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Filling up an 80g Ipod sure is tough!

Filling up an 80g Ipod sure is tough! Can anyone recommend any great songs to put on there? It can be anything at all as I have quite an eclectic taste and am open to anything. Your suggestions would be appreciated!
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Reply #1 posted 01/07/08 5:59am

DarlingDiana

JDInteractive said:

Filling up an 80g Ipod sure is tough! Can anyone recommend any great songs to put on there? It can be anything at all as I have quite an eclectic taste and am open to anything. Your suggestions would be appreciated!

lol, I'm in the same boat. I've got an 80gb iPod and I've only got 5000 songs on it. Not alot when it says on the box "holds up to 20,000 songs". I'd have more songs if I didn't lose my entire Prince collection. Not alot of his albums are still commercially available and I can't be bothers doing the whole ebay thing. I had his entire released collection but the majority was illegally aquired. But my old PC crashed and I lost it all. Now all I have left it the albums I legally purchased. Which are his three latest works and his classics that can still be found in stores like Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain and Sign 'o' The Times. I also had the entire works of J5/Jacksons/Michael Jackson. But the Motown stuff was downloaded since it can't be found in stores anymore. I lost that when my PC died. So now I just have the CBS/Epic/Sony stuff.
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Reply #2 posted 01/07/08 6:32am

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I've filled two 80GB iPods and need to buy another as I have over 500 songs waiting in my iTunes folder. I suppose I should delete some tracks to make space but I find it difficult to decide which songs to remove.
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Reply #3 posted 01/07/08 6:34am

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DarlingDiana said:

JDInteractive said:

Filling up an 80g Ipod sure is tough! Can anyone recommend any great songs to put on there? It can be anything at all as I have quite an eclectic taste and am open to anything. Your suggestions would be appreciated!

lol, I'm in the same boat. I've got an 80gb iPod and I've only got 5000 songs on it. Not alot when it says on the box "holds up to 20,000 songs". I'd have more songs if I didn't lose my entire Prince collection. Not alot of his albums are still commercially available and I can't be bothers doing the whole ebay thing. I had his entire released collection but the majority was illegally aquired. But my old PC crashed and I lost it all. Now all I have left it the albums I legally purchased. Which are his three latest works and his classics that can still be found in stores like Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain and Sign 'o' The Times. I also had the entire works of J5/Jacksons/Michael Jackson. But the Motown stuff was downloaded since it can't be found in stores anymore. I lost that when my PC died. So now I just have the CBS/Epic/Sony stuff.
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Hmm, Im thinking I might aswell shove all my Prince albums on as opposed to shifting through them individually choosing the tracks I like.
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Reply #4 posted 01/07/08 6:37am

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Imagine filling a Creative player with only 1 gb!
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Reply #5 posted 01/07/08 6:45am

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MikeMatronik said:

Imagine filling a Creative player with only 1 gb!


I used to have a 2gb and I know what you mean. You really have to seperate the wheat from the chaff!
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Reply #6 posted 01/07/08 6:47am

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JDInteractive said:

MikeMatronik said:

Imagine filling a Creative player with only 1 gb!


I used to have a 2gb and I know what you mean. You really have to seperate the wheat from the chaff!


Yes...It's painfull...
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Reply #7 posted 01/07/08 7:40am

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JDInteractive said:



I used to have a 2gb and I know what you mean. You really have to seperate the wheat from the chaff!


Yes...It's painfull...


What abt a 256 MB samsung player?

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Reply #8 posted 01/07/08 7:49am

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It depends on the music you like. I have an 80gig Ipod too and the first music i put on there were the studio albums of Funkadelic and Led Zeppelin. Boxed sets are also a good bet too.
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Reply #9 posted 01/07/08 7:54am

Harlepolis

I have an 80G,,,,,works like a charm music the 1st things I put there were Aretha's "Queen Of Soul" boxet and Billie Holiday's Columbia and Decca's boxets.

Got sick of adding "songs" and put albums instead.

I'm working on the "comedy albums" section lately nod
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Reply #10 posted 01/07/08 7:55am

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I'm way past that and have archived onto a 500 GB portable hard drive. So now I move content from here onto the ipod. Takes a bit of planning, but it works out great!
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Reply #11 posted 01/07/08 8:39am

TotalAlisa

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every michael jackson song... lol
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Reply #12 posted 01/07/08 8:42am

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Is the iPod spoiling how we listen to music?

