Ditto. I got my daughter an Ipod mini for her birthday (this past Saturday) and I immediately set it to manual mode because we all share the Itunes and if it did it automatically, she'd be stuck with all my music too (and her brother's).

She wants to be able to sync from either my house or her dad's house, but they're having trouble getting the ipod software to load at his house. I told him I'd take a look at it, but it's a busy week so I don't know when I'll get to it. That's another good reason to have it set to manual. Otherwise, she'd lose some of her music.

I was upset that they didn't tell me the ipod wouldn't come filled with songs already.

By the way, I had an Apple Powerbook Fedex'd from Taiwan to NYC and left at the door without signature (I signed the back of a 1st attempt slip once to do that they consider that as the preference for the future).

Funny how that works.

-Rudey

One thing to note:
Apparently the new Griffen iTrip automatically searches for an empty radio station instead of having to configure it manually.

i just bought the griffen iTrip for my mini ... and how come everything sounds a little bit static-y ?? like if you turn the volume up somewhat loud, you can hear the static in the background ... ? i cant figure out what the hell to do to fix it ... and the radio station is fine? :rolleyes:

Because it's a low power transmitter trying to overpower whatever radio waves are coming into your car.

I started a thread about this, actually...everyone had really good suggestions.

OK, here's my question. I have a mini, and so far have had no problems with it...it's not too hard to figure out. I had a ton of music on my computer & copied everything into the iTunes library (or whatever...).

My son got some RCA Lyra piece of crap MP3 player for Christmas, and he has to use Music Match Jukebox to load music to his...he also got about $50 in iTunes gift cards...so here's the question. Is there going to be a problem getting the songs he downloads via iTunes into the library that Music Match uses? I keep telling his dad to figure it out, but winter is his busy season so he won't get to it until about March and the kid keeps badgering me!!! I don't want to download any new songs for him until we know the best way to do it to make sure we can BOTH put them on our respective gadgets....

Sadly, music purchased from the iTunes music store is only compatible with iTunes and iPods (it cannot be played with any other music software (i.e., Music Match Jukebox) or uploaded to other mp3 players. Therefore, your son could only use his downloads on his computer (using iTunes) or your ipod mini.

Or, since he now legally owns the music, he could burn it to a CD (so he can listen in the car, as well) and then re-rip it into a 'standard' mp3 format through MMJB.

i got a 30gb video for my birthday last month. the thing ive realized for me personally is that 30gb is way too much space. i tried filling it up and only got a third of the way and already i feel like i have a lot of music that I dont particularly like on it. i think i would have been better off getting a nano :rolleyes:

Well add some videos and pics and all that.

-Rudey

dude. i got a 30gb video thingy mabobber too. Buy quicktime pro and convert videos, put pictures in there.

I have about 1000 photos in em, and my homies love looking at the slide show. i have about 2000 songs, and i still have about 18 GB left. lol i love it

i have just a 20G and I'd say I have about 1/8 o fmy music on there...If I had the opportunity I'd probably go ahead & get the 60G...it's huge & it's going to last a lot longer...I got the 20G the week it came out so mine is kind of archaic at this point...but I suggest the highest capacity...the iPod isn't going away...so tune in.........

I have the 30 GB Ipod Video, and I'm not sure how to transfer videos on to it. The instruction manual was pretty lacking. Do they have to be a certain format (eg: Quicktime, Real Player, etc.)?