iPod Thread - Page 2

I have an IPod mini that I received as a christmas gift. The good points are its size and menu/navigation thanks to the clicker wheel. The bad points are: subpar battery life (only 7 hours 30 minutes in my test) and a 4gb hard drive that's fairly slow. Right now I don't have enough music to fill it, so the hard drive size isn't a problem yet. For the money it's definitely not worth it, but I have a 2 year battery warranty from BestBuy, so in two years my battery will be shot and I'll get a new ipod mini. I'm guessing by then they'll have bigger hard drives and improved battery life.

I'm getting a good twelve hours or so out of the shuffle.

Also might get the battery backup when it becomes available (a little thing with two aaa batteries that clips on), which extends the life another 20 hours, I believe.

Thought this artical was very funny.

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125...tml?tw=rss.TOP

If I worked at MS, I wouldn't flaunt my Ipod as the manager does. Simply take off the headphones when you enter the building and put them back on when you exit. And also get a pair of Sony earbuds in black.

I have a 15gb. It is the only Apple product I bought and will stay that way.

Any reason why? At least one that applies to the new OS X era?

Anyone I have talked to with an iPod tends to enjoy the ease of use that the iTunes/iPod experience offers. OS X does the same, offers a nice painless way of doing things.

The one downside to a Mac system that I can see is the lack of games compared to the Windows platform. But, such a reason doesn't keep me from being a person who uses both platforms.

And nice signature. While Steam is an interesting idea, Valve implemented it horribly.

4G 20GB ipod, I like it but I have to say I was a bit dissapointed with the sound quality compared to my iriver. You can't manually adjust bass/treble which is a shame because the only thing I found lacking was bass. You have to have like super good earphones and even then I can't get it perfectly because on certain songs with a lot of bass it sometimes makes a cracking noise like its at its limit. Other than that I'm happy. I think that itunes is the most horrible software for people like me that don't interface very well, does anyone know how I can like drag a folder and have it just read the folder properly. It has to be smart and rearrange everything, some folders don't show up because who knows why, and then some folders are split into multiple folders on the ipod probably because i downloaded them from different sources so it thinks they are different albums. I just make a playlist for each album, but the bad part is when I use itunes to put songs on the library they dissapear into the mega song list and I have to pick them out and drag them into the new playlist which takes forever Im doing something wrong I know it, I just don't like software

DRAK!! how's it going.. i think i was under rockstar on the empeg forums - had the yellow m3 and eventually sold the car and player and moved to manhattan.. wow..

anyway, nice to see you here.

i have the first 20 gig ipod.. you know the thick heavy one.. and i haven't changed anything because i find it still works fine.. batt life is still pretty good.. much better then the following gen. and it works. It's a bit beaten up.. and larger then the new neato rounded ones.. but it works for me... although i think my ex swiped my charger so now i have to decide if it is worth buying a new charger, or if i should ebay it without one and get a new ipod.. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

yah, your mp3 tags are wrong.. chances are you are dlillegally and you need to retagthe music

mp3 tag studio works nicely

I have to say that I'm ashamed of myself today. I returned my zen micro because it was locking-up (pissed the hell out of me) so I took it back yesterday and you all can guess what i got. yes, a nice silver ipod mini ($20 cheaper then the zen). After a days use i have to say that im pretty impressed with the little guy. Last night I left my pc run all nite converting my wma to aac. (17GB) The interface is simple and itune shuffled all my music into a neat package. I tried doing mp3 (10Gb)but that soon turned into a mess so i stopped. Im going to try out the MP3 STUDIO and see what that can do for me.
Are there any better ways to convert mp3 or should i just leave them as mp3? MP3 studio will let me tag the genre, artist, album in batches?

Heh, small world it seems. I found these boards mostly after looking for more info on the Dell inspiron 9100. The empeg boards are still very much alive and kicking these days, especially the Off Topic area. One thing you may want to check out, one of the members linked to a Rio Karma for $175 (the 20gb version). Seems they are hitting closeout prices now before a new model ships.

In the preferences under advanced, unclick "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to the library."

And to add songs without having to hunt for them after they're added, create a new playlist and drag the folder with the songs into it.

drak is the karma interface similar to the empegs? that is a good price on a 20 gig player.. especiallly with the audio dock.. tempting to step away from the ipod.. especially now that i am back on pc's for a while.. the lockup bug concerns me a bit.. it's been ages since i visited the empeg site.. if i move back to phoenix i'll be on the hunt for one... i see them ebayed every once in a while.

The Karma interface is a bit different then the empeg. It has all the artist/album/genre slayout that most other players have. Funny thing though, the Rio sync software doesn't support hierarchical playlists, but the Karma does. If you use jemplode to talk to the Karma, it can create them, and even sync over the LAN between an empeg and Karma.

Interface features I like about the Karma over the iPod:

-Karma is better suited for one handed operation. Left or right handed.

-The Karma has the alphabet along the left hand side of the artist/album screens. You can quickly scroll down to the letter, click in thr wheel, then scroll to the exact album. It's also smart enough to know to put "The Beatles" under B and T.

- Now and Next exists on the Karma, and is even better then the empeg. It allows reordering of songs, and allows any reordering you do there to be saved as a playlist.

Honestly if you liked the empeg even a minor bit, your enjoy the Karma. The lockup issues were narrowed down to some issues with bad hard drives. Seems some of them were getting the heads stuck to the platter. I haven't seen that issue on mine though, and one friend saw it only once. He's been using his Karma daily since practicially when the things came out, so one lockup needing a reset isn't bad out of all that time.

Oh, and the Karma does talk to Macs, or any platform with ethernet and java. In the future when the MSC firmware comes out, it should in theory talk to iTunes as well, just like the other MSC players like the Carbon.

i have a 40 gig photo, got it for christmas from very intuitive boyfriend . love it. i had an iriver, and still use it for my jogging, but this photo rocks. i have my entire photo collection organized on it, play games on it, use the calendar frequently, syncs to photoshop...oh and it plays great tunes too!!! love love love it. got the contour showcase for it in white too!!

drak thanks for the info..

how is interfacing the karma for automotive playing?

it sounds like i could get back some features i have missed with my empeg.. jemplode works with the karma.. that's cool.. does the dock have an ethernet port then?

thanks for the info, for 179 it seems like a good deal.

oh edit - i shoudl also ask, what's the size like and how is the durability?

do you feel the karma is then the best player rio released for portability

i really miss now and next.. how is the screen

i've just bought a 20 gig 4g
and i am very very impressed with it
one of the nicest toys i've ever gotten!

hey, do you know how to set itunes so that when i delete a playlist the songs are deleted from the 'main' directory as well (the one with all the songs on it)? I find that when i delete the playlist they are still there, and i have to end up hunting for them once again heh....

AFAIK there's no way to do that. It is annoying, but it does save you from accidentally deleting songs.

iirc there is an applescript called delete from library or something..

check this out

http://www.apple.com/applescript/itunes/

look at the delete tracks script.

whoops, looks like you are on a pc.. hrmm.. not sure on that one.. something to google for sure.