My Apple product hate-on continues

[clevermanka]

You guys. Oh, you guys. Yesterday, I mentioned I was up to the letter R in my progress to get everything copied over to the iPod. Last night, progress came to a screeching halt when all of a sudden, things just ceased to copy over. WTF. Click, drag, nothing. Reboot. Nothing. The fuck? After cursing at it for a while, I gave up and watched the last three episodes of Community, season one (yay!).

This morning, I took a good look at what's going on, and I saw at the bottom of the iTunes window that the device is full. One hundred forty-eight gigs full. And only about 80% of my CD collection on it--just over 3,900 songs. According to the guy at the store, this thing should store 40,000 songs. And my ancient little Creative Labs Zen, with a mere 80GB, holds my entire music collection with room to spare. So obviously, something was not right with the rip settings and I must've recorded all these CDs (nearly, what, four hundred of them?) at too-high quality.

Is this irony? I don't have a good grasp on what constitutes irony or not. But I feel that, in light of recent discussions about my wanting to have CD-quality music available to me for play through The Good Speakers, this might qualify as irony. Maybe?

Whatever it is, I feel like throwing this damned iPod through the wall. I'm gonna have to wipe the whole thing, figure out the correct format for ripping things at a lower bit rate, and start all over. All. Over.

Oh my fucking god, people.

This project is on hold until next year. For real.

Comments

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

There is a way to convert in iTunes. I've used it. I'm about to head off to work now but if you don't get an answer by the end of the day I'll see if I can figure out what I did and let you know.

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

My iPhone has a setting that says "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC" under sync options. I'm sure there's something similar for an iPod.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

If I believed in a god, I would ask him to bless you both.

I'll look for this when I get home tonight.

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

I'll warn you, you're gonna be cursing us both tonight. The first time you run the sync with that clicked it takes FOREVER. Srsly, you might wanna just run it overnight and turn off the sleep setting on your comp since you have so many big songs. Adding new songs will take tons of time, too, but once it's converted the first time syncs will take a lot less time.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Er. Hm. I don't have the sync setting turned on, because the HD on the computer I'm using for this is teeny-tiny. Is that going to be a problem?

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

By sync I mean run the process that puts the songs from your computer to the iPod because that's what my phone calls it. I dunno what the "sync setting" would be.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm okay then. Syncing the device to your computer means they automatically share files--video, music, podcasts, etc.

[auroraceleste.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, that's not an option I know about with the iPhone, I have to push a button to get it to start every time.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Ayeiii! Sorry to hear about YET ANOTHER issue.

Maybe it's time to set you up with a new hard drive onto which you can dump the iPod files and then destroke them back onto the iPod?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Destroke.

Is that a real term?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I was getting ready to go to the doc's so hurriedly wrote that. Yes, it's a term, as in:

I destroked my engine's crank-throws from 4" down to 3.75" in order to make it legal for that racing class.

See? Same thing, wrong term for the context ;-D

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Grrr.
My logic tells me that there's a way to do a batch conversion on the songs already on your iPod without wiping it and starting over, but we all know about logic and Apple, right?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha! auroraceleste and ms_danson seem to think it's possible. I'll do some research if I have time today.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to reconsider getting a Nano or some such off eBay for using in my car. I'm not sure I wouldn't make it through that nonsense without throwing it under a truck.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

If you live somewhere cold, I'll warn you that the iPod really doesn't like the cold. It works fine when it is plugged into the car. If I leave it out overnight in the dead of winter it dies and has to be rebooted inside.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Good to know, thanks!

[geekmom.livejournal.com]

If you've already got a Droid just use Google Music and keep your tunes on your phone. It downloads the ones you play most frequently and streams the ones you only play occasionally.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

This is to connect directly to my car stereo.
I have a really kickass audio system and the radio controls will work with an iPod thingy but not my Zen player.
Unfortunately it doesn't have Bluetooth capability, this is a 2006 car.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Here's how to do it in iTunes on a computer. A few things to note about this... this creates a copy of the songs andin the comments they say that iTunes 10 has some problems with some formats.

If you don't have enough space or all your songs are on the iPod only this may get annoying and more difficult than starting over. That said, there is some useful information about settings in this link.

http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/convertsongs/index.shtml