Hey guys, I am having Ipod issues and I know alot of you know the ins and outs of them.

Here is my Prob. I have 2 nano's a 2nd gen 4 gig. and a 3rd gen 2 gig. All of my music is bought via I tunes or brought over from my cd collection. I have no pics on either of them, and no album books or anything like that.

On the 4 gig I have just under 200 songs and its full, and on the 2 gig 67 songs and its full. I have restored both of them.

Is there something I am missing or is apple claims of thousands of songs BS. The 4 gig is suppose to hold 1000 songs, and I am sure it varies on length etc. But come on 800 less songs.....:mad::mad:

If there is anything you guys think I am missing please advise otherwise looks like I am getting a Classic 60g which is suppose to hold 20,000 maybe I can get it to hold 1000. LOL

At what bitrate did you convert songs from your cd collection? That makes a huge difference on whether you can actually get 1000 songs on your ipod.

Do the math. If you rip your songs at say, 128k, you're looking at about 1meg a minute. If an average song size of about you're looking at about 1000 sogs.

You encode at 256k, you've just cut it down to 500 songs max, just like that.

You encode at apple lossless, and it's even worse...

yeah George.... Duh. (hehehehehhe)

wow i have no idea what he just said:confused:

me neither...LOL

Tune give it to me in terms I canunderstand. This is how i do it. I put a cd in and it asks do you want to add this to your library and I click yes. A few minutes later its in my itunes library. How do I check this bit rate.

In I-Tunes.

1. Edit
2. Preferences
3. Advances
4. Importing
5. The click on the pull down. Mine only has 128K, custom, and Spoken Podcast.

i have a 30gig video,
and i have over 5,000 songs,
70 music vidio's And over a 1,000 pictures.
And there is still 16 gigs available.

I loaded all my cd's to itune. plus ibuy songs and video from itunes.
I Tunes never asked me what bit rate to convert them to.


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Thanks guys, can I convert the already saved songs to the smaller bitrate or do I need to delete and re rip them to the itunes. I understand I will have to delete them form the ipod themself.

Thanks again.

It's kind of like hi-res digital pictures compared to lower res. The files get bigger with better resoultion/sound quality.

You most likely will have to re-rip them.

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bare with me here...

Traxxas I followed your instructions, but I have 3 pulldowns, and none say what you said. The pulldowns I have are:On CD insert, Import using, setting.

Setting one has auto or custom, and the custom activates a WAV encoder, but nothing with bitrate

cemeb4dk Wrote:bare with me here...

Traxxas I followed your instructions, but I have 3 pulldowns, and none say what you said. The pulldowns I have are:On CD insert, Import using, setting.

Setting one has auto or custom, and the custom activates a WAV encoder, but nothing with bitrate

Download the newest Itunes available. I think a new version came out within the last week. Mine has the pull down menu that TJ mentioned...

ok downloading 7.5

Thanks

I-tunes 7.4.3.1 is the version I have if that helps.

Edit...Did you just round up or is there another version available? lol

it told me 7.5

well I about give up... Still not the same drop downs....

George, I haven't tried this, but you may be able to burn the existing songs (Songs purchased from I-Tunes) to a CD , and re-rip them to your hard drive through Microsoft media center. For the CD's you have and are putting into your I-pod, just re-rip them with media Center, there is an option to change bitrate.

SLOW REVO Wrote:i have a 30gig video,
and i have over 5,000 songs,
70 music vidio's And over a 1,000 pictures.
And there is still 16 gigs available.

I loaded all my cd's to itune. plus ibuy songs and video from itunes.
I Tunes never asked me what bit rate to convert them to.


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HOW??? I have 1750 songs, 6 movies, and 50 some pictures and all I have left is 16 gigs! J/P Trying to save up and sell this one for the new Ipod touch!

Thanks Chris, I went into my media player and saw where I can change bitrate. I want to choose 128?????

DOes anyone know if I can check the bitrate of the stuff I saved before to see what Itunes saved it as?

ok does this sound about the rright size for a song of this length or too big. This is a song saved via a cd using I tunes: 25.5mb, 1411kbps, and the song is 2 1/2 minutes long

Goto your prefrences, then advanced, then import. Set the "import using:" dropdown too AAC. Then go to setting and pick 128kbps.

Sounds like you have "import using:" set to WAV. WAV files are non-compressed and take up to 10 times more space than a file that was encoded at 128k.

In itunes, right click on a song, then click on 'get info'. The first screen that pops up should be an info screen showing you the size, bitrate, formate and other usefull info.

You sure the rest of your memory isnt being used up by a photo gallery ?
I remember when you had your first Ipod Nano that you had alot of pictures of your daughter on there. Maybe recheck what your Ipod is is dl'ing from Itunes.

Thanks Tune, will try after work...

Sanke your right i did, but when I added the songs and it filled the nanos memory it told me that it could not load the pics due to memory being full. So at least I learned music takes priority over pics...LOL

ya Snake...WTF

ok george heres what you do....

1. Boil a pot of water
2. Once boiling throw in Ipods
3. lower heat and let simmer for 35 minutes
4. Remove Ipods and let them cool.
5. Launch Ipods from your Balconey while i video tape the process.