Meanderings of an opera obsessed mind...

I finally have an iPod Touch! Yeah, after years of unintentionally 'boycotting' Apple goods, I've finally given in. Stephen Fry would no doubt be proud. XDD

And it's all due to my mum going round the shops of Windsor House asking for it that she finally got one for me while I was at work doing my internship. She tried two without luck and managed to get one at the third shop she went to and it seems to be that she also got the last one left...O_O

Just trying to figure out what the heck to do with it at the moment though...I'm going to have to download iTunes first it seems...and then I'll just go from there...

After months of indecision on whether I should get the iPod Touch or the Nokia E71, I finally decided on getting the latter yesterday.

So far it's great though probably I haven't figured out even half of what the phone is capable of yet...can I say that this phone has waaay too many features? (Not that I'm complaining though...XDDD)

Hmm...I'm probably going to finally get a new phone and MP3 player in the next month or so seeing that both have decided not to function as well as they used to. My phone is really getting messed up recently...it won't detect incoming calls sometimes even when it's been on for hours on end. Probably going to give both my phone and MP3 player a complete makeover; I'm going to switch from my Sony Ericsson to a Nokia E71 while I'm going to give into the iPod trend by swapping my Creative Zen to an iPod Touch (which I'm kind of being forced to do seeing that none of the shops here sell Creative products anymore -____-)

I simply can't wait till next month (since that's also probably when my damn book is going to finally arrive)!

Although I probably won't be able to buy a new mp3 player at this very minute, it doesn't hurt to contemplate one's options, I guess. At the moment, I'm trying to decide whether to stick to my trusty old friend Creative by getting the Creative X-Fi 2 (www.creative.com/products/mp3/ZenXFi2/) or give in to the ipod/Apple craze which everyone goes on about with the iPod Touch.

One thing I like about Creative is that they're usually break-resistant, the sound quality is pretty good and even dropping it a couple of times by accident doesn't seem to do anything to it. Plus they can play WMA files which the iPod can't (unless you convert WMA to MP3) which is sort of a problem since every time I rip music from CDs, Windows Media Player just converts them into WMAs and I seriously do not want to convert a large part of my music library from WMA to MP3. iTunes also gives me some misgivings since EVERYTHING has to be transferred/organised via the program.

On the other hand, the iPod Touch is admittedly very cool and can access the internet. But I'm not sure how long the battery life lasts on average (Creative players last perhaps for 2 and a half years?)...plus the real lack of alternative video formats to play (only MP4, mov and some other rather obscure formats [to me, at least]) is concerning me since a lot of my videos are either in WMV and AVI. I know I can convert them but seriously, do I seem to want to convert nearly everything (music and video) just for the sake of getting them to play on the iPod? Also does anyone know how good the sound quality is on the iPod and how does it stand to the occasional 'abuse' of getting accidentally dropped on the floor? XDDD