My music would never be gone,ipod or mp3 player.I buy the records,i put them on them and whenever there is something that it is impossible to find i download it and burn it onto cd.If a law came into power tomorrow that said that only ancient walkemen were allowed,i'd just get one and spend a few days taping it or whatever.

I didn't read the rest of the thread so what I'm saying could very well be somewhat redundant. But I had an Iriver. It was a fucking cool thing until it started doing exactly the same as you described in your post. It'd hang itself whilst I was trying to put music on it - It'd hang itself when I chose certain songs on it to listen to - And it'd delete songs randomly. I got a store credit 'cause the fuckers wouldn't give our cash back. Happened to mine and the misses'. The company claimed it was a glitch in a batch of them andthe store claimed the policy was that, even though it was still under warranty, we had it longer than 1 month, therefore erasing any chance of cash back. That was about 6 months ago. Now we have store credit with nothing to buy.

In conclusion: Your MP3 player is fucked.

I love my iPod ashdjasdjassa
and now I love my Macbook too.

I am becoming an applemotherfucker.

I love my iPod ashdjasdjassa
and now I love my Macbook too.

I am becoming an applemotherfucker.

I buy the records too

I haven't had a lot of problems with mine, other than my UBS cord being half faulty (I say half because it works sometimes) and if I leave my iPod in the cold it goes crazy.
Honestly though, I wish I bought something cheaper that works better haha.

Hey man im an iriver user aswell, they rock, have a really sweet mic and i really prefer them over the pod, i have an E10 at the moment, its pretty sweet.

Is it true that if your iPod battery dies, you might as well throw it away?
Apparently, it's built in and isn't replacable.

yeah thanks for the advice etc.

it seems to be working like it was supposed to in the first place. i am just waiting for the day when it screws up again.

no
you can send it back to Apple who will replace the battery for you for a mere
€80!!!

what a fuckin liberty.

iMildredpierce.

It would be amazing.

Really? Fuck the iPod then.

my ipod saved my back. i used to carry around one of those 200 cd carriers in my backpack before i got one. i still buy music and still listen to cds and records, but honestly, the ipod is so damn convenient i don't think i'd ever use another portable cd player.

and applecare is always your best friend.

I know what you mean. I have a nano, which I thought I really would use all the time - and I honestly don't. I use it when I work out, which is not nearly as much as it should be, and when I put up posters for shows, which isn't really that often either.

Otherwise, I drive to work, so that wouldn't be smart, though an adapter might make that different. Still, I have a cd player in the car, and listen to KPSU (my station) quite a bit too, so the mp3s wouldn't add that much. And when I'm at home, I mostly want to hear stuff through speakers.

I'm glad I have the nano, but it's made me realize that I'm in a different place than when I used to walk around with a walkman all the time many years ago.

for a mere $45.00CAD you can get these "FM TUNERS" that will allow you to play your ipod through your car radio. Neat technology.

i have an ipod but its getting pretty old now and the battery life isn't so great. apart from that its never really given me much trouble... a coupla times i've had to reset it and reload the software on, but apart from that its pretty decent.

only problem is that apple products are full of toxic chemicals. great...

I don't like apples licenced, exclusive software you need to use in accordance with the ipod. Itunes is unbearable in my opinion. And what if you run a linux desktop? It doesn't offer the plug-and-load capabilities of other MP3 players, and it's as easy as loading songs onto a USB pen. On most others they're even compatible with putting songs on using windows media player. That's what I love about the zen

no, that's not true.

every Apple service provider will replace it for you for little cash

at least here in Bratislava.

Mine won't upload songs sometimes and it pisses me off so badly.

there's always sharepod (but i dunno if it works with new nanos and so on).