All of my songs have artwork and I have around 7,000 songs, but it took me literally around 12 hours to get all my music on my new 80gb ipod. That's using automatic update/sync..... It took FOREVER
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iPod Definitely Takes forever to transfer songs to new iPod
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I suppose you don't have usb 2 then?
I don't anyhow and I had a likewise sounding experience, just calm down and check your specs - if you were using usb2 then there's something wrong - usb2 is not as fast as firewire for continous data streams (if I remember it correctly), but should still do better than 12 h
I don't anyhow and I had a likewise sounding experience, just calm down and check your specs - if you were using usb2 then there's something wrong - usb2 is not as fast as firewire for continous data streams (if I remember it correctly), but should still do better than 12 h
iMeowbot said:
Well all my USB ports are taken up so I have it plugged into one of those mult-port expanders (you know the thing where it makes one USB port into 4)
I will try plugging it straight into the USB port on my Powerbook G4....
Viking Quest said:
This topic (and subsequent warning) is worthless without a description of a few things..
1. Operating system you are using.
2. The hardware said operating system is running on.
3. How much memory or disk space this system has.
3. What other applications are running.
I have 4 computers that I use to sync with my ipod(s), some are slower than others, it depends on many things.
OK its definitely going faster, not as fast as firewire was though
I miss firewire, why did they take it away??
I miss firewire, why did they take it away??
840quadra said:
OS X 10.4.7
iTunes 7
1 GB of RAM, about 10 GB of HD space left
Running Safari and iTunes
Powerbook G4 1.5ghz
Viking Quest said:OK its definitely going faster, not as fast as firewire was though
I miss firewire, why did they take it away??
Because the Firewire chip took up alot of room in the iPod. Less chips mean smaller iPod and lower costs, which consumers generally care about more. Unfortunately for PPC Mac users, USB2 is significantly slower than Firewire. But thats not the case on the Intels... time to upgrade?
crazzyeddie said:Because the Firewire chip took up alot of room in the iPod. Less chips mean smaller iPod and lower costs, which consumers generally care about more. Unfortunately for PPC Mac users, USB2 is significantly slower than Firewire. But thats not the case on the Intels... time to upgrade?
USB2 is slower than Firewire on any computer, doesn't matter if it's Intel or PPC based. It's a got a slower bus speed.
mufflon said:
That's correct. Peak USB2 is 480MBPS, peak FW400 is 400MBPS. But the firewire burst speed is relatively close to the peak speed (because it was designed with video feeds in mind), whereas the USB is much lower.
But if you think about it, even at 100 megabits per second, it should only take 80 seconds per gigabyte... which means that even a full 80 GB iPod should transfer in less than two hours.
I've never used a USB2 iPod, but I think the most likely explanation is that the USB was falling back to USB1.x because of that device the OP mentioned.....