what is a cheaper and no nonsense alternative to apple ipod 120 gb classic? it should play video of common formats and have 80 gb or more of capacity... my budget is 8000 rupees... if apple one costs 11.5k then i am sure that a lesser gaudy company must be making a similar portable video player for lesser price...
Best option next to ipod is always SONY
or elseu can go for the creative products
http://in.creative.com/products/
I just bought an ipod classic 120 GB and I looked for the stop button to stop listening to music but it only has a pause/play button.When I read the manual guide I couldn't find the stop button. I would really appreciate it if somebody could answer my question! Thank you!
Heh, I thought this was one of those addiction to my new iPod questions. No, the iPod doesn't have a stop button. To stop listening to music you press the play/pause button. If you want to take it off you press & hold the play/pause button.
I got an iPod classic 120 GB for christmas. It was ordered online from Apple. It is unopened, NIB and I was wondering if it can be returned?
No engraved iPods cannot be returned.
Sorry
I just bought a ipod classic 120 GB can i download games and movies on it? does itunes have good games and movies to download on my ipod classic?
the ipod nano i want to get is either yelllow, blue , orange or silver cant decide which one do u guys think? and the silver classic ?
price wise for an extra 50 bucks i get 104 extra gb's but not the same cool colors as the nano and the shake shuffle please help!
Dude you should totally buy the ipod nano fore 5 reasons: 1. because its newer and really popular, 2. because it is way more thinner, 3. because it has nine new awesome colors, 3. it is less expensive, 4.you can shuffle songs just buy shaking it, 5. It has the genius feature which automatically makes a playlist of songs that go great together. You should seriously buy the ipod-chromatic!!! Thats even what im getting for my b-day.
I am wondering can ipod show lyrics while the songs are playing because iTunes created this function so does it apply to Ipods?
yes while the song is playing press the center button until the lyrics show
I bought one game and suddenly it won't get in my ipod so I need to know what games that DOES fit my ipod classic 120 GB...
What I mean is we had a original Ipod that was the 30gb one, and it only let us use 27gb of it, I was wondering how much of the 120gb memory it'll let you use.
You get about 110GB.
Of course all mp3 players aren't going to give you ALL OF IT. They have to use some of it to run the mp3 player.
Will it charge the iPod or are there limitations?
I'd like to store at least fifty gigs of files onto it for back up. Would using it as a minor back up result in any damage to the software or hardware? Thanks for your time.
Revision: How might using my iPod for STORAGE negatively affect it?
no it won't.
just defrag your ipod as a disk if you notice it slows down.
then after u defrag, restore ipod firmware
"But they are low quality," he says. "You can put on higher- quality audio, but it takes up more room."
The high school student listens to music through headphones when he's mowing the lawns, water blasting or doing other jobs around the family home. He also has it on quietly when he's reading and trying to go to sleep at night. "It's kind of like a background track to life."
Sam doesn't use the radio part of his player because reception is often crackly. He also finds the touch screen a tad too small and awkward to use. If money were no object, he'd opt for an iPod Touch, "something with more memory".
The sportsman: Thomas Lindup is an ultra-distance bike rider who thrashes his iRiver T60 (4GB). Thomas, who won the world under-25 solo 24 Hours of Adrenalin mountain biking title in Alberta, Canada, in 2008, has about 150 songs and a collection of two-hour DJ mixes on his player. He listens to these beat-based sounds during training rides that last eight or nine hours and has even used his iRiver while racing for up to 18 hours. But not at the worlds in Canada - MP3 players are banned in races there.
"There's a really good reason why: it's so you can hear the bears coming."
His requirements for an MP3 player are quite specific. He needs a pocket-sized gadget that is hardy, can handle a bit of damp, has a decent amount of memory and is powered by double or triple-A batteries that can be easily changed on the bike.
"Mostly what I look for is a flash drive. I don't want a hard drive, because they are more unreliable and, because I use them on the bike, they get knocked around a lot."
He's been quite happy with his iRiver, a triangular cylinder he keeps in a plastic zip-lock bag to keep the moisture out. Next time round, he wants a Cowon iAudio MP3 with 16GB of memory.
