The Sansa slotRadio Player Makes Music Easy. Winning One Is Easy, Too.

You can’t imagine, unless you are over 50, the thrill of being able to take music with you in your car. What is commonplace today was something that, as a teenager with my first car, was simply not possible. Instead we were at the mercy of radio, and where I grew up there were times where there were no country stations.

$6.98 would buy you an 8-track tape, and while the medium eventually gave way to cassette, to be able to put that cartridge into a player held under the dash and listen to music I CHOSE was fantastic. I have memories of evening drives listening to great music.

I love my iPod, but music in the car began with the 8 track.

For Christmas two years ago my girlfriend gave me a record player. I had been collecting records for years and had inherited allot of well used vinyl from my mother. The availability of quality used records at many shops and flee markets combined with web sites like vinylcollective.com have made this my favorite piece of music hardware.

Of course, the winner is only going to receive this if I don’t get into it first. It’s oh so very enticing.

I started with tapes, moved onto CDs and now the iPod is the first thing I grab when I go for a run.

Nothing thrills me quite like surround sound on a DVD or DVD-A. If that makes me a geek, then so be it.

I like shuffle or playlists. I used to love making mixtapes and that has turned into a playlist maker. good for when you’re in a certain mood for something (sad songs, happy songs, traditional, etc.).

the combo of the iPod and Nike+ running deal. nothing sweeter than running with your iPod and having it update you on how far you’ve run and how fast, etc.

I am still a vinyl enthusiast and about half of my listening is on my trusty Technics – I nevewr got into 8 track but was into reel-to-reel

I love my Zen because it has a radio in it.

I love my mp3 player and iPod as much as anybody, but I kinda miss my old Sony Walkman. Nothing better than a making a mixtape with a lil Def Leppard, Skid Row, Travis Tritt, Guns n Roses, Garth Brooks on it. Yeah, I’ve always had eclectic tastes. My current favorite is my iPhone though.

Trailer, I still make ‘mixtape’ mixes as playlists. It’s fun, even if it isn’t as fun as making those mixtapes.

I love my iPod, but what made me fall in love with music was a portable stereo that my Mom and I found at a thrift store. I used to sleep with it under my pillow tuned into the local radio station. It was great.

I started collecting music when as a kid I came to own one of those antique radios from the 1940s that had a 78-rpm turntable built into it. I started collecting the 78 rpm records and learned to love Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, Tex Williams and his Western Caravan. 78’s could be found for as little as fifteen cents back in the late ’60s.

Adding: I can’t live without my iPod today, though! It’s what keeps me sane on somedays.

There’s just something about the needle hitting vinyl that I love. These days I mostly listen to music on my TMobile Google phone. The portability factor is important to me. I never owned an 8 track tape – but I remember them well! The first song I ever heard on a CD was “Jungleland” by Bruce Springsteen. It was a life altering experience! My frst little AM radio was a red, Panasonic “Toot-A-Loop”. We’ve come a long way, baby!

After running with a tape player (which fell off and bounded down a hill) and a Cd Player (I mean CD-d-d-d-d p-p-p-p-layer) which perpetually skipped, I have to say, my old school (If a MP3 player can be called that yet), 1st generation Ipod Nano has been a reliable wonder!

I have a 200 disc CD player that I keep filled with great country music. I just put it on random and enjoy. I would love to be able to take all of that music anywhere I go.

I don’t do it anymore, obviously, but I also miss making mix tapes. There was just something organic about it. I mean, making mix CDs is still acceptable enough, but it’s still not quite the same labor of love intensive experience that making the tapes was.

My most nostalgiac would have to be the small rectangular dual tape deck recorder with the big silver rings around the speakers on either end. Not quite a ghetto blaster, but a similar style. Used to have this up in the headboard as a kid and would spend all night fiddling with the pause and record buttons to tape my favorite songs off the radio (over my sisters night ranger tapes no less) until I would inevitably fall asleep with the record button still mashed and end up with a tape full of numbers 28 through 12 of the top 40 countdown!

Here’a an article that will make you feel your age:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/01/BU2618GKE7.DTL&nopu=1

I still love my jukebox. I bought it in a pawn shop several yrs ago. It plays vinyl 45’s and it’s loaded w evrything from old & new country,rock. blues, you name it. Renember, all the cafes and truck stops used to have jukeboxes. Where did they go? I love having music on the laptop, and creative zen player is neat too as I can carry it in my pocket. And the XM satalite radio in the car. Love to hear the Grand Ole Opry, via sat. radio.

Has to be my ipod. Before the ipod, I hadn’t bought music in years.. and I am a real music fan. It has opened up my world to so many different artists and styles.. its great.

I fell in love with music with my old record player playing my 45s. I also have a 8 track tape player and still have a tape around here. Its Linda Ronstants greatest hits. lol. Hey I also still have some old albums too. Now I go to youtube and listen to songs there and only wished I had a Ipod or MP3 player to listen too. I also listen to songs at pandora. But theres nothing like good musci to calm you down, I love music so much. I also have CDs I listen to on my old Compact Disc player. But to have one of them Slotradios with songs preloaded into them would be thrilling to own. I would love to be with the times now! I feel like a old gal with old toys.

I just want to say thank you to The 9513. I am still in shock – and so very grateful! I think this little Sansa slotRadio may just change my life…Peace & Love