Top 10 Most Popular iPod Video Tools | Posted 10/8/2008
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Top. 4 | Cucusoft iPhone / iTouch / iPod to Computer Transfer
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Top 10 Most Popular iPod Video Tools | Posted 10/8/2008
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User Rating: 6. 5 | Popularity: 6. 5 | Feature: 7
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Top. 5 | Wondershare iPod Video Suite
I am keen on this useful and powerful all-in-one iPod video conversion solution, because I can convert both DVD media and video file media to iPod video/iPod movie.
Top 10 Most Popular iPod Video Tools | Posted 10/8/2008
UI skin: 6 | Speed: 6. 5 | Easy to Use: 6. 5
User Rating: 6 | Popularity: 6 | Feature: 6. 5
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source: http://articles.allmyhealth.net/200810/Top-10-Most-Popular-iPod-Video-Tools_17.html
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by dad2boys
October 20, 2008 7:00 AM PDT
- I posted the following previously on this site, but with this weeks discussion on the best players for audio books I wanted to put in a plug for us listeners who only listen to podcasts on our players.
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(4 Comments)I use a I-Pod nano (3G) almost exclusively to listen to Podcasts (including several CNET podcasts).
I have learned how to create smartlists to manage my podcasts on my I-Pod but I still get frustrated that even the I-Pod does not handle my podcast subscriptions in a logical and useful manner.
Possibly on this or another CNET forum contributors could create a wish list for a player that is designed to play podcasts. My immediate contributions include:
A player that understands that a podcast is a file that only needs to be played once and then can be deleted.
A player that lets me manage different podcasts in different ways. For example with a daily financial podcast (such as the Wall Street Journal morning report) I want to hear today's report (not yesterday's report that I didn't have time to listen to). On other podcasts it is important that I listen to them in order (such as MP3 insider). Some podcasts are not worth listening to if they are more than a few days old. I want to put a 3 day expiration on those podcasts. Some podcasts are OK to listen to for weeks after they are posted. I want to keep the last 5 episodes of those with those podcasts being eliminated after I have heard them or after they time out.
I want a delete button. When the podcast gets boring I want to dump it - not have it remain in my player to relaunch at the bookmarked spot every time I restart my list of unheard podcasts.
I want a skip ahead button on the player. Similar to a DVR jump ahead button I want to advance by 30 second increments (or 1 minute increments). More and more podcasts are inserting commercials into the stream and it would be convenient to skip ahead easily. The fast forward feature on the I-Pod is pretty touchy and hard to use with precision.
I listen to podcasts in my vehicle and while I am working. I do not need a big, fancy screen. I do need convenient controls on the player that do not require me to focus on the player to operate.
Possibly I could come up with a few other wishes for a dedicated podcast player but I would love to hear what other podcast listeners want in their players. Possibly our wish list will encourage a programmer to develop a player with features that work for those of us who use MP3 players to listen to podcasts and audio books.