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Well, just got back exchanging my old sandisk mp3 player with a new one. Exchanged the black one for a dark purple (a friend couldn't tell it wasn't black until close inspection), and now I'm transferring my music library to it and deleting the default crap.

So far, I have:

Dawn of War 2 official soundtrack
Finger Eleven's "The Greyest of Blue Skies"
Niightwish
-- "Dark Passion Play"
-- "Once"
Noir OST 1, 2, and Noir Blanc
Rhapsody of Fire
-- "Symphony of Enchanted Lands"
-- "The Frozen Tears of Angels
-- "Triumph Or Agony"
-- "Power of the Dragonflame"
Total Annihilation Soundtrack
Voltaire
-- "Boo hoo"
-- "Then and Again"
-- "Almost Human"
-- "Banned on Vulcan"
-- "Devil's Bris"

Various pieces from:
The .hack// series soundtracks
Johnathan Coulton's music
The La-Mulana MP3 soundtrack
Metallica
The Xenosaga series soundtracks
Some misc stuff from random artists, such as Royal Crown Revue or 3 Doors Down



I guess that means I'm a dork for symphonic music with a bit of taste for contemporary stuff. What does your music say about you?

I've had 3 sandisks break on me, and I finally switched to a different MP3 company and I've never been happier (Walkman E340). 8 gigs for ~1/2 the price of an 8 gig ipod.

Beatles: 6 different albums
6 disks worth of cinematic music (symphonic, like Flight of the Valkyries)
2 different Pirates of the Carribean disks
2 Glenn Miller albums
2 Benny Goodman albums
B.B. King
2 Ray Charles albums
A Darius (can't think of his last name right now) album
A few other saxophonist albums
The Best of Kansas
Point of No Return by Kansas
Best of Styx
2 Queen Albums
3 The Who albums
Ratatat
3 Leonard Bearnstein albums
4 George Winston albums
Spansih Guitar
5 assorted Celtic and Scottish albums

And others that I'll edit into this post when I think of them.

I had a sandisk for four years without breaking. It was way back when MP3 players were battery-powered, as in, double As.

You know, back before the iPod made mp3 players cool! *taps cane on floor*

Oh, mine ran off of AAA. My new one is rechargeable, and the best part is, NO TRASHWARE. I did not need to download the latest gakking version of itunes, shockwave, or whatever you want to call it. The program that came with my computer worked just fine.

Ah, that's another thing to like about Sandisk. No need to download any crap. Yay.

Whoo offbrands! Let the nerds proudly proclaim that Apple is overrated, second rate crap in fancy plastic housing!





Oh wait, we already do. Never mind.

But they have itunes and replacement plans. Two things that make the iPod the single best MP3 players for anyone that uses it during exercise.

I have none, so it really says nothing about me.

It says you're poor or you don't like music, hehe

Sony has a great replacement plan. What makes iTunes so great?

I have been an iPod fanboy since the 2nd Gen fugly white one. I have had a 2nd gen, 5th gen w/video, a 3rd gen Nano, and now I bought myself a iPod touch. Yes, I spent way more than I HAD to. But when I thought I would go away from apple and I bought a Dell DJ before the 5th gen and it broke on me 3 times - the first two being in the 1 year warranty space.

All four of my iPods still work. All four are still being used today. You cant say that about any other brand mp3 player I have ever seen.

Melissia wrote:It says you're poor or you don't like music, hehe

It means that I do not wish to be indentified solely by a music playing device.

Melissia wrote:It says you're poor or you don't like music, hehe

Personally I find MP3's anti-social and after listening to my music on my surround-sound stereo I find the music quality on MP3's pretty lousy in comparison to my boom box as well. That's why I don't use them.

micahaphone wrote:Sony has a great replacement plan. What makes iTunes so great?

Well, with the iPod touch it has built in wifi and you can purchase new music on the go and download it directly. As you get older..and have a kid or two... your memory just is not what it used to be. It has been wonderful to hear music that a friend is listening to, decide I like it, and be listening to my own copy in 2-3 minutes.

That's what make itunes great to me. Plus being from the Album/tape/CD era I am a HUGE fan of cover flow. I can easily identify any album by the artwork way before remembering the name if the album.

Cheesecat wrote:

Melissia wrote:It says you're poor or you don't like music, hehe

Personally I find MP3's anti-social and after listening to my music on my surround-sound stereo I find the music quality on MP3's pretty lousy in comparison to my boom box as well.

Then get some better headphones? 15 dollar headphones are going to produce low quality sound.

I'd hate to have you as a coworker if you insist on listening to music on a boombox... I typically don't like the music most people listen to.

/annoyed

I was fully prepared to flame Melissia viciously on the contents of the MP3 device... but Voltaire?

