Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Choose wisely, PT. You can get an Android phone or small tablet to take the place of that old iPod. Heck you don't even need high capacity; just carry a few 64gb MicroSD cards in your wallet and swap when you want to listen to one thing or another. It's not like you'd be swapping cards every 5 or 10 tracks, and there's no way that you'll listen to all 160gb of music on a single flight, even on a long-haul, so swapping cards instead of pre-loading everything onto the onboard memory is not a deal-breaker.
With all due respect, this is the Apple attitude personified.
I don't listen to tracks, I listen to albums. I don't know what I want to listen to until I want to listen to it. That is exactly why I bought a device -- the only device -- that can store my entire music collection in a single, portable form. When I fly I . . . um . . . "self medicate" . . . with whatever the vodka the airline has chosen to make available, and keep myself in a nicely buzzed state while I listen to whatever music strikes my fancy at the moment. The last thing I want to do is shuffle tiny micro SD cards, trying to figure out what album is on what card, and THEN open up my phone, remove the battery, take out the card that's in there (careful not to remove the SIM card by mistake), insert the new card in the tiny slot, close everything up and then wait for my phone (I have a Droid Bionic) to boot up.
What is not a deal-breaker for you because of the way you listen to your music is absolutely a deal-breaker because of the way I listen to mine. Like Apple, you assume everyone listens to music the same way.