...you have to use Ephpod to play your Ipod. Ephpod and the media player of your choice.
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le nubian - Dec 27, 2004 8:58:21 am PST #825 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dana - Dec 27, 2004 9:07:25 am PST #826 of 10003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Hmm. Tempting as it is to waste the rest of the day, I think I should probably just wait until I get home. Once the iPod is set up, I'll use it as a hard disk to get the music files off my work computer.
Edit: But thanks for all of the advice.
le nubian - Dec 27, 2004 9:22:13 am PST #827 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
FWIW, my computers have Itunes and Ephpod both and I haven't had any problems running one or the other. Ephpod allows a lot more flexibility with my music and I can copy what's on the ipod to my hard disk, which I've done on 1-2 occasions to have an ipod backup.
NoiseDesign - Dec 27, 2004 1:35:36 pm PST #828 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Daniel there are still two big boxes of Mac stuff that will be heading your way sometime this week. As I'm packing I keep finding one more thing to toss in the boxes.
beekaytee - Dec 27, 2004 2:02:11 pm PST #829 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
Dan, Sorry I posted and ran...had access to a car today...must take advantage!
I went hunting for memory and an external dvd.
I'm dim.
No retail outlet will match mail order!
Patience is a virtue, and thin on the ground around here.
You? A god among men. Those links are really helpful...and while I can't find a model number (unless I heft the sucker off the table...what does it weigh? 50lbs??) the 'lowendemac' described on the one link fits it to a t.
I must say, I really appreciate you and tommyrot. There are simply NO knowledgeable Macdaddies anywhere around me. Sigh.
DCJensen - Dec 27, 2004 2:05:17 pm PST #830 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Daniel there are still two big boxes of Mac stuff that will be heading your way sometime this week. As I'm packing I keep finding one more thing to toss in the boxes.
Sounds good. And fun!
Theodosia - Dec 28, 2004 2:55:44 am PST #831 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Is there any way to make the font bigger in iTunes? I was kind of using it in my car this weekend, and a larger type for the current song playing would make glancing over to see what's playing much less accident-prone-ish.
Consuela - Dec 28, 2004 9:10:46 am PST #832 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, so my brother and SiL gave me the iPod mini for Christmas, pre-loaded with a bunch of music. From what y'all say upthread, I can sync the iPod manually with the music on my hard drive? Can I download the music on the iPod to my hard drive so that in the future I can sync automatically?
Dana - Dec 28, 2004 11:47:05 am PST #833 of 10003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I'm hardly the expert, but ipodlounge.com has all sorts of useful info. It's my understanding that music is not supposed to travel from iPod to computer, only the other direction, but that there are several workarounds. Go to the site, check FAQs under Help, and the info is there.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2004 11:52:39 am PST #834 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have an aspect ratio question.
When in Best Buy yesterday, the salesperson was trying to sell me on this widescreen TV, telling me that it was perfectly suited for movies, with the whole 16:9 thing. He finally admitted that it would squish normal TV, which was pretty much a no brainer for me -- I'd rather waste screen space on bars than encourage distortions.
But while I was watching the stuff they were testing, it was apparent that the TV was not displaying as well as the HDTV widescreen units -- they had extra info on the sides that the 4:3 sets were chopping off, and in fact, the widescreen flat tube was chopping AND squishing.
Is that because they had it set up badly? What signal were they piping that a standard TV was chopping anyway? Is my TV chopping?