I approve.

Your approval brings me no small amount of shame.

Melissia wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

Melissia wrote:It says you're poor or you don't like music, hehe

Personally I find MP3's anti-social and after listening to my music on my surround-sound stereo I find the music quality on MP3's pretty lousy in comparison to my boom box as well.

Then get some better headphones?

I'd hate to have you as a coworker if you insist on listening to music on a boombox... I typically don't like the music most people listen to.

I think I misused the term boom box, what I meant was Compact Disc player hooked up to some fancy speakers lying in my bedroom, it's too heavy to carry around. It just sounds better than any of the noise that come out of MP3's in my opinion.

Melissia wrote:Your approval brings me no small amount of shame.

You'd really like to think that, wouldn't you?

micahaphone wrote:
The Best of Kansas
Point of No Return by Kansas

Someone is going to have to come up with something impressive to avoid this man winning the thread.

My ipods would still work if i hadn't lost them.. A minor thing i have discovered about Nanos (2nd and 3rd gen) is they are surprisingly drop proof, i had numerous cracks in the screen on my first one but nothing terminal. It seems OSTs are a trend on this thread. I have a couple of the tracks from Koyaanisqatsi and ALL the BSG stuff plus the Red Faction main theme cos dat is Bangin' mate. Apart from that i'm not a massive fan of soundtracks, don't get me wrong i love Videogame/film music i just prefer experiencing them as intended. My favourite 'soundtracks' though are 'Ziltoid the Omniscient' (Devin Townsend 2007) and 'Hazards of Love' (Decemberists 2009) but they aren't musicals YET..... One soundtrack i do want to hear is 'the social network', a T-Rez film score? Yes Please!

I don't really use my MP3 player all that often - I take it on holiday with me but that's about it. It's for this reason that it's mostly 'Best Of' albums.

Let's see if I can remember what's on it:

The Beatles '1' album
The Best of Bowie
The Best of Elvis Costello
Scott Walker/Walker Brothers Collection
Back on Top: The Best of Van Morrison
Some Trojan ska collection
Fleet Foxes
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Mothership: The Very Best of Led Zeppelin
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Tim Buckley/Goodbye And Hello - Tim Buckley
Rockferry - Duffy
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Sorceror - Miles Davis
The Birth of The Cool - Miles Davis
The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane

Not sure what else is on there, or what it says about me.


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Actually, I think it says that I have a good, unpretentious taste in music.

Hrmmmmm...

well, I have some metal and things:
Sabaton (3 albums)
Alestorm (2 albums)
Firewind (1 album)
Turisas (2 albums)
Thaurorod (1 album)
Nightwish (1 album)
Powerwolf (the offical SW Fan Club band)*

Then there's the musical scores:
Hans Zimmer (his stuff from Pirates of the Caribbean, and also a few from the Dark Knight)
John Williams (the MAN)
and one by Basil Poledouris for my favourite chill-out movie ever: Robocop.

And finally, some miscellaneous stuff:
Depeche Mode
Daft Punk
Beethoven (symphony no. 3)
Star One (I'm not sure how to class this, if I'm honest. Space Metal? Space Opera Psychedelic Metal?)




*this is in fact a lie. They're just creepily obsessed with werewolves.

Fuggit might as well give you my top five songs (I Actually have top five lol that probably says alot) In no order:
The A.Human, Third hand prophecy, Title track.
Nine Inch Nails, The Downward spiral, Ruiner.
Mogwai, The Hawk is Howling, Scotland's Shame.
Maps, We can Create, Don't Fear.
Porcupine Tree, In Absentia, Trains.
Good luck finding the first one that's proper 'obscure'. I am afraid i like new music mostly, i think the music i like was invented in the mid 1980's.

Let's see what I've got in my weird playlists....
1812 Overture-Tchaikovsky
The Planets-Holst
Canon in D-Pachbell
Les Miserables, Miss Saigin, Phantom of the Opera, and Krazy for You
Assorted Russo-Soviet music and folk songs.
Assorted American Patriotic music.
Random Songs from Games, Movies, etc. that I happened to like.

I never really like bands or artists...I've always liked individual songs moreso than CDs.

In a drawer filled with a disassembled 360 parts, gathering a fine coat of dust. I think it has some filthy electro on it and possibly game/movie music amongst other things.

But what does that mean I hear you say?

I'm a lazy man.

Somewhat related. Skip to 0:43 for the good stuff.

