bluekarin Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Morning! We are looking at getting ED one of these for her birthday this weekend. Does anyone have one and does anyone know if you can get music onto it from other sources or are you just beholden to Apple and itunes? Cheers very muchly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I am sure that you can get music from other sources although I am new to ipods myself. What I would say though is to get one new from somewhere reputable. I bought one from Apple and thought that ipods are pretty reliable. I am now on my 3rd Both others were supplied faulty and both faults were well documented on the net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 ah, I see. So you mean get one that isn't necessarily the cheapest and the store has a good returns policy. I've read a few things that go wrong, like the screen stopping working and the battery going flat. Which one do you have? I'm hoping the 8GB one will be enough memory for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stehaggan Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Hi there, To use the ipod you have to sinc it to itunes. Itunes can be downloaded for free. You can load all your music into itunes from cd's other mp3's etc or download music from the internet into itunes. In addition you can buy new music from the itunes store and load this on. Plus if you collect tesco clubcard points, more often than not they can have a lot of points attached to them so i'd recommend tesco for one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I have the 16G. I had problems with tracks pausing after about a minute and the second only played down one earphone. I got mine from the Apple store and they were fine about the returns although having to go through their outsourced call centres is very time consuming and tiresome. I got one for DD at Christmas through J Lewis who were very cheap and it came with free speakers too - it would be worth checking if they have any offers on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I have an ancient 8gb 3rd gen nano and it's brilliant - just right for what I need. I have my CDs all on iplayer now, and other clips that I have downloaded as well. I don't ever buy tunes online, but that's just my preferable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 I'd prefer not to have to buy all the music for it as well, so I am glad that we won't have to. I do have an iTune account and some music already bought, I'll just have to get all the CD's we have onto it as well. I think I will be buying it from the Apple store with the free engraving, if the Stormfront store here gets back to me about if I can return it there if we have any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 8GB is plenty of space (about 2000 songs) You don't have to use iTunes, there is other software, but iTunes is the easiest. You can add songs (and video) buy buying them from iTunes or by 'ripping' a CD (easy to do, plug iPod into computer, music CD into CD drive, open up iTunes and follow on screen instructions) All apple products come with 1 year warranty, but the Sale of Goods Act increases this to 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 Thanks for all the info you guys I've just heard back from the local apple store and they do the warranty stuff there so I shall be off to buy it now All in all, its a very expensive day - we are currently having some new windows put into our house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Mr Griffin installed something called SharePod to our computer which makes it easier to get MP3s onto our Ipods. Itunes hates it though and wipes all the SharePod tunes We get around this now by doing all the stuff we need to on Itunes before finally topping up with the SharePod stuff at the end. I hate the Itunes software with a passion, hence the use of easy peasy SharePod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Mr Griffin installed something called SharePod to our computer which makes it easier to get MP3s onto our Ipods. Itunes hates it though and wipes all the SharePod tunes We get around this now by doing all the stuff we need to on Itunes before finally topping up with the SharePod stuff at the end. I hate the Itunes software with a passion, hence the use of easy peasy SharePod. We have similar set up and it was fine until we started using iTunes. It messed everything up too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 I also hate that itunes is so exclusive and won't let you use other formats, but then that's Apple for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
