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 Increase your sound !!! March 2, 2010
Nick (UK)
1 out of 1 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 6 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
 Reluctantly impressed February 24, 2010
Marcus Horatius (Bucks)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I held off being sucked into the Apple-verse for as long as possible: just because everyone else on the planet thinks the darn things are funky and cool, why should I follow like a lemming? But when my 60Gb Creative Zen player's hard drive exploded in a cloud of blue smoke I reluctantly took the plunge.
Great things about this iPod: 160Gb storage. Compatible with everything. Once you've fiddled with the EQ and connected it to good quality speakers, it sounds just fine.
Really bad things about this iPod: iTunes is just awful. Hard to believe, but I really miss Windows Media Player. It only allows you to use a restricted range of file formats (by contrast, you could upload anything you liked on the Zen). ITunes lacks loads of album covers. Worse than useless earbud thingies.
Worse thing about iPods: not compatible with PC software. Just because Bill Gates and Steve Jobs hate each other, why do we all have to suffer the fallout?
Here's my advice (for what it's worth):
(1) Don't ever, ever, ever have anything to do with MP3 files -- they are a rubbish "low-res" format intended to be heard over tinny little PC speakers. Instead, in iTunes use the Apple Lossless encoder to rip your CDs. The 160Gb storage means you should have enough space even for a largish CD collection in this format. This is especially important if you listen to Classical/Orchestral/Acoustic music, where the ambient sound in which the instruments are recorded needs to be preserved (MP3s destroy this completely -- remember kids: MP3s are evil!).
(2) Manually synch with iTunes so you control what goes on your iPod, especially if you have more than 160Gb of files stored.
(3) Buy an external hard drive to store your music collection.
(4) Also buy a decent set of headphones and/or speaker dock. Don't skimp (I got the mid-price Klipsch system and really like it).
(5) Don't stop buying CDs -- poor quality MP3 downloads are no substitute for CD sound. Remember: MP3 = Bad.
 Good, but with reservations February 20, 2010
HZH (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this iPod because my old iRiver iHP ran out of disk space and I had to keep deleting file to put in new songs. I therefore got this 160GB one which should last for a while. Noticed some good and bad points about this iPod -
Good -
1) The disk space - yup, it's really the only reason why I bought this, and it's big enough for the foreseeable future. Excellent.
2) The volume - I know a lot of people complained about the volume, but really, it's for your own good. I find that my ears hurt if I listen to it at greater than 60% volume, I really don't know how people can stand listening to it at 100% volume if their hearing hasn't been damaged already. Consider this a plus point if your hearing is still sensitive and you don't want your hearing damaged. Besides, it is still possible to further increase the volume in the volume adjustment option in each file, as well as using the equalizer.
3) Excellent manoeuvrability - unlike some mp3 player, it's easy to move from one folder to a different one, the circular motion works very well.
Bad -
1) I really don't think iPod plays mp3 well at all. Since nearly all my files are mp3, this is a big minus. For the same file listening on the same earphone, my iRiver (as well as WinAmp on my computer) definitely sounded much better. On the iPod you need to adjust the equalizer, increasing the higher frequency to get something close to the brighter sound you might find in iRiver. Whether iPod deliberately make mp3 sounds duller to make their own AAA format sounder better I have no idea, but do adjust the equalizer if you want to enjoy your mp3 on iPod.
2) Bad earphones - It doesn't fit in my ear. Had to buy a different one.
3) File system - iPod doesn't use the usual file name, instead it read the tag inside the music files and renames file inside iPod to something like ABCD.mp3. That means that you can get funny and scrambled file names if you never get the tag organized properly. Took me a very long time to re-organize when I have more than 10,000 files in the iPod.
4) It delete files without asking when syncing with iTunes. I don't know why they do this, but it's very annoying to find that thousand of files get deleted when you accidentally do the syncing, especially after you spent days adjusting the tag in iPod. Best to manually manage file and turn off the sync option.
I'd say that overall it is good, but you need to spend a little time learning how to use and tweaking it to get the best use out of it.
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