32 GB iPod Touch

[gaypalmsprings]

OK - so the iPod Touch is now 32 gigabytes - but at $499, is this too pricey? Should I buy one now, wait until there is a 64 GB model, or wait until the price drops at least $100?

[jackstraw94086]

Moore's Law is a harsh mistress.

[shakermaker113]

nice. I wonder if it's much larger physically. it still pales in comparison to the 160 gb you can get with a classic, but it's a huge improvement over the 16 gb.

500 does sound a bit pricey though. I'd hesitate.

[marooko]

I'm feeling like this about the PS3. I say wait.

By the way, GPS, what's a good bar in PS that my girl and I can go to where I won't get felt upon?

[wmgaretjax]

it won't bump up to the 64GB for a long while. because the touch is ssd it would be incredibly expensive right now.

I'm just surprised the iphone is still without 3G. Once it has it, I'm buying. Nice to know they are still interesting in bumping up the harddrive space on it though. Ideally it would have 32gb and 3G when I bought it. I'm willing to hold out a while too...

[HunterGather]

I was actually waiting until they made the Touch a larger HD.
Preferred at LEAST 20gb, but 32 is great.

But not for $500.
I'd hold off 'til the price drops.
I'll still use my 5g black video ipod 'til then...

[ruetheday]

32 gigs is shit. I need to get the 160 gig.

[paulb]

fuck the touch...160gb classic is perfect...

[TomAz]

my 80 gb classic is now about 80% full. I should sell it and get the 160. shouldn't i? tell me I should.

"well, dear, I had to, you see, everyone on the internet was making fun of me for only having an 80"

[kreutz2112]

it won't bump up to the 64GB for a long while. because the touch is ssd it would be incredibly expensive right now.

I'm just surprised the iphone is still without 3G. Once it has it, I'm buying. Nice to know they are still interesting in bumping up the harddrive space on it though. Ideally it would have 32gb and 3G when I bought it. I'm willing to hold out a while too...

what is 3G?

[Cpt. Funkaho]

Tom, you should get the 160 for sure. Maybe pick up a Mac Pro or two while you're at it. And an iPhone, now that they have them for business accounts.





Disclosure: I own Apple stock.

[Cpt. Funkaho]

what is 3G?

It's faster wireless cell service. Makes browsing the internet on your phone way more zippy.

[paulb]

my 80 gb classic is now about 80% full. I should sell it and get the 160. shouldn't i? tell me I should.

"well, dear, I had to, you see, everyone on the internet was making fun of me for only having an 80"

yes you should.

[wmgaretjax]

funk nailed it. if you've toyed around with the Iphone you know the internet browsing is choppy at best. 3G phones are fast as fuck and make a huge difference.

I really could use the 160Gb though...

[kreutz2112]

I want a third party app. to be released for the iPhone that enables you to connect to a remote server that contains all your songs and has a user-friendly interface for streaming those songs.

[Cpt. Funkaho]

I want a third party app. to be released for the iPhone that enables you to connect to a remote server that contains all your songs and has a user-friendly interface for streaming those songs.

It'll happen soon. Apple is releasing the iPhone SDK (developer's kit) to third-party developers this month. Since there are already people who have hacked together apps for jailbroken iPhones, I'm expecting a flood of third-party apps within a couple of months.

[merznerve]

itouch with 32 gb is still not worth gettting. that's like buying a macbook air when you could get a pro.

i would get an iphone if you need the wireless internet and have a separate mp3 player like the 160 or 80 gb classic. the 80gb it's a generous size, and is pretty cheap (249+tax). my last ipod was an 80gb video ipod just got stolen last month. thinking about getting the 160gb.

[gaypalmsprings]

I'm feeling like this about the PS3. I say wait.

By the way, GPS, what's a good bar in PS that my girl and I can go to where I won't get felt upon?

LOL. I don't go to bars. If I did & I was str8, I'd go to a biker bar.

[karecares]

It'll happen soon. Apple is releasing the iPhone SDK (developer's kit) to third-party developers this month. Since there are already people who have hacked together apps for jailbroken iPhones, I'm expecting a flood of third-party apps within a couple of months.
what does jailbroken mean?

[whynotsmile99]

i have a 60 gig Ipod photo, got it right when it came out. Spent way too much on it and its starting to shit on me. Never had a problem with my Ipod before, but now it is skipping songs. New stuff i upload is fine, no problem. But stuff ive had on my Ipod for years just wont play. I'll hit play album, it will bring up the song and then instantly go to the song right after that, which wont play either.

