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IPod Noise Pollution Irks Those Nearby
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An Apple customer uses a Apple iPod Nano at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif., in this July 24, 2007, file photo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma/FILE)
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Two thoughts:
1) iPods aren't the only thing that can be cranked up to extreme volumes, and articles that assume the iPod is somehow special in these regards just because more people own them annoy me.
2) I know someone who cranks their music up so loud on their CD player that I can hear him from halfway across the hall, and these people pretty much deserve to go deaf. My iPod never goes up past 33% of the maximum volume I can set, and it's always fine for me.
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#1 - Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:24 PM EDTAdditionally, several software revisions ago Apple cranked down the maximum volume for the iPods. If you can actually clearly hear the music it's likely a different player or an old generation iPod that never got any of the last few software upgrades.
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If I remember correctly, the max volume restriction was only on European iPods.
But I have a 5G video iPod with the latest firmware upgrade.
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The headphones used matter a fair amount, too. In-ear and closed-cup over-ear headphones don't leak as much noise as open-cup headphones. My own pair is open-cup, but I'm usually pretty careful to crank the volume way down if I'm in a quiet space like a library.
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This is nothing compared to what I have to put up with every morning on the way to work in Glasgow on the bus. Kids playing hard techno and trance music on the mobile phones through the speaker rather than the earphones.
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#4 - Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:18 PM EDTI say that it should be illegal for cellphones to have the capabilities to blast music from their internal speakers. At the local bowling alley I hear people doing that all the time. If your at all serious about bowling, you do NOT want someone's annoying music blasting through a tinny speaker nearby. Really, try concentrating on a single board on the lane while walking...and hearing someone's horrible music made more horrible by a pathetic cellphone speaker.
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Yes, this is the most annoying thing by far. I hear this on the bus in Manchester every other day. It makes me want to throw their phone, or the person playing that @!$%# from their phone, out the window.
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Well I hope you're happy. Last night, I had a dream where I was the one blasting music from his phone's external speakers on a bus.
...or was it more like a nightmare?
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I have various experiences with the same thing, west of London (Hayes).
In my experience, a lot of British youth is extremely, and I really do mean extremely, rude, anti-social and obnoxious. Be it with an iPod (not that often, in my experience), a cell phone (very often) or just plain several teens talking and being obnoxiously loud and rude.
Truth be told, it's one of the reasons I'm very happy to move to California soon.
There's rude kids everywhere in the world, but England seems to have a lot more of them. :/
Well done Dave Legeret, this has been my bugbear on the bus for years!!! I have even had secret fantasies of taking a pair of scissors on the bus with me to snip the earphone wires of the person next to me ....that constand titch titch titch zzzzitch zzzzitc noise all the way to work over a period of two hours a day (an hour there and back), ooooooh its like an annoying wasp that won't leave the vicinity of the tip of your ear or the Chinese water torture.
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#5 - Wed Aug 1, 2007 4:50 AM EDTThis may be annoying, but the more annoying listeners are those downtown walkers who stick in their earpieces and totally block out everything that's going on around them. Ever seen someone almost get killed because they cross the street when they shouldn't, because they think they're invincible with their headphones on? I see it every day.
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#6 - Wed Aug 1, 2007 10:56 AM EDTI think Leander Kahney needs to read a parenting book and look up the dictionary word for discipline.
Letting your kids talk to you while keeping their earbuds in is a really big mistake. It's so extremely rude (imo) to keep your earbuds in when talking to someone — I always immediately take them out if I'm addressed, or if I'm in line at a cash register or so. Even if I don't really talk to the cashier, I will always take out my earbuds just out of common decency, and I really, really despise it when people in line before me (or anywhere else) refuse to do so.
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#7 - Wed Aug 1, 2007 12:08 PM EDT"Listen to it at a level that just you can hear it and everyone else doesn't have to be subject to it."
Tell that to all the @!$%#heads in apartments and dorms that play music so loud that it can be heard not only at the opposite end of the hallway, but at the bottom of the 3-4 floor stairwell that's at the opposite end of that hallway. Hell, try convincing my current neighbors that they should do that. I haven't had any luck so far.
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#9 - Wed Aug 1, 2007 2:45 PM EDThaha. he should have said something to that kid with the techno. I always play techno on my ipod, but I have earphones, so my volume is never over 30%, the sound going only into my ear canals and to no one else.
Hell the plane could be crashing and I wouldn't hear it. I'd still be like boom dish, boom dish (no pun intended)
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