Probably not, but I need a larger one. Do any of you guys know why their capacity gets smaller. When I bought my 4gb Ipod in 2008 I could put 950 songs on it, now I can only put 180 on it, does anyone know why?

If I were answering this question 10 years ago, I would have asked what is that? If I were answering this question 5 years ago, maybe, it's not that serious. Today, there is no way I could live without it. It has at a huge chunk of my music collection, and I never thought that I would have that much music in one device and so handy. It didn't take long for me to transition from physical transporting tapes or cds around to just a little device holding the tunes. My ipod is the classic 80GB and it couldn't be any smaller physically, because I would probably lose it numerous times. It's my baby.

Huggiebear said:

Probably not, but I need a larger one. Do any of you guys know why their capacity gets smaller. When I bought my 4gb Ipod in 2008 I could put 950 songs on it, now I can only put 180 on it, does anyone know why?

could be a difference in bitrate. or maybe you've got some large videos or pics in there somewhere.

or it could be that you had some kind of crash when synching and there's old stuff in there taking up space, but not showing up in the menus.

if you've still got all the stuff on your computer, restore the ipod software. it'll remove everything on there, and then you can add it again from your computer.

if it's a bitrate problem, where you're adding 320 or 256 kbps files, there's a setting in itunes now that will automatically convert things to 128 kbps aac when it's transferring to the iPod so that they take up less space on the player

funkyslsistah said:

If I were answering this question 10 years ago, I would have asked what is that? If I were answering this question 5 years ago, maybe, it's not that serious. Today, there is no way I could live without it. It has at a huge chunk of my music collection, and I never thought that I would have that much music in one device and so handy. It didn't take long for me to transition from physical transporting tapes or cds around to just a little device holding the tunes. My ipod is the classic 80GB and it couldn't be any smaller physically, because I would probably lose it numerous times. It's my baby.

i do live without that shit for a long time now...

Heck no. I have to have that thing around me when I'm doing dishes or baking or cleaning. I don't leave home without it, either. The only time I don't need it is when I'm at the computer, and I have my media player open...

Yes.......................but I would not want 2.

datdude said:

Angelic1302 said:

yes b/c i'm very low tech right now...I never had an ipod or MP device - sad but true

i'm with you. i don't have one, never had either. a buddy of mine is about to give me his Ipod nano as he never uses it anymore since he got his Iphone. the other day at the gym this guy made me wish SO BAD i had one. he was SOOOOO obnoxious. one of those "know it alls" who gossips about stuff he really doesn't know about. he had two "captive pupils" on the treadmills who were eating up EVERYTHING he was saying. i was like ARRRRRRRRRGH. i need some headphones and music right now!!! anywho i digress. but yes, i can and have lived without them. still a physical cd buyer.

I know what you mean...I want to get one to tune people out too LOL! I still buy cds sorry but I'm still old school and I'm fine with that for now.

I would never buy an ipod because they are such poor value.

I have an old AA battery sized MP3 player (1gb!) bought from ebay for the price of a CD which is still going strong after 5 years. It lets me change the battery, has a hard USB at one end, tells the me track names, has kicking bass and I "shuffle" on a gigs worth different tunes everytime. Stick in my skull candy head phones and I'm in music heaven.

My music collection is too big for any portable, so I don't try.

SquirrelMeat said:

I would never buy an ipod because they are such poor value.

Don't know if I agree with that. I can use my ipod damn near anywhere and with it's multiple formats, I have very few limitaions on sources of music. Car, house, truck, boat, plane.......and with diffrent playlists this thing is great.

I could. I have a few iPods, and I like them, but it wouldn't be hard to live without them. I listen to and buy CDs more than i listen to and buy digital songs/albums.

Graycap23 said:

SquirrelMeat said:

I would never buy an ipod because they are such poor value.

Don't know if I agree with that. I can use my ipod damn near anywhere and with it's multiple formats, I have very few limitaions on sources of music. Car, house, truck, boat, plane.......and with diffrent playlists this thing is great.

I can do all that with most MP3 players. My little cheapy can read WMA's OGGs and FLAC too and it doesn't try to force bloated buggy software on me. and I can change the battery whenever I want, rather than have to shell out on another overpriced unit.

Huggiebear said:

Probably not, but I need a larger one.

I'm thinking of getting a 80gb or 160gb

Timmy84 said:

I can live without an iPod but one of these days I'm gonna get an MP3 player hahaha

I have never owned an Ipod as of yet. First, I bought a cheap SanDisk or SansaDisk mp3 player. When I discovered that was not big enough, I got a Zune. And I'm loving my Zune HD. I almost got an Ipod because an Ipod seems to have more accessories. I love portable speakers and things like that and Zune hardly has nothing in regards to that. Although, if the speaker has a line in jack, that would work. Anyway, still with my zune. Love the software far better than the Ipod software.

Graycap23 said:

Car, house, truck, boat, plane.......and with diffrent playlists this thing is great.

Daddy is ballin'!!!

i did for the longest. just carried a bunch of cds in my car. got my ipod for my b-day (4th of july ). more convenient and all (ipod), but either way

leecappella said:

Timmy84 said:

I can live without an iPod but one of these days I'm gonna get an MP3 player hahaha

I have never owned an Ipod as of yet. First, I bought a cheap SanDisk or SansaDisk mp3 player. When I discovered that was not big enough, I got a Zune. And I'm loving my Zune HD. I almost got an Ipod because an Ipod seems to have more accessories. I love portable speakers and things like that and Zune hardly has nothing in regards to that. Although, if the speaker has a line in jack, that would work. Anyway, still with my zune. Love the software far better than the Ipod software.

I have a Nano but on my laptop it ate up my C hard drive and it lagged my computer. When I got my desktop two years ago I decided not to upload my Nano to my computer.

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