iPod Shuffle or iPod Mini? SO TORN.

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I tried opening it on my PC as an external usb drive, and filled it up that way, and nothing would play. The shuffle kinda has its own version of iTunes that it runs, and unless you drag and drop the songs into the program properly (so to speak), they won't play.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

doesn't it just randomly upload 1G of songs, isn't that its point?

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

if u can use it as a usb flash drive no doubt someone will have a hack up that allows you to load it up with something else, if it doesn't already exist

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

here's a question: my mum got a first generation ipod (3 pounds sterling wtf (don't ask) but she doesn't have a mac in the house. is there any software she cd use to allow her to use a 1st-gen on a pc or are they utterly incompatible?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost Yeah, that's everyone's dream mp3 player. Pay $150 bucks, then go home and comb the internet for hacks so you can use it the way you want to.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

YOu and your anti-iTunes heresy. You Cathar of the Mac world you.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

you can drag playlists into an ipod shuffle, and put what you want on it, but once you plug it into another computer it asks you to replace the library. if you don't want to replace it, it unmounts, very weird.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

shit I thought it would be more avant-garde; totally blind selection.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

you get that too.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

You can do that, too.

xpost yeah, that's why I returned the stupid thing.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen you might want to check this out, it may work as an iTunes replacement for windows as well:

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

and thsi supposedly lets you use winamp instead of iTunes --> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106528-I

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

xxpost: that's the neat part for me; maybe I'll get one when the weather turns warm.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I have 1st or 2nd gen (from a friend) and use iTunes on my pc.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

cool ilx, I'll let her know.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I have the intro-level 256mb iriver, and I can't recommend it enough. It's cheap, unbreakable, and tiny.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

256 megs is not enough for me. I NEED THE ENTIRE BOREDOMS, CAN AND SUN O))) DISCOGRAPHIES.

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

iTunes works just fine in the home. Sometimes it'll spit out a sequences that'll just bring me to my knees. How does it know? How does it know?

This is so OTM. I find myself doing this all the time.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i heartily recommend anapod explorer. in fact, all the redchair stuff is absolutely fantastic, with new updates every few weeks on average. itunes for pc is a total clunker with a massive footprint - i thought we'd been through this?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 March 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

'look in the lower right-hand corner of your iTunes window (on your computer, not your iPod) and find the clickable button with the picture of an iPod on it (there are two of these, you want the one that doesn't have an eject symbol on it). Click it, and you'll see the mythical preference pane that you didn't even know existed. Click the radio button next to "manually manage songs and playlists," and you're in business.' - http://www.billpalmer.net/ipodgarage/ipod000106.html

so apparently that turns off auto-sync. next step is to get songs onto the ipod w/o iTunes.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

which anapod seems to do, or this plugin apparently works very well too (for WinAmp) --> http://winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=138888

now for Mac versh.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

heretic

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

who didn't know the preference pane existed?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 March 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean apple's pretty clear about how to turn off auto-sync, this guy makes it seem like some sort of big secret. i don't know ANYONE (incl my computer-illiterate friends) who have kept it on, or not figured out how to do it. read one manual!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 March 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i got a shuffle for valentine's day, and really love it. i've got a pretty old 20gb pod that i'd been dragging to the gym in spite of the fact that the clip on the holder had snapped off, which meant i had to sling a little camera bag over my shoulder while working out. now i've just got the tiny thing aroung my neck, which i forget is there sometimes. i'm enjoying the shuffle, and haven't had any problems with it. it's so small and light that it'll be hard to go back to the big pod except when i'm travelling.

― colette (a2lette), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I got a small Shuffle today to carry around - much better size than my old 20GB, so I can carry an ipod+keys+phone and other stuff without any trouble and without requiring a man-bag.

Also less breakable than a regular ipod, which means I can take it to work instead of lugging around a big radio and listening to sports talk when I'm by myself.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I got a small Shuffle today to carry around - much better size than my old 20GB, so I can carry an ipod+keys+phone and other stuff without any trouble and without requiring a man-bag.

POST-SCRIPT: This is exactly why I settled on the Shuffle. In the end, the tiny size won me over- here's to living backpack-free! I made my first playlist in iTunes (6 hours of high-quality MP3s and the damn thing isn't even full) on Friday, and have been rocking it all weekend. Best 2 bones-and-change I've spent in ages.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

do you guys not have coat pockets? I mean, I would love to have shuffle w/ an order of magnitude more space... even if that means giving up on the screen, but the space is sooooo tiny!

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

do you guys not have coat pockets? I mean, I would love to have shuffle w/ an order of magnitude more space... even if that means giving up on the screen, but the space is sooooo tiny!

The Shuffle lives in a coat pocket right now! If you read upthread, you'll see that I was lamenting the size of my MP3 Discman, as it was an early, comparitively bulky model, and pretty much required the use of a man-purse.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Sony Unveils Line of Cheaper Flash Memory Walkmans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20050308/tc_nm/tech_sony_walkman_dc

― eman (eman), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought it was interesting the way those new sony models were shot down in practically identical fashion on both engadget and slashdot. I suppose there's a good deal of readership overlap, but still illustrates how Sony still has a long way to go, clever display technologies or no.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a 40GB pod. I have about 20gB in my i-tunes library on my work laptop. The hard drive is full but....the laptop is about to be replaced with a new one, so I'm going to have to archive the library to portable hard-drive. I will then install i-tunes on the new laptop and fill up the other 20gB. Will I have any problems when I change computers in terms of the i-pod being tied to one computer? Something Fishfingers and Ed said upthread rang an alarm bell. Ed?

I won't have to reformat the flipping thing to get it to work with the new computer will I?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

No, you will have no problem at all, you made need a utility to pull the tunes off the iPod onto the new laptop. but you shouldn't have any problems.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

do you guys not have coat pockets?

I wear a coat about seven days a year. Ten if we get a cold snap.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

**you made need a utility to pull the tunes off the iPod onto the new laptop**

Thanks, Ed.
I can do that via my external hard-drive, right? Just get tunes onto it and then load em back onto the new laptop.

Won't there be a problem when I reinstall the ipod software on the new laptop? I'll be using the same registration number as before, or something? (You can tell I've only had my i-pod since Valentine's day!)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

No. The only thing you will have to do is set up your music store account, if you have one, and de-authorise the old computer.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Ta. I don't have a music store account, so should be OK.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 10 March 2005 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I've just got an Shuffle from my gf - I love it. I must be disciplined enough to not just listen to stuff I like on it.

― Dave B (daveb), Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

why?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

No, never mind. I know why.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

because part of the present was Cafe del Mar and she's going to ask him about it later

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

because the new Daft Punk album still has an outside chance of growing on you.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

― The Scottish Restauranteer (ex machina), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

err wrong thread

― The Scottish Restauranteer (ex machina), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

errr i posted "wrong thread" in the wrong thread

― The Scottish Restauranteer (ex machina), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

You have GOT to sober up. Have some water, then a nap. Off with you.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I had probably over 2 dozen jello shots last night...

― The Scottish Restauranteer (ex machina), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

student

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

ed, you might know this - how would i convert an omg (that *stupid* propietary sony sound file format) to a workable file that i can actually *hear*? we recorded a night we did on a sony minidisc and tried to export it to pc and it converted it to this idiotic kind of file and now we've lost the entire recording.

― stelfox, Saturday, 9 April 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The easiest way is to play the minidisc into the computer.

Do you know what file format is?

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 9 April 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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