iPOD

When I´m importing the music to library,it gives a error in some tracks.I´m not sure what kind of error ,right now.But just with a few cd´s,not all!

The iPod Nano looks great!Apple released another amazing product!

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The iPod Nano looks great!Apple released another amazing product!

Then what is it with all these easily scratched or cracked Nano screens that have been reported (and which Apple have admitted to having a problem with)?

Nick

Luckly,I´ve bought the iPod mini 6 gb.The extra 2 gb are very useful!
Yes,I heard about the bugs on Nano!

Nuno, you bought wisely, though a little cautiously :-)

Nick

The cracked ones were from a bad batch all are being replaced FOC, the scratched ones apple are saying F off about as its the same plastic as all iPods.

I think the problem people re having is that now its in black the scratches show easier.

Still an amazing product in the flesh

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Still an amazing product in the flesh

I've just bought a 4Gb white Nano. Very dinky.

Nigel

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Originally posted by Nuno Baptista:
Luckly,I´ve bought the iPod mini 6 gb.The extra 2 gb are very useful!
Yes,I heard about the bugs on Nano!

It was my wife's birthday recently and since she'd been borrowing my iPod rather a lot I decided to get here one of here own. I looked at the Nano but the Mini was some £50 cheaper for the same storage capacity so I went with that instead. It seems a lovely bit of kit and my wife has been extremely happy with it so far.

I'm waiting on my 30Gb IPOD from Amazon and starting to burn some CD's and was just wondering what bit rate people are useing to get a half decent sound?.

I'm useing the AAC encoder and have chossen 224Kb/s which sounds fine through the desktop speakers but I've no idea what it will be like through headphones and through my Naim?.

Andy

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Originally posted by ajalden:
I'm waiting on my 30Gb IPOD from Amazon and starting to burn some CD's and was just wondering what bit rate people are useing to get a half decent sound?.

I'm useing the AAC encoder and have chossen 224Kb/s which sounds fine through the desktop speakers but I've no idea what it will be like through headphones and through my Naim?.

Andy

I've been using a 192Kb on the variable bit rate setting and it seems to sound fine in most situations, with reasonable file sizes.

I've not tried the dedicated Apple file formats as my grandson has a Philips key player and I have to keep him supplied with sounds as well.

Are you able to record in a mixture of compression types for an example 10 albums on 320Kb/s others on 192Kb/s?. In that case I can record my favourites in a higher bit rate then the rest.

thanks, andy

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Originally posted by ajalden:
Are you able to record in a mixture of compression types for an example 10 albums on 320Kb/s others on 192Kb/s?. In that case I can record my favourites in a higher bit rate then the rest.

thanks, andy

Yes, for each individual disc you can set the file spec to what ever you fancy, it's not a global setting. Best thing to do would be to select a track you know well and then rip it using each of the specs, making sure to identify the file name as per the spec. Then you just select the one that sounds best for your needs.

Dear Numo.
Mp3 is the death of music.
Files are compressed to let people store the more audio files in the shortest space and this means that music is treaten like meat, tin cans and so on.
If you want to spend the money to have your favourite records always present......do it.
But don't ask for quality.
They can't give it to you.

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Dear Numo.
Mp3 is the death of music.
Files are compressed to let people store the more audio files in the shortest space and this means that music is treaten like meat, tin cans and so on.
If you want to spend the money to have your favourite records always present......do it.
But don't ask for quality.
They can't give it to you.

A bit harsh - MP3 is better than no music, and the trusty IPod can store music in lossless format. I agree that everybody would prefer uncompressed music - perhaps the IPod SuperNano with 1TB flash will be the answer.

For music quality reproduction,I still have my Hi Fi system. MP3 is good,because you can store a lot of music,and for music on the move the iPod is perfect!The iPod is the best MP3 player you can buy

I could hear the difference between alac and mp3[EAC/Lame/VBR] over my hifi but not via Sony in-ear phones and the iPod so have decided to stick with the smaller files of mp3. I use the iPod merely for convenience on the move and don't expect it to approach my hifi for sound quality.
Can thoroughly recommend the Griffin iTrip for replay through ICE. Do need to re-tune it on long trips so the new version with tuning dial maybe a big improvement.

My wife has just bought an iFM receiver/remote/recorder. £34 including delivery, and on occasions delivers decent reception.

