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Topic: iPod Lock-In!
07-22-2005, 12:04 AM
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The Tie-Dye Alchemist
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Horsham, PA
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iPod Lock-In!
Here's a little story for y'all.
This actaully happened to me about 5 months ago, but I never thought to retell it here. Lock-In: When a group (usually of kids) is "locked-in" to a building for a whole night. Generally games, food and other such entertainment are provided along with an admission fee. I'm a member of my High School newspaper, the Hat Chat (I go to Hatboro-Horsham High School in Horsham, PA if anyone's interested). We (the paper) put together and sponsored a Lock-In at the school. We got free food from surrounding resteraunts, local bands played for free, teachers and parents chaperoned, and charged $10 for admission. Every ounce of the money we raised that night went to Sunami Relief Aid. Okay, that's the end of the backstpry, now on to how this relates to iPods... When I got there it was still early in the night, around 10:30. I did the normal, lock-in type activities. Heard my friends band play, competed in a volleyball tournament, snuck into the closed-off parts of the school *snickers* that sort of thing. So at about 2:00 a.m. we (my friends and I) started getting tired. So, we bought some Red Bull energy drinks and went to hang out in the auditorium. The auditorium was kind of the quiet place in the school where you could go to relax/snooze. As soon as we got there we saw our friend who's on sound crew for school plays. He was hanging out in the sound room setting up the equipment. We came in and found out he was getting ready to play his MP3 player over the sound system in the auditorium! Here is where the iPod comes into play. My friend and I had our iPods with us and after he had oplayed some stuff from his iRiver, we asked if we could "DJ" for a bit. He gave us free range of the room and we had our iPods playing for hours. We even took requests! At one point a girl came up with her iPod and aske dif we could play some of her music. Everyone else wanted to use her's so we did! It was great and we were blaring music till around 4 o'clock! All we did was plug a cord into the iPod's headphone jack and into some stereo-type-thingy. I don't know exactly what it was because like I said my AV friend set it up. Pretty cool though, we had alot of fun that night, and raised a ton of money for charity!
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07-22-2005, 12:23 AM
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miPod: Now In Color
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: New York
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Thats awesome bro! Ive only been to one lock in at my cousins school in Manhattan and we played backetball all night, no iPod fun tho
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07-24-2005, 11:23 PM
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Freshman Lounger
Join Date: Jul 2005
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that is the only reason i got an ipod, im a dj in wisconsin and i only use it for request but its great. and plus some people bring there ipods up and tell me to play that song. its great.
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07-24-2005, 11:41 PM
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Junior Lounger
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Rancho Cucamonga
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right on! sounds pretty niicceee!
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07-26-2005, 02:33 PM
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"The iPod Guy"
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: usa
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I have one of those cables. They can be found at radio shack. They're quite common- the headphone jack cable for the sound channeling through left and right (red and white) cables into a stereo system, or a TV. It is really cool. http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...t%5Fid=42-2550
It's that, right? Man, sounds like an awesome party. That would have been awesome! |
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07-26-2005, 08:23 PM
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Freshman Lounger
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Canada
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sounds really cool
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07-28-2005, 01:15 PM
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Junior Lounger
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: iPod Lock-In!
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Sounds really FUN !!!!! Now if you only had sum turntables and a mixer... 
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08-14-2005, 01:39 AM
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I Hunt Sock Monsters!
Join Date: Mar 2005
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now that sounds like a lot of fun! the next time you schedule a lock in spread the word for your fellow students to bring their iPod/mp3 players, that way you have an even more diverse selection of music!
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08-14-2005, 01:43 AM
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The Tie-Dye Alchemist
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Horsham, PA
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Great idea! It could be on the flyer thatwe hand out and post on the walls of the school.
I imagine we'll be doing it again this year, it was such a success last year.
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08-14-2005, 04:27 AM
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He hates Scousers
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Pretty cool kev!
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08-15-2005, 11:19 PM
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40 Post Casualty
Join Date: Aug 2005
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I went to a lock-in at a rock gym once and played our music through their sound system. It was awesome.
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08-15-2005, 11:21 PM
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The Tie-Dye Alchemist
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Horsham, PA
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Very cool. I love climbing.
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Peace, Love & All That Jazz | 5G--60GB iPod | 2G--iPod Shuffle | 4G--16GB Nano | .................~1576 Artists l ~ 2320 Albums.............. ---------------------------------------------- 30195 songs l 99.5 days l 151.82 gigs |
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08-20-2005, 03:26 PM
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Computer Engineer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Chicago, IL
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I have a very similar experience. We were having our cast party for the musical and the house had a sweet audio setup, but was very limited in music. People were geetin very bored and were wanting to leave at like 11PM...... Then the idea hit me and I ran out to my car to get my tape deck adapter and ipod. Then I started to DJ and no one wanted to leave. The party went long and strong til the break of dawn. Sorry, did that rhyme? Anyway, I saved the party and it was nice because people could just go up to the ipod and pick out their favorite tunes like you would do at any other party with a DJ. I have since used my ipod for nearly everything.
I have used the music feature for presentation. I have used it as a hard disk and actually ran presentations off of it, you would be surprized how many people didn't know you could do that. I have created random parties in the school and saved even more. I listen to recordings of myself to better my musicianship. I have played lectures publicaly and for myself. The ipod can be an excelent tool for work or play and I can't imagine a day without it.
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08-21-2005, 10:30 PM
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Freshman Lounger
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 10
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as long as the money didnt go to africa, it must have been great
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