"It's got better sound quality."
The twentysomething: Narelle Hannam has an older- style iPod Shuffle on which she's stored about 120 songs. The 2GB gizmo holds music that helps motivate her while exercising.
"I use it for walking or at the gym. I also put it into the CD player at home."
Next time round, she'd like an iPod Nano that shoots video, which she just may upload on Facebook. The Nano also has great FM radio reception.
MagnumMac salesman Paul Glucina says the latest version of iPod Shuffle comes with a voice- over feature, which introduces the next track. The 2GB version holds up to 500 songs and the 4GB holds double that. "A lot of runners and joggers go for these."
These bright-coloured players are about the size of a standard eraser, come with headphones and can clip on to your clothing.
The music man: The Most FM manager and programmer Dave Haskell has just unearthed his MP3 player. "I'm holding one in my hand right now," he says of his Philips Wearable Digital Audio 128MB player. He says this one dangles from a lanyard, which holds the controls. The problem with this wee player is memory; it can only hold a couple of albums' worth of music.
"That's why I haven't used it for a few years. But this was top of the line when it came out seven years ago."
Philips has moved on. Its GoGear range includes the 16GB Muse, which can store thousands of songs and play video. However, Dave does put the need for storage into perspective, explaining that an average radio station, like New Plymouth's The Most FM, would have about 2500 songs on its playlist.
Dave recognises he might need a player that holds a few more songs.
"The [Wearable Digital Audio] was good in its day, but now I'm way behind the times. But I'm OK with it.
"The irony is, I met a guy today who had his car stolen and it had his MP3 player in it. He was devastated - that's why he came to see us, with the hope we'd help him rebuild his library."
The man had lost his entire music collection in one fell swoop.
Dave says that if he does decide to upgrade, he'd like an MP3 player able to hold at least 7000 songs that has a screen which shows the album covers and can be operated by touching the screen.
He has just described an iPod Touch, which comes with 8, 32 and 64GB worth of memory.
Phillip Malcolm, branch manager of New Plymouth's MagnumMac, says the 64GB version can hold 14,000 songs or 80 hours of video. He says the beauty of the Touch is the almost endless number of applications available. This means owners can use their iPod Touch to play games, look up maps, check the weather in Timbuktu or Timaru, help navigate, do quizzes and even write music. It has Wi-Fi, which means that in places where there's free wireless internet, people can use their iPod Touch to check emails, surf the web and even go on Skype.
"It works with headsets," Phillip says. "But if it's storage you want, the iPod Classic is the best choice. You can have your whole music collection on there."
The 160GB player holds up to 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video or 25,000 photos, or any combination of the three.
The 50-something woman: Marina Johnston uses her Samsung 2GB player purely for walking inspiration.
"My son has downloaded some music for me and when I'm walking, I use it just to make it more interesting. It's just relaxing - you feel you can forget about things."
She's quite happy with what she's got.
The talking book man: You might see Simon Pickford pushing a trolley around Pak'N Save in the middle of the night. He won't be in a hurry because he'll be lost in a good book. The Apple evangelist has an iPod Touch loaded with lyrics and literature.
"I listen to an awful lot of audio books when I'm at the supermarket or on my 4km walking circuit."
Right now he's hooked on Stephen King's epic The Stand.
He has wireless broadband at home and often uses his MP3 player to surf the web.
"I have a rather nasty habit of wanting to browse the BBC website while in the bathroom, for example."
When the Pickford family plans to go on a road trip, he downloads children's books on to the slim-line gadget, which simply plugs into the car stereo. Naturally, it's also got loads of music.
While iPods seem to be the preferred brand of MP3 player, there are more out there. Dick Smith Electronics has its own range, from 2GB through to a 16GB model.
Other brands include Philips, Sony, Samsung, Transonic, Creative Zen, Thomson and iRiver. You can pay anywhere from $35 or so to $700. Most players also act as voice recorders, have radio reception (though it's not always reliable) and some, like the Sony Wearable Walkman and iPod Nano, double as pedometers.
