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OMG! Loud music causes hearing loss?!?!?!
Um. Duh?
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Whoa - American iPods are louder? I see a great black market opportunity...
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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...
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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!
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Lordy. Didn't the same thing happen when walkmen came out?
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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. |
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? |
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huh? what???? could you speak up???? |
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. |
Apple offers volume limits for iPods.
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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. |
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".
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ETA: Heh, Apple also uses 'Sosumi' as the name of the CSS style for their website's copyright notice |
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):
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). |
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TURNING DOWN THE VOLUME?!? :rolleyes: |
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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)
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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 |
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There is, and it's right there on your iPod. It's called "Sound Check" and can be found under Settings. Quote:
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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! |
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Thanks, mp. :) |
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