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post #91 of 135
9/9/07 at 12:25pm
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Brian, don't worry about the red, I thought it looked sharp in person - easily the best of the new colors.

I had hoped to pick up a 160GB Classic on Friday, but the stores don't have the 160s in yet, so I just ordered it online.
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how does one easily pick just a portion of your content to put on there anyway?
The most common way to do this is to use a smart playlist that is set (via the "Limit to" option) to always pick music that has been "least recently played". Another good choice is a playlist that has the "most recently added" so your new tunes are available. You can of course use both - in your case you may want to set the LRP playlist to 3 GB and the MRA playlist to 2 GB (just examples, you can split any way you wish). That will keep the 5 GB you have allocated for music filled and you don't have to do anything else - iTunes will always be cycling fresh tunes onto your iPod.
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post #92 of 135
9/9/07 at 12:31pm
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Plus they might offer engraving if the back of the iTouch is metal
They do offer the standard free engraving on the iPod Touch, as they do on the rest of the line - even the Shuffle. Be aware, however, that engraving will lower the eventual resale value of your iPod (if that's important to you).
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post #93 of 135
9/9/07 at 12:55pm

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I had mine engraved with a quote from Shakespeare, so if anything it should go up in value!
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post #94 of 135
9/9/07 at 4:20pm

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Costco has the New Nanos and classics in, the $149 one is actually $142.99 there and the $199 one was only $189!

I wasnt impressed with the fat nano from the spy pics but it looks AWESOME in person. They are gonna sell a bajilliion of these.

I think I'm going to have a hard decision, rush out as soon as I hear the touch is available locally or wait 2-3 days and get a nice discount at Costco....
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post #95 of 135
9/9/07 at 5:02pm

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we'll be using our $100store iPhone credit towards one of these new iPods .
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post #96 of 135
9/9/07 at 7:19pm

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Originally Posted by Craig S
The most common way to do this is to use a smart playlist that is set (via the "Limit to" option) to always pick music that has been "least recently played". Another good choice is a playlist that has the "most recently added" so your new tunes are available. You can of course use both - in your case you may want to set the LRP playlist to 3 GB and the MRA playlist to 2 GB (just examples, you can split any way you wish). That will keep the 5 GB you have allocated for music filled and you don't have to do anything else - iTunes will always be cycling fresh tunes onto your iPod.

I use a series of playlists that filter down into one I call "Aaron's shuffle" for my shuffle, giving me a certain percentage of my very favourites, a certain percentage of new or rarely listened to and a certain percentage of stuff that I like that I haven't heard lately. If you want details, let me know and I'll post what the parameters are.
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post #97 of 135
9/9/07 at 8:52pm
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Yeah, once you start nesting smart playlists you can do some very fancy things. Here's a good resource with lots of examples:

http://www.smartplaylists.com/
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post #98 of 135
9/9/07 at 9:39pm

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By the way, with hot sales of the new 3G nano, I think you will start seeing in the next year an explosion of sites offering iPod-compatible downloadable videos to watch.

Can you imagine ESPN offering essentially a daily 15-minute version of SportsCenter geared specifically for viewing by the new iPods, along with 8-9 minute shorter video podcasts for each individual major sport?
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post #99 of 135
9/10/07 at 12:09pm

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we'll be using our $100store iPhone credit towards one of these new iPods.
That's what I intend to do for a 160GB classic. But does anyone know, when/how the $100 credit will be issued?
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post #100 of 135
9/10/07 at 1:01pm

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Darn, that 160GB is almost big enough to encode my entire collection using Apple Lossless. Almost but not quite. Not that I'm looking to re-rip my CD's again.
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post #101 of 135
9/10/07 at 2:13pm
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But does anyone know, when/how the $100 credit will be issued?
No one know at this point. Per The Steve's open letter of last week:
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Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week.
So keep watching the Apple site, or subscribe to any of the numerous Apple blogs. The details will be all over cyberspace within minutes of announcement.
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post #102 of 135
9/12/07 at 1:39pm

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Originally Posted by Sam Posten
Costco has the New Nanos and classics in, the $149 one is actually $142.99 there and the $199 one was only $189!

I wasnt impressed with the fat nano from the spy pics but it looks AWESOME in person. They are gonna sell a bajilliion of these.

I think I'm going to have a hard decision, rush out as soon as I hear the touch is available locally or wait 2-3 days and get a nice discount at Costco....

Did your CostCo get the 160 GB Classic in? Mine has the new Nanos and the 80GB classic, but hasn't received any of the 160s yet.
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post #103 of 135
9/13/07 at 10:36am

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Don't recall as I wasnt in the market for one, sorry!
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post #104 of 135
9/13/07 at 2:47pm
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The 160s were rolling out a bit later than the 80s, but they appear to be more readily available now.

I've been watching the Apple Discussion threads on the classic, and there sure do seem to be a lot of problems with these, including frequent crashes, sluggish performance, and changed audio quality (some - like iLounge - think the sound has improved, some do not). The crashes appear to be problems with handling graphics (album art, photos). One guy had an Apple rep contact him and tell him they were working on a firmware update.

FedEx dropped off my black 160GB classic this morning just before I left for work. I'll report back on my experiences tonight or tomorrow.
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post #105 of 135
9/14/07 at 8:35am

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The only thing I've heard is that on the 3G nano there's an issue where some 320x240 MP4 videos cause the nano to "freeze" (I've seen that happen once playing the DL.TV video). Apple is aware of this and we may see an updated firmware for the 3G nano probably within the next few weeks to correct this issue.
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post #106 of 135
9/14/07 at 9:45am

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Are the menus sluggish? I ask because at my local Best Buy, they were. However, all of the iPods were fastened down with criss-crossing black plastic ties which partially touched the scroll wheel. So maybe the menus were sluggish because of the stupid "extra security" of the Best Buy store. I couldn't make it so the ties didn't touch the wheel to test it out.