The only thing they don't appear to do is act as digital cameras - but I'm certain there will be something out there, if not now, then next week.
After a rocky beginning, I've been able to do many neat things with my Black iPod Classic with 120 GB, but it hasn't been without its trials and tribulations. In this post, I'll write about the tools I use to sync music, add photos, and transcode videos to the correct format. Being a Kubuntu user, note that my bias is towards KDE tools. If you use others, please list them in the comments. As with many things on Linux, there's more than one way to do it. (Apologies to Larry Wall)
Those who know me well are familiar with my unhealthy dislike for all things Apple. Perhaps it's the way they attach DRM to everything they touch. Or maybe it's the cult of Steve. Or maybe it's because they make shiny, overpriced goods that they push to the gullible. Naturally, when my wife looked for something to give me on my birthday, she purchased an iPod. To her credit, she told me what she was thinking before the purchase, and I made a mad dash to Google to see about alternative, friendlier devices. In all honesty, I couldn't find a better device for the money, and so an iPod it was.
1. Get your repositories in orderBecause iPods will not play any patent-free multimedia formats (Boo!), the first thing you'll need to do is add the medibuntu.org repository to your sources.list. For one thing, that's where you'll get the good DVD ripping software, as well as a version of FFMPEG that is actually useful. If you're new to this and don't know what a sources.list is, just follow the instructions on the Ubuntu community wiki . I had to install the following packages: amarok, digikam (for syncing over photos), ffmpeg, libdvdcss2, lame, libdvdread4, gtkpod-aac and arista. Just a few short months ago, I wasn't able to get everything in a neat package, but now you can. Everything listed above should be in a repository. Note that I use the multiverse and universe repositories. If you can't find one of the above packages, enable one of those repositories first.
2. Get ready for some disappointmentOne thing still lacking an any Linux distro is a single interface to do "everything." There is no single tool or package of tools that can rip CD's and DVD's, encode them, and then transfer to your iPod. If there is, I want to know about it! So the first thing you'll need to do is get used to the idea of using multiple tools. The next thing to be wary of is that you shouldn't try to get cute and sync an iPod from iTunes after syncing it from any non-iTunes software. Apparently, iTunes views any "contamination" by other software as an evil to be purged - without so much as telling you, I'm afraid. I found many megabytes of music deleted from my iPod after connecting it to iTunes on Windows. I eventually found a way around it, but an easier way is to just forego iTunes in its entirety. If you're on Linux, you won't need it anyway. And finally, stick with MP3, as I've never had any luck with using AAC encoders on Linux. Most recently, I couldn't get AAC files to store the track number information, so I was left with a song list in alpha order for some albums. If you know of a good solution to this problem, please put it in the comments.
But the most disappointing thing, by far, was that I couldn't use Rockbox on my particular iPod. For the "Classic" series, the last generation that Rockbox works with is 5.5. Mine is a generation 6 or 7, so no dice. TEH STEVE thinks his UI is teh best, and doesn't think kindly of us when we try other things. TEH STEVE ALWAYS KNOWS!!!!111!!! If you're thinking of Rockbox, check the iPod ports table on the Rockbox wiki to see if your particular model is supported.
3. Ripping and encoding from CD'sIf you use Amarok 2.2, you'll find that ripping CD's is a snap. When you pop in a CD, it should automatically show up in the Amarok local music collection box. Simply right-click and select "Copy to Collection"->"Local Collection", at which point you are prompted to select what format to encode the CD audio. In my experience, iPods seem to have some trouble with variable bit rates, so you'll want to select a constant bit rate. I suppose one could just copy directly to the iPod, but I like to test the encoding first before syncing directly. Once the newly encoded music is in your local collection and meets your audio quality criteria, use the same right-click mechanism as before to transfer the new files to your iPod.
There are a veritable host of ripping and encoding options on Linux, but I like the simplicity of doing it from Amarok. Feel free to share your recipes below.
4. Transferring photosRecent versions of digiKam makes transferring photos to your iPod a snap. For the record, I'm using digiKam 1.0 beta5 (according to 'dpkg -l digikam'). Simply highlight the photos you want to transfer, and from the menu bar select "Export"->"Export to iPod". Make sure you have targeted the right album on your iPod and click "Transfer". Best I can tell, this function reduces the photo sizes to 640x480 before transferring.
