OT: Warming up to digital music

[Rip Rokken]

I've not been excited about the digital music revolution at all, being a dude that loves CDs. I like to buy discs and get the artwork, booklet, etc., and have used MP3's just for the convenience occasionally, but not as my main method of buying music.

Well... I got an iPhone yesterday and was forced to finally deal with iTunes which I've avoided like the plague. But I have to say... once I figured my way around and saw how it worked with my phone, it freakin' rocks! I spent hours today Dokkenizing my iPhone, from adding my signature Rip Rokken smiley as the wallpaper, so adding/organizing Dokken tunes on the phone. The first bit was a nightmare, because I had several scattered and unorganized bonus and rare tracks that I now had to place into folders, rename, edit the properties for (artist, album, genre, comments, etc.), and then come up with album artwork where none was available directly thru the interface, then create playlists. But, man, did it pay off! SWEETNESS!!! I love the way it will pull up the artwork while a song plays, or it I tilt it landscape, it pulls up all the album covers that I can flip thru and select. I'm seriously going to dig this thing, and what a great tool for indokktrination! I can Dokk people up on the fly... haha!

I'm not making the leap completely to digital just yet -- still plan on sticking to CDs and transferring only what's needed, but I just made a huge leap today and am very happy for it. Now I just need to add some LSA ringtones!

[StoneCold]

ripper, throw a pic of your dokked screensaver on mr, sounds like a good one

[etcetera]

ripper, throw a pic of your dokked screensaver on mr, sounds like a good one

Yup LOL, some DOKKumentation Rip...ROKKEN' ROKKreation man!

[(Crazy)Dulce Lady]

what?????????????

you mean my iPhone was dokktored before yours? and I have inDokktrinated folks on the fly and you haven't?? I played LSA for the painter last week as he worked in the living room. he likes it!!

gosh--even the ripster can't keep up with the Mimi. drink some coffee, man!! and try to catch up!!

p.s. i was not so much digital either until JSS' Essential Ballads was released to iTunes and I didn't want to want for the snail mail order. I bought it later to get the artwork and booklet. did ya know that you only have to buy one of the tracks off of any cd and you can download the artwork? I love that jukebox cover art feature.

[Rip Rokken]

ripper, throw a pic of your dokked screensaver on mr, sounds like a good one

Sure! I had to learn how to use my new camera just to take these pics, and obviously I need some work... haha!

[Arianddu]

Just to be pedantic, CD is digital. But I get what you mean

[weatherman90]

ripper, throw a pic of your dokked screensaver on mr, sounds like a good one

Sure! I had to learn how to use my new camera just to take these pics, and obviously I need some work... haha!

Wow - I don't think the world will ever see a more Dokked-out iPhone!

[Rip Rokken]

what?????????????

you mean my iPhone was dokktored before yours? and I have inDokktrinated folks on the fly and you haven't?? I played LSA for the painter last week as he worked in the living room. he likes it!!

gosh--even the ripster can't keep up with the Mimi. drink some coffee, man!! and try to catch up!!

Wow! Now that's what I call "paying it forward"! I need to follow you around with a scratchpad and a pen and take notes sometime... LOL!

[larryfromnextdoor]

were you looking for the latrine here man???? looks like you went right on the floor..

[Sarah]

I love my iPod but I (and basically everyone I know) still buy CDs first...

[weatherman90]

I love my iPod but I (and basically everyone I know) still buy CDs first...

Yep - I gotta have the tangible object, the insert, etc.

And what else are you going to get signed when you meet the band?

[StoneCold]

Coolest iphone i've seen yet ripper , good work.

[Sarah]

And what else are you going to get signed when you meet the band?

My purse, my arm... lol. They've never signed a CD for me.

[Shadowsong]

I love my iPod but I (and basically everyone I know) still buy CDs first...

Yep - I gotta have the tangible object, the insert, etc.

And what else are you going to get signed when you meet the band?

I too need something I can hold & fall back on



I have similar sentiments
Esp since my computer gets possessed as it does almost every July.

Don't really trust the iTunes
Also don't you have to down load there software to upload or play the freakin thing?
Sorry, I'm just out of the hi tech loop.
but I'm open to tutorial

[Rip Rokken]

were you looking for the latrine here man???? looks like you went right on the floor..

