iPod

[sabret00the]

has anyone got one? i think i'm in love, but not for mp3's :o for the file storage and usability, not to mention the potential

[Dean C]

Yea I got one - 40GB. They're great but be wary the battery apparently goes dead after 18 months. But I think you can get a replacement for about ?50. Either way it's a nice little investment. You can even use it as an external HD :) So much room for expansion. Check out www.ipodlounge.com which is a great resource...

EDIT: the most important thing you need is a case. The one that comes with the iPod is terrible as it doesn't protect it. The silver back picks up skin oils and scratches really easily as does the screen. I use an iSkin although i wouldn't reccomend the white one as that gets dirty just as easily (well duh :p)

[assassingod]

Ive had mine for year, and had to take it back for a replacement recently. The battery died:( They are really good though (When they work :rolleyes:)

[NTLDR]

I'm most disapointed with mine. Poor Battery life and the fact that it places extra gaps bettween all songs.

[blakkboy]

if i were to get an ipod it would be to store my music on... not for extra stuff.

i have an archos jukebox that has 10gb of space but i plan on buying an 80gb hd and then replacing the 10 with the 80 :)

if i had the money i would get an ipod.... because the look visually pleasing and the seem to have some nice features

[SnowBot]

Yep me to, i may ask for one for my b/day off the wife :)

[sabret00the]

i bought my mum one for mothers day and ever since then i've really wanted one.

do you actually manage to fill that 30gig Dean?

[TheAnt]

Yea I got one - 40GB. They're great but be wary the battery apparently goes dead after 18 months. But I think you can get a replacement for about ?50. Either way it's a nice little investment. You can even use it as an external HD :) So much room for expansion. Check out www.ipodlounge.com which is a great resource...

EDIT: the most important thing you need is a case. The one that comes with the iPod is terrible as it doesn't protect it. The silver back picks up skin oils and scratches really easily as does the screen. I use an iSkin although i wouldn't reccomend the white one as that gets dirty just as easily (well duh :p)

Dean, the battery does not die after 18 months, that was a stupid rumour made my mac haters. What is true though is that the battery will die after about 500-700 FULL battery cycles (aka, you drain the battery to death about 500-700 times).

And yeah, I agree with you on the iSkin, one of the nicest cases out today. :)

[accyroy]

I love the ipod too. Got the 40gig one and it's nearly always on- best feature for me is the shuffle mode, 40gigs worth of random music lasts a good long time!! Beats the radio any day.

[Dean C]

Nope - not filled it quite yet ;) I need to get a USB cable as I have about another 10gb of music to transfer across and my firewire card on the laptop is slow :) NOte the battery is consumed extremely quickly whilst "syncing" - also don't install musicmatchbox - itunes for windows is fine :)

[khaleel]

Does anyone know where and what to get to get rid of those scratches, brasso only polishs it

[Dean C]

I got a case for mine. The back of the iPod is a pain in the ass and the only thing about it that pisses me off :)

[trevelyn1015]

i just got my gen4 40 gig for christmas...

i ordered this case for it:

http://www.contourdesign.com/showcase/

[MPDev]

I have a 20gb and a mini. I use the mini daily at the gym and can't live without it. I just read about this new place that is selling ipod batteries for like $22.

http://www.lacomputercompany.com/cgi-local/rpcart/index.cgi?command=dispitem&type=itemsku&itemsku=19132

[Guest190829]

I want an IPOD, and I regret not getting it for Christmas. But I plan to save up for one.
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[AN-net]

IPod's = dying trend, this is because everyone has one. for christ sakes like almost everyone i know has one or got one for christmas! I'm im sticking with my archaic mini disk player:D

[filburt1]

If everybody's getting them, the trend is getting stronger, not dying. Apple is expected to release a Flash-based version soon as well so it's only going to improve their sales.

I bought a 20 GB iPod a month ago and use it for both personal and in-car portable music.

[Brad]

I burn all my mp3's to cd and get ton's of storage space. Most days I can pick one cd and listen to it all day on random play.

I want an ipod, just can't aford one atm ;)

[Tony G]

I have a 4th generation 20gig iPod. It's so great, better then I thought it would be. Portable music with a small player and lots of hard drive space comes in handy on so many occasions.

Battery Life was a problem for me at first. It just drained so fast, but the reason was when I recharged it, I usually did it overnight, in which left the iPod completly charged and the power still on to the charger. Now, when you do this, it decreases the battery life because you are feeding too much electricity to the battery and it just screws up. So from my battery last 4-5 hours, I've increased it to last about 8 hours, and now it doesn't seem like it's running out so damn fast.

I also purchased an iSkin recently. It's THE most expensive piece of rubber I've ever bought. But it's cool, protects my iPod. It's like a smart Apple marketing scheme, they KNOW the iPod can get scratched so easily, so they market... protection! Wowee, how convienient, you might say! But even though it was expensive rubber, it's good to have the satisfaction of knowing your iPod isn't scratched by doing a simple thing like putting it into your pocket. But still, my iPod did get scratched before I got the skin.

All in all, iPod pwns. :D

[Guest190829]

It's sad that I just heard on the news of a new IPOD, smaller and under a $100 bucks. Technology is too quick some times. I'm glad I didn't buy one yet, now I can take a look at the new one

[Tony G]

The "new" one is just a smaller version. By smaller I mean, a smaller hard drive. (512mb and 1gb) There's nothing advanced about it, it's just for people who need less space and therefore, a smaller player.

