removehtml]My children recently gave me an Ipod for my B-day. While undersail my wife and I refuse to listen to music but prefer reading, talking or just listening to nature's sounds. However once at shore or at anchor we enjoy many tunes. Now that I have 80 Gb to fill I am looking for suggestions as to tunes to download that goes well with being on the hook while sipping either a Mike's lemonade or my favorite -a Dark and Stormy! I know this topic has been raised before but I am now just getting "N'sync" with the rest of the world. Error: Error: expected [/URL], but found [/removehtml] instead[/removehtml]
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Alan, With 80 Gb you can load about 24000 songs, load everything you have or can get free. Delete what you don't like and just keep adding music. With random play you can listen for about 60 days, 24 hours a day, without repeating a song. Happy listening! Dennis W. S/V FullSailed
Alan, With 80 Gb you can load about 24000 songs, load everything you have or can get free. Delete what you don't like and just keep adding music. With random play you can listen for about 60 days, 24 hours a day, without repeating a song. Happy listening! Dennis W. S/V FullSailed
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Tons of good stuff out there. Try the Bilge Pumps and the Jolly Rogers for traditional sea shanties. Jim Morris and Bret Burns are also good island music. Of Course, you can't forget Jimmy Buffet (No cruiser's boat is finished without a little Buffet).
Tons of good stuff out there. Try the Bilge Pumps and the Jolly Rogers for traditional sea shanties. Jim Morris and Bret Burns are also good island music. Of Course, you can't forget Jimmy Buffet (No cruiser's boat is finished without a little Buffet).
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Kenny Chesney - "Be As You Are" Jerry Jeff Walker - "Bathing Suits and Cowboy Boots" Also Gene Mitchell - "Sailebration" Marc
Kenny Chesney - "Be As You Are" Jerry Jeff Walker - "Bathing Suits and Cowboy Boots" Also Gene Mitchell - "Sailebration" Marc
Be very patient
The best advice I can give on iPods/iTunes & your music is this: 1) Be very careful and selective with your music importing. For example when "ripping" a disc into your computer "un-check" any songs on the CD you're not crazy about. the last thing you want on your iPod is songs you don't like. My rule of thumb is this. If it's a song I always FF or skipped on a CD then I don't import it into iTunes because I'll just have to do the same with my iPod and that gets old quickly! 2) Change your import/rip settings to 192kbps and not 128kbps. To do this in iTunes go EDIT / PREFERENCES / ADVANCED / IMPORTING the select IMPORT USING: MP3 Encoder then select HIGHER QUALITY (192 kbps). I suggest using the Mp3 encoder because it's a more universally accepted format than Apples format is. 3) When buying from iTunes just know that you don't ractually OWN your music. This music is encrypted and the long reaching fingers of DRM (digital rights management) have their slimy prints in each of your downloaded files. Each of these files only allows so many burns to a CD or use on only a couple of different computers or hard drives. I make lots of mixed CD's for friends and my friends do the same you can't do this with iTunes purchased music unless you do a few extra labor intensive steps such a burning all your down loaded music to a "music CD" then ripping it back into iTunes. What a PITA! It's much easier to just buy the CD's IMHO! 4) Use Genres! When importing your music check to see if it's labeled as you think it should be. If it's not you can assign it any Genre you'd like even made up ones. I find record companies mis-labeled genres all the time and stuff that should be considered country is in fact assigned "pop". We have well over 30gb of music on our iPod and find nothing more annoying than putting it on "shuffle all" and going from a George Winston solo piano piece, from the New Age genre, directly to AC/DC or G. Love & The Special Sauce. With Genre's your music will stay within a particular type such as Bluegrass, Funk, Country, Rock/Pop, Folk, Live, Acoustic, Soul, Jazz, Jazz Vocal or even your own made up genre of "Boat Music" etc. etc.. For example, sometimes in the morning when we just wake up, we will put on our "classic jazz" genre which includes artists like Miles, Thelonius, Brubeck, Coltrane and others. It seems to start us off right and we don't have to worry about hearing a Zepplin song at 6:00 am while we're making coffee and easing into the day.. 5) When you use iTunes on your computer click: VIEW then SHOW BROWSER! This will allow you to sort your music by Genre (either all genres or any individual one), then by artist then by album. This little trick actually makes iTunes a very nice and user friendly program.... 6) Buy an iPod remote control!! This is the best money we've spent in terms of boat bucks. We own the iJet from ABT and it allows us to control the iPod's FF, RW, Pause, Play and Volume all from the cockpit. It's water resistant key fob is tiny and can be velcro'd right to the helm. The best part is this is NOT an infrared remote you have to physically aim at the iPod. It's Radio Frequency so there is no aiming necessary!! Here's a link: http://www.abtech2.com/iJetBottomDock.htm 7) Use the playlist feature!
