Also, uninterrupted listening to music for several hours straight can be damaging to your ears, even if you're not playing at a high volume, or so I've heard. I enjoy listening to music but I think it's important to take breaks.
I can't afford an iPhone but I have an iPod touch and a Bluetooth wireless headphone set that has good battery charge which I bought this summer following my set of previous generation 3.5mm audio jack headphones having broken down after 5 years or so of active use, and I do appreciate not having to charge my headphones too often, but I think if the headphones are easy to charge alongside the iPhone and iPods, users will find that it is unlikely to be much of an inconvenience.
While we are on the subject, I must say that I am very pleased with using wireless headphones with my iPod. IMO, the advantage of never having a wire dangling around your upper body and being a general annoyance far outweighs the inconvenience of having to charge them now and then.
The only thing that I am a little sad about with the wireless headphones is that while they work excellently with my iPod and the audio quality is impeccable for me, if I connect them to my desktop computer, which I run Fedora 23 Linux on, then the audio quality is complete garbage. With my laptop, which I run FreeBSD on, I am not able to use audio over Bluetooth at all. I found some reference to A2DP support under FreeBSD, and I think A2DP is the name of it, but have not had time to figure out if it is usable and if it is then how to make use of it.
My Bluetooth headphones do have a 3.5mm cable which I can plug into it but I've only used that twice. I might have to begin using the cable for a little while since my iPod charger cable broke and I am waiting for a new one to come in the mail so I can't use my iPod right now and as I said, the audio over Bluetooth is not working well for me in Linux and FreeBSD.
How can listening to music for a long period of time regardless of volume be damaging to our ears? I'm not sure about you but my ears hear things continually, even when I sleep. What's different about music? Do you mean to say that listening to headphones for long periods is damaging? Do you have a source because that seems like an strange claim.
>The idea is to minimize unsafe listening practices, which depend on two factors: how long you listen and how loud the sound is. The sound of a typical conversation is 60 decibels, which won’t cause any hearing problems. But an idling bulldozer is about 85 decibels, which can cause permanent damage after eight hours. Sounds like a clap of thunder or even a close vuvuzela clock in at 120 decibels, damaging hearing after just nine seconds.
I phrased my first comment a bit poorly. There is a lower limit to what is damaging, but my point is like the quote says, even volumes which aren't extreme can damage your ear if you expose your ear to that level of sound for an extended period of time.
I can't afford an iPhone but I have an iPod touch and a Bluetooth wireless headphone set that has good battery charge which I bought this summer following my set of previous generation 3.5mm audio jack headphones having broken down after 5 years or so of active use, and I do appreciate not having to charge my headphones too often, but I think if the headphones are easy to charge alongside the iPhone and iPods, users will find that it is unlikely to be much of an inconvenience.
While we are on the subject, I must say that I am very pleased with using wireless headphones with my iPod. IMO, the advantage of never having a wire dangling around your upper body and being a general annoyance far outweighs the inconvenience of having to charge them now and then.
The only thing that I am a little sad about with the wireless headphones is that while they work excellently with my iPod and the audio quality is impeccable for me, if I connect them to my desktop computer, which I run Fedora 23 Linux on, then the audio quality is complete garbage. With my laptop, which I run FreeBSD on, I am not able to use audio over Bluetooth at all. I found some reference to A2DP support under FreeBSD, and I think A2DP is the name of it, but have not had time to figure out if it is usable and if it is then how to make use of it.
My Bluetooth headphones do have a 3.5mm cable which I can plug into it but I've only used that twice. I might have to begin using the cable for a little while since my iPod charger cable broke and I am waiting for a new one to come in the mail so I can't use my iPod right now and as I said, the audio over Bluetooth is not working well for me in Linux and FreeBSD.