[assassingod]

The "new" one is just a smaller version. By smaller I mean, a smaller hard drive. (512mb and 1gb) There's nothing advanced about it, it's just for people who need less space and therefore, a smaller player.
But it doesn't have a screen or HUD. So you can't select the tracks you want - it's all shuffled.

[Dean C]

The way they're marketing it as a shuffling mp3 player is a bit silly. Most mp3 players have a shuffle facility :)

[khaleel]

[removed] - this is your auction

[Blam Forumz]

Don't get an iPod, get a Zen, they can support wma's, word docs, aac and other music file types while iPods cant! And they haev firmware upgrades quite often as well as great sound quality

dont forget theyre made by Creative :)

[Dean C]

But they're bigger :) My buddy just got his 30gb Zen and it's a beast!

[Blam Forumz]

size doesnt matter ¬_¬ lol

You could get a 20gb Zen with a touchpad on it :O ITs great, ihave a 30gb one though, and yeah, it is a beast

[Dean C]

Size does matter, I can fit an iPod in my pocket, I can't fit a zen in there :)

[eva01_]

I have my wonderful 10GB 3rd generation, and i am buying a new one once pioneer comes out with their adapter for my car ^^. use the old one in the car new one i will have on me

[DR?@M W?@V?R]

I went out and got one of these archos jukeboxe's a few years ago 20gb, it cost me a few hundred pounds but it was my birthday and thought I would treat myself, otherwise I wound'nt have spend so much cash on one.

The jukebox is very heavy and battery life is about 1 hour its not very practical if your on the move.

The ipod which I dont have is much lighter and the battery life a lot better, but if you want to know the truth I dont see the point of carry about a ipod that holds 1000's of songs I mean your not going to listen to them all in one day.

I have a small mp3 player that holds about about 100 songs and can be used as a usb flash drive, its good to hold saved work on it and weighs very little.

If anything happend to the jukebox I would get a ipod but morely for data backup at home, I dont think I would take it out with me, except maybe in the car if it can be interfaced with a car stereo.

[eva01_]

one thing to think, does BMW have a Zen setup in there cars or is it an iPod?

yes its an iPod, so does mercedes now, as well as other car companies. And the VW is going to get a Mac mini inside of it.

[sabret00the]

lol @ caring that is supports wma, and if people were loading full applications onto their ipods and using it like another discdrive, what's all this about them not supporting certain file formats? i been thinking about getting an ipod photo :)

[TruthElixirX]

I don't need one now that I have an ATRAC3Plus CD player. Its a codec by sony that plays songd at MP3 quality and reduces them to kilobytes. no joke. Look it up. I have 35 full albums on one CD. :)

[filburt1]

All of my songs are kilobytes, too. Just somewhere around 5,000 KB.

Saying "MP3" quality is meaningless because you can compress an MP3 from 32 kbps to 320 kbps (my preferred level). When you listen on very high quality headphones or a home theater system, you can easily hear the imperfections in 128 kbps MP3s.

[DrkFusion]

I want to get an iPod mini for my listening pleasures within the coming weeks.

[Revan]

Dean, the battery does not die after 18 months, that was a stupid rumour made my mac haters. What is true though is that the battery will die after about 500-700 FULL battery cycles (aka, you drain the battery to death about 500-700 times).

And yeah, I agree with you on the iSkin, one of the nicest cases out today. :)Back up a parsec or two here, your saying that the batteries are manually rechargeable and last that many battery cycles?
Anyone with an ipod - be this true?
Also, Ive heard rumours that to change batteries you have to send it in to maintenance along with $100 - you cant change it yourself without fear of fkin up the pod?

[filburt1]

I have had no power problems with my iPod. I don't let it drain the entire way, except once accidently.

[eva01_]

I have no problem with my 16 month old iPod.
and you can replace the battery yourself if you want.

[Quincy Wisdom]

I have a 40GB Ipod, currently have 8GB filled with music...

I use it everyday :)

Back up a parsec or two here, your saying that the batteries are manually rechargeable and last that many battery cycles?
Anyone with an ipod - be this true?
Also, Ive heard rumours that to change batteries you have to send it in to maintenance along with $100 - you cant change it yourself without fear of fkin up the pod?

There are a lot of tutorials online about how to change the ipod's battery...however, if you do so, you void the iPod's warrenty. It used to be that they wouldn't replace the battery at all, but changed it after media attention. They will do it for $100.

[eva01_]

And they will do it if you have the applecare with it as well i believe. can't remember on that i never bought applecare with my iPod.

[TruthElixirX]

All of my songs are kilobytes, too. Just somewhere around 5,000 KB.

Saying "MP3" quality is meaningless because you can compress an MP3 from 32 kbps to 320 kbps (my preferred level). When you listen on very high quality headphones or a home theater system, you can easily hear the imperfections in 128 kbps MP3s.


A standard 3-4 minute song at 512 kbps is 1 MB. 1,000 kilobytes. If you want a link to the CD player on sony's website or the file converter I use let me know.

[Adrian Schneider]

I'm considering getting an iPod right now, I'd go for the regular one (not mini or photo), need lot's of space for music. Trying to decide between that and a laptop right now... I get harassed to much having the only good computer in the house!

[Tekton]

I got my iPod photo 30 a few days ago. I looooove it. So pretty~

Sorry. :) I would recommend them over any player, any day of the week though.