iPod Audio

[Bluez]

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Originally Posted by zack A lot of the earlier 4G iPods had these problems, but it seems to have been corrected with newer models. When the hard drive is spinning you will hear background noise. Lossless tracks make the hard drive spin more often, so you will hear it more often on lossless tracks. You can test this by creating a few 10 minute silent tracks and encoding them lossless, and playing them back. Exchange your iPod for a new one.

Apple have not fixed this problem yet.People just keep exchanging till they find a unit that doesn't suffer.

 

[mavis]

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Originally Posted by Bluez Apple have not fixed this problem yet.People just keep exchanging till they find a unit that doesn't suffer.

Is it possible to go to an Apple store if you didn't buy the iPod there, and get a new unit?

I just discovered (today!) an audible, high-pitched whine when the HDD is being accessed, but my iPod is a month old and I didn't buy it at the Apple store. I think I'd like to get it replaced, although the noise is very very faint, I still notice it now ... Then again, my iPod is in PERFECT condition cosmetically, and I don't want a refurbished unit ...

Suggestions?

 

[Hase]

I just encoded silence in Apple Lossless. I used one of the 12 or 13, five second silent tracks at the beginning of the Korn album, Follow the Leader. When I play it, no static. None. No matter how loud. Is this evidence that I am not having the problem in question?

Also, maybe I was hearing what Justanotheruser described. I will try the high quality AAC thing and see if that is it.

Lastly, this shows my naievety about the recording industry, but doesn't a mic in a perfectly quiet room still pick up a slight amount of "static" or "hiss?" A mic in a room with people moving and making other noises should be generating more of this (is it called...) white noise? I keep thinking that this might be what I am hearing because, as I said, I have to turn it up pretty loud to hear it.