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Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
No kidding Tex, it adds up too quickly. My issue with the video is that I would LOVE to have the Ipod touch with its much larger screen but right now it doesn't have the memory that the older generation does. I am not getting either in the hope that after Christmas is over.. apple ups the memory in the touch. I don't want to spend on the more memory/smaller screen and I will kick myself if I buy the big screen/small memory and they upgrade it just weeks later.

I keep photos on mine too, nicer then carting them around in your wallet getting bend and torn. I LOVE my audio books too Schoolmarm which reminds me of another *gadget* I would like to get and thats the digital book reader. Waiting for price of the digital books to come down and the selection to go up. Would be great to load half a dozen book for a trip instead of hauling them in my luggage.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Well, the simple answer to your question Tex, is YES.

I will say that I have SIX THOUSAND music tracks, and about a thousand videos, in my iTunes library. So when it comes to regularly putting songs on, taking some off, and choosing others to put on.....it just doesn't happen much. It's a bit easier with my videos, because I will carry about 5 episodes of a TV series (Curb Your Enthusiasm), and then once I'm done with those episodes, I take them off, and add 5 more. But the music side of things is just sooooo much more tedious.

BUT, with all of this said, this is my solution for you: I think the 13 year old can just be happy with what they get, and the 18 year old could be given the bill, and then they have the choice of adding their OWN 50 bucks and exchanging for a bigger one if they want. That way the ball is in their court as to whether they end up with a 4 gig or an 8 gig.




I think that as we get older, our "ESSENTIALS" collection gets bigger. I like R&B, soul, hip-hop, pop, country, classical, electronic, etc. Not to mention my Dave Matthews collection. About a hundred great songs from each genre.....it adds up to a lot of songs you MUST take with you. LOL

Kids are different I think. Pop music is SO fickle, that they hate songs that are "so last year!" So maybe the 4 gigs would be enough for them. LOL

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
I have had up to 69 audio books on my 30G Zune with 10G to spare. This is a lot considering that each audio book consists of at least 8 cds each, with some as many as 17 to 20 cds. You can load a lot of books for a trip.

I'm assuming a digital book is the same as an ebook and you still have to actually read it. Is that correct? You should be able to fit a lot more of those on as audio takes a lot more room than text.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Yes Chili..ebooks, I wasn't sure if that was a brand name or not. My main complaint is that the books seem to cost almost the same digitally then they do from a shop. They are not putting out for the paper, ink, binding, shipping, stocking not to mention the labour for each of those steps. In addition you can keep a digital copy I suppose but generally you would read it and then delete it... you don't have anything to show for your money and it doesn't have a resell value like with an actual book. I wish the prices reflected that.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Merry Christmas sweetie..here's the bill! LOL
not sure i would want to do that, but thanks.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 3:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
No, not "here's the bill", but I'm sure that you can say, "Merry Xmas sweetie, I thought this would be a great present for you, but I wasn't sure about whether you needed extra memory space or not. So I'll give you the gift receipt, and if you want to exchange it for a bigger one, that's up to you."

Seriously, the iPod price is SO fixed (invariable), that they're GOING to know how much you spent on them anyways. So including the bill or not including it isn't going to be insulting. At least giving them the OPTION to upgrade, let's them choose what they'd prefer. No?

18 yr olds understand that parent can't give in to their every want. But if you subsidize MOST of the price of the big nano, and all they had to do was add 50 bucks to exchange it, most kids would be happy with that for sure. PLUS, at least they get to pick their own color if they pay for the upgrade....

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Risse, I save my books on an external hard drive and trade them with my friends. We mail flash drives back and forth.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 4:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
it's from Santa!!! LOL
they haven't even asked for it.
dh said the same thing, if they want to upgrade they can.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
BWAH HA HA!!! Yeah.....Santa doesn't often include the receipts!!! LOLOL!!!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Honestly Tex, I don't even think a 13 yr old needs an iPod!! And I'm a total tech freak! For the same price or cheaper, there's also the Nintendo DS, which is fun too.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I bought myself a DS for my last birthday (first time I had ever done that but I KNEW it would not occur to anyone that middle-aged mommy might want a video-game console LOLOL). We have definately gotten our moneys worth out of it, the 11 and 15 yr old are still fighting over borrowing it almost a year later. Eeyoreslament that is a great idea! Another tech idea (depending on the child) is a karaoke machine. Great for when they have friends over.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 7:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
OMG karaoke machine!! Talk about driving a parent NUTS!!!!