Actually.... it kinda does look like that! I think I was checking out my virtual "package" to make sure they got it right... Good grief -- Rip Rokken taking a wizz on the Journey scarab... not exactly what I had in mind!

[Rip Rokken]

Coolest iphone i've seen yet ripper , good work.

Thanks, and trust me -- I've been putting it to good use already, indokktrinating someone every chance I get.

And what else are you going to get signed when you meet the band?

My purse, my arm... lol. They've never signed a CD for me.

Umm.... think reallllll hard. Anything else a proper female fan might get signed?

[Rip Rokken]

Don't really trust the iTunes
Also don't you have to down load there software to upload or play the freakin thing?
Sorry, I'm just out of the hi tech loop.
but I'm open to tutorial

I hated the whole concept of iTunes, and literally put an iPod back on the shelf when I found from the salesperson that I couldn't drag/drop MP3's to it like a mass storage device, but had to use iTunes. I typically avoid proprietary stuff, but after working with this one, all I can say is the experience is TOPS! It's the coolest thing I've bought in a while, and in an age where technology is becoming more about marketing than ease of use, this one hits it right -- no bloat, and IMO not a single wasted function. I literally just picked it up and started using it because it was so intuitive -- hmm, "intuitive"... that's a concept! Wish the tech vendors would catch on...

Aside from the iPod features, it's the best phone I've ever had. I've always hated just about every cell phone I have, and spend more time "working with them" while driving than I should. This one is incredibly functional and allows me to do so much with simple finger swipes, that I've started guessing things and they just often work. Someone really put some practical thought into the iPhone... and it's the ONLY phone I've had that works flawlessly with my BlueTooth headset. The others typically would lose their paring, or get out of sync. Heck, my Samsung Blackjack worked well when it did, but then it would lose sync with the headset and act as if it was one when it wasn't, then would cut off the connection when I used it, like it reversed the relationship. That drove me nuts and usually took about 5 minutes of power recycles and tinkering to fix. I was just about to chunk this headset until I got the iPhone, and it works exactly as it should... always asks me where I want the audio to go so I can switch the signal back and forth between the headset and the phone... The Blackjack would often (but not consistently) ask if I wanted to send the audio to the headset if I turned the headset on after the phone, and then almost never would. I'm never going back... Now, if only Apple can resist the bug that bites tech vendors most often and not keep thinking "more is better" with each release. Many products these days are long past their best versions, and now are just boggy quagmires of useless features and confusing interfaces.

[DrFU]

were you looking for the latrine here man???? looks like you went right on the floor..

Actually.... it kinda does look like that! I think I was checking out my virtual "package" to make sure they got it right...

You guys are not invisible when you do things like that, you know ... RL or SL!

[Rip Rokken]

Hey! You are in SL, too? I need help with my hair! I dig it now, but want my av to look more like me....

[DrFU]

Hey! You are in SL, too? I need help with my hair! I dig it now, but want my av to look more like me....

Yeah, I'm there sometimes, but I'm not very good at it. I keep flying into the ocean; I had to get one of my geek kids to come get me out the other day ... much eye rolling involved ...

On the hair, looks like you've gone too dark & too bushy

[Behshad]

Welcome to the fantastic world of Iphone!
I love my Iphone. Howver, a piece of advice here,,,, if you get multiple updates for different applications, do NOT choose "UPDATE ALL".... update them one by one. If you choose update all , there is a big risk that it will lock your iphone and give you the infamous white circle of death.....
Trust me , I experienced that and it took me hours to get things restored back.

[Rip Rokken]

Welcome to the fantastic world of Iphone!
I love my Iphone. Howver, a piece of advice here,,,, if you get multiple updates for different applications, do NOT choose "UPDATE ALL".... update them one by one. If you choose update all , there is a big risk that it will lock your iphone and give you the infamous white circle of death.....
Trust me , I experienced that and it took me hours to get things restored back.

Thanks, and I discovered just yesterday that it's a myth that Apple devices never crash... mine froze up right in the middle of one of Don's screams, and it was repeating the same .5 second of the scream over and over for almost 2 minutes while I scrambled to figure out how to reboot the damn thing. But it was a good way to die! LOL!