The I-Pod Saga.

So I got an I-Pod 30gb last thurs.
First impressions were good, the apperance is slick and well designed (down to the very swish packaging), there are a few niggles I'm not so happy with.

Firstly the only Instructions I recieved with the I-Pod was a 'Quick start guide' and it leaves a lot out if you have not Had an I-Pod before, Or have not used I-Tunes in your life. (Previously I was a windows media player junkie, it had everything I required at the time =) )

As I was saying I-tunes.

It took over my pc for 3 days while it converted all of my normal music files into ones it could deal with. And unamusingly it cant seem to recognise if it already had imported somthing, if for example the PC crashes half way through the conversion, it starts from the begining again and you end up with lots of duplicates, and I mean lots.
So once everything was converted I tried to cleanup the files. this caused the actual files on the harddrive to get better as there were no duplicates anymore but i-tunes still had them in the library file, so far I havent forund a cleanup option the only way to solve it seems to be manually removing each duplicate track from the library list. Be warned that this happens and is a pain to clean up after it.

Also the strangest glitch I have found is the lack of a delete function on the I-Pod itself so if you want rid of a track you HAVE to connect it to a PC/MAC running I-tunes. Originally I thought this must be a fault just on my Ipod, until I discovered masses of data on the internet detailing the same problem. This hasnt made me any less pleased with the Ipod as a device just baffled regarding the programming.

True to the publicity the I-Pod has my entire music collection from the PC and is not yet half full so far so good. the external drive option works like a charm, and the screen quality for slideshows of photos is unbelieveable. I have yet to test the Video function as I have not yet discovered a video file that the Pod will play ( needs to be a specific format apparently) and am still looking for a way to convert the videos I already have to the correct format. I'll report later on if its a success or not.

Overall the I-Pod is great, its got a lovely slick design and a brilliant quality to the playback. the Complementay case is fine but will be replaced asap as its difficult to get the Ipod out again =) nice looking though. the I-Pods own interface is nice and intuitive it takes literally 3 second if that to work out how it works. I-tunes is a different story =) but i'm working on it.

One of the cool side effects which I hadn't known before I got the Pod was with a simple connector a camera can be downloaded into it when traveling. a definiate plus point =)

Happy with the Pod and dealing with Itunes.

More later. =P