16GB iPod Nanos, 32GB iPod Touches, Lots of Colors

[cpljwlusmc]

They really need to do something about the ipod/itunes and syncing to your computer....

We had all our songs on my wife's desktop. when her computer died, I moved all my songs to my macbook (her music taste is a little different than mine).

Since I switched her from an HP desktop to a mac mini, and her music collection is much smaller (she maybe has 50-75 CD's; where as I have over 5,000 individually downloaded songs, songs from cassettes, songs from Cd's that since got trashed, preaching and Bible study internet streams, etc).... I was hoping just to take her songs from her ipod nano and move them to her itunes.

NOT GONNA HAPPEN... I received a pop-up that stated "You cannot update a windows formatted ipod from a mac". I was like what the heck.... Then it asked me if I wanted to reset it back to factory defaults. Since she is leaving for a trip tomorrow, I said no for now. But the problem is, now she won't be able to have her newest selections with her; and I am going to have to re-rip all her CD's since her original Itune collection was lost on the dead computer.

Looks like I am gonna have the same problem as I am a switcher. My 2004 antique ipod is going to have to be reformatted. I could see mine having an issue because it is sold old, but her's? which is only a couple of years old?


c'mon........ I mean if my mother-in-law's cheap $100 no-name mp3 player she won at a company banquet lets me drag songs from her player to itunes and then from itunes to her player on (both mac and windows) with no problems - then why can't ipod.

Oh, for those wondering why I call mine an antique - it is almost 5 years old, in the shape of the classic, has a monochrome screen, can' play videos, etc.....

Maybe we need an upgrade.....

Well, for the Mac, there is an application called MusicRescue that works for both Windows and Mac formatted iPods. Plug it in and open MusicRescue, and select the music you want to transfer, and BOOM, your music is now back on your system.

The reason that Apple cannot do this is because this can allow for DRM-protected music to be transferred to any other mp3 player, violating some serious copyrights. Apple doesn't care that 3rd-party software does it, but if they tried it, they'd get in trouble.

 

[MrCrowbar]

I can't believe some people are still thinking the orange ipod spy shot is legit. I'm the one who doctored that photo and sent it in, and after 20 something pages of people complaining/whining someone finally debunked it (thank god.)

Anyways, who cares about iPods; aren't they exclusively for 10 year olds and little girls? Hell, I haven't seen anyone with an iPod in years.

Would you mind posting proof here? Like the original picture and maybe some making of shots? It wasn't that bad of a photoshop, actually

 

[SactoGuy18]

One thing I want to know: will Apple update the firmware on 3G iPod nanos to take advantage of iTunes 8.0. I think this is very possible, given that the visual interface of the 3G and 4G nanos are pretty much the same (except for the 4G nano taking advantage of the widescreen display).

 

[cpljwlusmc]

Thank you for sharing your consumptive preferences with us. Great that buying more Apple gear is front and centre of your conscience.

Oh noble shopper, hope this interim gear will 'tide you over'...

Sorry mate, not to pick on you, it's just all, well, um, all underwhelming.

Don't we all own an iPod? Don't they work alright now? Who gives a rat's ass if it's bright orange or tall!

I mean if Apple is not making stuff that improves our lives or the lives of someone, somewhere, than what is the point?? Otherwise, it's just more coloured baubles bouncing in front of our lower selves, 'gimme gimme'!

Well, stuff that, give us something we really need, not yesterdays good idea in a new coat.

Go on Apple. Make my life.

That's the point. This is how Apple makes a lot of their money.

Small kids see the new iPod in the store and beg their parents to buy them one.

Flashy people see the new iPod and want it, just to say they have the newest and the best.

People who have broken their iPods or have them stolen can now buy the new iPod, feeling happy now that they not only have an iPod again, but better than the one they had to begin with.

I agree with you, the fact that the company constantly reinvents their products seems a bit rediculous, but it makes them loads of money.

 

[macmike47]

I think Apple can come out with something really crazy for shuffle. With no physical changes last year. Shuffle maybe the biggest surprise!

It's true. But it seriously can't get any smaller can it? The next thing I'd imagine is building a shuffle into headphones, but that's got its problems too...

Five hours to go, guys!

 

[Shasterball]

I assume the big deal with this event is iTunes 8. Because, in all honesty, new colors and larger capacity are tiny advances and are expected at this point.

 

[cpljwlusmc]

Can't wait. I'll be in school the whole time. DAMN!

 

[SwiftLives]

More like two hours. It's at 10 AM

10AM Pacific. 1PM Eastern

 

[saxman]

Color options are good, even if I don't like the 'new' colors. I wonder when/if Apple will change the name of iTunes since it does so many different things other than just music anymore? Probably not anytime soon

 

[cpljwlusmc]

10AM Pacific. 1PM Eastern

Yeah, I rechecked and edited my post.

 

[MicahFreak82]

its called "lets rock" for a reason. something awesome is coming out today.

 

[SphericalPear]

possibly the most boring apple event ever?

hmm

sorry, that event doesn't sound too exciting to me. new itunes? well... iphone 3G features transferred onto the touch? wow, no surprise here... "new" nanos? lol, volume increase and ******** design change. sorry, this event is ********.

unless the "one more thing" is a laptop upgrade or a tablet announcement

 

[MrCrowbar]

Look at me! I can photoshop too!

 

[knightlie]

hmm

sorry, that event doesn't sound too exciting to me. new itunes? well... iphone 3G features transferred onto the touch? wow, no surprise here... "new" nanos? lol, volume increase and ******** design change. sorry, this event is ********.