When I plug it into the computer I can listen to the songs fine though.

Anyone else have this problem? I sorta want to sell it to get the 160 classic, but im thinking about holding off and going with that sexy Ipod touch when it gets cheaper

[prettydirtything]

I want a third party app. to be released for the iPhone that enables you to connect to a remote server that contains all your songs and has a user-friendly interface for streaming those songs.

the existing approach is to use a web based system through safari. For example, EyeTV 3.0 allows you to stream recorded video onto a PC, touch, or iPhone. When the SDK is released, their should be even more options. I want an Iphone/touch version of Salling Clicker!


I'm just surprised the iphone is still without 3G. Once it has it, I'm buying. Nice to know they are still interesting in bumping up the harddrive space on it though. Ideally it would have 32gb and 3G when I bought it. I'm willing to hold out a while too...
i heard the problem on 3G chipsets is power consumption. My buddies ATT/HTC Tilt has terrible battery life, even though its large and clunky.

what does jailbroken mean?

a "jailbroken" Iphone has hacked firmware so non-certified 3rd party apps can be installed. Each time Apple releases new official firmware, it breaks previous unauthorized firmware modification efforts.

i have a 60 gig Ipod photo, got it right when it came out. Spent way too much on it and its starting to shit on me. Never had a problem with my Ipod before, but now it is skipping songs.

Have you tried restoring the iPod to factory settings and resyncing, or syncing to another library? On a mac you can mount the iPod as a firewire disc and check it with the pre-installed disc utility. You ned to determine if it is the quick wheel or the hard drive that has failed....

[menikmati]

i would buy a new ipod 160gb if there was actually some decent software out there. iTunes blows, Winamp likes to freeze 75% of the time, and well, everything else isn't even worth talking about. Plus I don't commute on the ferries and stuff no more, so I don't have time to just sit down with a ipod and listen....usually when I got my headphones on, they're plugged into the computer. But maybe I should get one for the car ride down? I dunno yet.

[HunterGather]

I will most likely update to the new TOUCH ipods when my current ipod starts to die out.
I have noticed that the battery life isn't the way it used to be.
I'd prolly get a new one instead of getting the battery replaced.
But I think I will still hold out for a larger capacity TOUCH. 32 sounded ok at first, but I dunno.
40 Would have been great.
But still...$500? I'll wait til the price drops.

[TomAz]

i would buy a new ipod 160gb if there was actually some decent software out there. iTunes blows, Winamp likes to freeze 75% of the time, and well, everything else isn't even worth talking about. Plus I don't commute on the ferries and stuff no more, so I don't have time to just sit down with a ipod and listen....usually when I got my headphones on, they're plugged into the computer. But maybe I should get one for the car ride down? I dunno yet.

please provide specific examples of functionality that iTunes lacks that you would like to see it have. I will write a letter to Mr Jobs making sure it gets incorporated into the next version.

srsly. iTunes isn't that bad. is it? it works for me.

[wmgaretjax]

itunes is great until your library starts to get ridiculously large. nowadays I only use Itunes to quickly sort my new music... i play most of my music out of VLC actually.

[leo01g]

Itunes works fine for me too. I have more than 5,000 songs too. Gay i would buy the itouch unless you want to wait for another year to buy it cheaper or a bigger size.

[amyzzz]

my 80 gb classic is now about 80% full. I should sell it and get the 160. shouldn't i? tell me I should.

"well, dear, I had to, you see, everyone on the internet was making fun of me for only having an 80"
I will buy your 80gb.

[ruetheday]

itunes is great until your library starts to get ridiculously large. nowadays I only use Itunes to quickly sort my new music... i play most of my music out of VLC actually.

really, I have 24,592 songs on my itunes and I don't have any issues.

[amyzzz]

itunes = :poo

[kreutz2112]

itunes is great until your library starts to get ridiculously large. nowadays I only use Itunes to quickly sort my new music... i play most of my music out of VLC actually.

I think I have a pretty large library and have heard that itunes stalls because of this largeness. How big is your lib?

[wmgaretjax]

My library is 840gbs...

[whynotsmile99]

itunes = :poo

whose that in your avatar?

[whynotsmile99]

My library is 840gbs...

god damn !

[amyzzz]

avatar: Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horn from Twin Peaks.

[kreutz2112]

My library is 840gbs...

Well I have a little to go then. Mine is 660gb. My itunes still runs ok though. I have noticed it runs slow sometimes. That may be more of a processor thing than a software prob. though. Also, how many songs is that? Are the majority of your albums in MP3? FLAC?

