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Rick and Roll writes "In a story on Wired, entitled Feel Free to Jack Into My iPod, an iPod owner shares experiences he has had with other iPod owners, namely the plugging of his headphones into a stranger's jack. It began when a woman in her 30's walked up to him while he was on a walk, unplugged her headphone jack from her iPod, and motioned for him to plug his in. They then listened to each other's music for about 30 seconds. He has then shared with about a dozen iPod listeners, with most of the strangers reciprocating. According to the article, the practice has also cropped up in other communities. Listeners acquire tastes for different kinds of music, just like on internet/LAN file sharing networks. An interesting read."
Warily unplugging his own earbuds, Crandall gingerly plugged them into the woman's iPod, and was greeted by a rush of techno.
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked off."
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
The guitars sound good, now give me about 10db more on the cow bell.
That's quite cool.
"What are you listening to?" may end up being the 2000's version of "What's your sign?". It's a nice, safe, social sharing event without the drawbacks and risks of disease or mental impairment.
NB: I'm not saying that having an iPod will get
Trolling is a art,
I have "karma: excellent", so it feels ugly to say this, but:
I always thought Mac users were odd, and this proves it.
Jacking into someone else's iPod...I mean.../me shivers
Has her headphones up all the way...I can hear what she's playing all day.
Right now it's Fifty Cent.
Only 84 minutes until 5:00pm...thank god it's a Friday.
But not unlikely. I rather like this idea. I've heard from several outlets (read: older generations) who insist that our current tastes for technology are leading the world to become impersonal. Quite the opposite, really. As demonstrated, I think we're more "connected" with each other (and not merely our machines as some would suggest) than ever before.
It's a small world afterall...and it's getting smaller every day.
Damon,
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What would be nice is if it was bluetooth enabled, you could just have your iPod on constant broadcast mode, let people walking by snoop in on your listening... That way it wouldn't interrupt your listening.
Sound transmitted disease? I could see this being the plot for a cheap cyberthriller.
funny munging
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but with my minidisc player, it had 2 output jacks, so I'd let other people listen in. I've always wanted to be able to hear what others were listening to in their cars. I thought about somehow boosting the range on a FM modulator and letting people listen in on my mp3s.
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I want my money back!
Whenever I run into another iPod owner, all they ever ask is "what size is it?" No one ever offers to swap a little toonage.
And I bet these are the same people who say size doesn't matter.
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Err, I'm sorry, I thought that was your earphone plug.
This reads like a line from some porn story.
Michael Loves Me!
How long before this kind of thing also results in a lawsuit?
Wait till the RIAA hears about this one.
People like to say they listen to deep, sophisticated music to impress people. What better way is there to pierce the facade than to jack into what they're playing that moment?
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I can already see RIAA lawyers scrambling to write up an amendment to thier copyright laws prohibiting the "temporary control of copyrighted material via the i-pod."
-Valiss
Gosh and they never had headphone jacks with Walkmans, oh no.
I'd be more impressed if the iPods had something like the Neuros and could broadcast stuff, and you tune into other people's local broadcasts. Doesn't Apple have Rendezvous autoconfig software tech, couldn't they turn every iPod into a convenient super-local radio broadcaster? That would be a tech story.
This is just lame. Doing a search for the "Leander Kahney" it seems there is no iPod story too trivial for s/he to write and for Wired to publish.
What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
Da Blog
I was sent home for wearing a shirt that said "Feel free to Jack me". I thought I was just being friendly...
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This kind of rampant theft of music must stop. Artists and producers can't afford to have thieves and pirates steal their hard work.
What if this "journalist" stole some music he was planning to buy, and didn't like it? He might never buy it! That's a lost sale.
I immediately demand that Apple Computer permanantly bolt the headphone jack into the iPod, and the headphones should not be removable from the ear once inserted. Also, the volume should be capped so that others nearby can't "listen in" (or steal, in other words).
We will sue one cute 12-year-old girl per week, until our demands are met. If our demands are not met after 60 days, we will begin issuing search warrants to 75-year-olds, to be carried out by federal marshals at 3am. If our demands aren't met after 120 days, then, well, I can't get into details, but the code-name for our plan is known as "OPERATION SELECTIVE SILENCE". It's pretty horrible.