I love it when people state their personal opinion as fact. Always makes me chuckle.

 

[SwiftLives]

Apple generally doesn't hold press events with Steve for mere speed bumps but rather for tech advances. Personally, I don't think we're getting the entire picture with the current rumors. By themselves, new nanos and iTunes 8 might warrant a press release. But coupled with whatever they've been able to keep under wraps (iPhone announcement?), I think this will be a pretty significant event.

 

[knightlie]

I can't believe some people are still thinking the orange ipod spy shot is legit. I'm the one who doctored that photo and sent it in, and after 20 something pages of people complaining/whining someone finally debunked it (thank god.)

Anyways, who cares about iPods; aren't they exclusively for 10 year olds and little girls? Hell, I haven't seen anyone with an iPod in years.

Funny, I didn't know trolls were smart enough to work Photoshop. Nice work.

 

[salvatorereda]

Wirelessly posted (iPod touch: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5C1 Safari/525.20)

Flash anyone!

 

[masse]

I really wish the touch got to 64 gb.

A 32 gb will likely remain grossly overpriced as it is the top of the line ipod. My modest music collection is almost 20 gigabytes. So much for putting photos and a couple of movies on there also. Formatted capacity after iphone software is on there is probably 23 gb or so.

Still excited about today though.

 

[mackiwi]

Apple generally doesn't hold press events with Steve for mere speed bumps but rather for tech advances. Personally, I don't think we're getting the entire picture with the current rumors. By themselves, new nanos and iTunes 8 might warrant a press release. But coupled with whatever they've been able to keep under wraps (iPhone announcement?), I think this will be a pretty significant event.

Probably just the beatles being available.

Although maybe an appletv related nnouncement.

My absolutely wild and unsubstantiated guess? One More Thing: George Lucas walks on stage and previews his new live action star wars tv series, which will be exclusively released on itunes for $3 an episode. You all owe me a $1 each if it happens.

 

[applelover91k]

ipod nano

OMG WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO PUT THE NEW IPOD NANO ON THE WEBSITE!? I can't take it, I want to see it so baaaaad. I like how they are having more colors, although I still want the red one. I really hope for price cuts because I don't have much cash since I'm a teenaga, but PLEASE show me te ipod, I HAVE BEEN WAITING! It's 8:33 AM, I expected it to be up at midnight. If it never hapened, I WOULD BE SOOOO disapointed.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

I assume the big deal with this event is iTunes 8. Because, in all honesty, new colors and larger capacity are tiny advances and are expected at this point.

New iTunes 8 isn't all that exciting either. I suspect (hope) there is a "one more thing." Remember the fall event in '05. Apple announced Front Row and the Video iPod along w/ a refreshed iMac. Then SJ said those 3 beautiful words and popped the first iPod nano out of his pocket.

If Apple is actively telling reporters that this is a "can't miss" event it's going to have to be more than what we've seen so far, and I think it will be.

 

[dalvin200]

OMG WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO PUT THE NEW IPOD NANO ON THE WEBSITE!? I can't take it, I want to see it so baaaaad. I like how they are having more colors, although I still want the red one. I really hope for price cuts because I don't have much cash since I'm a teenaga, but PLEASE show me te ipod, I HAVE BEEN WAITING! It's 8:33 AM, I expected it to be up at midnight. If it never hapened, I WOULD BE SOOOO disapointed.

calm down dude!!! only 4.5 hours to go

New iTunes 8 isn't all that exciting either. I suspect (hope) there is a "one more thing." Remember the fall event in '05. Apple announced Front Row and the Video iPod along w/ a refreshed iMac. Then SJ said those 3 beautiful words and popped the first iPod nano out of his pocket.

If Apple is actively telling reporters that this is a "can't miss" event it's going to have to be more than what we've seen so far, and I think it will be.

i think there are going to be quite a few disappointed troopers today.. like you, i agree.. simple bumps in capacity and a not so exciting nano form factor doesn't really warrant a press event does it?
there just has to be something... but if there isn't

 

[Padraig]

Apple generally doesn't hold press events with Steve for mere speed bumps but rather for tech advances. Personally, I don't think we're getting the entire picture with the current rumors. By themselves, new nanos and iTunes 8 might warrant a press release. But coupled with whatever they've been able to keep under wraps (iPhone announcement?), I think this will be a pretty significant event.

Remember the debacle with the leather cases and hi-fi? I certainly hope there's more than what's rumoured though.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

i think there are going to be quite a few disappointed troopers today.. like you, i agree.. simple bumps in capacity and a not so exciting nano form factor doesn't really warrant a press event does it?
there just has to be something... but if there isn't

If there isn't there are going to be a whole lot of P.O.d reporters for being misled. And SJ knows you don't P.O people who write about your products. If this even were just about the typical refreshes and iTunes 8 then there would be zero reason for Apple to specifically tell reporters the event is a "must." They have never done this before and to mislead them over mundane stuff would be like the boy who cried wolf. Apple would lose a ton of cred. and the typical headline would be "Has Apple Lost It's Mojo?" and "Is Apple's 15 minutes Up?"

 

[Digital Skunk]

I love it when people state their personal opinion as fact. Always makes me chuckle.

So this goes for all the newbie and fanboy excitement as well. Because the way the 12 year olds sound when they give their fancy predictions and wishes for the new iPods, and the idiots that assume the Classic won't be around after today just because they don't have more than 32GB of content.

Eitherway, a lot of people are posting personal (98% of it stupid) as fact or even rumor.