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Electronics : Apple iPod classic 80GB black
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Rating: 
- My first Ipod...and i wouldn't turn back!
I have had mp3 players of course and they were fab, but my last was only 2gb and i ran out of space on it so instead of upgrading to one of the same make but larger memory i thought i'd buy an ipod (against what my parents thought (even though i'm 19 they still try and decide what i buy!)). For the price of the sony one i wanted cos i knew they had excellent sound dynamics, i thought i'd put £10 to it and buy an ipod which had 10x the memory capacity of the sony. Now i have my ipod its great, cos i love watching movies on it and listening to all my favourite tunes, which i now have room for. 80gb, and i have loads of tracks and movies on it already and it's Nowhere near 1/4 full! I managed to get a 2 hour movie on it, using only 500MB which is slightly less than half of 1GB! Now i can watch my movies in bed when i cant sleep or listen to my fave music, absolutely wonderful, i won't go back now i have my ipod!
Rating:
- Better than I expected
This is my first Ipod, but third jukebox MP3 player. I've previously steered clear of Ipods on the presumption that they're more a fashion accessory than a serious music player. I've had a Rio Riot and Philips HDD, both of which had some nice features the Ipod doesn't like a radio or recording funcion/optical line in. Both died after two or three years after their hard drives failed (didn't help they got dropped a few times).
But now I've finally come round to Ipod, as my wife loves her 3G nano and now we'll be able to talk to each other in digital music terms.
One downside to this is that all the protected WMAs I bought for previous players won't convert in Itunes. I'll get round that by burning them to cd and then ripping them back to MP3, which is a hassle, but I can live with it.
I'm not a great fan of Itunes - especially the insistence that you only sync the Ipod to one computer as I frequently use two and would really like to be able to be able to use my work mahcine to do things like adjust the volume on tracks I just discovered play too loudly. And this is something you have to do given the stupid volume limit, which means older recordings are barely audible unless at full volume. I considered buying one from the US to avoid that, but then wouldn't have a warranty. My advice, especially if ripping lots of older (pre-2000) cds is to use "get file info" in Itunes to set your volume at least two notches higher on everything and then you can adjust it back down again for tracks that sound distorted. If you don't do this, the volume limit is too low to listen to anything in a noisy environment, like the Tube.
But there are lots of upsides. Once you get the music on there and make all the adjustments you need to make in Itunes (to volume levels, genres etc), this device works like a dream. It's tiny - the smallest jukebox player I've had yet - and has massive storage, which means I'm going to be taking advantage of the video function - my own inflight movies! Battery life is amazing if just listening to music. And I think USB charging is great. I travel a lot on business and have to lug phone charger, laptop charger and mp3 player charger with me (plus adaptors), so now that's one less thing to carry, and I don't need a special charger for the US, just a USB cable to plug into any computer...
The user interface is much better than any other I've used - now I know why people rave about the click wheel. And I thought coverflow was a bit of a gimmick until I realized how much faster it makes browsing my large and increasing music library.
So I'd give this 4 stars. A DAB radio would be a great addition, as would a recording function, but Apple clearly had to choose what they're going to squeeze into such a tiny box, and with 80GB, it's frankly amazing.
Rating: - best ipod
i think all the bad reviews dont justify how good this ipod is. it does everything it says on the tin, and also look how cheap it is £160 for a 80gb ipod video, what are people complaining about! alright the updateing errors dont sound to good but for the ones that work it is fantastic. so anyone reading the bad reviews,dont listen, you wont be dissipointed.
Rating: - Superb bit of kit with a couple of niggles...
First, the solution to the niggles:
1. Don't use the i-Tunes software to play your music if on your computer. Use Winamp or some other programme: the quality is markedly better - don't ask me why.
2. Don't try to rearrange the daft irrational track-listing and filing system used by i-Tunes when you import your music - it will drive you absolutely crackers, and afterwards you will probably be told that the "files can't be found". Use the smart playlist function to gather together what you want to listen to in packages that are labelled in a way you understand (unfortunately even this takes some thinking about, but if you like classical music, it is absolutely essential - see below*) - and keep telling yourself it doesn't matter where or how the stupid software has filed the music*.
3. Buy some very good noise-cancelling headphones. Without them, the i-Pod will be virtually useless on a plane, and not brilliant elsewhere either. Even with some very good Sennheiser noise-cancelling headphones I have to say that I don't think I have ever had the volume on anything less than maximum, and I'm not as much of a head-banger as I used to be.
The good bits:
1. I have so far put 1,257 tracks at the highest quality possible (320 kbps) on this machine - 4.5 solid days' worth - and that's only 13.84 gigabytes out of the 80. I reckon most people (and certainly I) could take all the music I have ever really loved, anywhere on this thing.
2. The sound quality is superb. I find through my docking station it suits some types of music better than others, but none are disappointing by any stretch of the imagination. Don't be a skinflint and try to save a few megs by cutting down the bit rate though. I want to be able to play this thing through a very decent hi-fi or car audio system and be totally happy with it, and judging by the performance through the headphones and the docking station that is an entirely realistic expectation. I took the docking station on holiday and it was absolutely the mutt's nuts in the hotel room. I can't really vouch for the standard headphones.
3. It is a beautifully and quite robustly made machine.
4. The extras (Calendar, Games, Contacts) are not to be sneezed at.
* A three disc set of The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart (even when imported in perfect sequence) ends up in three completely different folders on your hard drive, with a random (and different) selection of filing criteria in each case in i-Tunes. I gathered the tracks together in a playlist by trial and error using simple filters like "Mozart", "no dumb i-Pod software", "Le Nozze" etc...
Rating:
- Ipod what
Nice design, earphones work fine. My computer wont connect the ipod and itunes doesnt work.
