Question about iPod crashing

[robscomputer]

Hi,

I'm a new member, been reading the posts here about the different players and headphones. Yesterday based upon the great reviews made my first purchase for some Shure E2Cs.

I now need to find a nice MP3 digital audio player but still undecided between going with the iPod or a cheaper player such as the Iriver H10 or even a small Creative Zen Micro.

I had purchased a iPod 40GB 4th gen from Costco last year but while using the iPod over a period of a week, the device crashed twice on me. Plus one crash was serious enough to need a new firmware upgrade, I had to reload all of my music back on the player. This was all done on my Windows XP Pro system at home using the Firewire (IEEE1394) connection.

Now I'm open to both formats, lots of AAC music I bought from iTunes (about 600 songs) but I'm also testing out Napster and the WMA format. It would be time consuming but nothing more than I'm used to if I wanted to burn my AAC music then rip it to WMA.

Any comments if the iPod is more stable now with the newer version or should I consider going with another player? I heard the iPod is more stable on a Mac computer but for now I can't afford two different systems.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Bob_McBob]

My friends and I have owned iPods for a combined total of a couple of years, and we've only had one problem (my brother just had to reset it by holding a couple of buttons). A lot of electronic devices have very occasional glitches that can cause them to crash. I've managed to crash:

Original Nintendo
Original Gameboy
Sega Genesis
Sega Dreamcast
My Philips DVD player
etc.

Even my Motorola phone locked up last night.

 

[chrisfromalbany]

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Originally Posted by robscomputer Hi, I'm a new member, been reading the posts here about the different players and headphones. Yesterday based upon the great reviews made my first purchase for some Shure E2Cs. I now need to find a nice MP3 digital audio player but still undecided between going with the iPod or a cheaper player such as the Iriver H10 or even a small Creative Zen Micro. I had purchased a iPod 40GB 4th gen from Costco last year but while using the iPod over a period of a week, the device crashed twice on me. Plus one crash was serious enough to need a new firmware upgrade, I had to reload all of my music back on the player. This was all done on my Windows XP Pro system at home using the Firewire (IEEE1394) connection. Now I'm open to both formats, lots of AAC music I bought from iTunes (about 600 songs) but I'm also testing out Napster and the WMA format. It would be time consuming but nothing more than I'm used to if I wanted to burn my AAC music then rip it to WMA. Any comments if the iPod is more stable now with the newer version or should I consider going with another player? I heard the iPod is more stable on a Mac computer but for now I can't afford two different systems. Thanks, Rob

Generally I found with having three ipods myself and my brother having two ipod. It comes down to the ipod itself. I had a 20 and my brother had a 15(3rd gen). His always had issue mine never did. Crashed.. Wouldn't come up on in iTunes. Ect. All kinds of things. He redid the firmware. Talked tech support. The ok for a few weeks. Crash again. Eventually my brother send the ipod back and get a new one from apple. OK a new one be a reconditioned one. After he got the reconditioned one he didn't have any issues. I think either send the ipod back if you can or get a diffrerent one.

I still have the third Gen. with no issues and a 4th Gen photo 60 gig with no issues.

As for the WMA, it is a pain. Nothing besides an outside application for converting your WMAs into MP3 before hand is going to help.

I download from www.allofmp3.com, there prices are the cheapest and have 320 AAC. The quality of the material is as good as iTunes. But there aren't an tags so I can share the mp3s with anyone.