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I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 4:36:42 AM   
Aileen68


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Status: offline 		So I got an Ipod for my birthday and I just love it.
Everything from The Sex Pistols to The Robert Cray Band is now flowing through my brain.
Now I'm not one of those that needs storage for ten thousand songs.
I'm the type that tends to listen to the same few over and over again so the Nano is just perfect for me.
One thousand songs...what more could I want.
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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 4:48:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm thinking of getting one myself........but I want the one that holds ten kazillion songs.

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 4:56:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		There wasn't much difference in price between the ones that hold ten kazillion and mine.

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 5:54:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Congratulations, Aileen!  The iPod changed my life.  After the iPod and I met, my daily three hours of commuting went from torture to pure bliss. 

You might already know this, but if you work in an office with a shared network, you can set up itunes so you can listen to other people's music and vice versa.  That can be fun.

I love my iPod, too.  Enjoy it!

-Jessica




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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 7:35:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Do make sure you get some sort of protection plan..either from the place you bought it or from Apple...because if it does end up breaking or just not wanting to turn on at all it costs alot just to get it shipped to the place to get it fixed..lord knows why.
But it will be the best investment you ever made..the iPod that is.
Not sure if I can talk about this stuff here but since I'm not going too indepth..I thought a great invention would be to take a muzzle and rig it so you could attach your ipod to it..or have it installed in the muzzle..so you've got the muzzle,blindfold and then the music would create a great sensory deprivation thing there. Of course if you ended up leaving like "Yellow Submarine" on your playlist..they might wonder why you're giggling whilst being flogged!




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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 8:13:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Me too! I was very anti-ipod and had a great little mp3 player, but my curiosity got the best of me and  I went off the deep end and bought a video ipod (love electronic gadgets). Besides music, I've downloaded podcasts and audio books, and really enjoy watching music videos on it. Currently I'm obsessed with White Stripes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...and I'm still not tired of Green Day  (American Idiot).



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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 9:21:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Aileen - good for you.  I'd like to have one.  For the gym, and long walks.

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 9:35:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		Me too Aileen.

I bought my black iPod Nano last weekend.  I also got one of those TransPod FM modulators for my car (my head unit doesn't accept an aux input).  I love the Nano, but I have to say I *hate* iTunes.  Probably been using Windoze too long...

I was in Circuit City last night and I see they now advertise a service now that will rip your entire CD collection for you.  I'm not sure how much it is, but I'm tempted to use it.  I have hundreds of CDs and it would take me forever to download them to the Nano.

I'm surprised I'm mostly listening to podcasts instead of music, though.

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 9:40:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have a techie question for the Ipod owners on here.

If I understand correctly, the Ipod uses a different media format than the other non-Apple mp3 players. Does that mean I can't import any songs I have paid to download off Napster to my computer? I believe those are in the Winmedia format.

Thanks in advance to the person or persons who answer this!

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 9:46:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		katy...I use mine at the gym.  It really helps when I can't hear myself gasping for breath.

pollux...does that transpod work well?  I'm thinking of getting it.

Jazz...so not techy here and have no clue about wether napster works.  I'm curious too because itunes doesn't have a lot of songs that I'm looking for.

My ipod makes cleaning the house so much more bearable too.

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 9:50:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I absolutely love mine as well!

And to think last year, I used to believe me students when they told me they could still listen to me while they had their earphones in. Then I heard the sound quality for myself. Now they can't take them out of their backpacks. lol

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 10:05:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes I can remember talking about the sound quality in an acoustics class I took.  My professor an acoustics genius was soo impressed,,    I really would like to get one.

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 10:58:19 AM   
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pollux...does that transpod work well?  I'm thinking of getting it.


Um, I think it works well enough.  It's ok.  You know it broadcasts your iPod music or whatever over a little FM transmitter and you tune your radio to a preset station to pick it up, right?  On mine there's some static, even on empty channels, but it's not terrible.  Just enough to be a little distracting sometimes when you're listening to podcasts (or maybe audio books too I would guess).

I think with music the static would be pretty much inaudible.  I think if you really like a clean digital music signal you're better off getting a head unit that accepts an aux input, but for most of us it's fine.

It was expensive though.  I think mine was $99 at Best Buy, but I've heard from others that the cheaper ones are even worse.