Tony

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Dear Numo.
Mp3 is the death of music.
Files are compressed to let people store the more audio files in the shortest space and this means that music is treaten like meat, tin cans and so on.
If you want to spend the money to have your favourite records always present......do it.
But don't ask for quality.
They can't give it to you.

Far from being the death of music, I have listened to far more since getting an iPod. I find that there is a kind of sonic match between Naim and the iPod; whilst it obviously doesn't perform as would a top end CD player, it does give a very pleasing performance, with a vitality and attack that I don't hear from my CD3. Moreover, the ease of use just begs you to listen to albums that wouldn't otherwise have come out of their jewel box from one year to the next.

Rather than decry mp3 per se, what we might be doing is to look for software than produces a compression algorithm simpatico with the Naim sound.

I don't pretend to understand audio compression. I bought a Sony MP3 player about two years ago, dutifully recorded my CDs at the best available transfer rate offered by the Sony software and tried to listen to it using Etymotic ER-4 'phones. The result was that I soon gave up and went back to lugging a portable CD player.
Time passed and I was bought a 60Gig ipod as a present, so gave it a go. I record at the default i-tunes setting, and the results are brilliant, at least as good as a top-range CD Walkman.
My point is that the technology of compression moves on, and Apple have got it right for now.

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Originally posted by Rockingdoc:
I bought a Sony MP3 player about two years ago, dutifully recorded my CDs at the best available transfer rate offered by the Sony software and tried to listen to it using Etymotic ER-4 'phones. The result was that I soon gave up and went back to lugging a portable CD player.

OK, you don't like Sony's proprietary ATRAC format.

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Time passed and I was bought a 60Gig ipod as a present, so gave it a go. I record at the default i-tunes setting, and the results are brilliant, at least as good as a top-range CD Walkman.

Apparently you like Apple's AAC.

FLAC / ALAC / WavePak (lossless compression) should sound even better (for a larger file size).

cheers, Martin

Just got a Nano iPod and would be grateful for your advice before I set about archiving my 800+ CDs:

1. Is it possible to upload CDs from your iTunes to 2 iPods if I buy my wife a second one?
2. Is it possible to import CDs from both my office and home PC onto one iPod.

I have tried this and my office PC wont recognise the albums I imported into the iPod at home and the iPod wont recognise the CDs my office iTunes is showing to have put into the iPod??!?

Thanks

The short answer to your questions is yes.
Turn off synchronisation in iTunes on all the PCs you are using.
Google around for some proprietory iPod sharing software which will make things easier.
I much prefer XPlay
to iTunes

Bosh its not terribly easy to share and ipod with two iTunes libraries. You need third party software for this, and TBH its still a bit messy. Ideally you want one computer for your iPods music.

If you wish you can copy your library from your works PC and put it onto your home one and use it from there. To do this wipe your ipod.

Take it to work and mount it as a harddrive, navigate to your itunes music folder on the PC (I have no idea where it is on PC) drag it onto the ipod.

Once copied take it home. Plug your ipod in, drag the music to your desktop.

Open itunes, drag the copied folder onto it. The music will copy over. delete the folder from your iPod. And from the desktop. update your ipod with the music you want.

As I say its easier just to use one computer.

As for multiple ipods. This is not a problem, you can have as many ipods as you wish tapping the music library. Here we have our own playlists with the ipods set to update just them playlists, you could just leave it to itunes to pick for you. I have around 9000 tracks though, far to many for the pod.

I thought I'd kick some more life into this thread, although maybe I should have started a new one:

I thinking of getting a 5G ipod (30GB) the main idea of this being away to down size my CD collection physically and having portable music too.

I want to use the ipod as a source device on my main system too. What are the experiences of that, here ?

I plan using an external harddrive as the repository for all the tunes I take from, let's call them, 2nd & 3rd division CDs. Since I have little or no music archived as Mp3 or wma, I don't care if what I have already is not compatible with an iPod. What I do care about is getting reasonable, i.e. equivalent to the FM tuner I use occasionally, results through my main system.

Peter you might consider a squeezebox or similar so that itunes can beam directly to your hifi, this is very successful. and a similar cost.

If you want music on the move then an iPod is the answer and you will also want a dock as this gives you a line level output for the hifi, outputting from the headphones socket can be disappointing.

The PC to hifi route will be the most convenient and give you access to how ever much music your computer can store.

Its no replacement for a decent source though Peter, you have been warned.