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Posted on 05/11/2005 6:37:58 PM PDT by martin_fierro
iPod Tips And Tricks
May 10, 2005 5:48 pm US/Central
The iPod has changed the way many of us buy and listen to music. During the holidays, Apple sold about 4.5 million iPods and the first three months of this year saw another 5.3 million go out the door. CBS 2's Ed Curran has some suggestions for tips and tricks to help you get the most from your iPod.
iPod tip #1: Store your music at full CD quality.
“Then you have basically the same sonic quality from your iPod as you have from compact disks," Kevin McCann of Glenn Poor Chicago said. You can't hold as many songs, but McCann's iPod kicks out quality good enough to support a $25,000 home audio system.
iPod tip #2: Improve your earphones.
The original iPod earphones don't go inside your ear. "They don't seal the canal, so they don't block out outside sounds," Mead Killon of Etymotic Research said.
So, Chicago's own Etymotic Research created their 6i Isolator Earphones. They block outside noise, and deliver fantastic fidelity. "Technically what we want to do is reproduce with the earphone the same thing you would hear if you were listening to the sound directly," Killion said.
One fan is mountain biker President George Bush, who uses his 6i Isolators plugged into his iPod.
iPod tip #3: iPod the whole house.
If your house is wired for sound, an iPod docking station from Sonance goes right in the wall for $600.
iPod tip #4: Go wireless.
Send your tunes around the house wirelessly for a few hundred dollars with Apple's Airport Express.
iPod tip #5: iPod your car.
For about $300 you can hardwire your iPod right into your car and control it all in your radio. Or, for $30, one available unit transmits the iPod through your radio and charges it at the same time.
iPod tip #6: Use your iPod as a hard drive.
The iPod itself is a miniature hard drive which means you can back up all your data to it, which is fantastic. Ondecktech's Gray Rothkopf says your can use it to store software, contacts, appointments -- you can even dump photos into it by connecting your camera directly to your iPod.
iPod tip #7: Run your iPod on a 9-volt battery.
Forgot to recharge? Tunejuice uses a simple battery to power your iPod.
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To do this, of course, it must be re-encoded using Apple Lossless (an option in iTunes), is that not true?
< shrugs >
owwno.
I am getting an ipod in two weeks for my birthday.
Can't wait.
Tip 0: Screw Apple - save your money.
1 - half the beings who own iPods couldn't tell 160k from 320k, let alone Lossless (or Shinola from [that other stuff]).
2 - No duh!
3 - spend money like an idiot.
4 - ditto.
5 - cheaper method = a good investment.
6 - "crash us if you can"
7 - okay, TWO sensible ones out of 7.
You control this at the time the song is being ripped from your CD.
Of the CDs I've ripped (must be over 100 by now), only 1 seems to have had a bad transfer. Otherwise, I can't tell the difference between .aac and CD... but .aac takes up considerably less space.
Audio Snobs continue to insist they can detect a difference, but I have yet to see this tested under controlled conditions (i.e., you don't know which format you're listening to when you rate it).
>>I've hardly listened to the radio or to a CD in my truck since I got an iPod.
same here, only i listen to audiobooks. driving to anywhere has become the most enjoyable part of the day.
It adds a selection onto the context menu that drops down when you right click on an MP3 file. You can convert to any bit rate as well as ther file formats, provided you've installed the proper codecs.
Pinging for future reading.
I should clarify that when I said re-encode, I meant re-rip.
I think you and I know that, but some newbies might not.
Re-encoding up from 128k to lossless is like making a perfect photocopy of a blurry page: the result will also be blurry.
What's a good (online) source for audiobooks?
It never worked out. 'n'at.
audible.com
they offer an affordable subscription package for around 20 bucks.
i can get you 2 free if you allow me to refer you via email.
regards.
New version of iTunes for windows is now out.
Got it!
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