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Taking the iPod shuffle for a run
By Wolf Paulus <wolf@wolfpaulus.com>

Posted Tuesday, February 01st, 2005

After loading up the iPop shuffle with lots of songs, I took it with me running on Saturday and Sunday. Like expected, the Lanyard is not for jogging - at least not if you don't want to injure yourself or fellow runners - and until the Armband arrives, the little pocket inside the runner-shorts will have to do.

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While the included headphones sound pretty good, just like the lanyard, they are built for running. If you want to pick up at least some speed, you'd need something like Sony's Sports headphones.

The best part of running with the iPod shuffle however is its weight: 0.78 ounce. Compare that to its Big Bro, the 6.4 ounces iPod Poto and you will agree to give the poor runners carrying the heavy weight a considerable head start.

Putting music on the iPod is an easy to perform task, once you have decided if you want to convert to a lower bitrate during import, to stuff even more songs on the player.




Ethan's blog has some good comments, on what encoding to use in the first place, when you import your music from your audio CD s into iTunes. More details are here and here.
I had settled for 192 kbps MP3 a while ago and haven't read anything really compelling that would make me change that.

Let me know what you think.





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Published on: Tuesday, February 01st, 2005  •  Category: [life]
Article URL : http://wolfpaulus.com/journal/life/running.html