What Do You think of the Ipods?,, 4gig nano vs.30gb vs.60 g

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:23 am

i love what Sony have done with the display on their new mp3 walkmans.. i think its much sexier than ipods (i have a 4th gen 20GB one)..

computo · Post by **computo** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:29 am

biggest downside to the new Ipods is there is no I talk device for it, so you cant record your shows with it yet.

and the lack of firewire.

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:36 am

Love my mini.

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:06 am

damn that sony looks cool, the way the screen is blended in with everything is pretty innovative.

got a question about itunes though. i've heard some reports of people getting their mp3 collection erased when connecting an ipod, i don't know the paticulars but i have a huge collection and don't want anything to happen to it.

and for you users , there isn't any thing like once my music is loaded up into the ipod or itunes that it gets stuck there right??.... i mean like its not going to convert my mp3 collection and then make it so that i can't play them in any other application ....? thats what i'm really worried about

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:26 am

EgAD wrote:damn that sony looks cool, the way the screen is blended in with everything is pretty innovative.

got a question about itunes though. i've heard some reports of people getting their mp3 collection erased when connecting an ipod, i don't know the paticulars but i have a huge collection and don't want anything to happen to it.

and for you users , there isn't any thing like once my music is loaded up into the ipod or itunes that it gets stuck there right??.... i mean like its not going to convert my mp3 collection and then make it so that i can't play them in any other application ....? thats what i'm really worried about

It's quite possible this is referring to the issue of auto-updating your iPod. If your iTunes prefs are set to auto-update your iPod then the following scenario is possible:

1. you plug in your iPod, your tunes get dumped to said iPod, you unplug you iPod
2. you delete tunes from your computer hd, add others etc
3. you plug in your iPod and the new library of songs on your computer completely replaces what was on your iPod

Moral: don't use auto-update in iTunes, set it to manual.

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:13 pm

so is there better software to use than what comes with the ipod or itnes

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:44 pm

EgAD wrote:so is there better software to use than what comes with the ipod or itnes

No. But there are many additional little utilities that'll do neat things for you. Not sure what OS you're running, but here's a Versiontracker list of iPod software for OSX, assume many of them are also available for WIN:

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/searc ... sx&x=0&y=0

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:47 pm

thanks for the tips polyslax, i'm running windows xp sp1. do any of you experience the message ' can't read or write to the ipod' while in itunes when i'm tranferring files I have to keep restarting the transfer/

tomperson · Post by **tomperson** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:07 pm

I wanted one of those to use as an mp3 player and to use it at the same time as an external HD. As far as I learned, you can't see the music collection when you're using it as an external disk, they are separated.

That ended my iPod mini-affair.

And video? I wouldn't imagine myself watching videos on that. I don't even want to watch TV for that matter.

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:36 pm

well watching tv on my ipod is not that intresting for me, but the reason i chose to upgrade to the video feature pod was because i want to put video tutorials for Live 5, FL6, and other apps on my ipod, for this it should be indespensible.