Eek! I just ordered an iPod Classic!
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Glamcookie - Sep 25, 2007 8:46:45 am PDT #2863 of 25497
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
NoiseDesign - Sep 25, 2007 8:49:41 am PDT #2864 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
I've got an iPod Classic and the sound quality issues aren't there for 99.9% of the population. Most of those reports on sound quality are coming from the same sorts of folks who will spend hundreds of dollars of a couple of feet of speaker cable. Not your average Joe Consumer.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 8:50:00 am PDT #2865 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. Weird. Sounds like a bug introduced with a codec change.
Heijligers suggests that Apple may be able to fix the problem through a firmware update.
Let's hope so.
The first article says many people might not even notice the difference.
x-posty.
My ears are pretty sensitive to minor changes, so I'm wondering if I'd notice....
Glamcookie - Sep 25, 2007 8:51:30 am PDT #2866 of 25497
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Oh, good. I didn't want anything to dampen my excitement for my shiny new toy.
amych - Sep 25, 2007 8:52:58 am PDT #2867 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've got an iPod Classic and the sound quality issues aren't there for 99.9% of the population.
This -- in fact, I've seen reviews (umm. somewhere. that probably has a link I didn't save.) saying "we could definitely tell a difference, but only when we used the $400 headphones...." I suspect that the quality loss that comes from ripping/dl'ing at anything other than the very highest-quality far outweighs the diffference between iPods for those of us who aren't ND.
Fred Pete - Sep 25, 2007 9:25:08 am PDT #2868 of 25497
Ann, that's a ferret.
My iPod is in the shop. It stopped working. The in-store repair folks said that the computer recognizes it, but nothing shows up on the screen.
I also had to get a new portable XM receiver because my old one died.
It hasn't been a good month for my electronic music delivery devices.
Sean K - Sep 25, 2007 10:15:28 am PDT #2869 of 25497
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
1080p is better than 1080i. But is it worth the extra cost? If I have no articulated plans to upgrade my DVD system, is it a waste of money to buy now?
I think it is very unlikely you'll ever be able to tell the difference between 1080i and 1080p.
lisah - Sep 26, 2007 10:30:26 am PDT #2870 of 25497
Punishingly Intricate
This may be a very stupid question but I just want to make sure I can do something and I'm not going to have much time to fix things if problems arise.
Basically, my friend is getting an iPod so she can have music easily at her wedding. But she doesn't have a computer so I said I could make the playlist she wants and put it on her iPod. What is going to happen when I hook this new iPod that is not mine up to my computer? Will iTunes just recognize it as new and I'll be able to easily put whatever I want on it?
Sorry for being so remedial but, obviously as this is for my friend's WEDDING, I don't want to eff anything up.
shrift - Sep 26, 2007 11:36:22 am PDT #2871 of 25497
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Does anyone know if there is some sort of hack/way for it to play non-itunes videos, and where I would look for that-- say if I wanted to play fanvids that are .avi?
I use a 3GP video converter (PC), and it's pretty simple, although now I can't find where I grabbed it from.
I've used it to convert fanvids to iPod format. Actually, that's totally why I downloaded it in the first place.
le nubian - Sep 26, 2007 11:39:02 am PDT #2872 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
lisah, if it hasn't been synched with any other computer, it will be really straightforward.
You can hook it up, sync the playlist and be done.
However, if your friend does get a computer and she syncs the ipod, she'll lose your music.