[Young Spade]

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If anything, I did a light comparison when I was at the apple store... and the New ipods still can't keep up with my Samsung p3. which probably means it won't do much next to the cowon s9 either. Don't own the sonys so can't comment there...

What equipment did you use? But you can't really hold those too acvountable as you don't know the bitrate of the files.... unless you do know :/
 
I'm thinking about buying one actually...

 

[grokit]

 

[leng jai]

Yes an instore demo using stock buds and unknown songs is always a good way measure performance.
 
This seems to be widely available now in Aus but I don't want to buy one unless I can buy a case for it on the same day. Wish they would lose the chrome backing, that scratches if you look at it the wrong way.

 

[gopack87]

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Yes an instore demo using stock buds and unknown songs is always a good way measure performance.
 
This seems to be widely available now in Aus but I don't want to buy one unless I can buy a case for it on the same day. Wish they would lose the chrome backing, that scratches if you look at it the wrong way.

+1 I usually like cases by Speck Products for ipods but they don't have one yet for the new touch, so I will wait until they finally do.

 

[Young Spade]

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+1 I usually like cases by Speck Products for ipods but they don't have one yet for the new touch, so I will wait until they finally do.

Hmm. I think I'm going to go for a horizontal leather case; I like keeping my gadgets case free... and having two on my hips (one for the phone) will make it even better

 

[punkfloyd]

hardgraft.com make some nice iphone/ipod cases. Too bad it's pricey. 

 

[shigzeo]

You could always MAKE a case for your iPod/iPad. My wife made this badgirl, the Elephant flowergirl iPad case (ぞうのハナコ) for less than 8$. It took a bit of time and a trip to a great part of town, but it was certainly worthwhile. I'll be making something similar for my iPad and later iPod touch.

 

[xx0xx]

 
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My real big issue with iTunes is that you can't save how your iTunes library is setup... or at least I haven't figured out yet. Say I buy a new PC or Mac have to do a reinstall, the way iTunes is set up with your song ratings, play lists, etc is gone.
 

 
If you make a backup of your iTunes folder, you should be able to drop that in on the new system and copy over the defaults once iTunes is installed again. I keep my music in a separate folder (and drive actually) away from the iTunes folder. If Windows fails and I have to reinstall, if I copy my iTunes folder backup over the new iTunes folder, iTunes will be already pointing to the right files and I'll be good to go, and it's much less data to backup for iTunes (no music necessary). I do backup my music as well though, because just my luck, Windows will be fine but my songs will get deleted or something crazy.
 

 

[elfary]

Yep, all you have to do to move into another system is overwrite the new itunes directory with your old itunes one and that's it (Of course keeping the files themselves on the same harddisk that they were stored or in a new harddisk under the exact same name path).
 
Actually iTunes dir is just an inventory of what do you have and where do you have it.

 

[absoluNewbie]

is there any way to NOT use itune to upload music to ipod touch? like a rockbox or something similar?

 

[whistler]

 
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is there any way to NOT use itune to upload music to ipod touch? like a rockbox or something similar?

 http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/  will do it.

 

[absoluNewbie]

i mean with rockbox, we can just drag and drop files, mediamonkey does this too? i dont have an ipod touch to test, im considering buying one, but not if i have to use itune

 

[Young Spade]

^I'm connecting my 4G Touch right now and I've been using media monkey. I'll post my findings in a few minutes 

 

[koong89]

i planning 2 get 1 soon...do u think 8gb is sufficient???

 

[voicemaster]

Definitely get the 32GB at least