My iPod died

[Razor X]

I have my entire music collection, with just a few exceptions, on my iPod and was getting close to reaching my old one's capacity of 80GB.

Thats a lot of music. I didnt know Donny and Marie had released so many records

*running away, very very quickly*

 

What are these records of which you speak?   

[Chavster]

 

[TheSlyBear]

As someone who grew up though 45s, LPs, 8-tracks, cassettes and then CDs, I love the convenience of having all my music available on something that fits in my pocket. Not to mention audiobooks, eBooks, calendar, contacts, and scores of other useful info and apps.

I never would have predicted it growing up...

[Razor X]

 I love the convenience of having all my music available on something that fits in my pocket.

Me too.  I have hundreds of CDs; I lost count at 500 and that was a very long time ago.  Storage becomes a problem after a while.  Now that everything is converted to digital, I get to hear a lot more of my collection because I don't have to go searching for the CD when I want to hear something.

[Laser Man]

I have a lot of CDs, but don't seem to find the time to rip them to the digital format for my iPod.  As a result, I'm stuck in limbo between technologies!

[Razor X]

Just do a few at at time while you're visiting SBG.  

[Chavster]

An average CD only takes 2-3 minutes to copy onto your hard drive. As the X Man says, just throw a CD into your computer when you're surfing and it wont become a chore.

If you do it, I recommend you back them up at least once, onto an external drive. Dont do what I did - I spent forever transferring all my CDs onto my computer's internal hard drive, and I spent even longer organizing photographs into albums, only to have my hard drive crash and get wiped a couple of days later 

I dont even have my iTunes library on my computer's hard drive anymore. Its all stored on an external hard drive, with a copy on yet another external hard drive. Better safe than sorry

[Razor X]

An average CD only takes 2-3 minutes to copy onto your hard drive. As the X Man says, just throw a CD into your computer when you're surfing and it wont become a chore.

If you do it, I recommend you back them up at least once, onto an external drive. Dont do what I did - I spent forever transferring all my CDs onto my computer's internal hard drive, and I spent even longer organizing photographs into albums, only to have my hard drive crash and get wiped a couple of days later 

I dont even have my iTunes library on my computer's hard drive anymore. Its all stored on an external hard drive, with a copy on yet another external hard drive. Better safe than sorry

Or look into online, offsite storage for all of your hard drive's files, not just your music.  This is worth every penny:

http://www.carbonite.com/en/home/online-backup

[Chavster]

I tried that, it was awful for me because my upload connection speed is so slow, something like 1.1mb, but it does look good for anyone who doesnt live somewhere the internet/phone cables were manufactured around the time they built the Great Wall of China.

[tomgallagher]

 I love the convenience of having all my music available on something that fits in my pocket.

Me too.  I have hundreds of CDs; I lost count at 500 and that was a very long time ago.  Storage becomes a problem after a while.  Now that everything is converted to digital, I get to hear a lot more of my collection because I don't have to go searching for the CD when I want to hear something.

That used to be so aggravating.

[Arnie]

There have been times when I thought mine died, it is going on 5 years now...but the procedure that GSGUK described always did the trick.

[Chavster]

Well the thing with Apple products is that there is often a quick fix. Sometimes you need to press a particular couple of buttons, or sometimes you just need to switch on and off (depending on what the problem actually is to begin with).

The other thing with Apple products is that they're not big on instruction manuals, so unless you just happen to know which buttons to press, you're kinda screwed

I had a problem with my iPad this morning. The icons on the home screen were literally dancing and moving around the screen. I just turned it off and on again, and its fine now.

[-Doug-]

I had a problem with my iPad this morning. The icons on the home screen were literally dancing and moving around the screen. I just turned it off and on again, and its fine now.

Were they jiggiling in place? If so, you probably just pressed and held an app icon down for a short period of time. When they are jiggiling like that, you can rearrange them by dragging them to new locations or delete them by clicking the 'x' over the app icon.

You can go here, http://support.apple.com/manuals/ to find the manual for a particular Apple product.

Hope that helps!

[Chavster]

Nope, not jiggling I have 2 iPads, an iPhone 4 and a Touch, so Im definitely familiar with the holding-down-an-icon thingy. Im forever doing that in error. It was as if they were ice-skating across the screen. Floating around from one side of the screen to another It was kinda spooky! Anyway I just turned it off and back on again and it was fine. I think I'll plug it into iTunes this morning and reset the software because there may be a bug.

Both my iPads are the original version, and I'm really trying hard not to buy an iPad 2. I dont NEED an iPad 2, but I'm a gadget freak, especially when it comes to Apple stuff   My only hope is that the rumours are wrong, and that they're not on to verge of releasing iPhone 5, because if they are, I'm going to need to take out a mortgage on my house

Hope that helps!

Thank you

[-Doug-]

Never heard of that happening but I'm glad that you were able to resolve the issue.

I have an iPad and have used an iPad2 and didn't have as much gadget envy as I thought I would. It's nice don't get me wrong, but not enough of a change from the original to make me want the newer model. That and the fact that I don't have a few extra hundred dollars laying around.