ipods

[Colchester Kev]

tbh you need an ipod, if you go for another brand people just look at you funny!

Didnt know we still had to put up with peer pressure at this age?? I'm reporting the big bad bully to my maw.

But the sad thing is your right. People do look at you strange if you dont have an ipod, even if the software is way easier to use in your non-apple mp3 player, you can hold 5x the amount of songs their ipod can hold, it can double up as a storage device and it lasts longer than a year.

You are just cheap if its not an i-pod, for that reason the i-pod is a must.

snob!

Not quite the word i was thinking of trace

[RED-DOG]

Flushy, you should'nt judge by looks alone. In your avatar you look like a librarian falling off a bike.

[Royal Flush]

Flushy, you should'nt judge by looks alone. In your avatar you look like a librarian falling off a bike.

Funny you should say that!!

tbh you need an ipod, if you go for another brand people just look at you funny!

Didnt know we still had to put up with peer pressure at this age?? I'm reporting the big bad bully to my maw.

But the sad thing is your right. People do look at you strange if you dont have an ipod, even if the software is way easier to use in your non-apple mp3 player, you can hold 5x the amount of songs their ipod can hold, it can double up as a storage device and it lasts longer than a year.

You are just cheap if its not an i-pod, for that reason the i-pod is a must.

snob!

Yes, whats your point?

[stallyon]

My 4GB nano box claims 1000 tunes but I have 99 (9.5 hours) on mine and that's using 530MB. The battery seems to run out pretty quick but I have nothing to compare it to, it might be really good for all I know.

it really depends on the quality of the audio track. if the audio track is of a very high quality then the file size will be a lot larger than if it was of mono radio quality. song length also has a big impact. if you are putting on albums by iron maiden, pink floyd and the such like then their tracks could extend well above 8 minutes each whereas S Club struggle above 3 minutes

[Trace]

Flushy, you should'nt judge by looks alone. In your avatar you look like a librarian falling off a bike.

Funny you should say that!!

tbh you need an ipod, if you go for another brand people just look at you funny!

Didnt know we still had to put up with peer pressure at this age?? I'm reporting the big bad bully to my maw.

But the sad thing is your right. People do look at you strange if you dont have an ipod, even if the software is way easier to use in your non-apple mp3 player, you can hold 5x the amount of songs their ipod can hold, it can double up as a storage device and it lasts longer than a year.

You are just cheap if its not an i-pod, for that reason the i-pod is a must.

snob!

Yes, whats your point?

lol I don't have a point James!   I never have a point James! 
You should know that by now!  heehee

[ifm]

I have a 20gig Ipod wheel, had it for about 2 years now and never had a problem apart from i reboot.
I play it through the car stereo and the home stereo, it is the nuts!!
Though i recently got a sony ericsson W800i mobile and that plays songs and also sounds great, radio too.

[Sark79]

I have a Sony MP3 player. It's silver unlike Claw's pink one. I asked for the pink, but they were all out.

It is my 5th MP3 player. I got one it broke within a day. I took it back and got a replacement. That broke 2 days later.

I then switched brand to PHILIPS.  I had two of them and they both broke within a week. 

Each time I took them into the store, the engineer ( 16 year old newly left school engineer )  said  "ehh no idea mate it is broken". I had already told him that and was considering asking for a consultancy fee.

I then switched to my old faithful   SONY.  They never let me down and I love their products. 18 months on and it is still belting out my favorite tunes.

[Cybertim]

. I have a shuffle and it's ok

I admire your honesty

 

I've got a Sony MP3 player - i like it - it's pink

wow Claw do I have something useful for you  


heres a post from my forum

H bhoys n ghirls I bought one of these babies yesterday (cos it looked cool) and thought it would be handy when playing those longggggggggggg live poker games.. anyway its a brilliant bit of kit and i was real pleased with it EXCEPT it just didnt go loud enough... My daughter HEATHER HAS AN IPOD WHICH PLAYS MUCH LOUDER AND ALTHOUGH I lOVED THE SOUND QUALITY i DIDNT LIKE THE MAXIMUM VOLUME WHICH WAS LOUD BUT ERR JUST NOT LOUD ENOUGH.. ANYWAY I found out from sony that the volume on the Europe models is limited and after a bit of investigating i found out how to unlock the volume wooooohoooo. NOW we can play u2 in the way it was meant to be heard.. hehe anyway if you have one or know a mate who has one here is how to do it

information on unlocking the volume to your NW-A1000 and NW-A3000. Enjoy.

Press HOLD to put the player in hold mode.
Hold down LINK and press in order UP, DOWN, OPTION, UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, PLAY/PAUSE, OPTION.
Press HOLD to turn hold off. You will now be in test mode.
Press RIGHT to display menu items
Press UP/DOWN until you get to “OTHERS”
Press RIGHT to display next menu.
Press UP/DOWN until you get to “SP SET”
Press PLAY/PAUSE, “ON/OFF” is displayed.
Press OPTION, “ON/OFF” will be selected.
Press PLAY/PAUSE and it will be entered.
Exit play mode by pressing and holding BACK for more than a few seconds, release, and then turn the player off.

It makes your sony mp3 player MUCH better

[Claw75]

thanks so much for that - it is very quiet - I had to buy some volume control headphones just to hear it properly on the tube!

[thetank]

cool, walkman cheat modes. 

[Cybertim]

cool, walkman cheat modes. 

LOL told you I was dodgy 

[lazaroonie]

to echo what the stallyon says, your battery life will depend on what bit rate your mp3 tracks are at. This also affects how many songs you can "fit" onto your mp3 player.

64kbps (kilobytes per second) - Listenable, but quite compressed. 1 album approx 20meg

128Kbps - Very acceptable quality for mp3. obviously about 40meg per album

384kbps - I believe the top bit rate for mp3's - 1 album = 120meg, I play these thru some pretty decent hi-fi equipment and can barely tell the difference with original cds, except at really loud volumes.

[byronkincaid]

Ah I see, all mine are 128kbps which must be the default setting. It seems fine to me.

[CelticGeezeer]

Dont waste your money on an Ipod, I think the Creative products are better value and better pieces of kit.

[Jim-D]

I have a 20gig Ipod wheel, had it for about 2 years now and never had a problem apart from i reboot.
I play it through the car stereo and the home stereo, it is the nuts!!
Though i recently got a sony ericsson W800i mobile and that plays songs and also sounds great, radio too.

I bought a 1Gig Ipod Nano today and was wondering how i go about setting it up to work thru my car stereo? (its a sony Minidisc player)