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March 29, 2006

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye

Posted Mar. 29, ’06, 7:43 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iPod

iPod ListenerIn recent months, there’s been a lot of talk about whether or not listening to music on your iPod can cause or contribute to hearing loss. It seems like kind of a silly discussion to me: of course it can contribute to hearing loss. So, for that matter, can standing next to a jet during takeoff, which is why we don’t do that. Hopefully most people are smart enough not to crank the volume on their iPod/CD player/Walkman to the max, but I guess you never know.

For those who’d like to keep their hearing, but can’t really see getting rid of their iPod, Playlist is reporting this morning that Apple has issued an update for the music player, enabling users to set their own “maximum volume.” It’s a thoughtful addition (as long as you ignore the sneaky hand of Apple Legal in the background), but it still requires an effort on users’ parts. Parents can lock their children’s maximum volume with a combination code, though this does require parents understand how to work their children’s electronics.

As for those of you still going out and standing on the airport runway, we have no fix for you yet.


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