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Picked up a 4Gb Black Ipod Nano today. This fawkin thing is awesome. So small and I have 630 songs on it and it's half a Gb from being full. Great investment if you can use something like this!

Does it work with that adapter that you can get that allows you to control your Ipod using your deck's controls?

That's a weird coincedence, I just bought an iPod mini today. Also 4gb in blue.. the nano is cool, but my girlfriend didnt want one that small since she'll lose it.

Definitely a sweet little toy.

Ordered my black 4gb awhile ago from Apple under the student discount, but still waiting! :angry:

I thought the mini was too large, and the shuffle sucks, so I picked up a 1Gb Sony network walkman.. very spiffy little thing, and 50 hours of playback.

and 4 weeks later, the nano comes out. I have a collection of 3 MP3 players, and I may end up buying another... My only complaint about the nano is the 11 hour playback, meaning if you wear it at work, you pretty much have to charge it EVERY day.. which is going to be a lot of stress for the lithium battery. I'm going to wait and see how long it is before people start complaining about the battery not holding a charge.

Raine,Sep 22 2005, 01:55 AM Wrote:Does it work with that adapter that you can get that allows you to control your Ipod using your deck's controls?
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You can plug in an auxilliary wire into the back of my deck and then plug the other end into the earphone jack of my Ipod. This lets you hear the music but you have to control the songs by the Ipod.

darkpuppet,Sep 22 2005, 09:17 AM Wrote:I thought the mini was too large, and the shuffle sucks, so I picked up a 1Gb Sony network walkman.. very spiffy little thing, and 50 hours of playback.

and 4 weeks later, the nano comes out.  I have a collection of 3 MP3 players, and I may end up buying another...  My only complaint about the nano is the 11 hour playback, meaning if you wear it at work, you pretty much have to charge it EVERY day.. which is going to be a lot of stress for the lithium battery.  I'm going to wait and see how long it is before people start complaining about the battery not holding a charge.
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Just about everyone I know that has an Ipod, has issues with the battery not charging properly.

darkpuppet,Sep 22 2005, 08:17 AM Wrote:I'm going to wait and see how long it is before people start complaining about the battery not holding a charge.
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Also the battery is not an easily replaced part, I've seen a Nano being taken apart on Ars Technica and the damn battery is soldered on to the board.



Laterz :)

Cab you guys shut up your killing it for me LOL

hehe Malby comeon, its all good
Good Buy.

I have the same set up. I have the old 10G ipod and i used the AUX on my car to listen to music. Its so much better then burning Cd's weekly. Plus every night i take it home with me and just plug it in.

Pssssst. Battery life sucks goats ass.

The battery life on the nano is supposed to be 14 hours. We'll see!

It's not the aux jack I was talking about Mike... it's this:



Let's you control your ipod from your stereo like it was a CD changer.

That I don't have but many car manufacturers are starting to bring these devices up when they design new cars.

How much do these Nano's go for?

FociPhil,Sep 22 2005, 01:58 PM Wrote:How much do these Nano's go for?
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4 Gb $299, 2 Gb $249. If you're a student you get $20 off so my total taxes in for the 4Gb was $328.XX.

I have the 2nd gen Ipod mini which has an 18 hour bat life, but I usually get 14 hours out of it. Its also a 4gb which I paid 260 its also the same price as this nano but 2 times the space. I dunno if its worth it in my eyes Ive filled up the 4gb in a month, thats mainly due to the fact that I put 2 hour long DJ sets on it. I also do the AUX to IPOD and I have no complaints, havent burned a cd since April.

I wonder if anyone knows this, but is it possible to save mpeg files on an IPod and then play them thru an in-car screen?

It depends on what type of screen it is. If it's one of those super-mini PC-esque screens, then perhaps. That GPS that Nef listed yesterday might, for example. So might a DVD deck for your car that actively advertises that it can render MPEG, WMV, etc.

If it's the type of screen that just takes tv-style video feeds (RCA/component , s-video, composite, etc) then most likely not.

The key is rendering the data stream properly. If nothing in the loop from storage to display is smart enough to render the file properly, you're screwed.

As for the Nano, it's a sweet size but I prefer having stupid amounts of battery life (ie extra batteries). I've been "handed down" my wife's 256MB RCA Lyra, but I also crammed our 1GB SD card in there. 110 songs so far, plenty of space left

I doubt you can stream mpeg off the ipod and into a screen on the car.

the interface going out of the ipod wouldn't support a stream with enough bandwidth to do proper video.

on the other hand, if you wanted to, you CAN install linux on your ipod... not sure why you'd want to.

Perfect topic guys!! I've been sitting on the fence about getting a 4GB Nano for weeks now or just buying a 20GB color.. since it's only $80 more.

The nano is so much smaller I know but I can't help thinking that I'll be giving up all that space which is the reason I want it in the first place.

Won't use it at the gym much I'll keep my 6yr old RCA lyra for that.

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