Using iTunes and an iPod to listen to medical CME lectures
John Faughnan
I use iTunes and my iPod to listen to my medical CME (continuing
medical education) lectures when traveling and exercising. Some tips
on how to do this effectively:
http://www.faughnan.com/ibook.html#iPodCME
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madiba
> Subj: Using iTunes and an iPod to listen to medical CME lectures
>
> I use iTunes and my iPod to listen to my medical CME (continuing
> medical education) lectures when traveling and exercising. Some tips
> on how to do this effectively:
> http://www.faughnan.com/ibook.html#iPodCME
I don't think the idea is so great, the only time I have to listen to
the stuff is in the car where a CD/tape player is available anyway..
I once put a CD collection for learning Italian onto my iPod, did not
bring any advantages. Guess I could use it on an island without my usual
infrastructure around me, but most of these holiday islands tend to be
spanish-speaking.. For long flights perhaps?
For jogging/weights I need more uplifting stuff (music) to overcome that
'innerer Schweinehund'...
--
madiba
Geoffrey F. Green
jfau...@spamcop.net (John Faughnan) wrote:
> I use iTunes and my iPod to listen to my medical CME (continuing
> medical education) lectures when traveling and exercising. Some tips
> on how to do this effectively:
>
> http://www.faughnan.com/ibook.html#iPodCME
By joining the lectures into one extra-long track, if the size of the
audio file becomes particularly large, you're draining the battery
significantly more quickly than if you leave them as separate tracks.
See, for example,
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61434
> iPod's cache works best with songs of average file sizes (less than 9
> MB). If your audio files are large, or uncompressed (including AIFF
> format), you may want to compress them, or use a different compression
> method, such as MP3, when importing them into iTunes or MusicMatch.
> Also, consider breaking very long songs or tracks into shorter tracks
> that have smaller file sizes.
Thanks for the tips, otherwise.
- geoff
John Faughnan
> In article <5c0dbfb4.03112...@posting.google.com>,
> jfau...@spamcop.net (John Faughnan) wrote:
>
> > I use iTunes and my iPod to listen to my medical CME (continuing
> > medical education) lectures when traveling and exercising. Some tips
> > on how to do this effectively:
> >
> > http://www.faughnan.com/ibook.html#iPodCME
>
> By joining the lectures into one extra-long track, if the size of the
> audio file becomes particularly large, you're draining the battery
> significantly more quickly than if you leave them as separate tracks.
> See, for example,
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61434
That kb article is a good tip. The "joined" Audio Digest lectures are
in the 4-10MB range.
It sounds like these long lectures will exceed the cache and shorten
battery life. I think that's offset though by the inconvenience of
managing the many short lectures. For example, one has to remember to
turn off randomize by song, or else the tracks are randomized. Also,
you have to name each lecture individually, which is tedious. (I think
there's an AppleScript for Mac users that might help with this
though).
In any case the AAFP lectures are always long, they come as one track.
So I'd have to break those up to avoid the long track effect -- way
too painful to contemplate :-!
In practice I haven't seen a problem with battery life listening to
the longer lectures. I tend to be near a power supply when listening,
or I get to one shortly afterwards. So I'll stick with my "join"
recommendation for now, but I'll reference this issue and point to the
kb article.
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