ive been reading reviews & jamesn is right - people are complaining about the scratches. ok, so whats wrong with some scratches on the screen? i dont get it.
The new iMac G5 looks cool but I'd have to start listening to Alisha Keys to fit the typical user profile. It's also not terribly useful if you're a programmer in a windows world.
Where in the hell is my grilled cheese? 575 Posts 3/05
Posted - Oct 15 2005 : 11:52PM
I bought an iPod Nano a week ago. I don't notice any serious exterior damage. A bunch of smudges as a result of being handled by less-than-pristine hands, and yes, a tiny scratch or two, but nothing detrimental to the appearance or the performance of the device.
Virtually all Apple products look very cool, but are highly susceptible to exterior scratches.
Those original Powerbooks - the Titanium ones, not the newer Aluminum ones, scratched up like it was their job. The pristine titanium case was soon replaced by one with multiple gouges and huge scratches in the finish.
I have an original 40 GB click-wheel iPod too and its screen and case are spiderwebbed with so many scratches it's disgusting. Doesn't affect its performance but they do make it look like total crap.
I am seriously considered ordering some of this Ice Creme stuff which is supposed to restore the lustre of your iPod...
just go to a jeweler & have them buff out all those scratches with their buffers wheel. itll probably cost you less than $5, less than 5 minutes & right on the spot.
I'm considering a Nano, too. The scratch problem caused me to wait. The Icecream Looks kinda expensive. I say that because I recently read an article concering using good old Brasso to take care of the scratches. You might want to Google it before dropping any serious bucks.
Mrs. C had iPod fever from the first iteration. Somewhere a few years back I got her a 4 or 8 gig pod, which made her very happy. It's cool enough, especially for jacking into the car stereo on road trips, but I never felt the need for my own.
Until the Nano.
I don't know what it is about this little fucker, but I want one.
"people are complaining about the scratches." (random quote, nothing to do with the poster)
I've heard hundreds of complaints about the scratches but I still cannot know for sure if the fucking Nano actually skips with VBR. Further proof that 95% of the mp3 consumers can't tell a music file from goat shit.
wow i love this little ipod. ive scratched it a few times on purpose just to get all those 'obsessive-compulsive' peoples' reviews outta my mind. now ive been checking out some external speakers but most of the ones ive seen are those stupid-looking 'docks'.
i found one that i was interested in (arkon cm210) & found a review for it here.
ok so i love my ipod nano. its nice & scratched & has never skipped on me. i started getting into it when i realized that itunes uses some audio format called m4p. its a secure file & it irks me that after i purchase the rights to a particular song or album, that i cant play it on other audio players. in order for it to work, i have to use an ipod. not even that but sometimes songs arent edited well or arent split. i.e. remember that nirvana album with the two songs mixed on one track with 10 minutes of silence in between? well if i bought that through itunes, i would be stuck with those 10 minutes of empty space. lots of songs are faded in horribly, or cut wrong, or just too loud or too soft. well guess what apple? im not some teen schmuck that hasnt done audio engineering in their lifetime.
i went hunting for a solution & stumbled onto this blog (bpurcell.org) & it had some good info except when i read the last comment it brought tears to my eyes.
ok so i figured out a way which is jsut recording off the sound card via rosoft audio recorder. its a pretty tricky program but simple once its figured out - only an engineer would love this program btw.
i only bought around $20 of itunes stuff, which i wont do in the future. napster has wmv's which is much more my style than some invented format - m4p.
speaking of m4p's, when i first researched the extension the apple propoganda said that this was a better sounding file & it was compressed better than mp3's which after doing my own tests came out as a downright lie.
m4p's are about %210 the size of mp3's & the sound quality is equal or lesser than that of mp3's according to my eq programs.
damn, doesnt any music download site not require you to download their software? i just want the flippin file & not your software!...although real rhapsody looks great but still!
God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03
Posted - Nov 7 2005 : 10:07AM
I heard these ipods once attached to a computer it's that computer's ipod - meaning I can't take files off my ipod and put them on another comp and I can't take songs from another comp and put them on my ipod - is that right?
I was thinking of getting one, but I may end up with that MP3 player that Creative sells. I'm not fond of apple.
totally pl, thats why i skip the apple m4p format (see above) & am sticking with mp3 - or really anything else other than m4p.
the ipod nano is currently the best hardware & i would recommend it to you pl, but stay far from itunes music store unless you want that problem you described.
i like apple products seriously but the elitest position they always take really gets under my skin....can you say betamax!?
AFAIK, if you use iTunes, you can't move music from the iPod to the computer. That's not a problem with the program I use (GtkPod), and the one time I had to connect it to someone else's Windows box, a program called EphPod had no such limitations either.
I got my Mini for the convenient navigation wheel, and have so far not regretted it. I also liked that I could put text files onto it and view them on the display, and synchronise my address book with it.
i can, but i have the newest version - i think its version 6. could that be the difference?thats why they canceled the mini's production. flash memory is the way to go.
Dunno. I watched someone try, unsuccessfully. Perhaps it had something to do with what PL said: "once attached to a computer it's that computer's ipod" .I agree, flash is better for such a device. But what did you mean with the first part? That they discontinued the Mini because I'd bought one?
BTW, MP4 is not actually a bad format, but I would have liked the iPods to support Ogg as well. Possibly Flac too.
Oh, and gapless playback would have been very nice. I don't know if any of the competitors have that.
They're unsightly? But that's OK. Most of the competition scratches just as easily. If it's only a matter of how easily it scratches, I guess iPod is fine.
use iTunes to purchase music from the Apple Store. Very straightforward and the software is free. Or you can download mp3s from Amazon. That's pretty straightforward too. I've used both and am very happy with them.
The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04
Posted - Nov 12 2008 : 1:10AM
I likez the Amazon mp3 store. Their little app dl's the tunes, and puts em in a folder and enters them into iTunes. No muss, no fuss. and they are high quality no DRM mp3s, encoded with "variable bit rates for maximum audio quality and smaller file sizes, aiming at an average of 256 kilobits per second (kbps)."
Posted - Sep 9 2005 : 7:22AM
