Thinking of buying an iPod Nano...Follow

My neighbor has one. Seems like a decent investment. Nice colored screen and the ability to play movies and what not is nice. I still like my 2004 15GB iPod. Weighs a ton and takes a beating. The nano seems too flimsy and as for scratching, everything gets scratched.

I say go for it. Even in the experimental stages I think a hot Latina sex-bot would be well worth the investment. Ipod is sort of a weird first name, though, so so check it for balls. And Nano? That might not be Latina but rather some Scandinavian thing. That's okay too, because I would totally bone a Norwegian hump-bot, too.

Or, like Nephy said, who gives a fUck?

I have the 15 GB video iPod and I prefer that over my friend's Nano. She talks about how light it is and how easy it is to carry and how she loves it when she's traveling and wants to listen to music. But she always wants to borrow my iPod to watch Friends, Lost or Monk on it when we go to the gym.

I made a cute felt emboridered cozy for my sister's nano. It helped keep it from getting scratched, and she's had it almost a year.

If you're that worried about scratched you can get a custom cut clear film protector for the Nano, and Video iPod for <$10 online. I have one for my video and stop all of the minor scratches. I would still recommend a good case to carry it around in.

I have the 4 Gig white nano...it's great. Bought a silicone rubber cover for it to protect it from scrathes, and it's been pretty durable.

Absolutely false. Unless they've made major changes to how Ipods work since I got mine (a 60GB model. Which btw is ridiculously *huge* in terms of music space).

First off, while they make it "difficult" to copy songs from an Ipod to a computer, it's not impossible. In fact, it's only slightly harder then copying songs using other mp3 players.

You are aware that you don't have to use the Itunes gui to access an Ipod, right? It also mounts as a drive on your PC. From there, you can browse into the area on the Ipod where your music is stored and copy as many songs as you want off. The only "catch" is that songs that were not imported on the PC you're on will not show up with a song name as the file name. It'll have an Ipod name, which will be a series of letters (mine were 4 characters, but I imagine it just orders them and increases the number based on the number of songs).

There is *nothing* to prevent you from simply copying that to your desktop or any other folder, just as you'd copy any other file. In fact, when you do that, you can then restart Itunes by double clicking on the song you just copied and it'll automatically appear in your Itunes library on the system. Not only that, but it'll appear with the correct song name and album information as well...

Transferring songs and playlists to your Ipod is trivially easy and done right from the Itunes gui. Transferring songs to any other computer is just a matter of copying files. I know this is true because I just tested it 5 minutes ago. Some friends of mine dumped 700 someodd songs onto my Ipod when we were planning a trip to Vegas (it's a pretty decent drive). Used the Ipod as our music source for the entire trip up and back and had zero problems. Just now, I used the method I mentioned above to transfer a few songs from the Ipod onto my computer here at work (which has the installation of Itunes I have, and has no connection in any way to my friend's computer).


I'm as much of a technophile as anyone, and that usually means I prefer using "generic" systems to do things, since they usually don't try to muck with the user doing what he wants. But in the case of the Ipod, the end user stuff they've added just makes the product easier to use in the "normal mode". You're still free to copy files manually just like you'd do with any other generic MP3 player, with all the capability that entails. You just have to be capable of the arduous task of browsing through a file system and clicking and dragging files...

I like mine, is shiny!

See. There's this funny thing about computers and I/O applications. Files are separate items on a filesystem (whether that's a PC, Mac, Ipod, *nix, or whatever doesn't matter). Those files have certain parameters to them that the filesystem uses to control access. But the programs that access those files are separate items as well. The file has no way to distinquish what application is reading the file, and the filesystem has no way to tell one application to read a file, but not another. Any file that can be read (has the filesystem propertery of "read") can be read by *any* application.

Any application that can read a file can copy a file. There's just no way around that. Thus, there is no way to create file that can be played by a music player (in the case of music files) but *can't* be copied. It's impossible. Only way to do that is to make the file format in such a way that it can only be read on a particular filesystem, and limit the applications that can run on that filesystem itself (proprietary OS and command set for example). Which is kinda what Ipod does, but it's still readible from a computer (or it would be pretty useless, right?). And Ipod doesn't control what othe programs can be written to run on a computer. Thus, it can't prevent copying of files from/to an Ipod.


An mp3 is an mp3 is an mp3. Period. It's just a file on your computer. When your Ipod is attached to your computer, it's just a mounted filesystem with a bunch of mp3s (or mp4s as the case may be). While the Ipod and Itunes process attempts to make it harder to copy files, it doesn't actually prevent it. Absent the Itunes gui, how would you copy mp3s to a player? You'd connect it to your computer via a cable (usb for example), and you'd copy files to and from it. You can do exactly that with an IPod. Ipod just *also* comes with this pretty front end application that you can use instead.

I'm not a huge fan of Apple either, but I've got no problems with the Ipod. I just avoid the front end stuff when it gets in my way.