The best advice I can give on iPods/iTunes & your music is this: 1) Be very careful and selective with your music importing. For example when "ripping" a disc into your computer "un-check" any songs on the CD you're not crazy about. the last thing you want on your iPod is songs you don't like. My rule of thumb is this. If it's a song I always FF or skipped on a CD then I don't import it into iTunes because I'll just have to do the same with my iPod and that gets old quickly! 2) Change your import/rip settings to 192kbps and not 128kbps. To do this in iTunes go EDIT / PREFERENCES / ADVANCED / IMPORTING the select IMPORT USING: MP3 Encoder then select HIGHER QUALITY (192 kbps). I suggest using the Mp3 encoder because it's a more universally accepted format than Apples format is. 3) When buying from iTunes just know that you don't ractually OWN your music. This music is encrypted and the long reaching fingers of DRM (digital rights management) have their slimy prints in each of your downloaded files. Each of these files only allows so many burns to a CD or use on only a couple of different computers or hard drives. I make lots of mixed CD's for friends and my friends do the same you can't do this with iTunes purchased music unless you do a few extra labor intensive steps such a burning all your down loaded music to a "music CD" then ripping it back into iTunes. What a PITA! It's much easier to just buy the CD's IMHO! 4) Use Genres! When importing your music check to see if it's labeled as you think it should be. If it's not you can assign it any Genre you'd like even made up ones. I find record companies mis-labeled genres all the time and stuff that should be considered country is in fact assigned "pop". We have well over 30gb of music on our iPod and find nothing more annoying than putting it on "shuffle all" and going from a George Winston solo piano piece, from the New Age genre, directly to AC/DC or G. Love & The Special Sauce. With Genre's your music will stay within a particular type such as Bluegrass, Funk, Country, Rock/Pop, Folk, Live, Acoustic, Soul, Jazz, Jazz Vocal or even your own made up genre of "Boat Music" etc. etc.. For example, sometimes in the morning when we just wake up, we will put on our "classic jazz" genre which includes artists like Miles, Thelonius, Brubeck, Coltrane and others. It seems to start us off right and we don't have to worry about hearing a Zepplin song at 6:00 am while we're making coffee and easing into the day.. 5) When you use iTunes on your computer click: VIEW then SHOW BROWSER! This will allow you to sort your music by Genre (either all genres or any individual one), then by artist then by album. This little trick actually makes iTunes a very nice and user friendly program.... 6) Buy an iPod remote control!! This is the best money we've spent in terms of boat bucks. We own the iJet from ABT and it allows us to control the iPod's FF, RW, Pause, Play and Volume all from the cockpit. It's water resistant key fob is tiny and can be velcro'd right to the helm. The best part is this is NOT an infrared remote you have to physically aim at the iPod. It's Radio Frequency so there is no aiming necessary!! Here's a link: http://www.abtech2.com/iJetBottomDock.htm 7) Use the playlist feature!
Playlists
With that much room I think you are better off just loading everything you have, unless you just hate the song. Once you have everything on the iPod then setup a bunch of playlists, depending on your mood. I have one just for sailing that contains Buffet and a bunch of other "mystical" sounding music. I just go through what I have and put what fits the mood in. The album of sea shanties I downloaded are all in there of course. One of my favorites is "What do you do with a drunken sailor". A classic.
With that much room I think you are better off just loading everything you have, unless you just hate the song. Once you have everything on the iPod then setup a bunch of playlists, depending on your mood. I have one just for sailing that contains Buffet and a bunch of other "mystical" sounding music. I just go through what I have and put what fits the mood in. The album of sea shanties I downloaded are all in there of course. One of my favorites is "What do you do with a drunken sailor". A classic.
Also am a new iPod owner...
Also the 80 gig model. Haven't downloaded any new music from the 'net yet, but I have finally succeeded in uploading every CD I own to iTunes. Instead of picking and choosing which songs on a CD to upload, I uploaded the whole CD each time, then deleted the songs on any album that I don't like, or are on more than one of the same artists' CDs, from the "master" list before creating my playlists and syncing anything to the iPod. Seems to be the faster way to do it.
Also the 80 gig model. Haven't downloaded any new music from the 'net yet, but I have finally succeeded in uploading every CD I own to iTunes. Instead of picking and choosing which songs on a CD to upload, I uploaded the whole CD each time, then deleted the songs on any album that I don't like, or are on more than one of the same artists' CDs, from the "master" list before creating my playlists and syncing anything to the iPod. Seems to be the faster way to do it.
can't find music listing archives
Any suggestions?. Thanx for all the other ideas. Life seemed simpler w/ just my little AM transistor radio with its' single earplug and 6 foot extendable antenna!
Any suggestions?. Thanx for all the other ideas. Life seemed simpler w/ just my little AM transistor radio with its' single earplug and 6 foot extendable antenna!
Quiet music
I agree with Maine Sail regarding 192KB mp3. I started off at 128, and have recently switched, and I notice a clear difference, particularly on better recorded music, particularly quiet things such as classical chamber music, early music, some better recorded folk music. If you have the space on you hard drive and ipod (since the higher sample rates result in larger files) go with the higher sample rate. I also agree that buying CDs is the way to go, as that way you can re-encode later if you want to move to a new format. With downloaded music you are stuck with whatever format you downloaded. 78's, 45's, 33's, 8 tracks, reel to reel, cassete, cd, dvd, mp3 - this stuff changes all the time. At least CDs have a high quality digital source that can be converted to whatever is going to come next. (OK the 78's were my dad's, but I've owned everything since, even a few 8 tracks. My sailing specific advice is this: In my car - I prefer up tempo music, while out on the boat, more laid back stuff seems like a better fit. But with 80GB's you can have both on your ipod, so what the heck. Specific recommendation - my family really got into a new Iron and Wine album I got just before a cruise a few years ago - "Our Endless Numbered Days". Its so laid back that its almost catatonic - but on the boat in the evening, it was perfect. Cowboy Junkies "Tinity Session" is another really quiet disk. But hey - everyone's musical tastes are different.
