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 Ooohh Nooo! March 15, 2010
Gribble (Reading, England)
Yes it's all very sleek and beautiful, holds a shed load of tunes and at first worked fine but there are problems here.
After six months it started skipping or missing half a song and clicking on to the next, a month after that it's giving up all together and just shuts down every 20 mins or so and eventually takes you back to the start up screen. To annoying for words considering how much it cost.
No doubt a hard drive related problem as most seem to be but it has always lived in a good quality case and never been knocked around.
Also we have the disapointment with the useless head phones. Every one has personal favourites of course but at this price it would be nice to recieve somthing that would at least do as a backup pair. These are only fit for the bin.
The volume is too low ! I have a 2GB ATMT mp3 player that cost £10 which has better sound and volume than this. It also has an EQ that you can adjust to your own preference which the i pod doesn't !
Not to kean on the navigation wheel, why not hold down a button as normal instead of spinning your thumb round in endless circles. Some people love it though so personal taste that one.
Battery life isn,t the best, got caught short a couple of times. PLEASE !!! (and this goes for most manerfacturers) replacable batteries would be great. Im not hard wired to computers and power points and solar chargers only work well with great banks of extra panels and loads of sun. Mobile phones and camerers have them, why not the i pod? Even my £10 mp3 player has this, making it truly mobile. (up a mountain,nearest plug socket a good 400 miles away. oh no the battery ran out! Never mind i'll pop in a spare one.)
I tunes is not a favourite of mine. There is a lack of control with the naming of artists and song which i tunes can get wrong along with album cover art work. Winamp is a much better tool all round or there's even media player.
So after less than 9 months my i pod gets sent back for a full refund (bless Amazon for having the best customer service ever) with postage refund as well. I shall have to make do with my trusty £10 mp3 player (6 years old, droped,kicked,sat on and still going strong)until i commit to another player. Im reluctant to go for a creative zen as they also seem to have a lot of issues. It would be nice to see a company like Yamaha, Roland or Korg who understand the needs and qualities of there customers to produce a music player. Maybe it would give a new standard for the likes of apple to live up to.
Not impressed and jumping of the apple cart, hope some of this waffle is of help.
 ipod 160gb March 14, 2010
I. S. Shankland (abronhill cumbernauld glasgow)
i was looking to replace my old ipod 30 gb which i also bought from amazon....which while it worked was great....the battery died so i decided to upgrade and went for the 160gb.... i have a lot of music but this just swallowed up my collection, huge storage, movies on it as well....well worth the price....very happy cheers amazon :)
Increase your sound !!! March 2, 2010
Nick (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is for all those people who are having volume issues with this iPod, I did notice that when I bought this iPod it was easily quieter than my wifes previous 60gb she had purchased a few years previous. I looked up how to increase the volume in addition to just changing the volume setting on the iPod itself. Here is a real quick and easy way. This is how to do it on a Mac but on a PC I guess it's just a drop down box from the top. If you highlight your entire music library on iTunes and select "get info" (command & I on a mac) you get a pop up box with all the info including artwork etc. Click the options tab and select volume adjustment then move the bar accross to the right to 100%. then hit ok and depending on the size of you library to the time it takes to update, I have around 30gb and it took a couple of minutes. Then just sync your iPod and the volume has increased I would say by 20% or so. If you add to your library you will have to select that song/album and repeat the process but I go in once a month and select all and it updates any new ones in seconds. Hope this helps and if anyone does this on a PC maybe you could post the keystrokes.
 Extremely Poor Technology. February 27, 2010
Re Clarke (Hertfordshire, UK)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
After paying a very considerable amount of money, for me anyway, being eighteen and in full time work earning minimum wage. I had fairly high hopes for this. I have owned many mp3 players but never joined the 'i-craze'. So I thought it was best for me to finally invest in an ipod. I chose this as I own and listen to a great deal of music so believed it would be best to have a large GB.
I had no trouble downloading itunes and uploading my music the first time i attatched it. The ipod itself was very easy to use and overall a decent piece of technology which I was very happy to own.
However, I have only had this item 3 days and it now refuses to connect to my laptop. It doesn't show up in itunes that it is attatched, nor register on the ipod. Obviously I can't charge it, nor sync any more songs. So the computer tells me the ipod is corrupt. I trust itunes to fix it, but it ends up deleting all my songs.
I have gone back to attach it but again, it does not register on my ipod nor my computer that it is there. So at the moment i am stuck with no songs, a low battery, and an ipod that obviously doesn't want to communicate with my laptop.
I do not know whether this is a faulty product, a design flaw, or the fault of Amazon or Apple. Or even if it is my laptop, which is barely two months old and had no trouble working at all untill i downloaded itunes and attatched my ipod. I will however attempt to return the item to exchange it for a new one, or at this rate simply a refund. If by some miracle it ends up working i will gladly write a retraction to this review, but so far, i do not see that happening.
Overall, thoroughly dissapointed.
Phillz February 24, 2010
Mr. P. C. Clatworthy (Cornwall UK)
Having recently purchased the New Apple iPod Classic 160GB the only word I can use to explain Phillz iPod is awesome.
It far exceeds all of my expectations and I find the navigation simplistic. Recommned it 100%. Phillz.New Apple iPod classic 160GB - Black
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