Ipodomania!

[varoom]

Yet another reason to love this car! Those of you who've been part of the ipod world for years will likely find this ho-hum. However I received an ipod as a christmas gift this year and its like where have I been the past 7 or so years??? The thing is awesome! And even more incredible was how easily its incorporated into the sound system of the CRZ. Life is good!

[chaos]

Not ho-hum at all. I've been part of the iPod world for years, but it's always nice when someone finds this little treasure. I can "hear" the excitement in your voice.

Just a tip.....temperature change is bad. I see you are in PA so you have the same kind of weather that I do. When it's extremely hot, pull it out of the car. When it's extremely cold, pull it out of the car. It takes a while for it to come back to life in those kind of weather conditions.

What one did you get?

[Tbot]

Yeah, had bad time with my iPhone when I left in car for 3 hours in 92 degree weather.

[Neutron256]

I love th iPod/iPhone connectivity. I am a little disappointed that you can't stream music through bluetooth. I loved my last car's aftermarket Bluetooth. Could play my music without even taking my iPhone out of my pocket.

[ed-E]

i haven't had a problem with my ipod in my car. i love playing music off of it in my car

[varoom]

Originally Posted by chaos

Not ho-hum at all. I've been part of the iPod world for years, but it's always nice when someone finds this little treasure. I can "hear" the excitement in your voice.

Just a tip.....temperature change is bad. I see you are in PA so you have the same kind of weather that I do. When it's extremely hot, pull it out of the car. When it's extremely cold, pull it out of the car. It takes a while for it to come back to life in those kind of weather conditions.

What one did you get?

Thanks much for the tip. I'll remember that.

I got the classic thinking I wanted maximal storage of 160 GB. My entire collection of about 200 CDs has taken up all of 2 GB so far!

[forty2j]

Yeah songs don't take up that much space. The high capacity models are more for video storage.

[chaos]

I still have my classic, it's 7 years old. Hopefully, yours will last just as long!

[mikev]

Originally Posted by varoom

I got the classic thinking I wanted maximal storage of 160 GB. My entire collection of about 200 CDs has taken up all of 2 GB so far!

Something you might want to consider... with all the storage space available in today's computers and portable music devices, you may want to take the time to re-rip all of your music in a lossless format (ALAC - Apple Lossless Audio Codec - is one such format that I believe is supported by iTunes), rather than in a compressed format like AAC, which is the iTunes default. You'll find that the files take a lot more space, but you may also find the audio quality to be better at the same time. If that's a tradeoff you don't mind making.

AAC is more compatible with other devices than ALAC, but if you're already in the Apple ecosystem - which it seems you are - then compatibility may not be a concern. If you decide to stick with AAC, you may also want to increase the bitrate that you encode at. I believe iTunes' default is either 128 or 256 Kbps... maybe turning it up another notch or two would also increase the audio quality.