My advice buy an MP3 player and save money. Much easier.
- My first Ipod...and i wouldn't turn back!I have had mp3 players of course and they were fab, but my last was only 2gb and i ran out of space on it so instead of upgrading to one of the same make but larger memory i thought i'd buy an ipod (against what my parents thought (even though i'm 19 they still try and decide what i buy!)). For the price of the sony one i wanted cos i knew they had excellent sound dynamics, i thought i'd put £10 to it and buy an ipod which had 10x the memory capacity of the sony. Now i have my ipod its great, cos i love watching movies on it and listening to all my favourite tunes, which i now have room for. 80gb, and i have loads of tracks and movies on it already and it's Nowhere near 1/4 full! I managed to get a 2 hour movie on it, using only 500MB which is slightly less than half of 1GB! Now i can watch my movies in bed when i cant sleep or listen to my fave music, absolutely wonderful, i won't go back now i have my ipod!
Rating:
- Better than I expectedThis is my first Ipod, but third jukebox MP3 player. I've previously steered clear of Ipods on the presumption that they're more a fashion accessory than a serious music player. I've had a Rio Riot and Philips HDD, both of which had some nice features the Ipod doesn't like a radio or recording funcion/optical line in. Both died after two or three years after their hard drives failed (didn't help they got dropped a few times).
But now I've finally come round to Ipod, as my wife loves her 3G nano and now we'll be able to talk to each other in digital music terms.
One downside to this is that all the protected WMAs I bought for previous players won't convert in Itunes. I'll get round that by burning them to cd and then ripping them back to MP3, which is a hassle, but I can live with it.
I'm not a great fan of Itunes - especially the insistence that you only sync the Ipod to one computer as I frequently use two and would really like to be able to be able to use my work mahcine to do things like adjust the volume on tracks I just discovered play too loudly. And this is something you have to do given the stupid volume limit, which means older recordings are barely audible unless at full volume. I considered buying one from the US to avoid that, but then wouldn't have a warranty. My advice, especially if ripping lots of older (pre-2000) cds is to use "get file info" in Itunes to set your volume at least two notches higher on everything and then you can adjust it back down again for tracks that sound distorted. If you don't do this, the volume limit is too low to listen to anything in a noisy environment, like the Tube.
But there are lots of upsides. Once you get the music on there and make all the adjustments you need to make in Itunes (to volume levels, genres etc), this device works like a dream. It's tiny - the smallest jukebox player I've had yet - and has massive storage, which means I'm going to be taking advantage of the video function - my own inflight movies! Battery life is amazing if just listening to music. And I think USB charging is great. I travel a lot on business and have to lug phone charger, laptop charger and mp3 player charger with me (plus adaptors), so now that's one less thing to carry, and I don't need a special charger for the US, just a USB cable to plug into any computer...
The user interface is much better than any other I've used - now I know why people rave about the click wheel. And I thought coverflow was a bit of a gimmick until I realized how much faster it makes browsing my large and increasing music library.
So I'd give this 4 stars. A DAB radio would be a great addition, as would a recording function, but Apple clearly had to choose what they're going to squeeze into such a tiny box, and with 80GB, it's frankly amazing.
Rating:
- best ipodi think all the bad reviews dont justify how good this ipod is. it does everything it says on the tin, and also look how cheap it is £160 for a 80gb ipod video, what are people complaining about! alright the updateing errors dont sound to good but for the ones that work it is fantastic. so anyone reading the bad reviews,dont listen, you wont be dissipointed.
Rating:
- Superb bit of kit with a couple of niggles...First, the solution to the niggles:
1. Don't use the i-Tunes software to play your music if on your computer. Use Winamp or some other programme: the quality is markedly better - don't ask me why.
2. Don't try to rearrange the daft irrational track-listing and filing system used by i-Tunes when you import your music - it will drive you absolutely crackers, and afterwards you will probably be told that the "files can't be found". Use the smart playlist function to gather together what you want to listen to in packages that are labelled in a way you understand (unfortunately even this takes some thinking about, but if you like classical music, it is absolutely essential - see below*) - and keep telling yourself it doesn't matter where or how the stupid software has filed the music*.
3. Buy some very good noise-cancelling headphones. Without them, the i-Pod will be virtually useless on a plane, and not brilliant elsewhere either. Even with some very good Sennheiser noise-cancelling headphones I have to say that I don't think I have ever had the volume on anything less than maximum, and I'm not as much of a head-banger as I used to be.
The good bits:
1. I have so far put 1,257 tracks at the highest quality possible (320 kbps) on this machine - 4.5 solid days' worth - and that's only 13.84 gigabytes out of the 80. I reckon most people (and certainly I) could take all the music I have ever really loved, anywhere on this thing.
2. The sound quality is superb. I find through my docking station it suits some types of music better than others, but none are disappointing by any stretch of the imagination. Don't be a skinflint and try to save a few megs by cutting down the bit rate though. I want to be able to play this thing through a very decent hi-fi or car audio system and be totally happy with it, and judging by the performance through the headphones and the docking station that is an entirely realistic expectation. I took the docking station on holiday and it was absolutely the mutt's nuts in the hotel room. I can't really vouch for the standard headphones.
3. It is a beautifully and quite robustly made machine.
4. The extras (Calendar, Games, Contacts) are not to be sneezed at.
* A three disc set of The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart (even when imported in perfect sequence) ends up in three completely different folders on your hard drive, with a random (and different) selection of filing criteria in each case in i-Tunes. I gathered the tracks together in a playlist by trial and error using simple filters like "Mozart", "no dumb i-Pod software", "Le Nozze" etc...
Rating:
- Ipod whatNice design, earphones work fine. My computer wont connect the ipod and itunes doesnt work.
My advice buy an MP3 player and save money. Much easier.