I recently got an 80GB iPod Classic to have a second backup of all my music, and be able to listen to stuff on the go. Bad choice.
Seems like all the new classics that came out after the touch was released are a little quirky... and not in a cool way either. The wheel is very insensitive and there's no way to really fix that. Especially when you have 80/80GB filled like on mine, sometimes I spend ridiculously long trying to get from one end of a list to the other because the wheel keeps screwing up and the iPod never goes into that fast scrolling mode. Also, some of the screens take a while to load sometimes and a few times it even just froze on the main screen and I had to reset it. All in all, definitely not terrible, but if you have other options then they're probably much better.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Serato Scratch Live
I recently had the chance to try out a setup that was using Scratch Live and all I can say is 'awesome.'
I'm not going to go into details; you can find that stuff anywhere on the web. Instead, here's why I'm about to buy Serato.
So far I've been using cd's to mix, but this is getting really tiresome. Sure, it beats carrying around crates of vinyl, but binders of cd's isn't that cool either. Also, I've always had a craving to spin vinyl. Also, the price of Scratch has gone down and I recently made some extra cash subjecting myself to health studies, so what the hell. No more needing a good cd burner to put all my music in discs separated by genre's and all that; hell, no more needing to constantly waste my time on cd's at all.
I know you can get Scratch to work with Vista and all, but honestly, Vista has been causing me enough problems as it is. Random crashes and bugs... can't have that if my laptop is going to be vital to the show. Going to downgrade to XP soon. Luckily I have two external drives I can use to back up my music twice, but maybe I'm going to have to dump the most used folders onto the laptops drive just in case latency becomes an issue. Honestly I have no idea if running music off an external will be noticeably different from running it straight off the laptop, but we'll find out.
I'm not going to go into details; you can find that stuff anywhere on the web. Instead, here's why I'm about to buy Serato.
So far I've been using cd's to mix, but this is getting really tiresome. Sure, it beats carrying around crates of vinyl, but binders of cd's isn't that cool either. Also, I've always had a craving to spin vinyl. Also, the price of Scratch has gone down and I recently made some extra cash subjecting myself to health studies, so what the hell. No more needing a good cd burner to put all my music in discs separated by genre's and all that; hell, no more needing to constantly waste my time on cd's at all.
I know you can get Scratch to work with Vista and all, but honestly, Vista has been causing me enough problems as it is. Random crashes and bugs... can't have that if my laptop is going to be vital to the show. Going to downgrade to XP soon. Luckily I have two external drives I can use to back up my music twice, but maybe I'm going to have to dump the most used folders onto the laptops drive just in case latency becomes an issue. Honestly I have no idea if running music off an external will be noticeably different from running it straight off the laptop, but we'll find out.
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