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le nubian - Nov 26, 2005 8:31:12 am PST #5715 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ipod battery replacement

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DCJensen - Nov 26, 2005 9:22:17 am PST #5716 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

The weird thing is that 3rd parties have been selling iPod batteries almost since iPods started coming out. That story about Sonnet acts like it's invented the wheel, or at least the first spare tire kit.


Jon B. - Nov 26, 2005 11:39:45 am PST #5717 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Looks like the Times is quoting a press release. Lazy reporting.


Typo Boy - Nov 26, 2005 11:42:52 am PST #5718 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Where do you get decent quality hp compatible laser toner cartridges from? That is what on-line places do find inexpensive, reliable, and with not overly horrible turnaround times for this sort of thing?


tommyrot - Nov 26, 2005 8:06:38 pm PST #5719 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Why did my Nano's clock suddenly get one hour off? It was one hour in the fuure. The odd thing is that the "last played" field for the songs I was playing still got updated with the correct time.

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OK, a quick check showed that the Nano's Daylight Saving Time was somehow set to "on." What's up with that?


DCJensen - Nov 27, 2005 7:27:53 am PST #5720 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Apparently one of the problems with the Xbox 360 is the power supply overheating. [link]


Jon B. - Nov 27, 2005 11:18:24 am PST #5721 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'm using iTunes 6.0.1.3 on Windows XP. I have a dedicated hard drive for my songs (currently over 24,000 songs occupying over 120GB of space). For a while now, whenever I play a song, it stops after about 13 or 14 seconds. If I click on the pause button, then again when it's changed to a play button, it'll play for another 13-14 seconds and then stop. Lather, rinse, repeat. This happens even if there are no other programs open.

This didn't used to happen, but I can't pinpoint what may have changed to cause the problem to appear. Any suggestions?

t edit I actually moved all the songs to a different physical drive to see if it would help. It didn't.


Eddie - Nov 27, 2005 1:57:38 pm PST #5722 of 10003
Your tag here.

That's a weird one Jon B.

You might try this [link]
This seems to be a more graphical version of the above [link]

Also, check to see if Windows is indexing and/or compressing those drives, and if so, turn that off. Check your iTunes buffer settings.


Jon B. - Nov 27, 2005 3:10:00 pm PST #5723 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You might try this [link]

The newest version of Quicktime is organized differently. Under Audio, I've got "Safe mode (waveOut only)" checked. If I de-check that option, the player stutters terribly, so it looks like I've got the settings set correctly.

Also, check to see if Windows is indexing and/or compressing those drives, and if so, turn that off.

Nope.

Check your iTunes buffer settings.

Been there, done that.

t edit Hey, it was indexing that drive. I'm turning it off right now and will report back momentarily.


tommyrot - Nov 27, 2005 3:15:42 pm PST #5724 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Jon, I'm curious - does the bitrate of the song you're playing have any effect on the length of time a song will play before stopping? I'm thinking that if a lower bitrate song plays longer, that might indicate that the song stops playing when a fixed-size buffer is used up. Not sure what that would get us, but....

Also (unrelatedly), does this problem occur for both mp3s and AAC files?