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iPod touch Want a 64 (or 128(!)) GB Touch

TheZimm said:
I would love to have something like this, http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdxc/ - that says that 2 terabyte memory cards are coming out, so maybe apple could get this technology and have a 2 tb ipod touch =]

Zym
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From what I've heard, this developments means a theoretical 2TB SD card... in reality they won't be around for a while yet, though. Just like 64 bit architecture theoretically allows for something like 17.2 billion gigabytes of RAM... doesn't mean we'll see it tomorrow. ;)
 
Enigmafan420 said:
Just a conversation starter here-I AM AWARE of the technical limitations of Flash RAM right now...

That being said, I NEED a larger iPod Touch. I have maybe 1/5 of my CD collection on iTunes and it is already 40GB. I have a really hard time trying to figure out what to put on my 32GB iPod touch.

I have a 5th Gen 80GB iPod, but I am finding that I just like having the other features of my Touch with me. The 80GB pretty much stays hooked to the car stereo these days.

Anyone else feeling a space crunch?
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Couldn't you presumably figure out what you're listening and into lately and use that to figure out how to make due with 32GB of space.

Seriously do people need to cram over 5,000 CD's worth of music into a portable music player? When are you going to listen to the more then 40+GB of songs in a row?
 
armoguy94 said:
I have an 8GB iPod Touch. My library is over 30gb large and growing. Is there any way I can purchase a 64gb chip, or something 30gb or bigger, then manually install it in my Touch? It's 1st gen.
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Presumably someone could design an addon for more memory for the Touch but sadly enough if you got an 8GB one and want to listen to all your music you can either: 1. Buy a new Touch with a larger capacity or 2. Trim your music library down based on music you're "into" right now and carry that or set iTunes to randomly pick songs from your library and shove that into 8GB of space.
 
I'm beginning to wonder if people seem to realize that iPods no matter how great the capacity are simply portable music players not devices that can hold every song you've managed to snag from limewire or imported from vast decade long CD collections. Even with the generous capacities of now and future products these devices simply arent designed for holding for some people the equivalency of all the music on the internet. Besides what would you do with the thousands of hours of music that you'd likely have on on the device? Is it more to show how musically diverse you are having that obscure out of the way rare song from XX artist? Is it because your life is so off beat you could be listening to death metal and then switch over to country next song?


I think as hard drive/ssd capacity increases in desktops people seem to mentally have this I can download anything onto it and try to fill them to the gills with anything they can get their hands on. I wont stop till I can fit the entire internet into my desktops hard drive!!! (including all the porn).
 
Andrew K. said:
WOW :eek: 128gb is not enough?!!! holy crap that's alot of media! Not making fun just I thought 30gb of just music was alot
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30GB of music seems like a lot to me, I've got 1639 items in music, 7.45GB, but 38 items are music videos and they take up 1.40 GB.

When it comes to video though...34 movies taking up 39.57 GB, and 535 items under TV shows taking up 150.88 GB.

If they increased the iPod Touch to 64/128GB and the iPod Classic to 250GB (I have no idea if HDD that small come in 250GB or even plan to anytime soon) I would really have a tough decision on my hands, the Touch would be good for watching movies on, but usually I watch movies from the iPod connected to a TV at my friends house, which in that case it would be good to have my whole collection to pick from.

So while we're hoping and wanting for a 64/128GB Touch, anyone know anything about the possibilty of a 250GB iPod Classic?

