iPod ???

All other little utils seem to be win 2000 and up, unfortunately.

If you do look at another computer, consider a mac. eMac's are pretty cheap and N. will attest to its quality.

A further check shows that iMacs start at £999 inc VAT and eMacs from £649 (source micro anvika)

I don't need one. I don't need one. I don't need one.

Powerbook G5!!!

Having seen various jukebox programs on PCs, I can confirm that they are absolutely appalling compared to iTunes. Surely it's possible to write something similar for Windows?

I have many issues with my iPod though, great as it is. For a start it's getting all scuffed up after only a fortnight - do they expect me to keep it in that ridiculous pouch all the time? I know I could use the remote, but that's even more of a faff, finding something to clip it onto and taking off all the time.

iTunes for windows should appear by the end of the year, so that windows users can buy tunes from apple.

And it's supposed to get scuffed up real bad. It makes it look better. I like my decayed looking iPod better.

I don't agree with your remote qualms. Although I have never used this particular remote, I never had any trouble when I clipped my MD remote to one of my belt-loops each day: accessible, minimal-fuss, you don't have to lift your shirt each time &c.

On the upgradability issue, N, what would you need to upgrade (other than memory and HD which you can) that can't be added on using USB or firewire?

Ed - I didn't realise you could change the internal HD. I guess I was vaguely thinking about replacing the processor one day but maybe not.

I'm going to upgrade to OS. I hate pc's.

Most new software is not compatible w/win98 anyway, so it probably is worth it to get the upgrade.

Still waiting for 20GB models to become available here in the Uk...

From http://www.apple.com/ipod/ :

New 20GB and 40GB models

Smaller than ever (just 0.62 inches thick)

Cheek!

As a matter of interest, how do hard drives keep getting bigger without getting umm.. bigger?

or more acurately by improving magnetic head technology so that the data blocks get smaller.

btw, is it normal for a '15GB' iPod to have an actual capacity for MP3s of 'just' 13.9MB? 1.1GB seems a lot for just an iPod's OS and playlist info etc. Just checking I haven't been shortchanged.

: ((((

http://www.musicmatch.com/download/free/?OS=pc&OEM=APPLE

I've only ever had one, and that was secondhand, I think you have to be prepared to work on them a bit to keep the little bastards alive

A bit like a tamagotchi in many ways

my first http://linuxbrit.co.uk/gadgets/lg/IMG_0450.JPG

was stolen. which was sad. i was very fond of it. the second i got pissed off with after it kept giving up on me when i was djing. this one i have refused to form a relationship with and am looking forward to when i can manipulate evil apple into upgrading me to a 40gb touch screen.

good luck fag

Not sure if everyone knows about this site? I've used the businesscard trick on 2 ipods, and worked both times. My first ipod gave me 3 years, then since I cracked it open and added the card, an additional 2.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/03/05/crunchgear-how-to-fix-an-ipod-that-wont-boot/

I looked at that site but that looked too complicated for the likes of me

My iPod works just fine, except for the fact that there's a black line about a quarter of the way down the screen that over the past few weeks has gotten thicker in places. It looks like it was drawn with an Etch-a-Sketch. Good thing I never use the iPod to watch video, but I'm still concerned that the screen will slowly, eventually become unreadable.

anyone able to clear up why i was called a "fag"?

aspergers

fun fact: $10,000 invested in Apple stock the day this thread was started would now be worth over $135,000

My friend types now:

so my art teach was trying to steal some more music from my iPod today.so after fucking with this iPod ripper thing(Zenuti) all during my study hall in there
she hands it back. After school I try to play a song and it just skips to the next song,then to the next one(and so on).So now all three thousand somethin songs are all showing up BUT WONT PLAY! I came down with the terrible feeling,like my girlfriend left me or something,as lame as that sounds.
will some one iPod savy PLEEEEEEEEASE HELP ME!
I will be forever in debt

My friend is done typing now.

Delete and re-sync from Mac.

get the art teacher fired

Fire a round into the art teach.

brrrrrrat brrrrrrrrrat

Mail me the iPod and I will fix it.

Got an iPod for nothing, which was pretty rad, and after working out teething problems (or not, as evidenced in the firewire questions thread) with USB I went to give it a go, and the headphone socket doesn't work.

I cracked it open and it appears the ribbon cable has come apart from the little white box (top right of the left half)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2083/2192693128_fb5b163610_o.jpg

Looks like it'd be a right bastard to solder, has this happened to anyone else? Should I take it into an Apple store? I wonder if there are Apple stores here.