All it says about me is that I'm too mainstream and very random. At least, as far as my country's concerned

In no particular order, here's the top five recently added songs\albums
1.Far East Movement - Free Wired
2.Taylor Swift - Speak Now
3. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
4. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys
5. Random Dance mixes (Beggin' by Madcon, stuff like that)

I've got every genre from Acapella to whatever genre starts with "Z".
Anything I can strum or six-step to. Anything I think sounds good on the radio, or playing at parties. I've got a taste for Alternative\Punk (My Chem, All Time Low, FallOutBoy, Blink, etc) but you'll be surprised to find electro pop and classical music too. My iPod is where Beethoven meets Led Zep.

Absolute Chaos. Just like me .

Melissia wrote:Various pieces from:
The .hack// series soundtracks

I like See-Saw as well.


Seeing as people are listing what bands they listen too I might as well join in.

Access
AKB48
Akiko Hasegawa
Art vs Science
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Aya
Aya Hirano
Ayumi Fujimura
The Black Horn
BECCA
Beck (Scott Pilgrim soundtrack )
Blood Red Shoes
Boom Boom Satellites
The Brilliant Green
Ceui
Chiaki Ishikawa
Claris
Cloud
Cool Joke
Cystal Castles
CSS
Daft Punk
Daisuke Ishiwatari (did the Blazblue ost)
Elisa
Fairy Fore
Faylan
FictionJunction YUUKA
Flow
fripSide
Gabriela Robin
Gackt
Galneryus
Girls Dead Monster
Goldfrapp
Gorillaz
HALCALI
Hatsune Miku
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Himarinko L. Shizukuesu
Hitomi Takahashi
III
Inoue Joe
Justice
Kalafina
Kasabian
KOTOKO
Kumiko Noma
L`Arc~en~Ciel
Lisa
Little Boots
Mami Kawada
Maon Kurosaki
Maximum the Hormone
May'n
Meg Rock
Megumi Nakajima
Mell
Metric
Millennium
Miwako Okuda
Muramasa
Nami Tamaki
Nana Kitade
Nightmare
Okui Masami
ORANGE RANGE
Origa
The Pillows
Porno Graffitti
The Prodigy
Puppy Pet
Queens of the Stone Age
Round Table
Rumika
Sachi Tainaka
Sahashi Toshihiko
Scandal
School Food Punishment
See-Saw
she
Shoji Meguro
SID
Skankfunk
Sleepin' Johnny Fish
Sphere
Stereopony
Susumu Hirasawa
System of a Down
T.M.Revolution
Tetsuya Shibata
Tommy Heavenly6
Tomoko Tane
Tsuneo Imahori
Two-Mix
UVERworld
Yousei Teikoku
YUI


I pretty much have too much music. >_>

I've got a lot of music on there to name a few:

A shocking amount of Beatles
Alice Deejay
Alice in Chains
Audioslave
Ace of Base(what?)
Beastie Boyz
Bloodhound Gang
Boston
Bush
Busta Rhymes
Cracker
The Cars
The Charlie Daniels Band
Daft Punk
D12
Dave Stewart
David Bowie
Dethklok
Disturbed
Drowning pool
Duran Duran
Eminem
Erasure
Ennio Morricone
Eric Johnson
Europe
Fear Factory
Garth Brooks
George Harrison
George Strait
Gnarls Barkley
Goldfinger
The Go-Gos
Gordon Lightfoot
Gorillaz
Green Day
Guns n' Roses
Guster
Hatebreed
Henry Philips
Johnny Cash
Kansas
Leonard Cohen
Liz Phair
Marilyn Manson
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Megadeth
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Mindless self indulgence
Monster Magnet
Nine Inch Nails
Phish
The Pogues
Rusty
Social Distortion
Static X
STP
Tenacious D
They Might Be Giants
Tom Petty
Type O Negative
Voltaire
Warren Zevon
The White Stripes
White Zombie
Warren Haynes
The Who
William Shatner

A lot of soundtracks; notably Chrono Chross, not another teen movie and Dumb and Dumber.

I too have a smattering of nightwish songs, not sure which ones or how many since I never use my Mp3 player

Abba, Alestorm
Black eyed Peas, Beach Boys, Beatles
Charles Dainiels Band, CCR
Disney, Don Mclean, Dragonforce
Eminem, Evanesence
Gorrillaz, Greenday, Guns and Roses
Halo soundtracks
Iron Maiden
Jackson 5, Jonny Cash
Kaiser Chiefs
LM.C, LOTR soundtracks, last of the Mohechians soundtrack
Martha and the muffins, Mass Effect 2 soundtrack, Meatloaf, Metro 2033 soundtrack, Monty python sings
NIckleback, Nirvana
Ocean Colour Scene
Pirates of the Carribean soundtrack
Queen
Rainbow, Rammstein, red hot chillies
Scissor Sisters, Shania Twain, starwars soundtrack
Transformers soundtrack

+ various Tv and movie themes like Buffy, SG1, Blackhawk down, firefly, starship troopers and quite a few 'fell good songs'