So it turns out that most people aren’t filling their iPods to capacity. I think anyone with a 60GB iPod could tell you that, but in case they haven’t, read all about it in this article in the The New York Times.
Personally, I have found that filling my 40 gig pod to capacity makes it harder to find what I’m looking for. I wish I’d waited to get a nano, since I feel like I’d update it more often and use playlists and podcasts and whatnot.
So is there ever a case when 4GB isn’t enough? Besides desert island scenarios.
 |
 |
%s1 / %s2
That Gilligan link was cold!
First post, bitches!
Second!
third!
i have a 20gig fourth-gen ipod and i only have about five and a half gigs filled up. eventually, i’d like to get it completely filled up, but i probably won’t for a while.
speaking of trojans, here’s a tip: you can use condoms as cheap covers for your ipod. they won’t protect them from falls, but they keep out fingerprints, scratches, dust, dirt, etc. and they’re thin enough to access the controls through.
just don’t use lubricated ones.
I have a 15G ipod that has consistently had 12-14G of music and 1G misc files. I Could see needing more space if I was still DJing. But right now 15G is perfecto.
60 GB is awesome…awe….some.
If you use your iPod as a portable hard drive, storage space quickly decreases. I wish I bought the 60 gb.
i’ve got a 60GB ipod that only has about 2GB left. i’m hoping that apple comes out with a larger ipod soon so i can still have my entire music collection on my ipod when i take it out. they’re gonna need to make a bigger one anyway if they add video capabilities.
I’ve got less than a gig left on my 15Gb 3rd gen iPod. I keep my whole collection on my iPod because I travel a lot and I hate packing CDs.
I’m maxed out on my 3rd gen 10Gb. It truly sucks.
My 40Gig is completely filled (9,000 songs) and everytime I want to add something I have to spend 15 minutes figuring out what to delete. I do want a 60Gig actually, but it’s impossible to justify the purchase. I just like having every song I own accessible ’cause I’m anal.
My 40 Gig ipod is 4 times as big as my imac. That truely awed me when I got the ipod for christmas a couple of years ago. I wish I could relive that moment.
I’ve had my 40GB 4th gen for just about exactly a year now and I filled it up (for the 1st time) about 4 months ago. i was able to go back and delete some stuff but now I’m back to only having 91MB of free space left…and I don’t even rip any CDs to throw on there. I just have such a wide and expansive interest in different genres of music that I feel very uneasy about deleting anything.
After the first time I filled my ipod up I actually ended up converting all of my mp3′s on there down to 160kbps so that I could fit more. I should’ve started with a bigger ipod. I like having so much on it because I end up forgetting things and then rediscovering. Plus, the more on the ipod the better the shuffle gets
They talked to the wrong people. I quickly outgrew a 40GB iPod and passed it on to my wife who has filled it (without duplicating a lot of the tracks I have.) Now I’ve got a 60GB that is so full I can’t autosync anymore. I had to boot all non-music files off of it and now I’m force to play out my musical end-times scenario with the last 100 MBs: “Which of you get to live in my portable world and which of you are left behind?”
I could pare it down to a reasonable size if I was a “shuffle guy”, or a “playlist-making guy” but I’m an “album guy” (from the old days.) That said, the size has made navigation unwieldy; especially for artists with single tracks.
Thats enough whining for now.
I filled my 40GB a couple of months after I got it, but I found it too difficult to manage everything, since I had a lot of random songs that I wouldn’t listen to, since I’m not really a playlist person; full albums are the way to go for me.
I had to wipe everything so I could reload just the stuff I listened to a lot (I’m only at 30GB right now, but I keep throwing more stuff on there when I realise that I miss not having it). I ended up changing the way I searched for music to fit the immensity of the iPod, such as throwing all of the randomly downloaded non-album tracks from a band into an ad hoc album, just so it will actually come up when I do album searches.
I used to try to keep everything on there, but since that’s no longer possible, I’m not sure what to do with 40GB. I didn’t think of its use as an external; you guys are right about that. But I’d hate for my iPod to be the only place my digital music lives… as they say, it’s not a question of *if* a hard drive will crash as much as *when* it will crash.
What I’d truly like is a 300 gig iPod, because I would need that much space to house my complete collection of Phillip Glass B-sides. Furthermore, I’d be embarrassed to tote around an ipod that had less than every single recording ever made of every single John Phillip Sousa march. I’ve never listened to a single one, mind you, but I have a sophisticated palate you see, and if my brain demands The Second Army Brass Band’s version of The Washington Post March, God damn it if the First Army Brass Band’s version is worth the ones-and-zeros it’s printed on.
My 60GB iPod is totally full … I’m anxiously awaiting an 80 or 100GB iPod.
Is it bad that I still use a portable CD player and instead of downloading songs I go to the music store and buy CD’s?