It's a third gen iPod, like this one upthread

iPod ???

dude, just google.... this stuff is well documented

I think my iPod is finally dead, it's making a sort of chirping noise, which apparently means it's fucked

iPod ???

My iPod lives again again! I stuck a knife in it and it started working.

When you're on a date, take a girl through a park and pick her some flowers. Then, knife an ipod. -- (after) chaki, Monday, 17 December 2007 23:30

how long do you think it will be before we will be able to buy ipods with the maximum capacity which are the size a nano is now?

I have a nano (owned since October last year). I always have it on shuffle, yet most ppl I speak to hate shuffle. I associate listening to whole albums with sitting at home. On the move I like to be surprised. It kind of fits with travelling through a changing environment to have changing music.

I'm hanging onto my mini until it finally packs up for good, in the hope that a mini/nano size 80GB (or not even that much, I guess 30 would do fine for me really) will come out soon. Not that I have the money for a new ipod anyway at the moment.

I always have mine on shuffle as well unless there's something specific I fancy listening to.

I also really like the fact that it's shiny silver on the back. The future has arrived!

Genie, I listen a lot to shuffle while out and about. It's really good for discovering and rediscovering stuff that's kind of lost on my CD shelves.

Never solved the problem I had just up thread. Despite Jon's insistence to google there doesn't seem to be a solution I can find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPNaATd3u7U

I can't find an appropriate thread, but:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

BBC lets 13-year old use tape walkman for a week instead of his iPod.

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."

"I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser"

hahahaha

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45984000/jpg/_45984325_scott_466.jpg

BEGGING for a caption.

and a haircut!

Diet's definitely working for Gervais, tho.

I thought it was a young James Corden.

I'm so glad everyone's linking to such an entertaining and informative article!

I mean, I hope the kid is OK! He had to use a walkman for a whole week!

Fathom the thought of such a harrowing ordeal!

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,170,000 for ipod left channel not working. (0.48 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,890,000 for ipod right channel not working. (0.36 seconds)

strange imbalance (literally)

for me the right channel started cutting out recently and won't work at all unless i press the area where the earphone cord starts but it's well random

Oh, there's a physical reason for the imbalance, but I'm probably not the right person to explain it. It'll have to do with plugs having three contact points (tip, ring, and sleeve, I think?) and how stereo connections use them differently. So whatever bit always goes wrong on iPod jacks would seem to more often be the bit for the left channel.

I'm surprised about the jacks, to be honest -- two out of three iPods I've used have had the jacks fail. It's hard to imagine someone selling something that expensive and not just putting a sturdier jack in. (I am trying not to be cynical about replacement sales or anything.)

aha, wait, I think I can explain it -- with stereo plugs it's like:

sleeve = ground
ring = right channel
tip = left channel

so on iPods possibly it's the tip connection that fails more often

how do I get this stupid Voice Memo thing off of my main menu. it is not listed under the "Settings/Main Menu". it just appeared the other day. totally annoying me.

can't, you just gotta move it to one of your other screens that you hardly ever look at - that's what i do with "stocks" and "youtube" and whatever

unless you are talkin about a different kinda ipod i dunno

eh I just rebooted the OS and that got rid of it. although I am perplexed as to why it just appeared in the first place. the only thing I can think of is that I plugged it into a mixing board the other day and it must have mistaken that for a microphone input and started up the feature...? whatever. its gone now.

Have you filled your iPod? I never have. I'm curious about how everyone treats theirs.

Haven't yet, but that's only because I haven't gotten around to putting the 28-disc Sun Ra set on it.

i have an 80 gb and filled it a long time ago. currently jonesing for the 160 one

My (always chock full) 160GB has found a new way to vex me. It functions normally on its own, and mounts in iTunes just fine, but refuses to let me alter its contents. If I try to delete stuff, iTunes just perma-freezes. Anyone encountered this? I have to wipe it don't I :(

anyone know of a good mp3 device with bluetooth they would recommend? super dumbed down interface preferred, i often find the 'features' that the iphone environment forces on you to make things harder. streaming from my phone is getting untenable. 32GB or 64GB would probably be fine. i don't want cloud-based anything, i don't mind updating manually at all

oh, and if this is becoming a thing outside of the apple world, YES i want a headphone jack, jeez