I agree with Maine Sail regarding 192KB mp3. I started off at 128, and have recently switched, and I notice a clear difference, particularly on better recorded music, particularly quiet things such as classical chamber music, early music, some better recorded folk music. If you have the space on you hard drive and ipod (since the higher sample rates result in larger files) go with the higher sample rate. I also agree that buying CDs is the way to go, as that way you can re-encode later if you want to move to a new format. With downloaded music you are stuck with whatever format you downloaded. 78's, 45's, 33's, 8 tracks, reel to reel, cassete, cd, dvd, mp3 - this stuff changes all the time. At least CDs have a high quality digital source that can be converted to whatever is going to come next. (OK the 78's were my dad's, but I've owned everything since, even a few 8 tracks. My sailing specific advice is this: In my car - I prefer up tempo music, while out on the boat, more laid back stuff seems like a better fit. But with 80GB's you can have both on your ipod, so what the heck. Specific recommendation - my family really got into a new Iron and Wine album I got just before a cruise a few years ago - "Our Endless Numbered Days". Its so laid back that its almost catatonic - but on the boat in the evening, it was perfect. Cowboy Junkies "Tinity Session" is another really quiet disk. But hey - everyone's musical tastes are different.
Old Radio Programs too
Don't forget, you can get old radio programs. We're often away from any decent radio station signals and besides music I was given some old radio programs which are kinda interesting. One group is "The Shadow". Good for when you're near turning in and you're in an anchorage by yourself.
Don't forget, you can get old radio programs. We're often away from any decent radio station signals and besides music I was given some old radio programs which are kinda interesting. One group is "The Shadow". Good for when you're near turning in and you're in an anchorage by yourself.
Monty Python tunes always make me smile.
"Always look on the bright side of life" "The Philosopher's song" "I like Chinese" The penis song" and my wife's favorite "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me." Another favorite while coming down wind in the channel at MDR is to crank up the outside speakers and put on Wagner' "Ride Of The Valkyries". Frank
"Always look on the bright side of life" "The Philosopher's song" "I like Chinese" The penis song" and my wife's favorite "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me." Another favorite while coming down wind in the channel at MDR is to crank up the outside speakers and put on Wagner' "Ride Of The Valkyries". Frank
"Songs of the Wooden Boat"
Bought this CD in Nova Scotia when my ship did a port visit there in '99. My all time favorite CD to this day. Celtic, sometimes haunting, sometimes rousing wooden sailing ship songs by various artists. I saw it is still available on Amazon.
Bought this CD in Nova Scotia when my ship did a port visit there in '99. My all time favorite CD to this day. Celtic, sometimes haunting, sometimes rousing wooden sailing ship songs by various artists. I saw it is still available on Amazon.
For Christmas ...
The Admiral got me a CD that is all Jimmy Buffet songs, but is instrumental. Mostly a bluegrass sound, but on the water it fits perfectly. And I have Jimmy's songs from his recordings as well. We listen to them through an FM transmitter in the cabin. I put the player in a beer bottle cozy..or is it coozy? If we happen to hit a song we don't like we just hit the fast forward. Someday's we listen to songs that the previous day we wouldn't. That is why I load up all of my CD's...well except for the Christmas special ones.
The Admiral got me a CD that is all Jimmy Buffet songs, but is instrumental. Mostly a bluegrass sound, but on the water it fits perfectly. And I have Jimmy's songs from his recordings as well. We listen to them through an FM transmitter in the cabin. I put the player in a beer bottle cozy..or is it coozy? If we happen to hit a song we don't like we just hit the fast forward. Someday's we listen to songs that the previous day we wouldn't. That is why I load up all of my CD's...well except for the Christmas special ones.
Now that...
you got that I-pod... you're going to have to get all the other crap that goes with it. It doesn't stop there. You have to get the stereo you plop the I-pod in... that is recharageable... has speakers... remote... and doesn't drain your 12V battery. You'll have to get that flat panel digital T.V. that you plug your I-pod in so you can watch the sailing photos you haven't loaded on yet! Find a kid to show you how it all works! Don't get too excited... it will all be obsolete next week. Rich
you got that I-pod... you're going to have to get all the other crap that goes with it. It doesn't stop there. You have to get the stereo you plop the I-pod in... that is recharageable... has speakers... remote... and doesn't drain your 12V battery. You'll have to get that flat panel digital T.V. that you plug your I-pod in so you can watch the sailing photos you haven't loaded on yet! Find a kid to show you how it all works! Don't get too excited... it will all be obsolete next week. Rich
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