i fucking pods!!!
 

i am near the end of my rope with this damn piece of shit. anyone else have major problems with the things?

it cannot do the most simple basic things and deletes all my songs whenever it feels like it by telling me i cannot sync and have to restore etc.

there is going to be a wall/ipod related incident fairly soon.

I love macbooks, but ipods are pieces of crap. I'm not even going to bother with looking at that iphone, they'll break faster than Diesel holding a wine glass.

I don't have a single problem with my iPod,

except for the battery life.

I've had my Dell DJ for 3 years - it is still kickin'. The only problem is that I NEED MORE SPACE. 20 gigs won't cut it. I'm in the market for a 40 gig mp3 player.

Exactly why I stuck with an MP3 playback discman. I wouldn't get a 4gb because they hold next to no albums at all, and the 60gb models of MP3 players are expensive. I just keep about 6 MP3 CD's on me and that's all my albums :). Dell DJ's are good though! I usually hate Dell but I heard lots of good stuff about these

I worked at Dell for about 4 months answering the phone selling computers. It was a learning experience for me. Most of the reps there know NOTHING about computers. They get a week of pathetic training. I used to sit and listen to the ex-baptist-preacher behind me give people incorrect information all day long. I mean all day.

The sales reps who do well there are the worst people I've ever met in my life. Lying to poor saps to convince them to get the pointless warranty and the Dell "preffered account" credit plan with 30% interest. But they get the free printer that's designed to run out of ink in 2 weeks and then alert the user that they can only buy new ink from Dell, which is untrue. Woohoo. Blah.

I like my DJ.

That looks hella nice looking Joel!

I <3 MY


but I wish it wasn't so scratched up.

hey
did you run the diagonostics thingy?
you turn it off and turn it on again but while turning it on you hold down the center button (select i think) and the menu button for ten seconds.
theres a test in there called "hdd scan" which scans the hard drive of the ipod for problems

more info here.
http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/ipodsu...iagnosticmode/

yeah, there's a restart on them. On my brothers we tried the restart but it still failed and persisted showing the battery charging screen until it was all drained, and never charged again.

its stupid i have songs in my librbary but the just wont go onto the ipod. i have done everything imaginable to try to get it to work but all to no avail. thanks for the advice but i think a hammer and chisel are called for.

throw it against a cement wall and bring it to the apple store. they'll replace it, i swear.

Ipods.

God.

My Mom was expressing her frustration this Xmas over my little brother constantly wanting an ipod or some other small digital device because everyone at school has them now. (All of which were over her budget. Sure she could have got him a RAZR for 20 or 30 bucks, but he has the ability to run up a phone bill like no other.)

And to think, one year all I wanted was a 40 dollar walkmen and some decent headphones. (That was later stolen by that little bastard and broken by his careless use of.)


I prefer living in the dark ages.

I'm still in the realm of Walkmen (or Walkpeople to be PC). I've got one that I've had for about 7 years. It doesn't have many GBs, but it plays my tapes, and that makes me happy.

i dont have an ipod either.

for some inexplicable reason it managed to work. did exactly the same thing i did before a thousand times and it did it for once.

Ipods are great things but i simply don't need that much music to commute or going to buy a pint of milk.My mp3 player is 1GB and i simply update it whenever the need arises.It's simple,it stores images of horndogs and plays some music.It was a present but i'm sure it cost next to nothing.

Sony's Walkman MP3's kicks ass. The NW-A3000 is a great and simple player, just music and nothing else that you'll never use anyway. Be shure to get the 20gb model, 6gb is really fuckin' small for the indiekiddies needs.

i have had mine for four years and it hasnt faltered once and the battery lasts about 8 hours where before i got about 12, but four years hey. no issues here

I suppose having all your music with you at all times could be nice, but at this point its not worth it to replace all my records/CDs/cassettes. And if you lose your iPod, all your music is gonnnnnnnnnnnnnnne.

My music would never be gone,ipod or mp3 player.I buy the records,i put them on them and whenever there is something that it is impossible to find i download it and burn it onto cd.If a law came into power tomorrow that said that only ancient walkemen were allowed,i'd just get one and spend a few days taping it or whatever.

I didn't read the rest of the thread so what I'm saying could very well be somewhat redundant. But I had an Iriver. It was a fucking cool thing until it started doing exactly the same as you described in your post. It'd hang itself whilst I was trying to put music on it - It'd hang itself when I chose certain songs on it to listen to - And it'd delete songs randomly. I got a store credit 'cause the fuckers wouldn't give our cash back. Happened to mine and the misses'. The company claimed it was a glitch in a batch of them andthe store claimed the policy was that, even though it was still under warranty, we had it longer than 1 month, therefore erasing any chance of cash back. That was about 6 months ago. Now we have store credit with nothing to buy.

In conclusion: Your MP3 player is fucked.

I love my iPod ashdjasdjassa
and now I love my Macbook too.

I am becoming an applemotherfucker.

I love my iPod ashdjasdjassa
and now I love my Macbook too.

I am becoming an applemotherfucker.

I buy the records too

I haven't had a lot of problems with mine, other than my UBS cord being half faulty (I say half because it works sometimes) and if I leave my iPod in the cold it goes crazy.
Honestly though, I wish I bought something cheaper that works better haha.

Hey man im an iriver user aswell, they rock, have a really sweet mic and i really prefer them over the pod, i have an E10 at the moment, its pretty sweet.

Is it true that if your iPod battery dies, you might as well throw it away?
Apparently, it's built in and isn't replacable.

yeah thanks for the advice etc.

it seems to be working like it was supposed to in the first place. i am just waiting for the day when it screws up again.

no
you can send it back to Apple who will replace the battery for you for a mere
€80!!!

what a fuckin liberty.

iMildredpierce.

It would be amazing.

Really? Fuck the iPod then.

my ipod saved my back. i used to carry around one of those 200 cd carriers in my backpack before i got one. i still buy music and still listen to cds and records, but honestly, the ipod is so damn convenient i don't think i'd ever use another portable cd player.

and applecare is always your best friend.

I know what you mean. I have a nano, which I thought I really would use all the time - and I honestly don't. I use it when I work out, which is not nearly as much as it should be, and when I put up posters for shows, which isn't really that often either.

Otherwise, I drive to work, so that wouldn't be smart, though an adapter might make that different. Still, I have a cd player in the car, and listen to KPSU (my station) quite a bit too, so the mp3s wouldn't add that much. And when I'm at home, I mostly want to hear stuff through speakers.

I'm glad I have the nano, but it's made me realize that I'm in a different place than when I used to walk around with a walkman all the time many years ago.

for a mere $45.00CAD you can get these "FM TUNERS" that will allow you to play your ipod through your car radio. Neat technology.

i have an ipod but its getting pretty old now and the battery life isn't so great. apart from that its never really given me much trouble... a coupla times i've had to reset it and reload the software on, but apart from that its pretty decent.

only problem is that apple products are full of toxic chemicals. great...

I don't like apples licenced, exclusive software you need to use in accordance with the ipod. Itunes is unbearable in my opinion. And what if you run a linux desktop? It doesn't offer the plug-and-load capabilities of other MP3 players, and it's as easy as loading songs onto a USB pen. On most others they're even compatible with putting songs on using windows media player. That's what I love about the zen

no, that's not true.

every Apple service provider will replace it for you for little cash

at least here in Bratislava.

Mine won't upload songs sometimes and it pisses me off so badly.

there's always sharepod (but i dunno if it works with new nanos and so on).