Sincerely,
the new head of the RIAA
You forgot the Jackboots.
Everyone knows the RIAA Stormtroopers wear Jackboots!
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If this becomes a real trend, people will probably start adding headphone splitters so others can jack in easier. Adding one will become an open invitation. Then a backlash against Podmiscuity will develop...
Who is John Cabal?
Obligatory Futarama Reference:
"Bender, are you jacking on again?"
Sorry, just can't help myself...
AFAIK, even though firewire is a host less protocol you can't transfer files from one iPod to the next.
However, Creative jukeboxes can, and when the drab PC community catches up I wonder if people will not only listen to other people's music, but share it too- like a p2p network in flesh-space!
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
That's the idea behind my site www.musicmobs.org. It takes your iTunes playlist and lets you see other people that have similar taste. It's a great way to find new music, and let other people check out what you are listening to.
As an aside, the very first Walkman *ever* introduced by Sony had a dual headphone setup. It cam equipped with a "Hotline" switch that either listener could push that would mute both headphones, so they could say something. For couples jogging close together or something like that.
The dual headphone feature remained for a couple of product iterations but was then dropped to save a few pennies on production when they realised virtually nobody ever used this music sharing feature.
The thinking is that Sony were wary of introducing an exclusively personal electronic device and wanted to be able to market as having *some* social aspect.
Da Blog
apple began offering applecare for the ipod as of today.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Actually, my iPod has gotten me laid. I met this girl on the bus, talked to her a bit, then when I opened my bag to get a pen and paper to write down her phone number, she spotted my iPod.
"Oooh, iPod!" she said. Turned out that she was very much into music, and my having an iPod showed her that I shared that. Also that I had large amounts of disposable income, which didn't hurt.
We spent at least a half-hour of our first date going through the music on my iPod. Dated for 6 months.
I spot folks with iPods all the time. Largely male, though. But you can bet that I'm going to start "sharing" my music with any female iPod owners I see from now on.
...that if HE had initiated the jack swap she would have pulled out her pepper spray?
Good stuff. Interesting that many of us can be instantly defined by the media that we consume. If you want to know someone, ask them, "What bands do you listen to? What TV shows do you watch?" The big question is, would you let others see what's on your TIVO?
Why does this sound like another Wired attempt to make something hip?
I mean, isn't this like flash mobs, satellite radio, and Cue Cats?
I've never met anyone who'd want to "jack my Pod", and I think I'd probably slug anyone reaching for it.
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...sticking my plug into a strange woman's jack is my favorite pastime.
Spread the RC luvin'
Here's a way I'm working on to get your iPod to have a dual Sony headphone jack AND that plastick-y yellow color!
The mighty rePod
I can see it now, Apple making multiple jacks versions of I-Pod, there will be the romantic two jack wE-Pod and the six jack Party-Pod versions.
I mean, running around plugging your plug into some random person you met on the street's jack! I would hope Apple would provide protection for their users!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maybe I'm missing something here, but people have been listening to portable music devices for years. They all use the same headphone jack.
I used to do this on the school bus when I was twelve. But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
Which brings me to the question: is this a news article or astroturf?
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
yeah, we go outside,
meet girls,....all kinds of "odd" stuff.
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Ever see Walkman owners randomly share their music
No, nobody ever listeneed to another person's Walkman in the 1980s/19902. There were no boomboxes, no ghetto blasters, no tricked-out car stereos. Nobody ever made mix tapes, or DJd at College Radio stations, or broadcast bizarre video selections on Public Access.
There were no digital music players, no hard disk music players, no Internet streaming audio apps, no MP3s, and certainly no random sharing of music.
No, in fact we were all living in the Dark Ages of No Music Sharing Ever until Saint Steve showed us the way with the Holy iPod!
Da Blog
if this was an attractive, 30ish woman listening to techno in an urban area (fitting the marketing profile of 'hip huppie' to a T), approaching a 51 year old male cto ... he's just been marketed to.