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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 11:20:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		To share my limited knowledge:

- For accessories, check out ebay. Items are less expensive than the Apple "offiicial" accessories. I've gotten cases - I love the clear plastic ones and they come in different colors: http://stores.ebay.com/eStreamCorp. I just got an FM transmitter that comes with a remote control, so that you can listen to FM radio through your ipod and it works well: http://stores.ebay.com/XPINVENT. They also carry transmitters that you can use in the car to listen to the ipod through the radio.

- Files: JD, yes, the music files that can be played on an ipod are different than those on other mp3 players. It's the way that Apple has cornered the market, which is why I was so resistent to buying one. But there are a lot of tech geeks that have figured out ways to get around this kind of thing. If you check out www.ilounge.com you'll find a lot of  tips there, including downloading software to use with the ipod. Pollux, there is a program called Anapod Explorer that mimics Windows setup and you may like it better for organizing music on your desktop.

- Katy and others looking to get into the ipod/mp3 world - check out refurbished products on apple's website (http://store.apple.com). They have shuffles for 49.00 and minis for 149.00, plus the larger gig models. I got mine on ebay, which was about 30.00 less than retail. If you are connected to an educational institution you can get a similar discount (http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/routingpage.html). Not sure how they verify if you really are or not.

As an aside, my first mp3 player was by Creative Labs and worked well. It was 60ish dollars and very small. It already had a built-in FM tuner, a feature that Apple should really put on ipods.

edit: ehh..my ebay links aren't working. Go to ebay and search: ipod accessories. You'll get a ton of stuff.


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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 11:28:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		I got this from the Napster site:

14. Does Napster work with iPod?
Apple has chosen to keep both the iPod and iTunes closed off from Napster and every other digital music service.

However.........and I'm not sure of this.............I could have sworn I managed to import some music that I bought from the Wal-Mart site into my iTunes.......maybe it will allow that, but not downloading into the iPod itself?

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 12:51:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		JazzDaddy,

I'm not 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure you're able to convert unprotected Windows Media files into a format that iTunes can read.  I think the problem is you can't convert iTunes files into a readable format for Windows Media Player.  Of course, I could be completely wrong, but I thought I had moved a bunch of files from Windows Media Player onto my iPod without having any problems, but I think they were all files I had imported from cds, so I didn't have to worry about them being protected files. 
-Jessica

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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/1/2006 3:37:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: pollux
You know it broadcasts your iPod music or whatever over a little FM transmitter and you tune your radio to a preset station to pick it up, right?  On mine there's some static, even on empty channels, but it's not terrible.


You know what? Static sounds terrible. Why should sound quality below the level of a solid FM station be acceptable in any way? I have tried one of those devices and was sorely disappointed. What you want is a line-in running out from the output minijack for the earbuds - and newer car stereos come with this feature. Such an output can be run from any audio device of any kind.

I am also disappointed by any portable music device that doesn't have batteries that can be swapped out at a moment's notice. Personally, I use rechargeables for almost everything and I like to have spares of any possible proprietary battery formats. But the iPod has to be recharged - which equals downtime - so that's a bad joke in my view. And if the battery actually needs outright replacing it's back to factory, right? No thanks!

Wait another year and there will be serious iPod killing products to choose from. At the moment I am liking both Samsung and Creative alternatives to the iPod - and time will only improve these products. The Creative Zen Nano Plus at 1GB is flash memory, inexpensive, easy to use, tiny, comes with a sportband and rubber cover, and runs off of AAA batteries - right now that's a below $100 alternative that holds upwards of 10 hours of music in the ultra common variable bitrate MP3 format.

The number one improvement for any such device is a decent set of headphones - earbuds can only get you so far...


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RE: I Love my Ipod - 4/2/2006 5:36:02 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Aileen68

So I got an Ipod for my birthday and I just love it.
Everything from The Sex Pistols to The Robert Cray Band is now flowing through my brain.
Now I'm not one of those that needs storage for ten thousand songs.
I'm the type that tends to listen to the same few over and over again so the Nano is just perfect for me.
One thousand songs...what more could I want.


Congrats Aileen....  I had thought hard about the Ipod during Christmas, but I opted for the Wolverine 9000 instead - It's a little bulkier but I like its adaptability {card reading capability}a little better. As for the gym, I like Creative's Zen nano, because if it breaks its cheap to replace. LOL!





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