Wish I had one…
Something tells me that the crowd here isn’t your average Joe Schmoe with an iPod though. Something tells me the crowd here has a more diverse library than Joe Schmoe listenin’ to whatever poppity pop those Clearchannel stations play and nothing else.
I have a one-gig shuffle.
I have 80+ gigs of music altogether.
Removing the Artists Of Whom I Have Less Than Three Tracks, I have 55 gigs.
I need a 60 gig iPod.
F’reals, man. this shuffle just ain’t cuttin’ it!
i have a 30G photo, and i find that there are thousands of random tracks i’ve downloaded etc, and simply lose amongst the the 20G i’ve filled. so i’ll have to ‘discover’ that interpol bootleg from three months ago, rather than actively finding it.
also, my laptop hard drive is only 40G, and taking out the 15G or so of other stuff on my comp, there is no way i could fill it to maximum capacity without my computer dying.
lastly, is it just mine, or does having 30G seem really useless when the battery keeps dying after 4 hours? grrr.
I have a 20GB. It’s almost full. It holds about 80% of my music (some 3,000 songs so far). I didn’t bother putting on things I hadn’t listened to in years (why do I have 3 albums by Cranes?! I wasn’t some uber-goth in 1994 or anything!). I should make more playlists to ease the sorting. I did make sections for new stuff (Brand New Bag) and one-song artists (Loosies), though. I like to shuffle by album when I’m feeling indecisive.
I have a 30 GB iPod which is maxed out. Even if I got a 60 it’s still be maxed out with all the music I have in iTunes (approx 70 GB.) I’m waiting until they break the 100 GB mark before I buy a new one, although the 4 GB Nano would be nice to have.
my 40 is maxed out plus. besides the fact that it hates to work, i need a new one. plus color! sexy!
I have a 30GB 4G Photo. It is usually filled to max with about 2mb left. I only stock it with full albums, because that is how I listen to music (just engrained in me, I dunno). I wish I could fit my entire collection (500GB of full albums and ~2000 audio CDs not ripped) on one iPod, but that isn’t happening any time soon. I loathe single artists on the iPod, and if I absolutely require one song by an artist, I’ll make a mix of songs by various artist. The iPod has changed my life a sit allows me to listen to nearly anything I want, when I want, where I want.
I can’t believe you people can listen just to one album at a time? I think that when you want to listen to an artist, you must listen to his entire catalog. For instance, right now I’m listening to Love and Theft by Bob Dylan. Now, I can’t stand his later albums, but the fact is that a week ago I wanted to listen to “Tangled Up in Blue”. Only a philistine would listen just to that song or just the album “Blood on the Tracks” without the proper completist context. So I had to start with his original self titled album and work up to it. And now I’m working through his later stuff.
I think I’ll probably have to listen to the Wallflowers catalog too, to really be a true completist.
I’m kidding of course. But you people are similarly ridiculous in your drive to have all music accessible at all times. Honestly, are your tastes in music so refined that at any point you MUST HAVE access to the entire western musical cannon?
I love music too, and have lots of it, but this capacity-bragging sounds like two wine snobs comparing their wine cellars.
Besides, I think the future is in wireless streaming, not ever more capacity.
what’s wrong with wanting to be able to listen to anything in your music collection at any time? the movement from cd players, to low capacity mp3 players to high capacity mp3 players naturally moves in the direction of having one’s entire library available for listening at any time. my music isn’t in a museum, it’s for my listening pleasure.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to have access to a lot of songs (actually I use Rhapsody at work, so I have a good portion of the western musical cannon at my fingertips).
My only point is that there is a pretty strong narcisitic streak in all of this. It gets at the whole self-love that is at the heart of indie fandom.
Want to know what I’m talking about? Just ask an indie fan to make you a mix cd. Their eyes will just about pop out of their heads in excitement. More thought will go into that mix cd than what went into the Manhattan Project. Of course the end goal will not be for you to get a cd that you’ll like (although that may in fact occur) the real goal is to impress upon you the superiority of the fan’s music collection and knowledge. (obviously this was well tread in High Fidelity)
So, much like the indie fan struggling over whether it’s best to have the fourth track of the mix be an obscure song from a well known artist or a well known song from an obscure artist, so too does the ipod owner conclude that for this subway ride only album X will do, and all those other 60 gigs are worthless.
I guess what I’m saying is that it’s nice to have all this music, but it’s silly to act so dissapointed when you can’t get all of the music all of the time. It’s like a wine snob dismissing a restaurant because they don’t have the one vintage that he has concluded is the only wine worthy to accompany duck confitte. (It’s Bartles and James 1987 Rosee, by the way)
Hell i wanted an 80 gig ipod like 2 years ago…i need at least a 100 gig now….too bad it looks like apple is going more towards the low end user…