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Summary: Awesome - buy it
Review: What I like best about Amazon reviews is that, unlike Consumer Reports or other technical reviewers, they come from people who own the product and use it every day. Hence a disclaimer - I got my iPod a week ago.That being said - it is awesome. My iPod is connected to my PowerBook, where I have almost 5,000 songs stored in iTunes. All I have to do is put the iPod in the cradle and it automatically syncs. The first time took about 30 minutes or so - after that it hasn't taken more than a minute or so. It's much easier than other MP3 players. (For Christmas last year, I bought my dad a Rio MP3 player. Teaching him how to load songs onto it was a huge pain.) The sound quality is as good as it gets for an MP3. I bring my iPod everywhere and am listening to songs I forgot I have. It's also forced me to go through my music library and make sure everything is labeled properly (if it's not, it's going to be hard to find on an iPod, as it doesn't have a search function). The games it comes with are mindless timewasters, which is what they were intended to be. The music quiz is pretty cool though. The address book and calendar functions are useful, although a bit of a pain to update if you don't use Mac's Address Book and iCal, as you can't use iSync. The only complaints I have are minor: -When attached to the remote control, the earphone cord is too long. While it can be tucked in a pocket if you are wearing normal clothes, it's a pain when you go to the gym or for a run.
-There's a slight pause between songs, which is annoying when listening to a complete concert.
-Like many newer cars, mine doesn't have a tape deck. Hence, the only way to play my iPod through the car stereo is through an FM transmitter - most of which have lousy reputations.
-The functionality of the calendar and address book could be improved, although I'm sure that will come in time and iPods will be fully functioning PDAs as well.
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Summary: I have question....
Review: I've been considering buying an iPod for awhile but I have a question about it for you guys out there who are more knowledgeable about iPods. Let's say I buy a CD at my local record store. The music on the CD is not on my computer. But I want to put this music on my iPod. How do I do that? Is there a way to put that music on my computer first so I can then put it on the iPod? I've tried to put music from CD's onto my computer before, and once I take the CD out of the computer, the music's off my computer. Admittedly, I'm not the best with computers, but is there some program I can download in order to get the songs of the CD, into my computer, and then into my iPod? I know that many of the songs I'd want to put on my iPod aren't available for purchase online. So what should I do?
I know this question may appear really stupid, and I've certainly revealed my technical ignorance, but if anyone out there can help, I'd be so grateful. Thanks!
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Summary: Great
Review: This is a great product MUST-BUY but dont drop it!
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Summary: Best MP3 Player on the Market, but fragile
Review: When I first bought the Ipod I was really excited. The Software you get (ITunes) is very good. It helps you organize your music on your computer and on your Ipod. The Ipod, I think is a very nice piece of equipment to have especially if you have lots of cd's. The thing I don't like about the Ipod is that the screen gets scrtached really easily and the battery life is not too good. Other then that, it is perfect.
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Summary: Disaster
Review: No star!! Dark night ! It never works and no help from Apple website, not even answering emails ,(only Amazon does ) Very bad reference , no care at all for customer service !
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Summary: Terrible Product
Review: The price is an outrage! The battery only lasts a year and a half but Apple wants you to send it to them at a charge of 99 dollars to replace the battery! What a joke! I'm sticking with the Nomad. I can't believe Apple made their product so batteries are so difficult to replace. I have a friend who tried to change their own battery and the ipod was destroyed. I highly recommend that you avoid this product. There are lower-priced items that have more features and include easy-to-change batteries.
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Summary: There simply is no better
Review: Most MP3 player's are the complete and utter waste of money, as they cannot store enough music to encompass a single CD, and transferring songs takes eons. The iPod is simply amazing as it can store 500+ CDs (8000+ songs) for the 40GB version, and transfer songs roughly 10 to 12 times faster through the zippy Firewire or USB2.0 connection. I got the one for Windows, originally bundled with MusicMatch Jukebox. That program has one of the more horrific and cumbersome interfaces that I have ever used. Fortunately, with iTunes for Windows this is no longer an issue. The iTunes program is the ONLY commercial FREE software that allows one to rip CDs in using MP3 format. It works beautifully for archiving music and seemlessly sychronizing with the iPod, and of course being Apple, it has an wonderfully intuitive interface. Besides the highlights mentioned, another nice tidbit is that there are PDA-like facilities to view notes, calendar info, and contact info. I export my contacts in Outlook to VCard format (.vcf) and copy them to the contact folder on the iPod, and voila, I got contact info. One uncanny thing about the iPod is that is supports many languages including C-J-K (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) for both displaying music files in those languages, but also contact information. This makes it the **ONLY** device that can display all those languages for PDA purposes and music playback purposes. The iTunes for Windows also supports C-J-K languages as well, making it the **ONLY** MP3 player (except the privacy invading WMP) that can work with those languages. My only minor complaint is that I wish there was more developer information so that I could more easily develop programs for the iPod.
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Summary: The Alpha and the Omega.
Review: The Alph and the Omega the begging and the end (of all other MP3 Players). I love my iPod. I have been wanting one for quite some time and I finnaly struck a deal with my familt ro split the price as a Christmas gift. You will have no problems with this device! I love my iTunes on my Windows XP and my obsolete Mac (the old iMac). use iTunes on each and have no complaints. And I absolutely love the capacity! With a hard drive player you can save anything on it you want to. I keep not only my entire music collection but computer games, and Schoolwork as well to keep them off CD's. I can also play one of my favorite PC games on school computers w/o installing it. All I do is run the game from my iPod using it as an external drive. So I can bring anything digital with me everywhere! I LOVE MY IPOD GO BUY ONE. I also love Macs in general say what you want but all in all they are faster more user friendly and crash half as less. Unfortunalty they are nowhere near as compatable so I will continue to use my PC.
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Summary: takes a licking, keeps on ticking....
Review: Not only is the iPod ridiculously easy to use, but it's also tough as nails. Mine fell from my shirt pocket into a mechanics' pit - roughly 8 or 9 feet - to land on cold concrete. Not only did it NOT break, it didn't even skip a beat, turn itself off, or otherwise indicate that it had been sorely abused. Aside from a few scuff marks, it works just as well as it did the day that I bought it.
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Summary: BUY ONE NOW
Review: the iPod is a revolutionary device. iPod and iTunes are singlehandly going to reshape the music world, so get on the train! It is so awesome to have all the songs you want right at your fingertips. Stop reading this and order it.
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