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I'm about to buy myself a new 40GB version as a birthday present to myself. Mine is one of the original 5GB Ipods and the new ones are much better designed. I once even dropped it in a glass of water a couple of years ago and it still functions, though it took about three weeks for it to dry out. I wouldn't recommend doing that though.

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if you need loud or have high-impedence headphones, you're going to need a headphone amp with either, the samuels emmelines are great and headroom.com makes some good inexpensive ones.

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Currently, iPod/iTunes will not read WMA (Windows Media Audio) or ogg files. At this point, those interested should read some of the file compatability notes at Apple.com (duh).

Personally, I think that the LAME encoder with the --alt-preset standard flag, with a target bitrate of approximately 192Kbs (VBR) is the best compromise between audio quality and filesize.

I have iTunes' importing set to Apple's AAC compression scheme at 160Kbs. The audio quality is pretty good and the filesizes aren't too porky. This limits playback to iTunes and iPod, but I don't care, because that's all I use.

I can't listen to my iPod with its headphones at full volume; it's too loud. My guess is that extended listening to iPod at max volume will cause permanent long-term hearing loss. Is that loud enough for you?

Edited by - cv on 11/26/2004 4:06:11 PM

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I reiterate that I am using 160Kbps AAC. I've only played with LAME a few times, so I haven't done much more than fiddle around with it.

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im currently trying for the free ipod offers, so we'll see how long it takes for me to get one lol

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"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

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The Mac may be more susceptible to this issue due to usage patterns? (recharging when there's still a charge in the battery, not charging from empty to full) Or is there a flaw in the design?

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"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

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Rumor has it that updated design iPod (no release date yet) will have a replaceable battery since a lot of the iPod competetors are making theirs that way.

I prefer my iPod to my PDA for several reasons and most have nothing to do with music. This AEE I used it as a portable hard drive to back-up my pictures (I have 20G model) as well as using it to do some interviews as a digital voice recorder.

All in all a very handy little tool.

Oh and to solve the battery life problem I got a little battery pack for it that will let it run for about 10 hours before I have to change them.

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If you still go for one and you are a PC user, be sure to get 3rd party software to transfer files to/from the Ipod. Anapod Manger is working pretty well for me.

Go for one of the other similar jukeboxes out there. Don't believe the Ipod hype!

-- Snowman

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there's nothing revolutionary about that product--it may clip onto an ipod with "podgrip" technology but there aren't any meaningful specs that the company will list. that's a $5 solid-state amp from radio shack in some white plastic and you're much better off with one of the sub-200 portable amps like the meier audio porta corda or headroom.com's bithead. or you could just buy grados, shures, or ety's and not need an amp at all. sennheiser's decent headphones all need new cables and more than a 200-dollar amp to sound good--i've got grado rs-1s that are the same price as the senn 650's, cardas cable and decent amp and they're just better headphones that plug into portables and sound fine.

btw harri, this wasn't meant to be in any way hostile towards you, i just had problems with the author.

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