Chooch

Well I bit the bullet and ordered an ipod. The $100 off deal from audible.com was too good to pass up. I got a 15gb and it will be here tomorrow. I am looking forward to using the ipod outside of an apple store. I'll be sure to update with notes and opinions.

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Dell DJ 20 gig
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ipod 15 gig
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Curt

Welcome to the freak show

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40GB Apple iPod
20GB Dell DJ

Chooch

no kidding

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Dell DJ 20 gig
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MusicMan

Download iTunes and get that music library ready! (if you haven't already).

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Have iPod mini, will travel
Oh, I have 3 of these too
I use the World's most advanced OS
On the fastest desktop computer available 'off-the-shelf'
What else is there?

Chooch

Been working on it...

any other tips for a smooth transition (besides buying a mac )

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ipod 15 gig
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MusicMan

With SP's (Smart Playlists, which are really cool) in mind, try to rate your library as much as you can. You can start to build SP's now. Choose 'New Smart Playlist' from the 'File' menu and take a look at all the different criteria you can use to build SP's (notice the '+/-' buttons to add/remove criteria). I think this is probably one of the most overlooked features, I love showing people how powerful it is.

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Have iPod mini, will travel
Oh, I have 3 of these too
I use the World's most advanced OS
On the fastest desktop computer available 'off-the-shelf'
What else is there?

Chooch

Nice.... keep it comming!

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Dell DJ 20 gig
Purchased 12/14/03
ipod 15 gig
purchased 4/11/04

MusicMan

You only have to ask.

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Have iPod mini, will travel
Oh, I have 3 of these too
I use the World's most advanced OS
On the fastest desktop computer available 'off-the-shelf'
What else is there?

anshu

ask you seem like an audio buff, how many playlists do you have?

MusicMan

I'm a musician so I'm pretty into my audio gear. It's not so much to do with how many playlists I have, more with how easy it is to reconfigure the criteria depending on what I want to listen to.

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Have iPod mini, will travel
Oh, I have 3 of these too
I use the World's most advanced OS
On the fastest desktop computer available 'off-the-shelf'
What else is there?

aviationwiz

When I first got iTunes and found out about Smart Playlists, I was thinking "This is so simple, but yet, so ingenious" as no one before that had something like it (they still don't if I'm correct)

I think the iPod's come with iTunes on CD, but I may be incorrect. As for rating music, my only rant is that the ratings go away if you have to reformat your hdd and loose that iTunes setup.

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