When you get a new album, do you listen to it, give it time to sink in, live with it and let it get under your skin? Or does it just disappear into the mass of tracks on your iPod, only to surface in the form of the odd track plucked out at random every once in a blue moon?



Just asking....I don't have an iPod myself, but I have used an mp3 player and there is something strangely unfulfilling about listening to music this way.

Anyone else find that?
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Reply #13 posted 01/07/08 8:47am

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rocknrolldave said:

Is the iPod spoiling how we listen to music?

When you get a new album, do you listen to it, give it time to sink in, live with it and let it get under your skin? Or does it just disappear into the mass of tracks on your iPod, only to surface in the form of the odd track plucked out at random every once in a blue moon?



Just asking....I don't have an iPod myself, but I have used an mp3 player and there is something strangely unfulfilling about listening to music this way.

Anyone else find that?


well i thought mp3's/ipods were so stupid... at first... and my sister had purchased one.. and it was sitting there for a couple of months unused or touched... and then i decided to just put a few songs on there.. and i thought it was cute and scary that something that tiny could play music...

I still enjoy cds... but since i travel back and forth to school its nice to have a ipod instead of carrying like 20 cds around...
lol lol lol lol but when im home i listen to my cds...
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Reply #14 posted 01/07/08 8:53am

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rocknrolldave said:

Is the iPod spoiling how we listen to music?

When you get a new album, do you listen to it, give it time to sink in, live with it and let it get under your skin? Or does it just disappear into the mass of tracks on your iPod, only to surface in the form of the odd track plucked out at random every once in a blue moon?



Just asking....I don't have an iPod myself, but I have used an mp3 player and there is something strangely unfulfilling about listening to music this way.

Anyone else find that?


The Ipod and I Tunes has definetely changed the way I listen to music. I'm not an attentive person at the best of times and I used to buy CDs for a certain mumber of tracks. An expensive habit I'm sure you will agree. With the Ipod I can put anything I want onto a compact little system. It's ingenious particularly when travelling and/or going on holiday.

We have lost site of the original intention of the thread may I add!
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Reply #15 posted 01/07/08 9:01am

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JDInteractive said:



We have lost site of the original intention of the thread may I add!




Oops, sorry, so we have!

I just thought it best not to give any suggestions from MY shite music library! lol
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Reply #16 posted 01/07/08 9:08am

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Ipods require a translation to Apple's AAC format, which is just a proprietary version of MP3. I load a lot of torrents in lossless format (flac, shn, ape et al and they aren't recognized by Itunes operating system. I had to hack it by downloading an alternative rebuild that handles many formats without translation!!

It's called ROCKBOX www.rockbox.org and it doesn't destroy anything on your player. Just gets skips past the APPLE b/s.
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Reply #17 posted 01/07/08 9:13am

MikeMatronik

PFunkjazz said:

Ipods require a translation to Apple's AAC format, which is just a proprietary version of MP3. I load a lot of torrents in lossless format (flac, shn, ape et al and they aren't recognized by Itunes operating system. I had to hack it by downloading an alternative rebuild that handles many formats without translation!!

It's called ROCKBOX www.rockbox.org and it doesn't destroy anything on your player. Just gets skips past the APPLE b/s.


PFunkjazz...do u know if there is any way to make a creative player play non-drm AAc files. I have a couple of stuff in that format.
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Reply #18 posted 01/07/08 9:15am

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rocknrolldave said:

Is the iPod spoiling how we listen to music?

When you get a new album, do you listen to it, give it time to sink in, live with it and let it get under your skin? Or does it just disappear into the mass of tracks on your iPod, only to surface in the form of the odd track plucked out at random every once in a blue moon?



Just asking....I don't have an iPod myself, but I have used an mp3 player and there is something strangely unfulfilling about listening to music this way.

Anyone else find that?


It has changed things. I'm not sure if "spoiling" is the exact term I'd use, but I'm a less than conventional Ipod user (see above posts).

Let's be aware of the game APPLE is running. An "ipod" is really nothing more that an MP3 player (graned with video. They just seized the more intimate trademark product name, like Coke Kleenex and Xerox. There are other large capacity players with video that work fine, if not better.
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Reply #19 posted 01/07/08 9:21am

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MikeMatronik said:

PFunkjazz said:

Ipods require a translation to Apple's AAC format, which is just a proprietary version of MP3. I load a lot of torrents in lossless format (flac, shn, ape et al and they aren't recognized by Itunes operating system. I had to hack it by downloading an alternative rebuild that handles many formats without translation!!