This isn't the only way to transfer photos, however. Gtkpod also has this functionality.
5. Ripping, encoding and transferring DVD's and other videos.One of the great discoveries on Ubuntu 9.10 was the inclusion of a tool called "Arista" which allows the user to select from a variety of video encoding presets, including iPod video, to use for encoding the source video. It's available in Ubuntu's Universe repository for 9.10. The Arista interface allows you to rip from a DVD device or a video file you've already saved locally. I've had good luck with it, both with DVD's and AVI movies from my camera. I'm curious if others have had similarly good experiences. To be sure, one need not use a GUI tool like Arista for the encoding. The Ubuntu community wiki includes some helpful tips on using ffmpeg from the command-line for this purpose.
To transfer the video, the best tool for that seems to be gtkpod. Make sure to install gtkpod-aac, as the 'regular' version won't give you the ability to sync videos and photos.
ConclusionsAll in all, I'm able to do everything I want with my iPod from Ubuntu. I haven't tried any of the calendar functionality, but I don't see much of a reason to, especially considering that I don't have network access for it. Please share your experience with iPods on Linux below.
PS - iTunes and the iTunes Music Store are evil. Do not touch.
ubuntu linux amarok ipod Kubuntu applesucks arista gtkpodMUSIC lovers beware Apple may soon be forced to turn down the maximum volume on its iPod by order of the EU.
Officials in Brussels claim the maximum volume of MP3 players is damaging to young (and old) ears.
Researchers believe more than 10-million people are risking permanent damage to their hearing by playing their tunes too loudly.
So the EU is drawing up new laws that will turn down the maximum sound output of all portable music players to 85 decibels (80 db). This, claims Brussels, is the equivalent of a busy street.
Audiophiles are up in arms.
The cut isn't as straightforward as it seems. A 10 db increase in sound makes the music ten times as loud so 90 db may be loud but 100 db would be ten times as loud. It holds, therefore, that a 15db reduction is a massive cut in music volume.
Apple has already voluntarily cut the maximum output of the iPod/iPhone to 100 db - now it may be forced to go much further.
Outside the EU the majority of portable music players can be cranked up to 120 db.
Tony Graziano, of Digital Europe, reckons an 85db max would make MP3 plauyers almost useless in an external environment.
He said: "It would not be appropriate because noise coming from traffic, car engines and so on would obliterate the sound."
Of course, as the sound limit is imposed by a player's firmware it won't be long before hacks appear on the internet that will uncork the full volume.
I found instructions for the iPod classic and the Sony A1000/HD3 in a couple of minutes.
The EU volume limit - what can you do?
* Make sure your player is set to over-ride the 85 db limit. The EU says manufacturers will be able to offer a way of disabling the volume limits, at least for the moment. Make sure you do this to your player.
* Look for a hack. All iPods are voluntarily restricted to 100 db but there are freeware programs available on the internet to de-restrict them.
Some players (such as the Sony HD/A 1000x series) are even easier to fix. Just hold a couple of buttons to enter the service menu and tweak a couple of settings.
* Buy some better earphones. Noise cancelling cans will keep distracting sounds out and boost your music. If you can afford them the Shure E2C inner-ear phones are the best you can get for a portable. Sadly, they cost nearly fifty quid and not everyone finds them comfortable.
* Put up with it. Do you really need to play your music so loud? Turning down the volume means you will be able to enjoy your favourite tracks well into your old age.
New York TimesMore Room for Your Music, Coming to Your iPod Soon By RIK FAIRLIE Do you have 60000 songs that you’d like to cram into your iPod? You’re not alone. Apple’s current iPod Classic tops out at 120 gigabytes,
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(This was the first photo I edited on my new Macbook Pro) :D
I got this every single time I tried to start genius, from both the now playing screen and the menu navigation. It would appear that it doesn't work AT ALL. I have Genius enabled on iTunes so I'm not sure what the problem is here. I sure hope this works better on the new nanos.
