Do droid people keep their ipods/ zunes?

[tu3218]

I also still continue to use my zune HD 32 for car rides simply for the fact that I haven't found a way to create "autoplaylists" on the droid. For the zune owners, you should know what I'm talking about. I love them!! Plus the zune interface is just unbeatable but I do use my droid for when I don't have my zune.

 

[yoopermjm]

I still keep my zune. I love audiobooks and they're not yet on the droid and also for battery life.

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[kae]

I kept my iPod and my iPhone (which the Droid replaced). I really don't use my Droid for music at all. I still use my iPod (classic) for podcasts and music. The iPhone is an alarm clock and a platform for running applications. I haven't found a good app for sync'ing music to my droid PLUS my Eris battery doesn't last very long so I'm usually trying to conserve power. I had the iPhone before the Android (the battery seemed to last longer on the iPhone and I sometimes used the iPhone for podcasts, audiobooks, and music, but not all the time). I carried the iPod and the iPhone (Yes, I think the purpose of the iPhone was supposed to alleviate carrying multiple devices, but it didn't for me).

There were lots of things to consider about this question:

1. All my music is in iTunes on my mac (I used AAC to encode all my CD's which is Apple only AFAIK)
2. My collection has about 37GB and 9246 items, which is more than I could ever listen to, but is nice to have at hand sometimes.
3. Battery life of phone is a factor. I need my phone to last at least for a day, so I plug my phone in every night. Too much use during the day and my Eris battery is out of juice.
4. Ease of loading music onto phone (iPhone was easier, Droid requires more effort right now, but can be solved with an app). I wish the AAC encoding wasn't Apple only. I could re-encode my entire collection, but that's for another day in the far distant future 'cause I just don't have that kind of time right now. Plus, I still use iTunes and I don't fancy burning a CD just to get an MP3 file from a Protected AAC file (of which I have plenty).
5. I have problems coming up with a subset of tunes that I want to keep on the phone, but I could come up with a subset if the above was fixed. I did for the iPhone (although, it was painful)

There are a couple of problems, from my perspective, with the "'one device for everything' and a mobile phone too" idea:

• Sometimes you want a phone to just be a phone. When I have trouble performing basic phone functions (answering, dialing, hanging up, etc) because the OS on the phone is off doing some other task, then that is a problem (both the Android and the iPhone have this problem). First and foremost, it has to be a phone and it has to be a reliable phone.
• The battery has to last longer. I don't mean that it has to last a week, but it's got to be more than a couple of hours of talk time. I don't mind plugging it in every night, but if I talk on my mobile phone for an hour or two and that's all I get from the battery then that's a problem. I knew when I bought the Eris that the battery life was going to be a problem, but I bought it anyway (so it's my fault), but if phone manufacturers could get better battery life that would be wonderful.

Solve those two problems and I think somebody would win the hearts of the world (of the "all in one" device market at least). That's my two cents.

 

[StupidGenius]

Gave my 32gb 1st gen iPod Touch to my 14 year-old son. But he wanted my Droid. Ha ha ha....ahhhh kids, they say the darn-dest things.

 

[baaldemon]

I had kept my zune and was using it for a while after I got my droid. However after I setup a subsonic server (http://subsonic.org) I have been exclusively using my droid. I now have complete access to my ~250GB music library at home as long as I have a net connection. Yes the droids sound quality is not as good but only having to deal with the one device has offset the small dropoff of the sound quality.

I have stopped using wired headphones and switched over to bluetooth ones to get around the crappy headphone jack.

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[Romple]

I have a 60gig Zen that I've had for like 5 years. I used it primarily for movies when I worked overnight, but now it's my bulk portable music storage. But at this point most of my music is from Pandora and I only keep acual mp3s of my favorite bands on my Droid.

I WAS going to buy a Zune because my old BlackBerry was pretty ****ty as a media player, but since I got my Droid I decided to save myself a few hundred bucks and just let Google have another chunk of my life.

 

[Caniac Nation]

I keep my 80GB Zune. The Droid doesn't have enough space to keep many songs on it's sd card.

 

[abennion]

I stream my home collection to my Droid via MPD, XiiaLive, PMix, Droid MPD Client. But I still have my Cowon iAudio 7 for working out or when I want to hear good quality (FLAC).

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[echo6280]

I still use my MP3 player for the gym. It's quite a bit lighter when your running on the tread mill. However, I love the music on my Droid. I play guitar and for some reason when I plug my computer into my amp to play along with a song it makes a horrible buzzing noise. My BB Storm did the exact same thing. My Droid sounds awesome coming out of the 75 watt amp. Clean as a whistle. If anyone can explain why this is, I would appreciate it. Just curious I guess.

 

[souljerr]

I've got a 30gb IPod that I used to use all the time. Now that I've moved some of my music (only the playlist I regularly listen to) over to my Droid, I very rarely touch the IPod. The timing was perfect because I just started having headphone jack issues with my IPod.

 

[dhinged]

As much as id love to have everything in one device I have too much music.
I am a musician with 33 gigs of music.

Im curious. Do you use your droid as your primary music player?
What is the reason? Capacity, preference, other?

No, because I have to power the phone on then unlock it to manipulate the music player. Not safe for driving, and annoying everywhere else. I haven't found anything that lets me play/pause/forward/back like the iPhone's stereo earbuds w/mic.

With the iPod nano, I can manipulate the track with my thumb, plus I've got a radio on board. Droid is not my all-in-one device.

 

[vmann32]

I have a 1st gen 30 gb Zune which I use at work.I have 30 gb on it and 5 or 6 gb still on the pc.I know the zune pretty good and I don't need anything else using the droid battery.=]

 

[Vladiator]

I've been using phones as MP3 players since it was possible to do so (probably 6 or 7 years now). Never wanted to carry a second device just to listen to music so I have never owned an MP3 player.

Seriously, if you have such a huge MP3 collection, how much of it do you really listen to? I converted my whole CD collection to MP3 when the format came out and then went back and redid everything into 320 about a year ago (yeah that was a fun project). I weeded out every song that I didn't like except for some classic albums that you just can't do that to.

I have about 4GB of 320kps music on my Droid that I listen to. I'm using the S9 BT headset and it works very well for me.

Hopefully with the 2.2 update how much you carry on your phone won't really matter anymore.

 

[STVA]

1. All my music is in iTunes on my mac (I used AAC to encode all my CD's which is Apple only AFAIK)

AAC is NOT Apple only. Anything you ripped from CDs using iTunes is fully playable on a Droid. Songs that you purchased from iTunes before they switched to iTunes Plus are protected and won't be playable, but recently purchased iTunes music, purchased music that was upgraded to iTunes plus, and AAC music ripped from CDs using iTunes is 100% playable. MP4 is an industry standard.

 

[DIRTYDOGG]

I have a 1st gen 30 gb Zune which I use at work.I have 30 gb on it and 5 or 6 gb still on the pc.I know the zune pretty good and I don't need anything else using the droid battery.=]

I still use my Zune also as I like to keep the DROID battery useful lol

the Droid is manly for Web text and Calls for me

Music is for the Zune