It's called ROCKBOX www.rockbox.org and it doesn't destroy anything on your player. Just gets skips past the APPLE b/s.


PFunkjazz...do u know if there is any way to make a creative player play non-drm AAc files. I have a couple of stuff in that format.


I think there are add-ons to Rockbox for stripping off drm info, but I haven't messed with them. If you check their page you'll see a variety of rebuilds for different platforms from different manufacturers; even "out-of date" releases.
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Reply #20 posted 01/07/08 9:57am

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PFunkjazz said:

MikeMatronik said:



PFunkjazz...do u know if there is any way to make a creative player play non-drm AAc files. I have a couple of stuff in that format.


I think there are add-ons to Rockbox for stripping off drm info, but I haven't messed with them. If you check their page you'll see a variety of rebuilds for different platforms from different manufacturers; even "out-of date" releases.


The files I have don't have drm. They are just ripped stuff from cds that someone gave me in aac format
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Reply #21 posted 01/07/08 1:03pm

LaCienega

I have a 160gb that holds 40,000 songs and I only have 400+ songs on it so far..
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Reply #22 posted 01/07/08 1:41pm

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If anyone is just too busy to bother filling their 80Gb Ipods, I will gladly trade you my 8GB mp3 player for it! biggrin

I'll even cover shipping costs!
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Reply #23 posted 01/07/08 1:45pm

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JDInteractive said:

Filling up an 80g Ipod sure is tough! Can anyone recommend any great songs to put on there? It can be anything at all as I have quite an eclectic taste and am open to anything. Your suggestions would be appreciated!



Hell, i still didnt fill up my 30g. I got about 6G's still left on there...5,000 songs already
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Reply #24 posted 01/07/08 1:50pm

Graycap23

JDInteractive said:

Filling up an 80g Ipod sure is tough! Can anyone recommend any great songs to put on there? It can be anything at all as I have quite an eclectic taste and am open to anything. Your suggestions would be appreciated!

Sounds like u need some new music.
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Reply #25 posted 01/07/08 2:07pm

Slave2daGroove

I filled mine in 10 minutes until I got onto the movies...now I'm selective and don't copy EVERYTHING by an artist, instead, making best-of's while listening to an artists complete collection.

What trips people out is when I say "have you seen (insert new movie here)" and then I hook up the 80 gig to their tv and we watch it.

The Digital Revolution is more than three words...
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Reply #26 posted 01/07/08 2:08pm

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I filled mine in 10 minutes until I got onto the movies...now I'm selective and don't copy EVERYTHING by an artist, instead, making best-of's while listening to an artists complete collection.

What trips people out is when I say "have you seen (insert new movie here)" and then I hook up the 80 gig to their tv and we watch it.

The Digital Revolution is more than three words...

People are actually watching movies on a 1.5" screen?
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Reply #27 posted 01/07/08 2:30pm

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Graycap23 said:

Slave2daGroove said:

I filled mine in 10 minutes until I got onto the movies...now I'm selective and don't copy EVERYTHING by an artist, instead, making best-of's while listening to an artists complete collection.

What trips people out is when I say "have you seen (insert new movie here)" and then I hook up the 80 gig to their tv and we watch it.

The Digital Revolution is more than three words...

People are actually watching movies on a 1.5" screen?


You must've missed what I just bolded...gray, you're music is kickin but I'm starting to worry about your eye sight...lol

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Reply #28 posted 01/07/08 4:43pm

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PFunkjazz said:

Ipods require a translation to Apple's AAC format, which is just a proprietary version of MP3.

You're wrong on both counts. Besides AAC, iPods also play MP3, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless files. AAC is the successor to MP3, which is also proprietary BTW, and was actually developed by Dolby.

I load a lot of torrents in lossless format (flac, shn, ape et al and they aren't recognized by Itunes operating system. I had to hack it by downloading an alternative rebuild that handles many formats without translation!!

I also have a lot of files in FLAC and SHN (but not Ape, because that's Windows-only crap). Still, I prefer to make an AAC copy for my iPod so I can take better advantage of the device's space.
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Reply #29 posted 01/07/08 4:46pm

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Still, I prefer to make an AAC copy for my iPod so I can take better advantage of the device's space.


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