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MacNoobie said:
Besides what would you do with the thousands of hours of music that you'd likely have on on the device? Is it more to show how musically diverse you are having that obscure out of the way rare song from XX artist? Is it because your life is so off beat you could be listening to death metal and then switch over to country next song?
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For me it's the last thing you said, I really am so off beat I could be listening to death metal and then switch to over rap, then to jewish reggae, to nerdcore, to industrial, to jazz in the span of an hour
 
Sehnsucht said:
Actually, they already do...the 128, 256 and 512GB iPod touch are currently in prototype stage and are being tested in Apple's top secret underground lab. Did you know that a single 512GB NAND chip costs $50,000 right now?? :eek: :eek:

:D :D :D :D :D
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o.o why would you buy a NAND chip when you could buy a very nice car, pay for your kid's college education, or buy 100 32gb ipots and still have money left over? thats what i want to know
 
i dont see y they just dont build a touch with a hdd adapter in it and pop in the 128GB ssd they put in the air. Its the same thickness as the drive in the classic
 
MasterNile said:
So while we're hoping and wanting for a 64/128GB Touch, anyone know anything about the possibilty of a 250GB iPod Classic?
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I don't know if the technology exists today, but it certainly will if it doesn't. But I doubt we'll ever see a 250GB iPod classic.

Remember, Apple used to offer a 160GB model of the classic. They killed it and replaced it with the 120GB model because nobody was buying the super-high capacity model. I think we'll eventually see a 128GB iPod touch, and when we do, they'll kill the iPod classic.

IMO the only reason they still sell the classic is because flash memory isn't available in big enough capacities... but ~100GB seems to be the threshold point for iPods, so once we get there, I don't think capacity increases will be such a big deal.

Of course, something could change that would shift all this... maybe iTunes will start selling uncompressed music, for example, necessitating higher storage on portable music players...
 
Demosthenes X said:
I don't know if the technology exists today, but it certainly will if it doesn't. But I doubt we'll ever see a 250GB iPod classic.

Remember, Apple used to offer a 160GB model of the classic. They killed it and replaced it with the 120GB model because nobody was buying the super-high capacity model. I think we'll eventually see a 128GB iPod touch, and when we do, they'll kill the iPod classic.

IMO the only reason they still sell the classic is because flash memory isn't available in big enough capacities... but ~100GB seems to be the threshold point for iPods, so once we get there, I don't think capacity increases will be such a big deal.

Of course, something could change that would shift all this... maybe iTunes will start selling uncompressed music, for example, necessitating higher storage on portable music players...
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or true 1080p Movies and TV shows and games
 
Do you actually listen to all of these songs? I mean I have like 9 gigs of music that I could have on my ipod(on cds and stuff) but i would never listen to it all. If you got the time which i highly doubt you have the time to do this to every one of your songs. rate them all (you know like four or five stars) and only put the four and five star songs on. Really 30 gigs of music? Thats an awful lot of skipping when your in shuffle.
 
groovdudeyo said:
Do you actually listen to all of these songs? I mean I have like 9 gigs of music that I could have on my ipod(on cds and stuff) but i would never listen to it all. If you got the time which i highly doubt you have the time to do this to every one of your songs. rate them all (you know like four or five stars) and only put the four and five star songs on. Really 30 gigs of music? Thats an awful lot of skipping when your in shuffle.
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i do that for my iPhone and it barely fits
 
The solution to fitting it all on... :)

If you have too many files to fit on any ipod, why not compress them down to 32 kbps and then they might all fit on? :)

Even on an 60 gig ipod I fit plenty of music and video for those "on the go" moments at 128 or 256 kbps.

What can the reason be to carry every bit of audio with you at all times? No one carries every bit of written material they have or every photograph or DVD. The fact you can carry 20,000 songs around with you should be enough to keep you amused...

Makes you wonder how all those "poor joggers" cope with only a random 1 to 2 gig of music to listen to while exercising...
 
wbeasley said:
If you have too many files to fit on any ipod, why not compress them down to 32 kbps and then they might all fit on? :)

Even on an 60 gig ipod I fit plenty of music and video for those "on the go" moments at 128 or 256 kbps.

What can the reason be to carry every bit of audio with you at all times? No one carries every bit of written material they have or every photograph or DVD. The fact you can carry 20,000 songs around with you should be enough to keep you amused...

Makes you wonder how all those "poor joggers" cope with only a random 1 to 2 gig of music to listen to while exercising...
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I guess the point is-I want it there in case I get a while hair and want to listen to XYZ song-Right now I don't have that option.
 
