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Why I can not listen to the baseball playoffs on ESPN radio affiliate in my station?

I want to listen to games on the radio not online, but my local Baltimore and are not affiliated Washingon. Instead, take the sports talk shows mentioned in the previous question, it makes no sense in a market already saturated with local sports talk shows. I have to pull on 1000AM in Chicago at night to listen to a game. This is especially frustrating because I have no TV cable and now all the playoff games on cable. Why not the local radio affiliate games?

wrong station, perhaps?

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There are Apple iPod users would not change his MP3 player for the world. However, other people can not stand it. As always, the truth is somewhere in the center.

The Apple iPod was released in 2001 and soon became almost surrogate term for MP3 player, which has an impressive share market (over 80% of hard drive-based MP3 player market and about 70% of the entire MP3 player market.)

This means that almost everyone has heard of the iPod, which is another reason for selling so well, in addition to the real advantages, of course.

Let's look at some the advantages and disadvantages that can help you decide if the Apple iPod is the best MP3 player for you.

iPod is cool, modern, trendy, stylish, classy … whatever word you use to describe this. However, it is also one of the more expensive MP3 players out there. If you want to impress and the price is not a problem for you, you may choose an iPod.

The company also real advantages: small size, very good sound quality, easy to use navigation with the click wheel and the large storage capacity. Moreover, the latest models can play video files and display images in multiple file formats. The iPod Nano also has a color screen, a stopwatch and lap timer. Another advantage is that you can find many iPod accessories.

When it comes to disadvantages, the iPod has a big one, especially if you are a lover of audio books. Download audio books are becoming very popular web sites and more and more people are now offered.

Unfortunately Apple have refused to allow Windows Media capabilities of the iPod, while the majority of audio books editors contend that their titles are available only in a copy protected WMA format. In this situation, you can only use iTunes to add new content its iPod MP3 player.

Virtually all other manufacturers of MP3 players support WMA files now, so hopefully it will not be long until the pressure forces Apple customers to enable it.

Until then, there is an easy solution. You have to burn the files on a CD regular and then extracted as MP3 to your iTunes. However, this may not be suitable for everyone.

Another drawback is evident if you are connecting the iPod to the system home stereo. That's because the iPod does not have any other type of output connections, as well as the headphone jack. In this case, you need to buy separately special docking station.

The good news is that the docking station can also act as a battery charger has a remote control and video output connections as well. However, this is an added expense and we must be aware of it.

For example, I saw the iPod shuffle 512 MB at a price of $ 64 (or 1-GB version for $ 94) and docking station for the Shuffle is $ 34.

In addition, the iPod can not play the radio, record voice or text viewer. However, if all you need is to play music, this should not bother you.

Now you know some advantages and some drawbacks from the popular player Apple iPod MP3 and you can make an informed decision.

And I think you already know this, but sometimes it's good to remember: no sense to seek "the best mp3 player." Because all you need is the best MP3 player for you.

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