... guess what product people buy who wish to join a young, hip subculture?
by a paid representative (through an intermediary no doubt).
these things happen people, so when some cute chick approaches you and asks you to buy her a specific brand of vodka, or offers to loan you a particular brand of cigarette... she's isn't necessarily a normal person. judging by the situation, she's likely to be on the job. and she's selling you the product as much as any pestering salesman.
they sell a product, a brand, a community, a mindset. If young and hip people have a subculture that revolves uniquely around your product
what would be technologically cool, is limited wireless capability to honestly and easily perform this transaction. allow an owner to name their ipod, and be able to set it to allow clips to be wirelessly traded between other nearby users. maybe even by a physical switch so their connection isn't necessarily 'always on' and always drawing juice.
it sounds to me like the ipod already has the DRM to keep publishers from screaming about such a practice - so now it's just a matter of bluetooth or 802.11b?
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
Didn't you read the line under the title?
:D
from the slow-news-fridays dept
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
Next, the RIAA will follow around boomboxers and low-riders charging all the innocent passers-by for the music they are listening to. The boomboxer/low-rider will be summarily executed for unauthorized distribution of music and performing copyrighted works without license. Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees. Especially nursing mothers with sore nipples.
You know, I think I'd rather default to a booky than swap a song. After the Wired article, I think the mob treats people better than the RIAA.
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Uncle Jim: "Hey Ned, are you jacking off?!"
Ned: "Mmmm, Kinda..."
The whole story smacks of dubiousness (OW!). They quote this one guy, Crandall, about 15 times. They reference his blog. The publisher of some ipod web thingy has heard of it... from the same guy. There's an unnamed Pixar spokeswoman who's never heard of it... but she's too busy to look into it? What the heck?
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:-) Nothing against the sub-sub-genre of indigenous music from northern Europe, ok, but I doubt he's really into it... all the time... and has been for the last ten years.
Wired reporter: I need one source that doesn't flow directly from this Crandall joker. I think I'll phone up Pixar.
*ring* *ring*
Pixar: Hello?
Wired reporter: Hello! Ipod jacking, blah, blah, blah...
Pixar: Uh... look... I'm really busy with... umm, the Finding Nemo DVD release! Yeah!
*click*
--
OK, why on earth should I believe even one word from this story?
The guy's blog, says that they thank each other:
We then stand and listen to each other's music for a minute or so, unjack, thank the other person and move on... (from: http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2003/09/i
The Wired article says they don't speak at all:
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked off."
OK, so some people say thanks and others don't. Fine.
But here's the clincher: He listens to indigenous music from northern Europe all the time, and has never heard trance. Yeah, right! Indigenous music from northern Europe?!
This monkey Crandall desperately wants attention. He desperately wants people to let him listen to their iPods. So he decides to start a trend. So he calls up Wired and plants a story, and the reporter doesn't think to question the fact that noone else has heard of this...
(Tinfoil hat time: And maybe he's traveling to Cambridge soon, so he nudges them a bit, saying he's heard it's starting there, too, so they'll be ready when he gets there!?)
OK, I'm done ranting now.
zach
2002: It starts with innocent sharing of music, Johnny thinks it's swell.
2006: Apple announces a series of biometric implants that will do radio and mp3s connected directly to your brain stem. This has the noble intent to allow coma patients to listen to music and speeches, to allow people to learn while asleep and always have music in the background. I would personally add the law and order "BUM-BUM" to my head whenever I entered a room. My friend, Johnny, likes music, and so he gets one in his head to listen to the Ramones all the time.
2008: The Franchise Wars. All fast food restaurants become Taco Bell.
2009: Apple and XM Radio combine forces to form new form of an always-on IPOD downloadable songs via satellite, they call it SkyNet.
2011: SkyNet launches, and promptly kills my friend, John Connor.
2015: BORG COLLECTIVE!
2236: The Borg matrix unravels after Bobcat Goldwaithe's program falls into a terminal loop. Some fools credit this to a 'prophet' named Neo.
Apple has created a portable platform with continual software enhancements on both the desktop and device ends--Creative has created a line of "dumb" music players.
Hence the price differentiation.
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But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
All "walkman" players are the same brand, and this is Sony. The iPod pocket stereo system is not a Walkman product.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Because TV is flat and smallish, while real life is big and intrusive, and generally less interesting. It's okay -- sometimes I have trouble telling them apart too.
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Go get this intruder. He is not a real ./'er. He got laid.