Considering an IPOD touch

iPods utilize iTunes to transfer music. You can take whatever you want on your CDs and put them right on a Touch. You don't have to buy anything from Apple. I have never purchased one song from Apple and I have a library of about 3800 songs.

I also have a lot of video as well from DVDs or TV. For TV my DVR happens to output in iPod format so I can dump whatever I want to the touch for later viewing.

 

It looks like you've invented a new iPod!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

Yes, that's all there is to it. I feel your pain not knowing. I was an iPod snob for the longest time. After suffering with a non-iPod for years I finally bought one earlier this year and was hooked. I then got the Touch as soon as I knew there was a good, solid jailbreak. I'm one of them now.

I have to be in a city with an Apple store in about a month. I plan on stopping in and taking a look around.

Yes, you can take whatever music you like and put it on your Touch. It will transfer MP3s directly but, if you have any WMA files, iTunes will transcode it for the iPod.

Which size are you going to get?

 

Why so big of a jump? lol You're going from a fairly large, expensive, more-options machine (the touch) and if that doesn't do what you want, you're automatically skipping down to the lowest end iPod? =o Sounds weird to me.

 

Sounds like he knows a good piece of gadgetry when he sees it. I only had a nano for three months before buying the touch. I certainly don't regret it and the nano is up on ebay right now.

 

Apple makes tons of money off of the iTunes store. It's a very easy way to buy and transfer songs. You've got CD's so don't worry about all that.

Get what you can afford. You'll be happy.

You'll do just fine with an 8GB.

There are issues with some week 37/38 touch models. The manufacture week is the fourth and fifth character of the serial number. There have been a lot of defective screens and some other oddities show up.

My wireless connection works great. Some people seem to have issues. I don't know if that is specifically related to the 37/38 thing or not. I haven't seen a specific correlation to it.

A jailbreak is a method to unlock the touch and the iPhone so that applications (programs) can be put on it. You can add all kinds of things like the things that are missing on the touch that are on the iPhone. There are games and you can also put the Nintendo (NES) emulator and games on it as well. The jailbreak only happened a short time ago and new things are being released all the time. You can also make or download themes to give it a different look.

A new jailbreak just came out that is completely effortless. Your touch will then have an "installer" button on it that will allow you to add things with no effort at all.

 

OFF Topic: just curious what kind of DVR you have that can output a format playable on you iPod?

 

I'm using SageTV. I can output in three iPod quality levels.