Which I-Pod

[Jill1228]

I am an IPod virgin

I have the 80 gig video IPod and love it. The husband got it for me for Christmas

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by Jill1228

I am an IPod virgin

I have the 80 gig video IPod and love it. The husband got it for me for Christmas

I was an Ipod virgin until this Christmas as well. My SO got me the new Ipod shuffle. It's the perfect size for me. I'm training for an Ironman, which means I spend a lot of time riding my bike on the trainer in the winter, and running outside. I also have this weird thing where I CANNOT listen to music in order. It drives me bonkers. I have to listen to everything on shuffle. I don't really do the transportable media, I'm usually a reader, not a watcher. Once I heard that I could put podcasts on there, I was even happier (I subscribe to a triathlon podcast and the Shamrock and Thistle podcast from NPR). Plus you can turn off the "shuffle" function if you want to listen to it in order, and you can load it in order from Itunes. I like the simple buttons too...the screen would distract me if I was running.

Other cool thing was that sweetie had it engraved with part of my favorite psalm ("Create in me a pure heart...")

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

I was an Ipod virgin until this Christmas as well. My SO got me the new Ipod shuffle. It's the perfect size for me. I'm training for an Ironman, which means I spend a lot of time riding my bike on the trainer in the winter, and running outside. I also have this weird thing where I CANNOT listen to music in order. It drives me bonkers. I have to listen to everything on shuffle....<snip>

I'm the same way with listening to things on suffle. Back in the day, when I used a walkman with a running tape I made (CD players skip way too much for running, and they are too big) it was the WORST. I knew all the songs, and aproximately how long into the run I was. Then I would realize if my pace was really off, or if I had a hour run to do that I was only in 25min (I was a mid distance runner, I hated long runs).

I have the older version of the suffle and I still love it. But I'm looking at a nano for my car, since the FM transmitter thing is crap. Fords coming out with some new ipod attachement (that would have been included if i bought a more expensive car) that I'm looking to have installed soon.

[blueangel]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

I was an Ipod virgin until this Christmas as well. My SO got me the new Ipod shuffle. It's the perfect size for me. I'm training for an Ironman, which means I spend a lot of time riding my bike on the trainer in the winter, and running outside. I also have this weird thing where I CANNOT listen to music in order. It drives me bonkers. I have to listen to everything on shuffle. I don't really do the transportable media, I'm usually a reader, not a watcher. Once I heard that I could put podcasts on there, I was even happier (I subscribe to a triathlon podcast and the Shamrock and Thistle podcast from NPR). Plus you can turn off the "shuffle" function if you want to listen to it in order, and you can load it in order from Itunes. I like the simple buttons too...the screen would distract me if I was running.

Other cool thing was that sweetie had it engraved with part of my favorite psalm ("Create in me a pure heart...")

That's funny about the shuffle.. me too! I always thought I would never use the shuffle option, but that's all I use now. I like when each album is mixed up and you never know what's coming next.

I'm absolutely addicted to my ipod. I use it at work, and I've found I write better when listening to music.

I've just discovered the free podcast downloads. I'm learning Spanish.

[btb87]

A few days ago, I read this entire thread. Didn't know I'd be needing help later!

I purchased my daughter the cute pink iPod nano for Christmas (4G). I loaded about 24 songs on there for ME but noticed that I only had about 1.97G left. So I finally got around to calling the Apple folks and I reset it. Seems like for some reason, the memory was wacky! So I took it back yesterday and got a refund. I will probably go ahead and get the 30G video iPod since as many of you have noted, you're getting about 7 times as much for $50 more.

What I wanted to know is has anyone else had a problem with the memory on their iPods? The Circuit City guy told me yesterday that he's seen one or two cases of this happening and it was with the pink iPod (don't know why he thinks the color had anything to do with it, but oh well). Next question - are there free areas for podcasts, etc.? As are a few of you, I'm an iPod virgin as well.

Thanks in advance!

[mu_agd]

Originally Posted by btb87

Next question - are there free areas for podcasts, etc.?

There are a lot of free podcasts on itunes in the podcast section.

[squirrely girl]

totally loving my new iPod!!!! yes i'm a dork

[PhoenixAzul]

this just reminded me to update my shamrock & Thistle.

[cutie_cat_4ever]

Originally Posted by Jill1228

I am an IPod virgin

I have the 80 gig video IPod and love it. The husband got it for me for Christmas

Me too, until this xmas my bf got me 2G nano

BUT, the problem is, before he gave it to me, he d/l songs to this Ipod for me to listen. I got back home to transfer songs but I couldn't use Itunes because I'm still using a freakin Windows ME, lol. So I found this Itune window converted that can be used on ME, and I think it screwed up my settings because it won't recognize my Ipod. I took it back work to transfer since it has itunes, but it askes me to restore it. So I did, but it kept on asking me to restore it like thousand times. I took it back to my bf and he was able to transfer songs to it. Then I tried it at my work comp and it still ask me to restore

Now I'm confused...does it mean my ipod would only respond to my bf's comp?