Thanks!
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post #107 of 135
9/14/07 at 9:51am
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Menus on my classic 160 are not as sluggish as I thought they would be. I'm working on a full writeup - will post later today.
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post #108 of 135
9/14/07 at 9:03pm

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Craig, can you do me a favour? Play a song, and then go into coverflow and scroll back and forth quickly and let me know what happens -- I saw several iPod Classics do something really weird in that situation today.
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post #109 of 135
9/15/07 at 12:33pm
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Aaron, did as you asked. Nothing weird happened on mine. Music kept playing, Cover Flow did its thing. If you scroll fast enough you will get ahead of the iPod's buffer, and see the blank cover graphic, but they fill in within a few seconds. But this happens on all Cover Flow devices (including my iMac) that I've experienced.

I know I promised a writeup yesterday, but life gets in the way... I will say I'm experiencing a lot less problems with my Classic than others on the Apple boards are. Some sync issues have cropped up, but in operation I'm mostly pleased with it. I also think the complaints about sound quality are overblown; mine sounds fine - perhaps a bit better than the 5.5G 80GB it replaces.

More later tonight (on the way to see The Brave One right now).
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post #110 of 135
9/15/07 at 12:39pm
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Just saw that Apple posted a firmware update yesterday evening that appears to have taken care of some of the interface lagginess that many are reporting. I'll install it tonight.
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post #111 of 135
9/15/07 at 6:47pm

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Originally Posted by Craig S
Just saw that Apple posted a firmware update yesterday evening that appears to have taken care of some of the interface lagginess that many are reporting. I'll install it tonight.

I believe the 1.0.1 firmware update is only for the iPod classic. There's supposed to be one coming for the 3G iPod nano that will correct an issue of occasional video playback freezes.
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post #112 of 135
9/16/07 at 6:45am

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Thanks for checking, Craig.

This is unrelated to the problem I observed earlier (which seems to be an isolated incident -- I'll tell you about it if I find out what caused it), but I noticed that on a new Nano, when the battery starts to get really low that CoverFlow gets quite sluggish. Maybe it's a power-saving move, throttling down the processor as the charge drops?
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post #113 of 135
9/23/07 at 10:37am

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Didn't want to start a new thread for this.

What are the chances Apple would re-design the iPod Touch and add a physical volume button?

I've read some good and some bad about the Touch, but the worst thing I've read (as it would apply to me at least) is that it has no physical button to adjust the volume.

I don't have to take my iPod out of my pocket to adjust the volume, and I like it that way because I ride the subway daily. I can't think of many things I'd like to do less than show off a nice new iPod Touch on a NYC subway.
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post #114 of 135
9/23/07 at 2:18pm

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Not sure on that. I'd rather have the one click fast forward on the earbuds that the iPhone has.

I was in the apple store last night before going to the rainforest cafe to meet friends for dinner. At 8 o clock at night on a saturday there were over 75 people in the store and I saw tons BUYING not just browsing. it was insane.

I tried out the Nano there, it was really slick but I agree the menus are VERY sluggish!
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post #115 of 135
9/23/07 at 4:41pm

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Originally Posted by Sam Posten
I tried out the Nano there, it was really slick but I agree the menus are VERY sluggish!

That would be true if it's still using the 1.0 firmware but the 1.0.1 firmware has speeded up the menus quite a bit, especially Cover Flow.
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post #116 of 135
9/23/07 at 5:31pm

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Originally Posted by Sam Posten
Not sure on that. I'd rather have the one click fast forward on the earbuds that the iPhone has.

I was in the apple store last night before going to the rainforest cafe to meet friends for dinner. At 8 o clock at night on a saturday there were over 75 people in the store and I saw tons BUYING not just browsing. it was insane.

I tried out the Nano there, it was really slick but I agree the menus are VERY sluggish!

Sam, I was at the Apple store on 5th Ave earlier in the week at Noon and the place was crazy too. They had the Touch when I got there, I was on line about 5 people away from the register after a 15 minute wait when they announced it as sold out. So close!

Though now I'm not sure I want it due to what I mentioned above.
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post #117 of 135
9/24/07 at 12:25pm

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Originally Posted by Carl Miller
I don't have to take my iPod out of my pocket to adjust the volume, and I like it that way because I ride the subway daily. I can't think of many things I'd like to do less than show off a nice new iPod Touch on a NYC subway.


Just get some headphones that have a built-in volume control on the wire. Leave the iPod volume at 2/3rds or so, and use the wire to turn it down.
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post #118 of 135
9/26/07 at 7:56pm

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so i now have an ipod classic 80

i keep getting an error pop up while trying to put stuff on the ipod.

"attempting to copy to the disc holly's ipod, failed.
the disc could not be read from or written to."

i get to around 300 songs then this pops up.

what is going on.

i have no trouble syncing all the same stuff onto my iphone.
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post #119 of 135
9/27/07 at 10:03am

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Have you gone to the iLounge forum? Here is a link to that website that discusses ipod issues. I think there have been a lot of strands that deal with this issue. I bought a 5.5 Generation ipod about seven months ago. I'm not feeling as bad about that decision now.

http://forums.ilounge.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
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post #120 of 135
9/27/07 at 10:20am

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i figured it out.

seems the new ipod is more sensitive to hiccups on song files then the iphone.

i had to go threough each playlist to see what one had a bad file on it.

and only put one PL at a time back on the ipod until i found what pl wouldnt load.

i found 3 songs on three seperate pl that caused the loading troubles.
all work on the iphone.
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