iPod madness: replacement battery

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<p>My CD player dying from a drop is the reason WHY I bought an iPod. hah.</p>

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<p>Is it helpful to back up your music periodically onto a disk so you can then put it onto a new ipod if the old one dies? </p>

<p>Is there some difference in the method to downloading the songs in that one way will make the songs available to download to a new ipod and the other way will not?</p>

<p>I’m technologically impaired, so thanks for answers to simple questions.</p>

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<p>It’s simple, but Apple hides it from you. In Windows, hook up the Ipod to the USB port and start the Apple software. Now ignor the Apple software. Go to the Windows ‘My Computer’ screen and you should see your IPod linked there. Double click on it and you will see an empty folder (Apple’s little ploy). Go to the menu bar, and click on ‘Tools’, then click on ‘Folder Options’. Select the ‘View’ tab and go down to ‘Hidden Files and Folders’. Select ‘Show Hidden Files and Folders’. Close the panel and you can now see all the files on your Ipod. You can now use your Ipod as an auxillary disk drive, saving any file you want to it or from it by simply dragging and dropping just like any other Windows folder. Grab all the music folder and drop them on your computer hard drive. You now have a copy of all of your music.</p>

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<p>Other handy Windows based software products for working with an Ipod’s files are sharepod and ipodsoft’s podplus.</p>

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<p>For one of my kids, an IPod was her graduation gift from us, along with speakers because she did not own a stereo and an IPod served many purposes (car, running, dorm room, travel) and ways of playing music which is a big part of her life. For my other kid, her field is music. She must have a library of her music for all the things she is involved with musically. She has to know a lot of repertoire in her field. She also has to record singing in class onto the IPod. She needs music for her auditions. She does work as a musical director and comes up with arrangements. For her, this is like buying books for courses. She isn’t just into music as an interest but it is her life’s work. Some students need various computer software for classes/college (one of my kids has needed very expensive software for a course), some need music or things like an IPod with a recorder for class (everyone in my D’s Vocal Tech class has one and is expected to record in class). I do not see it as a frill, though my kids are fortunate to own one, and got it as a gift on a big occasion.</p>

<p>That said, the IPods have caused a lot of problems and we have had to get them fixed or batteries replaced. This is true for both my girls and we keep rotating the IPods to one or the other as one is getting fixed. The latest problem is with the new one that was bought to replace another and that must be mailed into Apple as we have no Apple stores here and the place we bought it said they cannot touch IPods still under warranty. It has been a major pain. I thought the cost of the IPod was a lot and as I said, was a gift for a major occasion in my kids’ lives but now the cost of repairs or battery replacements were not something I expected on a regular basis for a product that is not that old. I do not know if we are in a string of bad luck with these or just what. </p>

<p>Susan</p>

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<p>Thanks bandit! I have saved that little gem since I probably won’t remember it from now until this evening. It seems so simple, but the ipod help site is pretty worthless. My daughter’s access to the music store suddenly stopped in December. Apple was of no help, either on line or at the store. We finally discovered that be removing the antivirus software and firewall, she could access it. THen we just put a new norton back in and voile! Everything works. Go figure.</p>

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<p>Apple doesn’t want you to know it’s that easy. It’s their crude method of copyright protection, so you can’t copy music to multiple computers. Of course, they don’t care about crashes or hardware upgrades that we have to live with. You can store pictures, Word documents, whatever on your Ipod. It’s just a USB disk drive when you get right down to it.</p>

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<p>Perhaps the reason why we haven’t had problems with our ipods is because I bought them through the APPLE site ( education discount) and we run Mac Os X
but no fear- I think there are other mp3 players outthere</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/flash.aspx[/url]”>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/flash.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Eventually, but not soon. The hard drives are the same models used in various laptops, etc…machines with >18month lifespans (in general). The screens are simple lcd’s, so they’ll be fine too. First thing to go will be the battey.</p>

<p>And as far as dropping things, mine’s flown out [on it’s own of course ;)] a 2nd story window onto asphalt and was still playing when I retrieved it. The battery is dying now, but it’s a 1st gen ipod (<a href=“http://static.■■■■■■■■■■/25/51664430_1065be5281_m.jpg[/url]”>http://static.■■■■■■■■■■/25/51664430_1065be5281_m.jpg&lt;/a&gt; on the right), so…:)</p>

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I can’t see what the OS on your computer has to do with your Ipod.

Do you really think there are two classes of the same device, one for Apple stores and one for other retailers? That would be the ultimate of foolish marketing.</p>

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<p>because you update your ipod through your computer- you run the disk utility for the ipod thru your computer and you update the itunes software through your computer thats why</p>

<p>or it could be that your windows software is running havoc with the itunes software</p>

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<p>Still doubtful - it’s the same update being pumped through, and if anything goes amiss (checksums), it’ll start all over again.</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>it is much cheaper to buy an aftermarket battery and replace it yourself. most even come with instructions and tools that help you open the ipod.</p>

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<p>right that is what I was trying to give links to piypgm</p>

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<p>I posted a couple of links to sites where you can by replacement batteries on the first page of this thread. Did it (replaced battery) myself and it was not hard.</p>

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<p>For the price, you might just be ahead to sent it to Apple. I would go ahead and try updating if you don’t have the most recent software on it, just to see if it does anything. However, be aware that the iPod you get back won’t be the one that you sent in. If you have engraving on it, you will have the same case, but not the same guts.
I didn’t know they had dropped the price on battery replacement. It used to be $99+shipping. At this price, I will definitly think about sending in my mini instead replacing it when it’s battery goes.</p>

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<p>Boy, am I glad the iPods we gave DS and step-gS for graduation are 200 and 1600 miles away from where we are. See no evil, hear no evil… This is one arena I think I will steer my helpful motherly ways out of.</p>

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<p>Son is still using one of the original ones…working fine for the past years. (I can’t even remember when they first came out.)</p>

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<p>October of 2001.<br>
I was going to buy an iBook that December, but ended up with a clearenced iMac and was going to buy an iPod with what I had left over. My parents were not too happy with the idea and I couldn’t find one in a store, so I didn’t get one. :(</p>

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<p>Thanks Kiki, it helps to keep the timeline not so dusty in my brain. :)</p>