I'm just like my mother. She never let me have ANY toys that made noise. So I wasn't allowed that game Operation. hahaha. Now that I'm older, I'm the same way. I hate kids with noisy toys. hahaha

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
LOL I am that way about repetitive noise.. toy musical instruments, beeping, buzzing etc. but my girls will sing with or without backup and the karaoke help keep them in tune. :-)

PS I LOVE operation!!! LOL

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
does one ever need a christmas present?
why wouldn't a 13 'need' a ipod but would need a nintendo? LOL

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I used to tell my family from a VERY early age that "I NEED the Cabbage Patch Doll" or "I NEED the Speak n Spell."

So yes, we do NEED the presents. LOL

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
after all the discussion about the 4GB being too small. I was tickled by this conversation with my 18 year old son. We were just talking about the ipods and my daughter (13) made the comment about theirs being the same color. I told her the colored ones came in the larger gb size. He turns to her and says 'why in the world does anyone need to save 6,000 songs? can they listen to 6000 at one time? haven't they heard of delete'? LOL

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 12:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
That's awesome!!! I completely agree too. There really are only about 1000 songs I listen to on a regular basis, not my current 6000.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 8:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Eeyore, Ms. iPod Pro... any idea why my new nano tells me with every single photo that the file was not transferred because it cannot be played on this iPod?

On the (very) few occasions a .jpg has transferred, it shows up on the screen completely fubared and pixelated. I thought maybe it was just a resolution thing so I tried resizing my photos (which would be a real PITA if I had to do that for all), but that didn't work either.

Thoughts?

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 11:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
OK, check this first:

When you attach the Nano in iTunes, and ther is a tab for Photos. You might have checked the box that says something about shrinking or resizing for the iPod. It might be that they are compressing the photos too much.

Another thing I think, is that it is using a thumbnail file, rather than an original?

Let me know if either of those are the case.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Eeyore. I'm not sure, really. In the photos tab, there's a checkbox for "Include Full Resolution Photos", which is checked. If I explore the contents of my iPod through Windows Explorer, I can see the folder structure for both full and thumbs, and I can see jpgs inside the folders, as well as (blanking on the name of it right now, and Don's is charging so I can't check...) It's a .db file, or something like that. Photos.db.

BUT, Don tried last night after I went to bed and grabbed a whole folder of photos and dragged 'em onto my iPod with no problems. Colour me confused, cause I tried photos from a number of different folders, and none worked for me. I can't imagine that I randomly chose ten or twelve folders that are all full of corrupt files, and Don found one folder that isn't corrupt.

I'm going to try to uninstall and reinstall iTunes after Don's is done charging. A few forums have suggested that before all else. It has been a bit buggy with some of the podcasts, too, so maybe just a software reinstall will fix it. I'll keep you posted.

(I also just got home from a long grueling day at work so I apologize for the rambling of this post... didn't even bother to proof it before posting, lol)

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
No worries about the post. The more information, the better.

Try the reinstall. Then I'd try to take all photos off, them make yourself a NEW folder in the My Pictures folder, and call it something like iPod pics. Add one of two full size pics. Then from there, in the Photos tab of your Nano, there should be a "Sync Photos" check box, and then it let's you choose "All photos" or "Only selected folders". Choose "Only selected folders" and then try just your ipod pics folder. See what happens, and them let me know.

I do know there is something in Windows that creates thumbnails for us, that let's us show "thumbnails" on the FOLDERS in thumbnails view. For example, if you're in My Pics, and you have 12 folders in there, and you're in Thumbnail view, those folders should also have 4 tiny pics displaying some of the contents of those folders. Somewhere, Apple doesn't recognize the "thumbs.db" file. When I switched to my new Mac, those thumbs.db files were in every folder. I don't think you should delete them, but I wonder if they are interfering.

Are you on Vista or XP? I'm not familiar with Vista, so I could be way off on my advice. I'm not sure how Vista is handling photos and thumbnails, with all of their new pretty views <sarcasm>.

Honestly, I find the iTunes and iPod support forums on the Apple site ACTUALLY very helpful. Throw in a few search terms, like "ipod photos pixelated" and see what comes up.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Don't even get me started on Vista, Eeyore...

I reinstalled iTunes. I also discovered that in most of the folders I was trying to sync photos from, there were .mov files, and even a few .swf files I'd built. I moved just the photos into a new folder and tried copying.

All is good now, so I'm not sure if it was a bad install of iTunes or if it was the movie and flash files that were bugging things up. Either way, I think I'm good.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, February 01, 2008 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
iTunes question. Had to get a new computer, so things not set up as they were. In iTunes, I want a shopping cart to put in music I want to buy in the future. I remember that it was easy to change it from "buy now" to "shopping cart", but now I can't find how to do it?

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, February 01, 2008 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Color - go to "Edit" and choose "Preferences." Then click on the tab that says "Store." The top box has two possibilities: one click buying (the default) and use shopping cart. :-)

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, February 02, 2008 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Teach. I remembered it was simple, but couldn't find it.