Enigmafan420 said:
I guess the point is-I want it there in case I get a while hair and want to listen to XYZ song-Right now I don't have that option.
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I can understand you predicament but it's something we've always faced... you may be too young to remember but years ago people were always asked "what 10 records/CDs would you take with you on a desserted island?".

Makes you think hard about what you couldn't live without. These days even a nano can hold a heap more music.

You could always buy a netbook and maybe a USB drive and then you could take everything with you always ... just a quick sync away.

Or get two ipods (I have 2 classics, an 8gb nano, a Sony 16gb, an LG 8gb and two 2gb collected over the years all with bits of my library on them). If I was you, I'd get a 16gb nano and load it with what I mostly like. Fill up a 120gb Classic with as much else that you might want to listen to. And you get twice the listen time with the two devices. :)
 
Enigmafan420 said:
I guess the point is-I want it there in case I get a while hair and want to listen to XYZ song-Right now I don't have that option.
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Did you mean a "wild hare"? I always listen to Rush when I go rabbit hunting!

But seriously you can never have too much music. I used to buy massive box sets on emusic.com. 100 downloads per month adds up after a while. I just put it all on shuffle mode. I like hearing things I've never heard before and may never hear again in a context that will never be repeated.
 
Enigmafan420 said:
That being said, I NEED a larger iPod Touch. I have maybe 1/5 of my CD collection on iTunes and it is already 40GB. I have a really hard time trying to figure out what to put on my 32GB iPod touch.
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I agree here, I have my collection ripped in ALAC for everything I have a CD for and it's over 300 GB. I hope Apple doesn't forget those of us with serious collections. I was sad to see the 160GB iPod go.

On top of that, they want us to use videos in the iPod touch, which by definition demands much, much larger file sizes (see Archos jukebox for example).

The iPod touch is a nice toy but not a flexible media player until its storage gets much bigger.
 
dasikes said:
Honestly, if having that much music is such a priority to anyone, the iPod Touch isn't the best option.

I have ~40GB of music (all paid for, don't worry) and when I really think about it, there is no need for me or anyone to have to carry all that around. If my musical wants change, I just resync.
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See, it meets your needs, so no need to change? For some people a shuffle meets their needs, thank God Apple doesn't stop there.

I want all my music at my fingertips. People with CD changers used to say if their musical wants change, they just change discs. I drive a lot so there are always times before I squeezed most of my collection onto a 160GB 5th gen (by downsampling and losing quality) that I got in the mood for the perfect song or artist that of course isn't on there at the moment.

And I'd like to have things stored in lossless format, of course, since that's the source.

I don't want to sound like I'm bashing you, just realize for a lot of us 32 gb is not enough... I didn't even talk about going into videos.
 
roylikeswaffles said:
o.o why would you buy a NAND chip when you could buy a very nice car, pay for your kid's college education, or buy 100 32gb ipods and still have money left over? thats what i want to know
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Um...that was a joke. :D I was merely making an educated guess as to the price of a 512GB NAND chip if it existed today, which it does not. By the time 512GB NAND chips are being mass-produced, they'll be extremely cheap. The 1-terabyte iPod touch (yes it will exist sooner than you think) will probably use two of these. Hell, 7 years ago my aunt paid close to $50 for a 64MB (MEGABYTE!!!!) SD card for her digital camera. :D
 
Sehnsucht said:
Um...that was a joke. :D I was merely making an educated guess as to the price of a 512GB NAND chip if it existed today, which it does not. By the time 512GB NAND chips are being mass-produced, they'll be extremely cheap. The 1-terabyte iPod touch (yes it will exist sooner than you think) will probably use two of these. Hell, 7 years ago my aunt paid close to $50 for a 64MB (MEGABYTE!!!!) SD card for her digital camera. :D
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ah the god old days lol

yep the touch or something similar will support full HD and have 1TB at some point
 
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