[wmgaretjax]

it started to poop out for me at about 700. I'm on a mac book pro, and part of the problem might also be that I constantly have quite a few apps open that do some serious business, so I can't really afford to have my music app be a resource hog because of my library. That's why I opt for VLC. I use spotlight to track the album I want and then drag and drop. leaves system resources free for the important stuff.

[kreutz2112]

hmmm...well I guess I have 40 more gigs to go.

[leo01g]

it started to poop out for me at about 700. I'm on a mac book pro, and part of the problem might also be that I constantly have quite a few apps open that do some serious business, so I can't really afford to have my music app be a resource hog because of my library. That's why I opt for VLC. I use spotlight to track the album I want and then drag and drop. leaves system resources free for the important stuff.

700 gigabytes? damn, how do you store that? you must have more than a terabyte of hard drive space. Well nevermind i guess that is possible. Is that like 200,000 songs?

[kreutz2112]

I have a 500 gig external HD and a 250 gig external HD. Thats how I store my music. I want to buy a terabyte ext. HD though.

[jackstraw94086]

I have a 500 gig external HD and a 250 gig external HD. Thats how I store my music. I want to buy a terabyte ext. HD though.

you missed the boat on those at CompUSA up here last week. They're liquidating everying and were selling 1TB wireless storage centers for something like $400.

[TomAz]

My library is 840gbs...

how much of that have you actually listened to?

how much of it could you identify artist/song if you had it on random play?

just curious. no criticism implied.

[wmgaretjax]

I have 4 500gb drives. and it's about 130,000 songs.

[wmgaretjax]

how much of that have you actually listened to?

how much of it could you identify artist/song if you had it on random play?

just curious. no criticism implied.

It has all been listened to at least once.

Before the music goes into my library, I listen to it. The exception to this might be the 8gbs of Beethoven that I'm not quite finished with yet.

A lot of it would be tough to identify the song on random play, but I'm willing to bet I could generally get the artist right. A huge amount of this stuff is classical or experimental and once you spend some time with it, it's pretty stuck in there.

[menikmati]

all iTunes is, is a glorified Quicktime, which hogs up as much processor power and RAM available. Not only is it trying to play your mp3's but its trying to add 1 second fade in/outs at each song during playback, trying to caterogrize and play all your video files, link and connect to the internet in order to get you to go to the store and grab album art and news related current events, and trying to get you to download the latest trailers in 1080p...it's all total bullshit. They're basically trying to take over your computer for all your media needs (running a bunch of shit in the background etc...), while ignoring the fact, that in order to do that, about 95% of the computers will crash and freeze up and be unusable due to all that garbage and wasted resources.

Winamp is like the same thing, just a tad less worse. Just give me a simple program that will

A) play mp3's and .flac files
B) allow you to tag files
C) import folders into library

nothing else.

[chiapet]

I used to have a lot of problems with iTunes on Windows, but that was < 2006 and on laptops running win2k with very little memory. Haven't had any problems in a couple of years, with up to maybe 400-500gb in my library. These days I don't keep as much in iTunes library and use it only for syncing. What's the point of keeping a few hundred gb in iTunes when my ipod can only hold 60?

I still haven't managed to fill up the 60gb video that I've had for a couple of years. I'm lazy and listen to the same 30 or so albums all the time.

[petty]

Depends...wait if you already have an ipod.

OK - so the iPod Touch is now 32 gigabytes - but at $499, is this too pricey? Should I buy one now, wait until there is a 64 GB model, or wait until the price drops at least $100?

[4Ransom]

my 80 gb classic is now about 80% full. I should sell it and get the 160. shouldn't i? tell me I should.

"well, dear, I had to, you see, everyone on the internet was making fun of me for only having an 80"

you should. i got a 160gb for xmas and couldnt be happier with it. i am in awe of how long the battery lasts. seriously, it will play over 24 hours straight on one battery. thats amazing if you ask me.

itunes is fine for me so far. but right now my library is only about 50 gb. you people and your 700gb libraries are fucking insane. it is a bit of a resource hog, but i turn off the store and all that other bs, and i dont make it my default player for anything, so its not really taking over my computer. real player was the worst at that shit.

[merznerve]

i just got a 160gb ipod! woot

[ruetheday]

My library is 840gbs...

That's insane, mine is 90 gigs and I haven't listened to most of it in a long time.

