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frenchcalc1
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| That's great! Are you going to just replace it or get the money back in order to buy a better iPod? |
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baorder54
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frenchcalc1 wrote: That's great! Are you going to just replace it or get the money back in order to buy a better iPod?
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What is better than the video currently? |
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frenchcalc1
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baorder54 wrote: frenchcalc1 wrote: That's great! Are you going to just replace it or get the money back in order to buy a better iPod?
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What is better than the video currently?
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Well, I don't know if he has a video with 30, 40, or 60 GB of memory. I meant that he could spend a little more in order to get more memory (basically for free, since he already has spent the other $200-ish on the other iPod)
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baorder54
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I have a 30 gb video. Seriously, I don't know how you could possibly fill up your ipod with 15,000 songs. There would definitely be some illegal activity going on. 
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Harrierfalcon
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Mine was almost full, but I had 10 movies on it. I only had about 220 songs, I don't listen to a great variety.
Luckily, I backed up my stuff before I started tweaking my iPod, so I have everything I want. :lol:
I have a black 30gig, and it seems they're replacing it--maybe I'll get the latest one?
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baorder54
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Harrierfalcon wrote: Mine was almost full, but I had 10 movies on it. I only had about 220 songs, I don't listen to a great variety.
Luckily, I backed up my stuff before I started tweaking my iPod, so I have everything I want. :lol:
I have a black 30gig, and it seems they're replacing it--maybe I'll get the latest one?
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Yeah, I used to have a lot of movies, then I realized that it ate up the memory, so I only have a few, you know, some "the office" episodes, and a movie. Songs: like high 2000's. Pictures: 33(should take them off though, I really don't need them.)
PS: Mine is black too, way better.  |
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frenchcalc1
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baorder54 wrote: PS: Mine is black too, way better.
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Yeah, I like the black iPods more than the white ones (they look shinnier) :biggrin: |
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Harrierfalcon
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Agreed. The white ones are just so....white. And now that I have an Altec Lansing Black dock, a white iPod would look a tad out of place.
But anyways, it appears Apple has just shipped me a replacement iPod. Whether or not this is a brand-spanking-new-fresh-off-the-assembly-line one is debatable, but hey, I get a new iPod!
It's also surprising how fast they jumped on the issue--I request service on Monday, sent it in on Tuesday, they got it on Thursday, replaced it on Friday, and said I should get it within 2 business days--I think it's Monday, but I hope it's Sunday--then I get time to put all my music back on it (and personalize it safely) before I go back to school on Monday.
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That's fast...
So did your replacement have 60 GB or what? |
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Harrierfalcon
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| Why would my replacement have 60 GB? The original was only 30 GB...I only want the newest one because it has a few more subtle features that I like. |
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| what kinds of subtle features? |
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baorder54 wrote: I have a 30 gb video. Seriously, I don't know how you could possibly fill up your ipod with 15,000 songs. There would definitely be some illegal activity going on. [post="104462"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]
Some of us have been buying cd's since before you were born, and ripping them into higher quality bitrates than the default 128kbps the ipod uses. 128kbps is not high enough quality, it distorts the music to the point I can tell the difference with my own ears without even using high quality headphones.
Lets do some math. In my collection the average song is about 6 MB in size:
30,000 MB / 6 MB = 5,000 songs.
On average most of my cd's have about 14 songs on them, many have more and some have less, 14 is the average:
5,000 songs / 14 songs = 357.14 albums.
Now lets just pretend that I have only been buying albums for say, only 16 years, at a fixed interval of x albums per month since that time:
357.14 albums / 16 years = 22.32 albums per year.
Now to break this out a little further:
22.32 albums per year / 12 months = 1.86 albums per month.
Perhaps this exercise has gone on to show you that it is not that difficult to legally obtain over a period of time a large collection of music that does not all fit onto a 30GB Ipod, especially when you love music so much that you buy far more albums than that listed above.
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Harrierfalcon
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Huh. Well, then there are those of us who find a new song about once every week, if we are lucky. Ah well, to each his own.
But may I ask, how do you rip CD's into a higher bitrate? If it's relatively easy, it wouldn't take long to burn my library to a RW, boost the bitrate, and then return the songs to iTunes. |
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What bitrate do you use ACC?
Harrierfalcon: To rip into a higher bitrate in iTunes, click Edit -> Preferences (or hit Ctrl + ,). Click on the Advanced tab, then click on the Importing sub-tab. Under Setting, click down and choose a custom bitrate.
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Harrierfalcon
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Wow. I have a large range of bitrates, now I look at them. Anywhere from 8 kbps to 320...
Thanks Cure, and Alien for pointing out the importance of bitrate. Know that I think about it, the 8 kbps never sounded quite as good through my iPod headphones. |
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baorder54
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| @ AlienCC: How many songs do you have then? Do you have a 60 gb video? Because I know that when my iPod gets too full, it tends to lag, between menu transitions, the beginning of a song, the scroller gets jittery after selecting a song. So is yours laggy? |
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Harrierfalcon
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| You could always let your iPod go into disk mode and defragment it. That speeds things up. |
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Arcane Wizard
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You can't add quality simply by converting to higher sample- or bitrates though, so if you bought MP3's from iTunes or downloaded them somewhere (yes some artists in the music industry actually share their music with fans) you're stuck with the quality you got it in.
Luckily CD's sample- and bitrates are high, 44KHz and 1.4MBps respectively.
I recommend encoding MP3s at 44KHz with a Variable Bitrate between 192 and 320 KBps. This way you won't miss any quality and will get a bit smaller files than encoding everything at 320KBps. You won't hear a gain in audio quality encoding any higher than that.
For most people 128KBps will sound as good as anything though, so you may only hear a difference of bitrate with a song you're very familiar, with very complex parts of songs, or frequencies your audio hardware can't reproduce very well.
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baorder54
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Harrierfalcon wrote: You could always let your iPod go into disk mode and defragment it. That speeds things up.
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How would you do that? |
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Harrierfalcon
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| After enabling disk mode on your iPod, open up My Computer, find your iPod drive, right-click on it, go to Properties, then over to Tools, and then Defragment. |
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