The Official iPod Thread

Originally Posted by Yami

my iRiver H10 is perfectly organised, thank you : )

I'm sure if you are one to take care of your music collection, you would have no trouble with a standard MP3 player (which technically iPods are, just with a fancy UI). I used to have an iRiver MP3 enabled CD Player, which organisation was a breeze. Just sort the folders into Artist/Album, and make playlists of said files.

If you are damn lazy, then fine, a iPod will suit you fine to put your collection on, however, if it is a small collection then a flash based player will be suited.

Heh, no offense, it's just very rare, if ever, that I see someone with an Mp3 player that's organized like an Ipod, but then again, I never said I was an expert

The thing is, if it's a new car, then all you need is a cord because usually they have an AUX jack which you can just plug a two way headphone type cord in. It plugs into the bottom of the ipod like normal headphones, and it's the same tip on the other end that simply plugs into the AUX jack. If it's an older car, you'll need an FM transmitter, or a tape deck adapter. I haev the tape adapter cause a) no static trying to find a good station, and b) it's right to the audio, instead of through the radio.

PC World's How to Buy an Mp3 Player

I have a 4GB iPod Nano. I've had it for 3/4 of a year, and I only have about 110 songs on it. I'm very picky with music.

Yesterday the craziest thing happened with it. I left it in my pants pocket and it went through the washing machine, and the dryer. The battery went dead in there, but I charged it for the night, and when I woke up, it was all better and working perfectly. I had to throw away the earbuds, and now all I have are these huge headpones that aren't even meant for iPods, but for computers.

ipods isuck. I would never buy an ipod Simply for the reason that prety much everyone else has an ipod.

Boo on the ipod idrones!

I'll just pay $40 bucks and get me a cheap mp3 player that works just as well. every week I spend 5 minutes puting another 200 or so songs on there so i get lots a variety.

Hey now, I bought an iPod and I'm not a drone. I'm a smart shopper (I have to be if it costs more than $200). I bought a 30G iPod gen. 5.5, and I don't think I could have made a better choice. I could have bought a Creative of the same size for the same price, or, God forbid, a Zune, but this was definitely the best deal for my money and style. It's been good to me.

In fact, the only drawback seems to be its short battery life and the sucky iTunes 7.

To rant shortly about iTunes 7: It's slower than past versions, hogs way more memory, is less visually appealing (discounting cover flow, which hogs more memory), and keeps clearing my library. I don't know why -- somehow it just deletes everything I have from my library (not physically, it just pretends you just clean installed it). It pisses me off, because I have to either back up my iTunes library .itl and .xml or re-add all of my files to the library and lose any album art I downloaded.

But rant aside, I like it a lot.

Fsck.
Okay, I had my iPod at school with me today. I listened to it before school, I noticed one of my cover arts was missing. I just figured something had happened, it was working, so I ignored it.

I took it out at lunch to listen, and it worked. I put it in my bag (it's usually in my pocket) because I was in a hurry, and then on the bus ride home I took it out to listen.

I turned it on and chose the song, it went to it, but pressing play.. just doesn't do anything. The iPod functions, but it won't play any music! >< The little bar that shows you how long the song is and stuff doesn't move at all.. gah.

Hopefully it's fixable, otherwise I just lost a $300 iPod... and a bunch of my music, after iTunes decided it conveniently forgot my current library.

EDIT: Woot, fixed it! I plugged it into iTunes for a few minutes, disconnected it, unplugged, and it worked.

I have a Mp3 player, but why is it that everyone generalizes that every music player is an i-pod, just because it has a huge market share and it is catchy, I just find it ridiculous, ridiculous like someone saying that Sony made the wii.

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Holy god I must have this.

I HAD an 8GB Sansa MP3 player, but as of yesterday, it got stolen/ fell out of my purse.

Yeah. Go me. $200 down the drain. And it was a birthday present.

[it was better than an iPod, AKA gheypods.]

ghey doesn't rhyme with i.

Originally Posted by Mirror Image

ghey doesn't rhyme with i.

I wish I knew what you were talking about.

Anyways, I have a black iPod Nano that can only hold 500 songs. I didn't think I'd ever even have more than 500 songs that I listened to regularly, but I'm quickly approaching that limit

My iPod Nano is great. I've had it for over a year and a half now, and it has only suffered a few scratches.

Anyone run Linux on their iPods? I use it (along with iBoy) to play Pokemon Crystal all the time on my 5g 30gig.

I (hehe i said I) recently got my brother iPod Nano the 8gb black version, its lovely, have it stuffed to the max with songs, about 1400 i think.
Anyhow, i got a problem tough, how do i change its name? See in iTunes it recognizes it as "iPod from Kars" kars is my brother, i want it to have a different name, just don't know how >_<

Just single-click the name of the iPod as it appears next to its icon on the left pane and it will allow you to name it whatever you like, though I believe if the name is too long, it will cut off the right side of whatever text you have when viewed on the iPod itself. For example, mine's named "Drew's iPod." If I had put "Drew's iPod of sheer ownage," then "of sheer ownage" probably wouldn't actually show.

Originally Posted by F3

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Holy god I must have this.

I would consider this as my secondary player if I had money to spend.

Originally Posted by MMKB

Anyone run Linux on their iPods? I use it (along with iBoy) to play Pokemon Crystal all the time on my 5g 30gig.

How did you do this? From what I've heard, Linux is very shaky on an iPod Video, if you can get it on at all. A couple of questions:

1. What software version are you using (iPod software)?
2. What version of iTunes are you using?
3. Do you have the first version of the video iPod or 5.5? (If you iPod was bought after September 2006, its a 5.5)

How durable are iPods as compared to regular MP3 Players?

Originally Posted by oizys

How did you do this? From what I've heard, Linux is very shaky on an iPod Video, if you can get it on at all. A couple of questions:

1. What software version are you using (iPod software)?
2. What version of iTunes are you using?
3. Do you have the first version of the video iPod or 5.5? (If you iPod was bought after September 2006, its a 5.5)

1. My iPod is version 1.2.1
2. iTunes tells me that it's version 7.0.2.16.
3. Mine's the first version.

It works quite well, although the only thing I use it for is iBoy.
Go to the iPod Linux page and download the official installer.
I can't remember exactly how I did it (I did it ages ago). The forums there really helped me out, I suggest you take a look there. It explained everything quite well.

Originally Posted by Wolfen

How durable are iPods as compared to regular MP3 Players?

Any hard drive player is susceptible to shock damage. For durability, stick with flash memory players.

I'd imagine 1G Nanos would be pretty sturdy. I still wouldn't feel comfortable with that long, thin form factor, though. Sandisk e- and c-series and iriver T-series would be good bets for durability.

There have been tests done, where an iPod video has been dropped from a 2 story window, and it still works.

Originally Posted by oizys

There have been tests done, where an iPod video has been dropped from a 2 story window, and it still works.

That's nice, really, but hard drives fail. They fail unpredictably and with varying external interference. It comes with the territory.