IPod Touch for Pandora

[Kirstie]

So we have this old desk lamp style Mac in the custom area at work that has the sole function of playing Pandora radio. It used to run Frame Ready, but with the latest upgrade it gasped and refused to cooperate. It was our daughter's in middle school many moons ago.

Last week Pandora upgraded its site, and it no longer works on our old relic. After a bit of research and the general consensus that we hate XM and don't want to go back to it, today I bought an iPod Touch as the cheapest alternative to get Pandora up and running again. I looked at the app on my iPhone and it looks promising. (They are on sale at Target online only.)

The desk lamp Mac is still running the Internet as a break area computer, albeit very slowly. I loved that computer. We used to have a couple of them and it was so easy on the easy on the eyes and neck with its adjustable monitor. Planned obselencence. Hrumph.

 

[Markoc]

We use Pandora on my touch in our portrait studio during our sessions. I docked into our stereo system. This let's us also custom fit the music to our clients taste too.

 

[Frances M.]

Can you guys describe your stereo systems? I badly need to get some better sound in my shop but for some reason my head explodes while trying to figure out exactly what equipment I need. I like Pandora, have considered Sirius but can't seem to decipher the gap between the music and the system.

What I'd like to have is 4 small speakers spaced the length of my long, narrow shop so that we'd have a consistent low-level volume as people pass through as opposed to the higher-volume in the center I have to have in my small stereo so as to cover the shop. I'm told I need an amplifier to carry that many speakers; I'd like to be able to shut off 1 channel so I could listen to NPR in the afternoon in the workroom.

I don't have any background whatsoever with sound systems and what seems very simple and basic to gearheads makes little sense to me so any help in small, simple words would be appreciated!

 

[Bob Doyle]

I don't know about the others but I hooked up a "home theatre" system, 5 speakers and use that. You can't by a stereo anymore

You can, through the menu, set up the volume on each speaker so that the farthest away can be louder than the center ones.

You can connect your iPod to it through the stereo in RCA ports on the back of the "box". Used an RCA to mini stereo jack cable from Radio Shack.

I got a 5.1 (?) system for under a $100 from Amazon. Works just fine. The connector I use I got a long one so that I could plug in my iPod or plug it into the speaker out ports on the sound card in my computer. I use the computer exclusively as I an running GrooveShark to play the music.

 

[troyveluz]

I've been switching between Pandora, Slacker and iHeartRadio apps in my iPod touch for music. I do not want loud music in the shop and I only have about 750 sq/foot so I just connect my iPod to 2 old(maybe 15 years old or more) IBM self-amplified PC speakers. Works great for me.

And now that I got the 4th Gen iPod touch, I will start using the camera, and maybe video camera, to take photos and post in twitter and face book.

 

[Peter Odems]

Hi Kristie. What model do you have and from what year? You can find the info under your  "about this Mac".

 

[Kirstie]

Hi Kristie. What model do you have and from what year? You can find the info under your  "about this Mac".

It is just an old pre-Intel Mac that was only being used as a music player. All of our others are up to date, or at least running Snow Leopard. I did get the iPod Touch, and it is working so I'm set, but thanks so much.