OMG! Loud music causes hearing loss?!?!?!

[BarTopDancer]

Um. Duh? (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7bf03be0-94de-11da-9f39-0000779e2340.html)

[€uroMeinke]

Whoa - American iPods are louder? I see a great black market opportunity...

[The Shadoe]

Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Apple shouldn't be blamed because people are too stupid to listen to their iPods at reasonable levels. It's common sense that listening to anything that is too loud will cause someone to lose hearing...

[Not Afraid]

I'm very sure that I have had less hearing damage from my iPod than the people who drive so that I can recognize what song they are playing from inside the car with the windows rolled up when I am inside the house!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Lordy. Didn't the same thing happen when walkmen came out?

[Matterhorn Fan]

My cell phone told me that loud ring tones can damage my hearing when I told it to play the ringtones "loud." I told it I knew that, and sometimes I don't hear the phone ring. (Also, why on earth would the phone ring while I was holding it to my head?) I also always have the volume on its highest setting. It's not loud at all.

Thank you, Sony Ericsson, for protecting me.

And so smart of you to put a super-sensitive microphone so that my mother asks "what was that?!" every time I drive over a pebble in the car.

[BarTopDancer]

I think the root of this is the earbuds that are so popular now. I keep hearing warnings about them on news blips [Paul Moyer]Next at 11, in-ear headphones and your hearing. What you need to know[/PM]. Really? You mean blasting music in my ears is going to harm my hearing? You don't say! :rolleyes:

What ever happened to survival of the fittest?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

What ever happened to survival of the fittest?Lawyers :rolleyes:

[Capt Jack]

OMG! Loud music causes hearing loss?!?!?!



huh? what???? could you speak up????

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Earbuds were popular 15 years ago.

There's no excuse for such silliness. People starting frivolous lawsuits deserve lashings and rotten tomatoes thrown at them.

[BarTopDancer]

Apple offers volume limits for iPods. (http://http://news.com.com/Apple+offers+volume+limits+for+iPods/2100-1041_3-6055411.html)

"With the increased attention (on digital music players), we want to offer customers an easy-to-use option to set their own personal volume limit," Greg Joswiak, Apple vice president of worldwide iPod product marketing, said in a statement.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Seems like a reasonable solution.

Now, for Apple's next legal battle.

Apple Records (the Beatles' label) is suing on the basis that iPod and iTunes violate a 1991 agreement that Apple Computers would stay out of the music business so as not to cause Trademark confusion.

[mousepod]

The Beatles story brings up one of my favorite Apple anecdotes: after the agreement that Apple computers wouldn't have anything to do with audio, Apple introduced sounds to the OS. One of the first chimes (that's still in the alert sounds list)? "Sosumi".

[Ghoulish Delight]

One of the first chimes (that's still in the alert sounds list)? "Sosumi".Bwahaha. Sosumi was always my favorite Mac alert sound, glad to know the origin now :D

ETA: Heh, Apple also uses 'Sosumi' as the name of the CSS style for their website's copyright notice

[Kevy Baby]

One of the things I love about Apple (besides their tres cool products) is their sense of humour (more so in the earlier days). One of my favorites (courtesy of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan)):

In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Carl Sagan," in honor of the astronomer. Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name — other projects had names like "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (Butthead Astronomer). Sagan sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule. Sagan lost this lawsuit as well; still, the 7100 saw another name change: it was lastly called "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps).

[Kevy Baby]

Apple offers volume limits for iPods. (http://http://news.com.com/Apple+offers+volume+limits+for+iPods/2100-1041_3-6055411.html)
So basically, Apple is offering a device which would accomplish the same task as say, oh I don't know...

TURNING DOWN THE VOLUME?!? :rolleyes:

[Ghoulish Delight]

So basically, Apple is offering a device which would accomplish the same task as say, oh I don't know...

TURNING DOWN THE VOLUME?!? :rolleyes:
It's mostly for parents to put on their kids' iPods.

[BarTopDancer]

How did we ever make to adult-hood being able to hear with our walkmans not having volume control... (there were buds around way back when)

[Ghoulish Delight]

How did we ever make to adult-hood being able to hear with our walkmans not having volume control... (there were buds around way back when)How many hours did you listen to your walkman compared to how many hours the average kid listens to their iPod?

[Gemini Cricket]

I wish there was a program somewhere that would even out the volume of the songs for me on my iPod. Some songs are louder than others.
'Lose Control' by Missy Elliott totally blew my ears away after listening to 'History Repeating' by the Lemonheads/Shirley Bassey the other day. I'm not sure why, but Missy was wayyy wayyy louder.
:D

[mousepod]

I wish there was a program somewhere that would even out the volume of the songs for me on my iPod. Some songs are louder than others.
'Lose Control' by Missy Elliott totally blew my ears away after listening to 'History Repeating' by the Lemonheads/Shirley Bassey the other day. I'm not sure why, but Missy was wayyy wayyy louder.
:D


There is, and it's right there on your iPod. It's called "Sound Check" and can be found under Settings.
When Sound Check is on, iTunes scans the songs in your library and computes characteristics of their playback volume. As new songs are added, iTunes computes this information in the background. This data is stored in either the "normalization information" ID3 tag or the iTunes Music Library database. The audio data in your music files is never changed. If you encode or "rip" a song with iTunes, the sound check level is stored in the song's ID3 tags. For songs that were encoded with iTunes 1 or iTunes 2, or another application, the sound check levels are stored in the iTunes Music Library database.
Sound Check settings can be uploaded to iPod. However, the Sound Check settings can only be transferred to iPod when iTunes' Sound Check option is enabled.

iPod only uses these values if the Sound Check setting in iPod's Settings menu is set to On.

[€uroMeinke]

There is, and it's right there on your iPod. It's called "Sound Check" and can be found under Settings.

Yes, but if you have a large library it can take hours to set up - or so it was for me.

[wendybeth]

I don't have an IPod- I have a V-Cast phone and and access to their music library, with over a million tunes available.:D

Sounds awesome, and I can make calls with it!

[Stan4dSteph]

I don't have an IPod- I have a V-Cast phone and and access to their music library, with over a million tunes available.:D

Sounds awesome, and I can make calls with it!I've got one of those, but I don't have the V-Cast service. It's not available in Smallbany.

[Gemini Cricket]

There is, and it's right there on your iPod. It's called "Sound Check" and can be found under Settings.
I have that enabled on both my iTunes and iPod and it isn't working. I'll try it again at home and see if there's something I'm not doing right.
Thanks, mp.
:)