Author Topic: My Bloody iPod (Read 5443 times)

blue · « **Reply #15 on:** March 29, 2007, 11:10:26 AM »

i've got a creative Zen Vision M, my sister has an ipod. the ipod has broken once and been replaced, been fine since, although it's only been three months yet. the Zen is generally good, but sometimes it will play tracks with crackly distortion, if i skip to the start of the track it plays fine but it shouldn't be happening. also, on random play if you turn it back on after a while it doesn't remember where it was and starts over again, the ipod will run through it's entire contents one song at a time even if it takes weeks!

i think all players have pros and cons, we hear a lot of horror stories about ipods, but that's possibly just because there are so many of them out there! my biggest objection to apple is their monopoly mindset, if you buy from itunes it will only play on an ipod. that's why i won't buy one.

sambo · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2007, 12:52:20 PM »

Quote from: metal_god

haha your own fault dude for being a sheep and thinking ipods are as great as "people" say they are utter sh*te, i say replace it with a chi-pod a chinese ipod nano copy which is actually better than the ipod and has way more features <<<<FACT (google chipod) and costs about £20.... go look on the bay

lol i dont think theyre utter shitee at all...

+1 on everything Blue said..

i had a blue mini, and really loved it for a long time.... never broke, never had ANY problems with it, sounded great with some upgraded headphones, had enough features for me...

but in the end i just wanted a smaller, less expensive flash player, so got a little Sony 1GB thingy...

and hunter- you work for sony or something!??! cooool!

what rob said- battery life of sonys is awesome.... and because of the formatting 1GB on a Sony can hold a lot more than you might think

Adam.M · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2007, 04:45:52 PM »

The problem with bigger ipod's is that it's a hard drive, not a flash drive... it's got moving parts, it's bound to break.

If i were to get an iPod again, it'd have to be one of the ipod nano's, im sure they're far more durable as they have no moving parts.

dave_mc · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2007, 04:51:40 PM »

Quote from: Kilby

It's not just home users that get treated like sh1t by apple, corporate users and official apple dealers are regularly screwed by them also.

Sad thing is that if Microsoft behaved as badly the nerds would rise up against them and goverments would decend upon them.

Several friends have been treated very badly by apple while within the warranty period, and worse after it expires. Thankfully there are still some helpful resellers in the world.

Still now that they claim to be a consumer goods company rather than a computer company, things will change (and apple wont like it).

BTW Sony & Creative products seem to sound better (I'm not blind bigotry, I'm a pragmatist in those matters), Battery life is also much better

yeah, for some reason apple are assumed to be "cool"... I know I wouldn't buy an IPod after what I've heard on programmes like watchdog etc.

:drink:

38thBeatle · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2007, 07:18:45 PM »

Bit late for Mrs 38th and me-we have two-she has the 80 bloody gig version too. Moving ever so slightly off topic, anyone seen those Tascam MP GT1 gizmos?

apmaman · « **Reply #20 on:** March 29, 2007, 07:42:41 PM »

had my ipod nano since they came out in the UK, its only crashed once in about 2 years i think. Not bad i'd say.

Samsung do good mp3 players as well if your going none ipod

Kilby · « **Reply #21 on:** March 29, 2007, 08:12:09 PM »

Quote from: 38thBeatle

Bit late for Mrs 38th and me-we have two-she has the 80 bloody gig version too. Moving ever so slightly off topic, anyone seen those Tascam MP GT1 gizmos?

Well on the other side of things they are easy to open (Dunlop yellow tortex picks do the business), and theres several people who offer replacment drives and batterys. Who are much cheaper than apple.

My creative also uses a harddrive, but whereas my daughters iPod spun the drive almost constantly, the creatives only spin the drives up for much shorter periods. They also use a drive that is designed to behave like this (certainly the earlier apples definately didn't do this)

Blue : that could be the problem you are having, have you updated the firmware recently (make sure you back the bugger up first though)

Rob...

horsehead · « **Reply #22 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:48:03 PM »

You can't beat the Sony Walkmen NWA (not Niggers with attitude may I add!). Slightly heavier than an ipod but as yet has never broken down crashed or donw anything than be bloody great. It's only a 1 colour screen though so if you want videos it's not for you, but if you want great sounding music than this is it!

sambo · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:53:10 PM »

i never got the whole "video on a 1" screen" idea.... never appealed to me personally at all...

same with PSPs... these amazingly detailed graphics on a 6" screen... so.... annoying... theyre fun to play on every now and then... but id just get frustrated with the fiddley-ness after a while.

Kilby · « **Reply #24 on:** March 30, 2007, 01:19:49 AM »

Quote from: sambo

but id just get frustrated with the fiddley-ness after a while.

sam tired with fiddling ! Never !

At the mention of frustration, hows that guitar teacher

rob...

plastercaster · « **Reply #25 on:** March 30, 2007, 04:29:25 PM »

Quote from: Adam.M

If i were to get an iPod again, it'd have to be one of the ipod nano's, im sure they're far more durable as they have no moving parts.

Less durable if the rugby captain sits on them though...
On one gegography fieldtrip we had
2 waterlogged MP3 players and phone
one nano sat on and broke in half
and about 4 that slid out of pockets onto the beach by durdle door.
To add insult to injury, not only did we not get to see lulworth cove because the fog was terrible so our journey and tech-sacrifice was all in vain, the other group got beautiful weather.

sambo · « **Reply #26 on:** March 30, 2007, 04:31:37 PM »

Quote from: Kilby

Quote from: sambo
but id just get frustrated with the fiddley-ness after a while.

sam tired with fiddling ! Never !

At the mention of frustration, hows that guitar teacher

rob...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

well as it so happens i've stopped lessons altogether now... just coming up to exams it was just another thing to worry about (and shes going back to Australia in June)....

but it was great while it lasted... :lol: