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BaD 06: WOMiP Week! The iPod, Headphones, and Playlists


On 02/10/2014 at 01:25 PM by goaztecs

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Linked to Article Series: Blog a Day (BaD) 2014

Hey Pixlbit, Happy Monday! Everyone have a good weekend? Anything cool happen? I spent the weekend playing The Lego Movie: Videogame, watching the Olympics, and snuck in a nap. This is a new week, which mean more Blog A Day from yours truly. For this week I thought I would showcase another one of my interests…Music! More specifically, what’s on my iPod. So this week it’s What’s On My iPod or WOMiP. I tend to keep favorite songs, new stuff, podcasts, and audiobooks on there but I want to talk about certain playlists, and other fun stuff. Sound good? Cool, so to start off WOMiP week let’s talk about the actual setup

This is my 64GB iPod Touch 4th Generation with a FiiO E11 Headphone Amplifier.

 

They are attached together by Velcro, and this is my go to setup whenever I leave the house.

These are my over the ear headphones

 

On the left are my Sennheiser HD 428’s, which I use for working outside, walking, and gym use. Since they are Sennheiser, they are flat in sound which is fine, but if you like tons of bass you have to modify them (I think you just remove some dampening padding inside the shell). My other pair is my V-Moda Crossfade LP’s. These are a bit bass heavy, but with playing around with the iPod equalizer, I feel has a really nice sound. I use these in house, traveling, and sometimes when I go walking.

These are my walk around in public earphones

 

The Klipsch s4. I didn’t get the s4i because I don’t need the cord microphone I listen to 99% of my music on my iPod and not phone.

These are my two screens on my iPod

 

I don’t do much on my iPod other than listen to music, and sometimes the radio.

And this is my playlist windows

 

The first list is home to all the playlists that I manually add music to, like Podcasts, and the group of songs I want to listen to. iPod Smallz is my playlist for all the songs from my 8GB iPod (it’s usually stuff I already have on this iPod). Shuffle Playlist is music on my iPod Shuffle which is around 100 songs. Theme Playlists are lists like Favorite Month songs, Shame list, and other playlists. Smart Playlists all the songs that are already rated (4* and 5* songs) and placed into groups. I have groups for songs from high school, growing up, college, and now for years. GP Stuff are songs I bought from Google Music.

 

My next screen of playlists

 

The JT playlist is because I wanted to listen to my favorites from his first two albums. Mixtapes is self explanatory, New Music is all the albums that I bought that I haven’t listened to yet. Purchased is all the stuff I bought from iTunes that is still on my iPod, and 5 Star is my absolute favorite songs.

So for this week we shall take a trip through some of the albums/playlists/podcasts, and books.

 

Before I end today’s BaD,

 

CURLING IS HERE! I stayed up early this morning just to watch this.

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris


 

Comments

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/10/2014 at 02:07 PM

One of my old DJs is in the newsroom in front of my office trying to find the channel Olympics are on. 

He is not having much success. 

goaztecs

02/10/2014 at 02:34 PM

The games are on NBC SN. Right now it's CURLING! United Kingdom versus Sweeden. I don't know if NBC is also offering online streams. They did for the summer games so you might want to check that out too.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/11/2014 at 01:00 AM

Streaming may be the way to go. Inconvenient, but oh well.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

02/10/2014 at 04:34 PM

dude man, u take your sound seriously!  I dig that. 

goaztecs

02/10/2014 at 05:50 PM

Thanks! I'm not an audiophile (those guys/gals have crazy setups) but if you spend a little more for quality, you enjoy the music a whole lot more. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

02/10/2014 at 07:05 PM

i know exactly what u mean.  Laughing

C.S.3590SquadLeader

02/10/2014 at 04:56 PM

When it comes to music, I have my 250GB iPod classic. It sure beats having to lug around a huge stack of CDs, that's for sure.

Curling looks like it would be pretty fun to try one of these days.

goaztecs

02/10/2014 at 05:53 PM

Nice! old guy moment: Back in my day I used to go to class with a portable CD player, and CD wallet with 24 discs. Having to swap albums was kind of a pain, and waiting the 30 seconds for the Anti Skip to kick in was just part of life.

I don't know what it is but damn that sport is entertaining, and I'd also like to try. 

Ranger1

02/10/2014 at 07:00 PM

I am officially old. I don't own an i anything. I did finally break down and buy an MP3 player last fall and I started putting my cds on it and that's as far as I've gotten.

goaztecs

02/11/2014 at 11:03 AM

It's all good, I actually had a younger cousin of mine help me set up my laptop because I've been a die hard PC user. Heck even now I will Google how to do certain things because I have no idea how it works or how to get to it on my Mac.

Props to you for getting you music digitized! How are you liking your mp3 player?

Ranger1

02/11/2014 at 11:37 AM

I haven't really used it yet. And I fear it will not be big enough for all my music...

Cary Woodham

02/10/2014 at 08:31 PM

Did you see the LEGO movie? I did.  MUCH better than what I thought it would be.  Near Pixar quality, really.  I also got the game to review, it'll post at the end of this week.

goaztecs

02/11/2014 at 11:05 AM

I haven't seen it yet. My plans are not going as well as I'd like. Not a big deal because I will probably see it this week.

I look forward to your review, I finished the game Sunday, and I'm just playing around to grab all the extras I can find. There are some things that could have been better, but I do like the Lego games. 

KnightDriver

02/11/2014 at 03:07 AM

I have a 8GB 2nd generation iPod Touch. I'd love to get the 5th gen one sometime. This thing just keeps on working though. The only reason I'd want to upgrade is for the higher OS to play current games. As it is, it's great for music, and podcasts, my primary use for it.

goaztecs

02/11/2014 at 11:07 AM

I know what you mean. I had a 5th gen iPod Video that kept working. I broke the screen, swap it out with one from a broken system. Hell I even replaced the battery, but one day the motherboard decided to call it a career. Dang thing ran for 8 years. 

The new ones are nice. My cousin got one for Christmas. All she uses it for s Facetime, iMessage, and iTunes Radio. 

KnightDriver

02/13/2014 at 03:05 AM

When I got mine, the 3rd gen one came out like a week later. I was pissed because it had a camera and mine didn't. My iPod gets heavy use but is still error free some four years later.

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 08:23 PM

Ouch! I would be more than pissed!

Good to know your iPod working well. I've had a one or two moments where I had to reinstall everything but other than that, my iPod is working well.

KnightDriver

02/17/2014 at 12:17 AM

My only issue now is that the lastest update to iTunes locked out my iPod and so I restored the previous one and now don't update it anymore.

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