I've had my iPod for almost a year now, and I've got the following complaints about which I must moan:

- The shuffler is not very random - it picks songs from the same album many times. This may be deliberate, but it's very annoying to me. I've got 6,000 songs on there for it to choose from, so why stick with songs from the same three albums for half an hour?

- Sometimes I'll pick a specific song to play and it just skips right past it without playing it. Maybe a disk problem - anyone else experience this? I've even seen this happen with entire albums.

- You can only shuffle your entire collection. I would really like to be able to shuffle within a single playlist.

- I want a "recently added" playlist created automatically on it. I hate doing tihs myself, it's a pain in the nads.

- When you leave it off for a day or two, it resets itself and forgets where you had pressed pause in your most recent playlist. WTF? It has a big fucking hard disk inside it, and you're telling me it can't remember what I was playing for more than 48 hours?

Other than that, it's great...

I've recently started taking the train into work and I don't know what I'd do without the damn thing. I also have a 1/8 jack in my car's cd deck that works wonderfully (Itrip really blows). I haven't had cds in my car in months.

stewie wrote:
- The shuffler is not very random - it picks songs from the same album many times. This may be deliberate, but it's very annoying to me. I've got 6,000 songs on there for it to choose from, so why stick with songs from the same three albums for half an hour?

- You can only shuffle your entire collection. I would really like to be able to shuffle within a single playlist.

With your ipod hooked to your computer turn on itunes, select all of your songs, right click to clear your play counts. That's worked for me when the ipod gets in a shuffle rut.

I've got a 4th generation and it shuffles playlists just fine.

My only real gripe is that I updated the software and firmware about 8 months ago and lost all my songs. Thanks Apple. Had to go back and reload the software and songs. I haven't updated the software since then and it's worked wonderfully.

Sock OR Muffin? wrote:With your ipod hooked to your computer turn on itunes, select all of your songs, right click to clear your play counts. That's worked for me when the ipod gets in a shuffle rut.

I've got a 4th generation and it shuffles playlists just fine.

You're my hero! Salut!

Ya know, this may make me a sad bastard, but since i've had my iPod, i've been actively listening to music, and seeking out NEW music, more than i have in years. Maybe it's just the new toy excitement, but the fact that i can just take a record and dump it onto something that i can use at work and on the bus and on my bike and wherever the hell else i go, has pretty much revitalized my interest in looking for new stuff. Before, i was just listening to CDs to and from work in my car (and once i got a job in downtown Milwaukee, THAT ended as well). Plus, thanks to that poor listening habit, my retention of track names was for shit, and i can feel it coming back slowly but surely.

So, yes, NOT CRAP on the iPod. No, it's not vinyl, but it sure is delicious.

recently got one of these used, a 40gb version. i would prefer a black model that's more scratch resistant, but, all in all, it's really nice. i'm encoding everything in apple lossless.

working on red hot funk and soul mix. total club destroyers. (there's no way i'd be able to afford all this stuff on vinyl.)

BadComrade wrote:Great device! I rate it right up there with the cell phone... another expensive electronic gadget that you don't really need, which keeps you from actually having to interact with the people you encounter in your day to day life.

it's working for me right now actually, while i sit in my school's computer lab.

the headphones play music for 18 musicians, and NOBODY has attempted to talk to me!

it works wonders i tell you.

I preffer the zen mp3 player by creative. Partly cause it's a better player, and partly cause I couln't help feeling at least a little like a wanker walking around with an ipod.

I am treating the ipod like I treated cell phones.
I will talk a world of shit about them, and make fun of anyone who has one, then one day get one and enjoy it very much.

I was having a problem enjoying music. I was constantly playing in one or two bands and making my living as a mastering engineer. I was surrounded by music. I found myself never listening to music. I was never in the mood, or nothing sounded right, or it was a hassle to scan over the CD rack and pick out a few CDs to load into my changer when I was in a hurry. I figured that since I didn't listen to much music, and iPod would be useless.

Then I borrowed my wife's for a bit, and I enjoyed it. It got me to thinking, I need one of these. It wasn't that I hated music, I was just really picky from daily exposure to music as a job and responsibility. I got one. Now I have a device where I can put my all time favorite music onto and access it very quickly. If someone is talking up a band to me, I'll have them send me some songs, put them on the iPod, and they'll come up onshuffle, and I can decide without knowing who's on if I like or don't like the music. Plus, I always have a fire wire hard drive with me for bringing home sessions from work, etc.

So, now that I've had mine for 9 months, I love it and use it daily. In fact, it's playing Windy and Carl to me right now as I sit at my silly deskjob.

Ben Adrian

benadrian wrote:Then I borrowed my wife's for a bit, and I enjoyed it. It got me to thinking, I need one of these.

This was DEVICE:IPOD Not DEVICE:BUTT PLUG you know that, right?