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Ipods
Mar 2, 2007 14:51:52 GMT -5
Post by erics on Mar 2, 2007 14:51:52 GMT -5
Now I know what the I in Ipod stands for...idiots.
My son bought an Ipod a couple weeks ago with all the birthday bounty he'ld recieved. So we installed Itunes at home over dial up (two hours to download) and threw all the musig and movies we could find. So he gets a belated birthday card in the mail with $50 more in it and decides to download some tv shows to watch on it. He buys five of them and it tells him it will take 40 hours to download. I think that's generous since it was over a 1.5 gigs.
Anywho, I go to work to day to download them much faster and put them on his ipod for him. It turns out if I want to put them on his Ipod I have to erase everything on it first since this wasn't the computer it's sync'd to.
I know why they did it, but they have to know how big of a pain it is, and you can get around it.
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Ipods
Mar 2, 2007 15:39:49 GMT -5
Post by jude on Mar 2, 2007 15:39:49 GMT -5
It's worse than that. Stuff downloaded from the iTunes store (other than free podcasts) are copy-protected to your account there, so playing a downloaded file on a computer sets that computer to one of the 5 you are allowed to use the music/shows on. You really should go to the iTunes site and read up on it before you download more stuff on separate computers. If you used his account at work, you probably "authorized" that computer as one of the 5 he's allowed. You might want to deauthorize it...
Jude
damnation, I just wrote a whole bunch of stuff that got deleted somehow!
Anyway, the gist of it was that iPods will play stuff other than iTunes Store protected AAC format, including plain old MP3s that you can rip from your CDs with iTunes or another app, and also I think they will play other types of movies, too, including free unprotected stuff in podcasts, trailers, concert footage from local bands, etc.
The iTunes Store's pay music and movies are copy-protected by a DRM that limits how and where you can use it. You should probably go read up about it on the website before you buy any more from the iTunes store. Some other pay for download places have DRMs, too but different ones that won't work on an iPod (or even a Mac).
I found this on the Apple site for iPods: Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.
Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
****Oh, and one more edit: for the Mac, anyway, there are some shareware and freeware apps that will let you sync from different machines or even copy songs from your iPods to your Macs. I don't know if there are any for Windows, but you may want to do a search or two before you delete anything!****
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Ipods
Mar 2, 2007 17:14:51 GMT -5
Post by erics on Mar 2, 2007 17:14:51 GMT -5
I'm not gonna delete anything on his. I'll just download them here at work, copy them to a memory stick/cd/dvd and bring them home.
thanks for your help
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Ipods
Mar 2, 2007 17:42:32 GMT -5
Post by jude on Mar 2, 2007 17:42:32 GMT -5
Well, are you using his account to download at work? If not, when you bring them home and he puts them in his computer, it will authorize his computer to your account, too. It really is a pain.
What I do is download everything from the iTunes store on one computer, then burn the music to a CD, then burn the CD tracks to MP3s, then transfer them to my MP3 player or my other computer, if I want.
That way I only have one computer that is authorized (if I transferred the music to the other computer without going through the hassle of converting it first, my other computer would become authorized, too, and you can only have 5 computers authorized for the music from the one account.
The problem is, I haven't found a way to burn the movies, so I can't convert them. I don't buy anything from the iTunes store, anyhow. Everything I get there is from the weekly free stuff (although it's still DRM protected), or free trailers or podcasts. I hate the DRM system. I have bought whole albums of digital music elsewhere in unprotected AAC or high quality MP3 formats, and have no problem with that, but I refuse to pay money for something that isn't really going to mine.
Jude
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