Filed under: Accessories, Audio, iPod Family
Rip CDs directly to your iPod with iLoad
Details are pretty slim on this one, but it still looks cool. The iLoad will let you rip CDs directly to your iPod, cutting out your computer as the middle man. According to the website, album and track data are transferred with your music. It will ship in a variety of colors and patterns, and will require (I assume) an iPod with dock connector.No pricing, shipping or compatibility information was available, but you can sign up for their notification email list on the site.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David C. said 8:20PM on 11-10-2005
except where is album info? w/o that this product is lame.
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Brian said 8:28PM on 11-10-2005
If this thing is ever really released, I suppose it would have to have a connection to the internet so that it could get the track data.
(My money is on "Never seeing the light of day" with this gadget)
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David said 8:27PM on 11-10-2005
"According to the website, album and track data are transferred with your music."
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Penginkun said 8:28PM on 11-10-2005
It's my understanding that most (if not all) CDs have the information burned in them these days. For some reason Apple's software doesn't know how to read this info. I wish it did: I'd be thrilled if I could stop using the (too-frequently inaccurate) CDDB and rely on the built-in information.
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LD said 8:34PM on 11-10-2005
I haven't purchased a CD in quite some time, but I don't own a single CD that has meta info of any kind. They require a database such as CDDB to look up that information. And forget coverart.
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Adam said 8:55PM on 11-10-2005
I saw this on another site, and it's my understanding that they were just patenting the idea for a product. This isn't coming out anytime soon. They're just waiting for someone to come along and make it so they can sue. Gotta love capitalism . . .
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narco said 10:34PM on 11-10-2005
Worst photoshop job ever.
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Cyberwhore said 11:57PM on 11-10-2005
Wait a minute ... Is that a Nano? Then why is the dock connector in the centre?
Vaporware!!
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AG said 1:08AM on 11-11-2005
to Penginkun and others, there's an alternative to CDDB (which might work out to be more accurate) which is acoustic fingerprinting. Download the mac version of ieatbrainz from http://musicbrainz.org/ . I use it to update the id3 info any time i get music with missing or incorrect id3 tags. Works pretty well
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Chet said 7:54AM on 11-11-2005
I've never understood all this "use your x WITHOUT a computer". I don't count that as a feature. Things are done much better with a computer, I don't want to view on a 1.5 inch printer screen before I print my photos, but on a 30 inch cinema display.
Why would anyone want a direct to iPod thing when you're going to want your music in iTunes anyway?
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AL said 3:37PM on 11-11-2005
If you look deeper into this company, and the person behind it (Sanford Schupper), I'm sure you will change you mind about it. He's a criminal. Don't take my word for it, Google him and see for yourself.
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Jack said 4:18PM on 11-13-2005
http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/iload-inventor-vents-is-out-on-bail-136934.php
Gizmodo--sorry Engadget--has the 411 on this fake product and the scamster behind it.
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