[thestripe]

840 gb? There must be alot of shitty music on your computer. Not all of it I'm sure, but I'm willing to bet a good chunk of that 840 is not great.


EDIT: I delete shitty music from my computer all the time. You know, trail and error.

[gaypalmsprings]

how much of the music was purchased, & how much was stolen?

[thestripe]

I see your point GPS.

[marooko]

LOL. I don't go to bars. If I did & I was str8, I'd go to a biker bar.

So as a straight man in PS, I can either experiment, get stabbed and or shot, or spend a shit load of money? Man I hope I get a Sunday ticket. Thanks GPS.

[wmgaretjax]

840 gb? There must be alot of shitty music on your computer. Not all of it I'm sure, but I'm willing to bet a good chunk of that 840 is not great.


EDIT: I delete shitty music from my computer all the time. You know, trail and error.

yeah trail and error. that's the method I use for deleting the shitty music I download too.

I delete 90% of what I download. the 840 is what has stuck over the last 6 years and stuff that has continued to stick after my purges.

[whynotsmile99]

got any Beatles or Michael Jackson?

[shakermaker113]

I will most likely update to the new TOUCH ipods when my current ipod starts to die out.
I have noticed that the battery life isn't the way it used to be.
I'd prolly get a new one instead of getting the battery replaced.

what? my 160gb has fantastic battery life. I only charge it once a month or so, and I use it for at least an hour a day. it's significantly better than my old ipod.

[TomAz]

all iTunes is, is a glorified Quicktime, which hogs up as much processor power and RAM available. Not only is it trying to play your mp3's but its trying to add 1 second fade in/outs at each song during playback, trying to caterogrize and play all your video files, link and connect to the internet in order to get you to go to the store and grab album art and news related current events, and trying to get you to download the latest trailers in 1080p...it's all total bullshit. They're basically trying to take over your computer for all your media needs (running a bunch of shit in the background etc...), while ignoring the fact, that in order to do that, about 95% of the computers will crash and freeze up and be unusable due to all that garbage and wasted resources.

Winamp is like the same thing, just a tad less worse. Just give me a simple program that will

A) play mp3's and .flac files
B) allow you to tag files
C) import folders into library

nothing else.

thank you for that explanation. I see your point very clearly now.

[TomAz]

I will buy your 80gb.

if you do you have to promise to listen to everything i have on there now. which includes things like, you know, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, etc. stuff you'd love, i know it.

[4Ransom]

what? my 160gb has fantastic battery life. I only charge it once a month or so, and I use it for at least an hour a day. it's significantly better than my old ipod.

yea, same here. i still cant believe how long this damn battery lasts. that was my one complaint with my old ipod. i gotta give it to apple for fixing that. now if they can only get their iphone to sync with an exchange server...

[menikmati]

just curious, for anyone that has the 160gb and has it filled up or almost filled up....does it tend to run slower or anything?

[kreutz2112]

Batteries gradually get worse. When I got my 30gig video like 2 or 3 years aog the battery was great, it lasted like 16 hours. It holds a charge for about 5 hours now.

[wmgaretjax]

got any Beatles or Michael Jackson?

Bea-what?

[amyzzz]

if you do you have to promise to listen to everything i have on there now. which includes things like, you know, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, etc. stuff you'd love, i know it.
How about I listen to half of what's on there?

[TomAz]

then i double the price.

[amyzzz]

What's the price?

[TomAz]

I dunno, but whatever it is, it's twice.

[amyzzz]

I'll take it.

[whynotsmile99]

My PowerBook's charging adapter just busted. No lights at all. Sucks. There goes another 90 bucks. Anyone know if theres a cheaper powerbook charger than the one at the mac store?

[kreutz2112]

ebay?

[wmgaretjax]

My PowerBook's charging adapter just busted. No lights at all. Sucks. There goes another 90 bucks. Anyone know if theres a cheaper powerbook charger than the one at the mac store?

Is it just a short? read up on soldering and do it yourself for 50 cents.

[canexplain]

we have two 30gig mp3 players that are now 6 years old i think .... they were the shit back then, and now they are just little babies .... canx**

[Cpt. Funkaho]

I just bought a 16GB iPhone because my old TDMA one is hell of jilapidated and they are cutting off their TDMA service on March 1 because they don't make enough money from it.

My old phone is a Nokia brick phone whose keypad I have lost. I have to poke the receptors with a sharp implement to dial. This is every bit as retarded-looking as it sounds. It is made more so by my cumbersome flippers.

[kreutz2112]

hahaha