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Ipod software
« on: 16 Jul 2008, 20:02 »
Ok.  So my mom came home from work today with an iPod Nano.  Someone at her work went to a BET convention, so it has a little sticker on it.  It was in some kind of grab bag that she obviously didn't check.  She left it at work when she got fired, and my mom was assigned to sort out stuff from fired people.  So she brought it home, and I have a free BET iPod nano.  Does anyone know of any kind of software I should get?  Plugins, alternatives, etc.?
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #1 on: 16 Jul 2008, 22:44 »
You just... use it.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #2 on: 17 Jul 2008, 04:46 »
I am guessing that he doesn't like iTunes?  I dunno.  When I got my ipod I got iTunes, installed it & used it.  Now that I don't use the ipod anymore I still use iTunes because Windows Media Player and Winamp both suck.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #3 on: 17 Jul 2008, 04:48 »
Like, a lot
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #4 on: 17 Jul 2008, 05:04 »
I always find that iTunes sucks the most of all the music programs. But that may just be my older computer talking.






Also, I hear Foobar is good but you'll have to google it and shit.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #5 on: 17 Jul 2008, 06:02 »
I just meant stuff like what you're talking about, really.  I'm not using iTunes as a music player, I already have foobar2000 for that.  It's only installed because I have an iPod now and need something to put music on it.

I may check out those alternatives, but at this point I was just wondering if there were any add-ons of interest.  Maybe something for tagging files (I'm not a fan of how iTunes handles it).  Stuff like that.


Edit: And also a good pair of earbuds/headphones.  The standard ones kind of hurt/suck.  I have a pair of studio headphones, but if I intend to actually start going to the gym I need something smaller and comfortable.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #6 on: 17 Jul 2008, 19:19 »
I was of the opinion that Foobar was just a shitty linux music app, but it looks pretty decent nowdays.  I may have to investigate further.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #7 on: 17 Jul 2008, 19:48 »
Well, the reason I use foobar is because it plays all the common file formats plus a bunch of others, and is a really low-memory footprint.  I don't use it to organize my library, I do that myself.  It has a decent amount of free plug-ins, and some other features I don't use much.  It's pretty simple, and that's the way I like it.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #8 on: 21 Jul 2008, 15:05 »
well, if for some reason you have any music on your iPod that you don't have anywhere else (cd/hdd/etc.) then i recommend EphPod for ripping music off your iPod, if you have a need for that sort of thing.

personally, i don't store music on a computer anywhere, so when my friends ask me to burn them a cd, i rip it off my iPod using EphPod. you can also use it to rip music off other people's iPods so you can have it on your computer too. it's a pretty neat program but it's only useful in certain situations.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #9 on: 21 Jul 2008, 16:20 »
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iTunes certainly demands lower memory usage

If you're trying to synch your iPod and iTunes, so that every time you plug your iPod into the computer it automatically absorbs any new music you've put on iTunes, then iTunes is a gigantic, slavering, memory-devouring beast of a program. Admittedly I'm using a laptop so the processor is pretty small, but with a relatively full 30 gig iPod I now have to copy music from iTunes to the iPod manually, thirty songs or so at a time, otherwise iTunes crashes.

. . . Damn, I'm sick of putting that stupid little "i" in front of everything.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #10 on: 21 Jul 2008, 20:10 »
No, my computer runs Crysis pretty well and iTunes is still a huge resource hog.  It's only a 2-gig Nano, so I don't have it syncing every time I plug it in, because I have 60 GB on my HDD and another 130 on my external.  It just doesn't seem to be at all optimized for PCs, I've never seen it running slow on a Mac.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #11 on: 21 Jul 2008, 21:20 »
It seems that the performance of iTunes depends on how much music you've got in it.  I used to have about 80gb in it and it ran like a dog.  Then I started over and only started adding things that I wanted to play at the time and it was far more responsive.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #12 on: 22 Jul 2008, 11:34 »
Does anyone know a good tool for getting podcasts off an iPod? EphPod, will take music off but doesn't seem to be able to see podcasts, and I'd just like to be able to back up the stuff I have, in case this iPod gets stolen or something, like my last one did.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #13 on: 22 Jul 2008, 17:15 »
Is Anapod still around?  There were a few apps similar to EphPod around a couple of years ago, maybe one of them might help.  I think there's also something called yPod that just gives you total file access to your iPod?  Something like that.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #14 on: 22 Jul 2008, 19:03 »
Anapod is still around but it is annoying to steal it, since it is no longer free. Yamipod is pretty easy to use and also free.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #15 on: 23 Jul 2008, 07:37 »
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #16 on: 12 Sep 2008, 09:34 »
Sorry for resurrecting this guys, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to get iTunes to play an entire playlist in shuffle.  To clarify, I know how to turn on shuffle, but I can't figure out how to play more than one song at a time.  iTunes help has been no help at all, and a quick google is giving me the same answers.

I know there has to be an answer staring me in the face, but I just can't see it.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #17 on: 12 Sep 2008, 12:58 »
I'm...not sure you can do that.

What you can do is play your music using the Party Shuffle method, and ask it to draw music from your created playlist. That will in effect do what you're asking for.
If you want to do it on your iPod however, I think you're completely out of luck.
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #18 on: 12 Sep 2008, 13:17 »
No, there is!

Start playing your playlist, and then press the middle button until you get to the shuffle page (it will be set to off) and then just go to songs instead. That will shuffle just the tracks that are playing (i.e. your playlist).
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #19 on: 12 Sep 2008, 13:39 »
Thank you very much!
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Re: Ipod software
« Reply #20 on: 13 Sep 2008, 08:57 »
Okay, that still doesn't work, because Party Shuffle says my entire library does not contain songs that Party Shuffle can use...do I have to let iTunes fuck up my shit for this to work?

Edit: Nevermind, apparently you're supposed to have all of your songs checked, but this wasn't mentioned anywhere.
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